*Working Group Joint Sessions

Sunday, June 20

Evening 6:00

Registration/Opening Reception – Lobby/Ballroom A

Monday, June 21

Morning I & II 8:30 – 12:00

Opening and Distinguished Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Ilan Ben-Zvi

8:30 – 8:45

Welcome and Introduction to Meeting

 

Ilan Ben-Zvi

8:45 – 9:30

Review of Experimental Results in Electron-Driven Plasma-Wake Acceleration

 

 

Chan Joshi

9:30 – 10:00

Progress on Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Wim Leemans

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Robert Palmer

10:30 – 11:15

Advanced Accelerator System Requirements Overview

 

Gerry Dugan

11:15 – 12:00

Review of Advanced Accelerator Concepts R&D in Japan

 

Yoneyoshi Kitagawa

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch –Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: David Cline

1:00 – 1:30

Tutorial: EM Structures and Laser Acceleration

 

Levi Schachter

1:30 – 2:00

Advances in Simulation  Capabilities

Warren Mori

2:00 – 2:30

Afterburner at SLAC - the Collider Point of View

 

Tor Raubeheimer

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II 3:00 – 4:45

Plenary & WG Organizing - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Thomas Marshall

3:00 – 3:30

Recent Developments in Electron Bunch  Compression

 

James Rosenzweig

3:30 – 4:00

17GHz Electron Bunching in High Gain Relativistic Klystrons and Research Accelerators

 

 

Jake Haimson

4:00 – 4:45
Working Group Organization
4:45 – 6:00
Satellite Meetings

 

Tuesday, June 22

Morning I 8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Micheal Downer

8:30 – 9:00

Tutorial: Solid-State Laser Technology

Craig Siders

9:00 – 9:30

PIC simulation and experimental research on high energy particle generation and their applications

 

 

Kunioki Mima

9:30 – 10:00

Modeling of Halos and Intense beams

Rami Kishek

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Morning II 10:30 – 12:00

Working Groups

Computational Accelerator Physics: code comparisons  - Room 305

10:30 – 11:15

Standard problems in advanced acceleration

 

Ricardo Fonseca

11:15 – 12:00

Discussion How can we approach comparisons of other codes?

Standard problems for intense beams

Standard problems for reduced models

What code needs exist?

 

 

 

 

Courtlandt Bohn

 

 

Bradley Shadwick

e-Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group: Organization and Overview -Room 303

10:30 – 11:00

Introduction: parameters and topics to work on

 

Patrick Muggli

11:00 – 11:30

The Afterburner: Overview

Tom Katsouleas/

Chan Joshi/Patrick Muggli

11:30 – 12:00

Discussion:  Goals of this working group

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group – Room 302

Session Leader: Wayne Kimura

10:30 – 11:00

Advanced Accelerator Requirements for Synchrotron Radiation Facility Linacs

 

Gerry Dugan

11:00 – 11:30

Conceptual Design for a 1-GeV IFEL Accelerator

 

Wayne Kimura

11:30 – 12:00

Discussion

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

10:30 – 10:55

Overview of Conventional Proton and Ion Sources and Preinjectors

 

Jim Alessi

10:55 – 11:05

Discussion

11:05 – 11:35

Characteristics of high intensity laser- produced proton beams

 

Teh Lin

11:35 – 11:45

Discussion

11:45 – 12:00

WG Discussion

*Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

- Auditorium and 306, respectively

10:30 – 11:00

Recent results on high energy and high quality electron beams from relativistic laser-plasma interaction with ultra short laser pulse

 

 

 

Victor Malka

11:00 – 11:30

Recent results from

laser-plasma acceleration experiments using the VULCAN Petawatt Laser and ASTRA

 

 

 

Christopher Murphy

11:30 – 12:00

NRL Laser Injection Laser Wakefield Accelerator

 

Antonio Ting

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization – Room 304

10:30 – 11:00

Applications with Intense OTR Images: 120 GeV protons

 

Alex Lumpkin

11:00 – 11:30

Wide Dynamic Range Beam Diagnostics Measurements for Ion Accelerators

 

J. Douglas Gilpatrick

11:30 – 12:00

Electro Optic longitudinal bunch length diagnostic at the DUV-FEL

 

