17th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (31 July 2016 - 5 August 2016)

Monday, 1 August 2016

08:15

08:15 - 08:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

08:30 Advanced Accelerator Concepts R&D at DOE-HEP - LK Len (U.S. Department of Energy)

08:50 Accelerator Science at NSF - Vyacheslav Lukin (National Science Foundation)

09:00 Overview of Advanced Accelerator Concepts - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

09:30 Advanced Acceleration Experiments at FACET: High-gradient acceleration and injection in plasmas and dielectrics - Mark Hogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

10:30 Staging of Laser Plasma Accelerators - Sven Steinke (LBNL)

11:00 Roadmap towards a future plasma-based collider - Eric Esarey (LBNL)

11:30 High-average-power, ultra-intense laser technology for laser plasma acceleration - Jonathan Zuegel (Univ. of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics) Peter Moulton (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: On-your-own
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

13:30 The Horizon2020 EuPRAXIA Project - Ralph Assmann (DESY)

14:00 Longitudinal Bunch Shaping via an Emittance Exchange Beamline. - John Power (Argonne)

14:30 Manipulating Electrons with Intense Laser Pulses - Victor MALKA (LOA (ENSTA, Ecole polytechnique, CNRS) and Weizmann Institute of Science)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
15:30 Laser-Plasma
Laser-Plasma
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

15:30 Demonstration of the Excitation and Control of Plasma Wakefields by Multiple Laser Pulses - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)

15:50 Interaction Between Laser Pulses and Trailing Wakefields Intersecting at Small Angle for LWFA Charge Yield Enhancement - Kathleen Weichman (University of Texas at Austin)

16:10 Electron Acceleration by Laser Driven Plasma Wave Excited by Cross-Focused q-Gaussian Laser Beams in Thermal Quantum Plasma - Arvinder Singh Singh (National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar(Pb), INDIA)

16:30 GigaGauss solenoidal magnetic fields in plasma bubble and fast synchrotron radiation emittance cooling of laser-plasma accelerated beam - Andrei Seryi (John Adams Institute)
Computations
Computations
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Chesapeake L
Contributions

15:30 Stable Modelling of Relativistic Plasmas with the Particle-In-Cell method - Manuel Kirchen (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany)

15:50 Controlling the Numerical Cerenkov Instability in PIC simulations using a customized finite difference Maxwell solver and a local FFT based current correction - Fei Li (Tsinghua University)

16:10 Efficient modeling of laser-plasma accelerators with INF&RNO - Carlo Benedetti (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
High Gradient
High Gradient
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 3
Contributions

15:50 Recent demonstration of record high gradients in dielectric laser accelerating structures - Kent Wootton (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:20 Elements of a dielectric laser accelerator - Joshua McNeur (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU))

16:40 Dielectric laser accelerators for subrelativistic electrons - Andrew Ceballos (Stanford)
Beam-Driven
Beam-Driven
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 1
Contributions

15:30 Acceleration of a Positron Witness Beam in a Hollow Channel Plasma Wakefield Accelerator - Spencer Gessner (SLAC National Laboratory)

15:52 Experimental Measurement of the Hollow Channel PWFA Transverse Instability Growth Rate - Carl Andreas Lindstrom (University of Oslo)

16:14 Multi-GeV acceleration of positrons in strongly nonlinear and self-loaded plasma wakes - Sebastien Corde (Ecole Polytechnique)

16:36 Acceleration of a distinct trailing positron bunch in a mildly nonlinear plasma wake - Antoine Doche (Ecole Polytechnique)
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 2
Contributions

15:30 THz Based Phase-space Manipulation of Electron Bunches - Emma Curry (UCLA)

15:50 Collective Effects in the Phase-Space Manipulation of a Low Energy Electron Beam - Yine Sun (Argonne National Lab.)

