CERN particle accelerator studies

proposed circular particle accelerator

proposed linear particle accelerator at CERN

thumb|AWAKE's 10-metre-long plasma (physics)|plasma cell developed by the [[Max Planck Institute for Physics]] The AWAKE (Advanced WAKEfield Experiment) facility at CERN is a proof-of-principle experiment, which investigates wakefield plasma acceleration using a proton bunch as a driver, a world-wide first. It aims to accelerate a low-energy witness bunch of electrons from 15 to 20 MeV to several GeV over a short distance (10 m) by creating a high acceleration gradient of several GV/m. Particle accelerators currently in use, like CERN's LHC, use standard or superconductive RF-cavities for acce