Changbiao Wang

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

10:30 – 11:00

INITIAL OPERATION OF 34 GHZ, 45 MW PULSED MAGNICON*

 

Oleg Nezhevenko

11:00 – 11:15

Whispering gallery pulse compressor

Jay Hirshfield

11:15 – 11:30

Generation and Focusing of Sheet Beams for High Power Klystrons

 

Michael Read

11:30 – 12:00

Working Time in Session

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

Computational Accelerator Physics: reduced and fluid approaches – Room 305

1:00 – 1:30

Averaged-PIC simulation of laser-plasma interaction: pulse amplification by Raman backscattering and wake field

 

 

Min Hur

1:30 – 2:00

Thermal Effects in Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions

 

Bradley Shadwick

2:00 – 2:30

Progress in Quasistatic Modeling of Plasma-Based Accelerators: QUICKPIC

 

Thomas Antonsen

e-Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group: Afterburner Design Issues – Room 303

1:00 – 1:30

Simulation Studies of an Afterburner  Conceptual  Design

 

Chengkun Huang

1:30 – 2:00

Afterburner-related Issues for Linear Colliders

 

Tor Raubenheimer

2:00 – 2:30

Discussion: Technical challenges of implementing an afterburner

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group – Room 302

Session Leader: Steve Lidia

1:00 – 1:30

1 GeV acceleration using electron beam driven wakefields in structures

 

Wei Gai

1:30 – 2:00

Discussion

2:00 – 2:15

High power rf test for MCT based 11.424GHz dielectric loaded structure

 

Chunguang Jing

2:15 – 2:30

Observation of Multipactor in an Alumina-based Dielectric-Loaded Accelerating Structure

 

 

John Power

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

1:00 – 1:20

Ion production via optical field ionization: Results from early work  

 

Paul Bolton

1:20 – 1:25

Discussion

1:25 – 1:50

Energy enhancement of produced protons by prepulses and back focusing in the interaction between T^3 lasers and thin foils

 

 

 

Atsushi Ogata

1:50 – 2:00

Discussion

2:00 – 2:25

Ultra-high brightness laser-accelerated proton source and novel acceleration schemes

 

 

Julien Fuchs

2:25 – 2:30

Discussion

*Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

- Auditorium and 306, respectively

1:00 – 1:30

Plasma waveguides for laser accelerators: Simulations and experiments

 

T. Mendonca

1:30 – 2:00

Guiding of intense pulses in efficient end-pumped plasma channels generated by self-focusing in Ar and H_2 clusters

 

 

Vinod Kumarappan

2:00 – 2:30

Laser Guiding At Relativistic Intensities and Wake Field Particle Acceleration in Plasma Channels

 

 

Cameron Geddes

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization – Room 304

1:00 – 1:30

Electron Beam Phase-Space Measurement Using a High-Precision Tomography Technique

 

 

Vitaly Yakimenko

1:30 – 2:00

Slice Emittance Measurement

Dinh Nguyen

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

1:00 – 1:30

Comparison of Multiple Beam and Sheet Beam Klystrons

 

Lawrence Ives

1:30 – 1:45

Fast X-Band Phase Shifter

Vyacheslav Yakovlev

1:45 – 2:00

Plasma Switch for X-Band Active SLEDII RF Pulse Compressor

 

Anatoly Vikharev

2:00 – 2:30

Working Time in Session

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II  3:00 – 4:30

Working Groups

*Computational Accelerator Physics: High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes joint – Room 305

3:00 – 3:30

Ultrafast 2-D radiative transport in a micron-scale aluminum plasma excited at relativistic intensity

 

 

Benjamin Bowes

3:30 – 4:00

 

de Silva

4:00 – 4:30

Discussion - what are the computational needs of this area?

e-Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group – Room 303

3:00 – 4:30

Discussion: Major Afterburner Issues and Priorities

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group – Room 302

Session Leader: Steve Lidia

3:00 – 3:15

Enhanced Transformer Ratio Experiment at Argonne Wakefield Accelerator

 

Alex Kanareykin

3:15 – 3:30

Development of a 20-MeV Dielectric-Loaded Accelerator Test Facility

 