16:10 A Fast Kicker Using a Two-Channel Rectangular Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator Structure - Sergey Shchelkunov (Yale University)

16:30 Transport and phase space manipulation of laser plasma accelerated electron beams - Samuel Barber (LBNL)
Laser-Ion
Laser-Ion
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Chesapeake K
Contributions

15:30 Introduction - Farhat Beg (University of California San Diego) Stepan Bulanov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:50 Laser-driven ion acceleration using truly mass-limited targets - Malte Kaluza (University of Jena)

16:20 Ion acceleration from ultra-thin relativistically transparent foils - George Hicks (Imperial College London)

16:40 High-contrast laser-proton acceleration from condensed hydrogen jet - Karl Zeil (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Radiation
Radiation
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson B
Contributions

15:45 High Brightness Gamma-Ray Production at Fermilab FAST Facility - Daniel Mihalcea (Northern Illinois University)

16:00 CO2 laser driven Compton scattering for future applications spanning from compact radiation sources to linear colliders - Igor Pogorelsky (BNL)

16:15 Redshifting and harmonic radiation in the nonlinear Laser-Thomson scattering interaction - Arie Irman (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

16:30 Optimization of Compton source Performance through Electron Beam Shaping - Alexander Malyzhenkov (LANL)

16:45 High Duty Cycle Inverse Compton Scattering X-ray Source - Alex Murokh (RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC.)
High energy lasers in large experimental facilities I
High energy lasers in large experimental facilities I
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 4
Contributions

15:30 Solid State Lasers and Applications Proposed for Brookhaven’s ATF-II - Marcus Babzien (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:55 Diagnostics and controls of temporal and spatiotemporal distortions for petawatt class laser plasma accelerators - Kei Nakamura (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:20 Integrating the ANGUS 200 TW Laser Into the Accelerator Infrastructure at DESY - Andreas R. Maier (CFEL / Hamburg University)
17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

17:00 Laser-Plasma Accelerators - Carl Schroeder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson B
Contributions

17:00 Particle Acceleration and Coherent Radiation Generation - Phillip Sprangle (University of Maryland)
Tuesday, 2 August 2016

08:15

08:15 - 08:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson
08:30 Plenary
Plenary
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

08:30 Laser Acceleration of Ions in Plasma - Antonio Ting (Naval Research Laboratory)

09:00 Reaching for highest beam intensities using laser accelerated ions together with conventional accelerator components - Dennis Schumacher (GSI)

09:30 Ion acceleration from laser-plasma interactions - Frederico Fiuza (SLAC)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
10:30 Laser-Plasma
Laser-Plasma
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

10:30 On the possibilities of LWFA in the self-guided nonlinear blowout regime for 15-100 Joule lasers - Asher Davidson (UCLA)

10:50 Multi-GeV scale electron acceleration with self guided laser wakefield accelerators - Kristjan Poder (Imperial College London)

11:10 Recent progress on laser plasma physics and advanced accelerator research at Tsinghua University: experiment and simulation - Chih-Hao Pai (Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University)

11:30 Relativistically self-guided laser pulses and spatio-temporal vortices - George Hine (University of Maryland College Park)
Computations
Computations
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Baltimore 2
Contributions

10:30 Comparison of Quasi-3D and Full-3D OSIRIS simulations of ionization and density downramp injection - Thamine Dalichaouch (UCLA)

10:50 HOM ABSORBER STUDY BY PHOTON DIFFRACTION MODEL - CHEN XU (BNL)

11:10 Simulations of high-gradient dielectric laser acceleration - Benjamin Cowan (Tech-X Corporation)

11:30 Discussion
High Gradient
High Gradient
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 3
Contributions

10:30 High gradient mm-wave metallic accelerating structures - Massimo Dal Forno (SLAC)

11:00 Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave High-Gradient Accelerating Structures - Sergey Kuzikov (Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Euclid Techlabs LLC.)

11:20 Demonstration of The Complete Multipactor Suppression for a Standing Wave Dielectric-Loaded Accelerating Structure With An Axial DC Magnetic Field Applied - Chunguang Jing (Euclid Techlabs LLC/ Argonne National Laboratory)

11:40 The Nonlinear Structure of Multipactor * - Rami Kishek (University of Maryland)
Beam-Driven
Beam-Driven
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 1
Contributions

10:30 Long-range attraction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam by a column of neutral plasma - Carl Andreas Lindstrom (University of Oslo)

10:48 Acceleration of High-Charge Low-Emittance Electron Beam in a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator via Ionization Injection - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (UCLA)

11:06 Emittance Match and Evolution within Plasma Wakefield Acceleration - Joel Frederico (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:24 Cherenkov radiation and surface wave accelerator based on silicon carbide(SWABSiC) - Tianhong Wang (University of Texas at Austin)

11:42 Beam-driven plasma acceleration at SPARC_LAB - Riccardo Pompili (INFN)
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 2
Contributions

10:30 Advances in Electron Source Design - Nathan Moody (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:50 Structured electron beams from nano-engineered cathodes - Anusorn Lueangaramwong (Northern Illinois University)

11:10 Robust, High-Efficiency, Long-Life Photocathodes - R. Lawrence Ives (Calabazas Creek Research, Inc.)

