*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