Steven Gold

3:30 – 3:45

GeV/m Wake Fields Generated by a Train of pC, Femtosecond Bunches in a Planar Dielectric Microstructure

 

 

Changbiao Wang

3:45 – 4:00

Design for a Slab-Symmetric  Dielectric-Based Resonant  Structure for Laser-Powered Acceleration

 

 

Rodney Yoder

4:00 – 4:15

Conceptual Design of Dielectric Accelerating Structures for Intense Neutron and Monochromatic X-ray Sources

 

 

 

Anatoly Blanovsky

4:15 – 4:30

Physical Foundations for Acceleration with Traveling Laser Focus

 

Alexander Mikhailichenko

*Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

- Auditorium and 306, respectively

3:00 – 3:30

Status and Future Prospects

for Plasma Beatwave Acceleration of Electrons

 

 

Sergei Tochitsky

3:30 – 3:45

Generation of Quasi-monoenergetic High-energy Electron Beam by Plasma Wave

 

 

Kazuyoshi Koyama

3:45 – 4:00

Progress on the UK Advanced Laser Plasma High-energy Accelerator ALPHA-X project

 

 

Dino Jaroszynski

4:00 – 4:15

Laser Wakefield Acceleration Driven by ATF CO2 Laser

 

Wayne Kimura

4:15 – 4:30

Experimental study of fs electron bunch generation by laser plasma cathode

 

Tomonao Hosokai

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization – Room 304

3:00 – 3:15

A Smith-Purcell Radiation Bunch Length Diagnostic

 

Steve Korbly

3:15 – 4:30

Discussion

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

3:00 – 3:30

Gyroklystrons for Driving Linear Accelerators

 

Victor Granatstein

3:30 – 3:45

NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON PBG RF CAVITIES

 

David Yu

3:45 – 4:00

Operation of a Confined Flow Multiple Beam Gun

 

Lawrence Ives

4:00 – 4:30

Working time in session

4:30 – 6:30-
Poster Session – Ballroom A

 

Wednesday, June 23

Morning I 8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Eric Esarey

8:30 – 9:00

Tutorial: Gas lasers for Strong Field Applications

 

Igor Pogorelsky

9:00 – 9:30

Review of Laser Guiding Experiments

Simon Hooker

9:30 – 10:00

Diagnostics for Laser   Accelerators

Chris Clayton

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Morning II  10:30 – 12:00

Working Groups

Computational Accelerator Physics: Intense beams and space charge effects –   Room 305

10:30 – 11:00

Collective Modes and Colored Noise as Beam-Halo Amplifiers

 

Courtlandt Bohn

11:00 – 11:30

Studies of space charge effects in ultrashort electron bunches

 

Gwenael Fubiani

11:30 – 12:00

Compensation for bunch emittance in a magnetization and space-charge dominated beam

 

 

Xiangyun Chang

e-Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group: Results of Recent SLAC PWFA Experiments – Room 303

10:30 – 11:00

Field Ionization of a Neutral Lithium Vapor using a 28.5 GeV Electron Beam

 

Caolionn O’Connell

11:00 – 11:30

Energy Gain in E-164X

Mark Hogan

11:30 – 12:00

Discussion: Challenges and issues of plasma experiments for afterburner

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group – Room 302

Session Leader: Wayne Kimura

10:30 – 11:00

Photonic Band Gap structures for accelerator applications

 

Evgenya Smirnova

11:00 – 11:15

Photonic Crystal Laser-Driven Accelerator Structures

 

Benjamin Cowan

11:15 – 11:30

Driven radiation of ribbon electron beam as a tool for optical modulation

 

Stanislav Zhilkov

11:30 – 11:45

Optical Bragg acceleration structure

Levi Schδchter

11:45 – 12:00

Discuss IFEL Strawman

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

10:30 – 10:55

Acceleration of an electron beam in vacuum by a high intensity laser pulse

 

Don Umstadter

10:55 – 11:00

Discussion

11:00 – 11:25

New experimental approaches for the LEAP experiment

 