11:30 Ultrashort, high brightness beams at low charge from RF photoinjectors - Jared Maxson (UCLA)
Laser-Ion
Laser-Ion
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Baltimore 1
Contributions

10:30 Intense Ion, Neutron and X-rays Beams from relativistic Laser-matter interaction - Markus Roth (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

11:00 Laser proton acceleration from liquid crystal films of different thicknesses with ultra-high laser contrast - Lieselotte Obst (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

11:20 Particle acceleration from laser-driven electrostatic shock waves - Arthur Pak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:40 Laser acceleration of protons with an optically shaped, near-critical hydrogen gas target - Yu-hsin Chen (Research Support Instruments, Inc.)
Radiation
Radiation
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson B
Contributions

10:30 Probing Warm Dense Matter with Betatron X-ray Radiation at LCLS - Félicie Albert (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:45 Imaging of biologic samples using betatron radiation - Nelson Lopes (Imperial College London)

11:00 Laser-accelerated comb-like electron beams as a source of pulsed polychromatic gamma-rays. - Serge Kalmykov (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

11:15 Narrow bandwidth Thomson photon source development using Laser-Plasma Accelerators - Cameron Geddes (LBNL)

11:30 Production of 10-75 MeV Compton Gamma-rays from a 1-2 GeV Laser Wakefield Accelerator - Joseph M. Shaw (The University of Texas at Austin)
High energy lasers in large experimental facilities II
High energy lasers in large experimental facilities II
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 4
Contributions

10:30 Transition of the BELLA PW laser system towards a Collaborative Research Facility in Laser Plasma Science - Csaba Toth (LBNL)

10:55 Status and Plans for the Accelerator Test Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:20 Review of present and upcoming experimental opportunities offered by ATF electron beamlines - Fedurin Mikhail (BNL ATF)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: On-your-own
13:30 Joint session with WG4
Joint session with WG4
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

13:30 Low Density Plasma Channels Created by Hydrodynamic Expansion of OFI-heated Plasma Columns - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)

13:50 High quality electron bunch generation using a longitudinal density-tailored plasma-based accelerator in the blowout regime - Xinlu Xu (University of California, Los Angeles)

14:10 Unique acceleration properties in a few skin-depth Ion-wake channel with a near-hollow profile - Aakash Sahai (Imperial College London)

14:30 Electron density determination via broadening and shift of spectral lines - Lars Goldberg (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

14:45 Beam energy and quality transformer: Using LWFA electron beams for PWFA - Oliver Simon Karger (Department for Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg)
Computations
Computations
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Baltimore 2
Contributions

13:30 Fast Multipole Method for Coulomb Interaction and Other Non-Oscillating Interaction Using Cartesian Tensor and Differential Algebra - He Zhang (Jefferson Lab)

13:50 New algorithm for dynamical friction of ions in a magnetized electron beam - David Bruhwiler (RadiaSoft LLC)

14:10 Modeling Electron Cloud Dynamics in High-Frequency Accelerators - Seth Veitzer (Tech-X Corporation)

14:30 Discussion
High Gradient
High Gradient
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Annapolis 3
Contributions

13:30 Dielectric laser acceleration and focusing using short-pulse lasers with an arbitrary laser phase distribution - Kent Wootton (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

13:50 Acceleration and dephasing in high gradient dielectric laser acceleration - David Cesar (UCLA)

14:10 Diamond field emitter array cathodes and possibilities of employing additive manufacturing for dielectric laser accelerating structures. - Evgenya Simakov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:30 Dielectric CO2-Laser Accelerator - Levi Schachter (Technion)
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Annapolis 2
Contributions

13:30 Ampere-class, high quality RF electron source - Xiangyun Chang (FAR-TECH, Inc.)

