Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility

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The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator would like to welcome you inside the experimental hall for a virtual tour. Please watch the videos below and enjoy.

In order to achieve the high accelerating gradients needed to produce the tremendous energies required by a future particle accelerator, scientists have been looking for new ideas and solutions. Wakefield acceleration offers a potentially bold new

The AWA facility maintains the world’s two highest-charge RF photocathode guns, both capable of 100 nC per bunch.

The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) Facility is a resource unique to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Work at the AWA facility includes the generation of a flexible, gigawatt-scale drive bunch train and the associated diagnostics in the space-charge dominated régime; temporal electron bunch shaping and ring-beam generation both required for h