Tomas Plettner

11:25 – 11:30

Discussion

11:30 – 12:00

WG tasks

*Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

- Auditorium and 306, respectively

10:30 – 10:45

Application of the gas-filled capillary discharge waveguide to laser-plasma acceleration

 

 

Simon Hooker

10:45 – 11:00

ATF experiments on laser and e-beam transport in a capillary discharge plasma

 

Igor Pogorelsky

11:00 – 11:15

Guiding of Ultrahigh Laser Intensities in Ablative Capillary Discharge Plasma Channel with Laser Ignition

 

 

Arie Zigler

11:15 – 11:30

Detailed Modeling of Channel Guided Laser Wakefield Accelerators based on Capillary Discharges

 

 

Daniel Gordon

11:30 – 11:45

Guiding of 10 micron laser pulses by use of hollow waveguides

 

Chieh Sung

11:45 – 12:00

Magneto-plasma waveguide

Min Hur

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization – Room 304

10:30 – 11:00

Coherent Transition Radiation From a Laser Wakefield Accelerator as an Electron Bunch Diagnostic

 

 

Jeroen van Tilborg

11:00 – 11:30

Applications with Intense OTR Images: Microbunched Electron Beams

 

Alex Lumpkin

11:30 – 12:00

Design of standing-wave mutli-cavity beam-monitor for simultaneous beam position and emittance measurements

 

 

Jin-Soo Kim

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

10:30 – 12:00

Preparation of Report

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A


 

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Afternoon I  1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

*Computational Accelerator Physics: Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration Subgroup joint - Auditorium

1:00 – 1:15

Particle-in-cell simulations of intense laser pulses coupling into plasma channels

 

 

Dimitre Dimitrov

1:15 – 1:30

Broad-Energy Electron Beam Injection and Loading in Laser Wakefield Accelerators

 

 

James Cooley

1:30 – 1:45

Laser wakefield acceleration - a fully self-consistent analysis

 

Albert Reitsma

1:45 – 2:00

Hydrodynamical evolution of plasma channels

 

Howard Milchberg

2:00 – 2:30

Discussion

e-Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group: Future Test Experiments – Room 303

1:00 - 1:30

Potential Beams at ORION

Eric Colby

1:30 – 2:30

Discussion: Test experiments (beam, plasma, etc.) to be done at ORION, SLC, and elsewhere.

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group – Room 302

1:00 – 2:30

Discuss IFEL Strawman (Continued )

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

1:00 – 1:25

Laser ponderomotive e+e- collider and

proton acceleration up to the range of ultra high energy cosmic rays

 

 

Kazuhisa Nakajima

1:25 – 1:30

Discussion

1:30 – 1:55

Active media accelerators

Levi Schachter

1:55 – 2:00

Discussion

2:00 – 2:30

WG tasks

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization – Room 304

1:00 – 1:30

Determination of Electron Beam Parameters by Means of Laser-Compton Scattering

 

 

Khalid Chouffani

1:30 – 1:45

Thomson scattering from laser wakefield accelerators

 

Pierre Michel

1:45 – 2:30

Discussion

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

1:00 – 2:30

Preparation of Report

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II & Evening 3:00 –

Social Event – Meet in SAC Lobby


 

Thursday June 24

Morning I 8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Courtlandt Bohn

8:30 – 9:00

Tutorial: Exotic Acceleration Schemes

Gennady Shvets

9:00 – 9:30

Modeling Injectors

John Lewellen

9:30 – 10:00

Diagnostics for High Energy Accelerators

Marc Ross

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Morning II 10:30 – 12:00

Working Groups

Computational Accelerator Physics: Intense beams and space charge effects –

 Room 305

10:30 – 11:15

Discussion on code comparisons

11:15 – 12:00

Discussion on code needs

e Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group – Room 303

10:30 – 11:00

Acceleration and Focusing of Relativistic Electrons in Over-dense Plasma

 

Vitaly Yakimenko

11:00 – 12:00

Discussion: afterburner design

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group

Session Leader: Wayne Kimura – Room 302

10:30 – 10:45

Detailed Model Comparisons with STELLA Experimental Results

 

Wayne Kimura

10:45 – 11:00

IFEL-Chicane based Microbuncher at 800 nm

 