13:50 Concepts of a Short Wavelength RF Gun - Sergey Kuzikov (Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Euclid Techlabs LLC.)

14:10 New capabilities of the Coherent electron Cooling system at RHIC - Vladimir Litvinenko (StonyBrook University)

14:30 Installation and Commissioning of an Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Facility as Part of the ATF-II Upgrade - Fedurin Mikhail (BNL ATF)
Laser-Ion
Laser-Ion
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Baltimore 1
Contributions

13:30 Quasi Mono-Energetic Ion Acceleration from Mass-Limited Targets with Realistic Laser Contrast - Axel Huebl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Technische Universitaet Dresden)

14:00 Physical mechanism of the transverse instability in radiation pressure ion acceleration - Yang Wan (Tsinghua)

14:20 Laser-plasma interaction effects in optically-shaped long scale-length plasmas for Ion acceleration - Aakash Sahai (Imperial College London)

14:40 Strong field electrodynamics of a thin foil - Stepan Bulanov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Radiation
Radiation
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson B
Contributions

13:30 Tunable multicolor radiation from inverse Compton scattering with plasma wakefield accelerated electrons - Paul Scherkl (University of Strathclyde)

13:45 Scaling EUV and X-ray Thomson Sources to Optical Free-Electron Laser Operation with Traveling-Wave Thomson Scattering - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

14:00 Plasma channel undulator using higher-order laser modes - Sergey Rykovanov (Helmholtz Institute Jena)

14:15 A 30 GHz Flying Electromagnetic Undulator - Sergey Kuzikov (Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Euclid Techlabs LLC.)
High repetition rate lasers for particle acceleration
High repetition rate lasers for particle acceleration
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Annapolis 4
Contributions

13:30 Progress in Coherent Pulse Stacking: A Pathway Toward Compact kHz Repetition Rate LPA Drivers - John Ruppe (University of Michigan)

13:55 Interferometer design and controls for pulse stacking in high power fiber lasers - Russell Wilcox (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
15:30 Joint session with WG7
Joint session with WG7
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

15:30 Electron beams and synchrotron radiation from laser wakefield accelerators for applications - Karl Krushelnick (University of Michigan)

15:45 Betatron radiation produced in wakefield accelerators driven by lasers with orbital angular momentum - Joana Luis Martins (GoLP / IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

16:00 Production of High Energy MeV Gamma Rays through Inverse Compton Scattering - Keegan Behm (University of Michigan)

16:15 X-ray beam source from a Self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator - Nuno Lemos (UCLA)

16:30 Laser-plasma-based Space Radiation Reproduction and Testing in the Laboratory - Bernhard Hidding (University of Strathclyde / SCAPA / The Cockcroft Institute)

16:45 Effect of experimental laser imperfections on laser wakefield acceleration and betatron source - Julien Ferri (CEA, DAM, DIF)
Computations
Computations
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Baltimore 2
Contributions

15:30 Poster introductions

16:00 Discussion
High Gradient
High Gradient
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 3
Beam-Driven
Beam-Driven
15:30 - 17:02
Room: Annapolis 1
Contributions

15:30 Room temperature gas plasma source for beam-driven PWFA - Michael Litos (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

15:48 Optical visualization of e-beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators - Rafal Zgadzaj (University of Texas at Austin)

16:06 Fragmentation Dynamics of Gases and their Impact on Plasma Wakefield Acceleration - Lucas Schaper (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

16:24 Using PWFA for fusion plasma heating - vitaly yakimenko (slac)

16:42 High gradient positron acceleration by quasi-neutral fireball beams in plasmas - Timon Mehrling (University of Hamburg/DESY and Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 2
Contributions

15:30 Faraday Rotation Diagnostics of Electron Bunches Within a GeV Laser-Plasma Accelerator - Yenyu Chang (UT Austin)

15:50 Broadband All-Optical Streak Camera Diagnostics of Laser Wakefield Accelerators - Yenyu Chang (The University of Texas at Austin)

16:10 Continuous Flow Operation of LWFA Targets - Niels Delbos (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)
Laser-Ion
Laser-Ion
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Baltimore 1
Contributions

15:30 Evolution of fast electrons generated during interaction of high intensity laser with structured targets - Arie Zigler (Hebrew University)

