Grant technology helps achieve a world first

Grant Instruments, in collaboration with scientists at CERN and Max Planck Institute for Physics, has developed a heating system to form part of the AWAKE project, providing a stable environment for Rubidium.

Grant Instruments heating technology has been successfully used to help demonstrate a novel world first at CERN, home of the famous large Hadron collider.  Physicists at CERN are seeking answers to some of the most basic questions about the universe and how it started, using some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators.  Grant provided a custom heating system to form part of the AWAKE project run by the world renowned Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich, Germany)  who presented the system this month at the 5th international Particle Accelerator Conference in Dresden Germany.

The heating system provides a highly stable environment to heat the chemical element, Rubidium, up to 230°C to allow phenomena known as a plasma wakefield to be created (picture courtesy of J. Vieira, IST, Portugal). The system achieved this to an accuracy of 

Dr. Patric Muggi , Group Leader on the project said “ The vapour source and the plasma will play a central role in what will be the first proton-driven, plasma wakefield experiment in the world. This experiment is very multi-disciplinary and will be possible only thanks to the team work of people with many fields of expertise, from proton beam line, laser science, plasma sources to advanced optical diagnostics. It is a great advantage to count Grant Instruments as one of the team members.”

More information can be found on the AWAKE project at http://home.web.cern.ch/about/experiments/awake

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