Chris Sears

11:00 – 11:15

Proof-of-principle experimental test for the novel vacuum electron-laser acceleration at the BNL-ATF

 

 

Feng Zhou

11:15 – 11:30

In Vacuum Laser Acceleration of Electrons at the Brookhaven ATF

 

Vitaly Yakimenko

Session Leader: Steve Lidia

11:30 – 12:00

Discuss Wakefield Strawman

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

10:30 – 10:50

New low-loss ferroelectric materials for accelerator applications

 

Alex Kanareykin

10:50 – 10:55

Discussion

10:55 – 11:15

Ion acceleration and THz wave generation by ultrashort laser-foil interaction

 

 

Peter Messmer

11:15 – 11:20

Discussion

11:20 – 12:00

WG tasks

*Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

- Auditorium and 306, respectively

10:30 – 10:45

Ultrahigh current electron acceleration in relativistic laser-plasma interactions

 

Kazuhisa Nakajima

10:45 – 11:00

Generation of MeV-level high-energy electrons from the interaction of a 2 TW laser beam and a gas target

 

 

Hyyong Suk

11:00 – 11:15

Experiment on the Thomson Backscattering from LWFA e-beams

 

Nasr Hafz

11:15 – 11:30

Application of detuned plasma beatwave for generation of few-cycle electromagnetic pulses

 

 

Serguei Kalmykov

11:30 – 11:45

Robust autoresonant excitation in the plasma beat-wave accelerator

 

Jonathan Wurtele

11:45 – 12:00

LWFA with Low Energy Raman Seeded Pulses

 

Franklin Grigsby

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization – Room 304

10:30 – 11:00

Schottky-Enabled Photoemission in a RF Accelerator Photoinjector - Possible Generation of Ultra-Low Transverse Thermal Emittance Electron Beam

 

 

 

Zikri Yusof

11:00 – 11:30

Space Charge Modulation and its affect on Zero Phase Measurements

 

Timur Shaftan

11:30 – 12:00

Observation of Energy Equipartitioning in Low Energy Intense Electron Beam

 

Yun Zou

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

12:00 – 1:00

         Lunch – Ballroom A


 

Afternoon I  1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

*Computational Accelerator Physics: Joint Session with the e Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group – Room 303

1:00 – 1:30

Energy Loss of a High Charge Bunched Electron Beam in Plasma: Simulations, Scaling, and Accelerating Wake-fields

 

 

James Rosenzweig

1:30 – 2:00

Simulation of Ionization Effects for High-Density Positron Drivers in future Plasma Wakefield Experiments

 

 

David Bruhwiler

2:00 – 2:30

The IONPACK Library of Ionization Algorithms for PIC Codes

 

Dimitre Dimitrov

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group – Room 302

Session Leader: Steve Lidia

1:00 – 2:30

Discuss Wakefield Strawman (Continued )

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

1:00 – 1:20

Beam conditioning for FEL's: Consequences and methods

 

Jonathan Wurtele

1:20 – 1:25

Discussion

1:25 – 1:45

Beam manipulation with laser-plasma wakefields: Beam conditioning, emittance selection, and beam chopping

 

 

Eric Esarey

1:45 – 1:50

Discussion

1:50 – 2:10

Electron beam conditioning by Thomson Scattering

 

Carl Schroeder

2:10 – 2:30

Discussion

*Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

- Auditorium and 306, respectively

1:00 – 1:15

Absorption and Guiding of Intense Laser Pulses in Clustered Gases

 

Thomas Antonsen

1:15 – 1:30

Trapping, wavebreaking, and dark current in nonlinear plasma waves

 

Carl Schroeder

1:30 – 1:45

Electron acceleration in the Bubble regime: analytical theory and numerical simulations

 

 

Sergey Gordienko

1:45 – 2:00

Trapping and Acceleration of Nonideal Injected Electron Bunches in Channel-Guided LWFAs

 

 

Richard Hubbard

2:00 – 2:15

Nonlinear group velocity, pump depletion, and electron dephasing in laser wakefield accelerators

 

 

Eric Esarey

2:15 – 2:30

Introduction to Laser-Plasma-Acceleration Working Group Task

 

Eric Esarey

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization – Room 304

1:00 – 1:15

A PMQ-based, Ultra-short Focal Length, Final Focus System for Next Generation Beam-Radiation and Beam-Plasma Experiments

 

 

 

Gil Travish

1:15 – 1:45

Diagnostics and controls in the LEAP experiment

 

Tomas Plettner

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II 3:00 – 4:45

Working Groups


 

Computational Accelerator Physics: Other types of modeling – Room 305

3:00 – 3:30

Time and frequency domain models for Smith-Purcell Radiation from a two dimensional charge moving above a short grating

 

 

 

Amit Kesar

3:30 – 4:00

A Muon Cooling Ring with Lithium Lenses

 

Yasuo Fukui

4:00 – 4:30

High-Brightness Injector Modeling

John Lewellen

e-Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group – Room 303

3:00 – 3:30

The UCLA/NICADD Plasma Density Transition Trapping Experiment

 

Matt Thompson

3:30 – 4:45

Discussion: Plasma sources for the afterburner, trapping as a source of dark current in the PWFA

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group – Room 302

Session Leaders: Wayne Kimura and Steve Lidia

3:00 – 4:45

Conclude Work on Strawman Designs

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

3:00 – 4:45

WG tasks

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration Sub-Group - Auditorium

*Laser-Plasma Acceleration – Plasma Guiding Sub-Group joint session with Diagnostics WG – Room 306

3:00 – 3:30

Femtosecond pump-probe studies of preformed plasma channels and clustered plasmas

 

 

Michael Downer

3:30 – 4:00

Ultrafast Optical Diagnostic of laser plasmas: Single-shot Supercontinuum Spectral Interferometry

 

 

Ki-Yong Kim

4:00 – 4:15

Transverse phase-space measurements at a magnetic bunch compressor at the BNL-ATF

 

 

Feng Zhou

4:15 – 4:30

UCLA Neptune Ramped Electron Bunch Experiment

 

Robert England

4:30 – 4:45

Evidence of Ionization Blue Shift Seeding of Forward Raman Scattering

 

Shouyuan Chen

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

Evening  6:00 -

Workshop Banquet – Meet in SAC Lobby


 

Friday June 25

Morning I  8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Vitaly Yakimenko

 

8:30 – 9:00

 

Tutorial: Femtosecond Beam Sources and Applications

 

Mitsuru Uesaka

9:00 – 9:30

Very High Energy Gain in the Neptune IFEL Experiment

 

Pietro Musumeci

9:30 – 10:00

Diamond amplifiers for photocathodes

Triveni Srinivasan-Rao

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Morning II  10:30 – 12:00

Working Groups

Computational Accelerator Physics - Room 305

10:30 – 11:15

Final results on code comparisons

Ricardo Fonseca

11:15 – 12:00

Final discussion of presentation to attendees

e-Beam Driven Accelerator Working Group – Room 303

10:30 – 12:00

Session reserved for last minute talks (only if really necessary), and discussion and preparation of the WG summary

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group – Room 302

Session Leaders: Wayne Kimura and Steve Lidia

10:30 – 12:00

Prepare Final Strawman Designs for Presentation to Workshop Attendees

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

10:30 – 12:00

WG summary preparation

*Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

- Auditorium and 306, respectively

10:30 – 12:00

Discussion and WG summary preparation

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization – Room 304

10:30 – 10:45

A New Nondestructive Method for Measuring the RMS Length of Charge Bunches Using Their Wake Field Radiation Spectrum

 

 

 

Sergey Shchelkunov

10:45 – 11:00

Sequence of THz pulses as a tool for plasma diagnostics

 

Stanislav Zhilkov

11:00 – 12:00

Discussion

MM Wave Sources – Room 308

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 3:10

BNL Tour – Meet in SAC Lobby

1:30 – 2:20

Tours: Group 1 NSLS, Group 2 RHIC, Group 3 ATF

2:20 – 3:10

Tours: Group 1 ATF, Group 2 NSLS, Group 3 RHIC

3:10 – 3:30

Refreshment Break – BNL, Berkner Hall Lobby


 

Afternoon II  3:30 – 6:15

User Facility Talks – BNL, Berkner Hall

Plenary Session Chair: Igor Pogorelsky

3:30 – 5:00

User Facility Talks I

1. N. Samios

Welcome to BNL

2. A. Ting

"Laser Wakefield Acceleration with Optically Injected Electrons at the Naval Research Laboratory"

3. M. Conde

"The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility: Capabilities and Experiments"

4. A. Tremaine

“PLEIADES, an Ultra-fast Thomson X-ray Source at LLNL”

5. N. Barov

"The Fermilab/NICADD Photoinjector Laboratory: Capabilities, Status and Plans"

6. D.Umstadter

"Recent Results on Laser-driven Electron and Ion Acceleration from the University of Michigan."

5:00– 5:15

Break – BNL, Berkner Hall Lobby

5:15 – 6:30

User Facility Talks II – BNL, Berkner Hall

7. S. Tochitsky

"UCLA Neptune Facility For Advanced Accelerator Studies"

8. S. Bernal

"The University of Maryland Electron Ring: a Model Recirculator for Intense Beam Physics Research."

9. W. Leemans

"The l'OASIS Facility at LBNL: Multi-terawatt, Multi-beam Ti:sapphire Laser System for Laser Driven Advanced Accelerator Research"

10. R. Noble

“The ORION Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Beam Physics Research”

11.V.Yakimenko

“ATF Capabilities and Experiments”

Evening 6:30 -

6:30 – 7:00

Closing Reception – BNL, Berkner Hall Lobby

7:00 – 8:30

Buffet Dinner – BNL, Berkner Hall Dining Area


 

Saturday June 26

Morning I & II 8:30 – 12:00

Plenary – WG Summary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Marcus Babzien

8:30 – 8:50

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group

8:50 – 9:10

e-Beam Driven Accelerators

9:10 – 9:30

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes Working Group

9:30 – 9:50

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration Subgroup

9:50 – 10:10

MM Wave Sources Working Group

10:10 – 10:40

Coffee Break – Ballroom A

Plenary Session Chair: Wei Gai - Auditorium

10:40 – 11:00

Laser-Plasma Acceleration: Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

11:00 – 11:20

Working Group Topics: Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization

11:20 – 11:40

Computational Accelerator Physics

11:40 – 12:00

Closing Remarks


 

Bus Schedule for Danfords and Holiday Inn

Date and Event

Pick up

Drop off

Attendees:

Sunday 20th, Reception

Continuous shuttle between hotel and SUSB from 5:30 to 8:30 PM

Monday 21st, Regular Session

7:30 am

5:00 pm and 6:00 PM

Tuesday 22nd Regular, poster sessions

7:30 am

6:30 pm & 7:30 PM

Wednesday 23rd, Regular session, social

7:30 am

After Social

Thursday 24th Regular session, Banquet

7:30 am

After Banquet

Friday, 25th Regular session

7:30 am

After BNL visit

Saturday, 26th Regular session

7:30 am

12 noon

Companions:

 

 

Wednesday 23rd, Regular session, social

2:00 PM at hotel for social event

Thursday 24th Regular session, Banquet

4:00 PM at hotel for banquet

 

*Busses have been scheduled to allow attendees and companions convenient travel between the two hotels and all workshop functions. Attendees staying at the Stony Brook University Dormitory are within walking distance of the Student Activities Center, where all sessions will be held, and where busses will depart and return for BNL day and social events. Please use the above bus schedule to plan your transportation. Those attendees choosing to rent private vehicles may park close to the Student activities Center (see map) free of charge with parking passes obtained at the registration desk, and use the workshop busses whenever they choose. In addition, the Holiday Inn Express offers free shuttle transportation, including pickup and drop off at nearby Islip MacArthur Airport (ISP). Please contact the Holiday Inn directly to arrange for shuttle service.*

 

 

 

Room Assignment Summary – Check agenda for exceptions during joint sessions

Working Group Name

Room

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration Subgroup

Auditorium

EM Structure-Based Accelerators

302

Laser-Plasma Acceleration: Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

306

e-Beam Driven Accelerators

303

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization

304

Computational Accelerator Physics

305

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes

311

MM Wave Sources

308