16:00 Electron acceleration by high-intensity picosecond laser pulses - Louise Willingale (Lancaster University)

16:20 Plasma mirrors as diagnostic for basic plasma parameters - Sven Steinke (LBNL)

16:40 Signatures of Magnetic Vortex Acceleration from a Gas Foil - Michael Helle (US Naval Research Laboratory)
Coherent beam and pulse combining for high repetition rate lasers
Coherent beam and pulse combining for high repetition rate lasers
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 4
Contributions

15:30 The efficient generation of radially polarised beams by coherent combination of high order fibre waveguide modes - Laura Corner (John Adams Institute, Oxford University)

15:50 Coherent combination of fibre lasers – Towards real world applications. - Peter Tudor (University of Oxford Physics)
17:30

17:30 - 19:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
Wednesday, 3 August 2016

08:15 Announcements
Announcements
08:15 - 08:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
08:30 Plenary
Plenary
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

08:30 Relativistic self-channeling and spatio-temporal optical vortices - Howard Milchberg (University of Maryland)

09:00 Probing plasma wakefield using femtosecond relativistic electron bunches - Chaojie Zhang (Tsinghua University)

09:30 Self-Mapping the longitudinal field structure of a nonlinear plasma accelerator cavity - Chris Clayton (UCLA)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
10:30 Joint session with WG5
Joint session with WG5
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

10:30 Few-cycle Optical Probing of Laser Wakefield Acceleration Experiments - Matthew Schwab (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institute for Optics and Quantum Electronics)

10:50 Plasma-driven ultrashort bunch diagnostics - Irene Dornmair (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and Department of Physics, University of Hamburg (CFEL/UHH))

11:10 Plasma control and diagnostics for 10 GeV on BELLA - Joost Daniels (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:30 Commissioning of the LUX Beamline for Laser-Plasma Driven Undulator Radiation - Andreas R. Maier (CFEL / Hamburg University)
Computations
Computations
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Baltimore 2
Contributions

10:30 Deriving Numerical Models from Action Principles - B. A. Shadwick (UNL)

10:50 Pushing Particles in Extreme Fields - Daniel Gordon (Naval Research Laboratory)

11:10 GPU Acceleration of Particle-In-Cell Methods - Benjamin Cowan (Tech-X Corporation)

11:30 Discussion
High Gradient
High Gradient
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 3
Contributions

10:30 X-band photonic band gap accelerating structures with elliptical rods and improved wakefield suppression. - Evgenya Simakov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:50 Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Magnetron-Based RF System for Accelerator Applications - R. Lawrence Ives (Calabazas Creek Research, Inc.)

11:10 100 kW CW Highly-Efficient Multi-Beam Klystron for a Future Electron-Ion Collider - Sergey Shchelkunov (Yale University)

11:30 PARTIALLY-GROUNDED DEPRESSED BEAM COLLECTOR - Sergey Shchelkunov (Yale University)
Beam-Driven
Beam-Driven
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 1
Contributions

10:30 Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator to Drive the Future FEL Light Source - Chunguang Jing (Euclid Techlabs LLC/ Argonne National Laboratory)

10:48 FLASHForward - Beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration at DESY - Jan-Patrick Schwinkendorf (Universität Hamburg / DESY)

11:06 Prospects of ultralow emittance electron beams from hybrid plasma accelerators for HEP - Bernhard Hidding (University of Strathclyde / SCAPA / The Cockcroft Institute)

11:24 FACET-II Status and Outlook - vitaly yakimenko (slac)

11:42 Evolution of an electron witness beam in a proton driven plasma accelerator section - Veronica K. Berglyd Olsen (University of Oslo)
Laser-Ion
Laser-Ion
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Baltimore 1
Contributions

10:30 Proton Acceleration in a Slow Wakefield - Joshua Isaacs (University of Maryland)

10:50 Discussions
Radiation
Radiation
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson B
Contributions

10:30 Integrable RCS as a proposed replacement for Fermilab Booster - Jeffrey Eldred (Fermilab)

10:45 Construction of the Non-linear Insert for the IOTA Ring - Finn O'Shea (RadiaBeam Technologies)

11:00 Understanding perturbations to the nonlinear integrable optics in IOTA - Nathan Cook (RadiaSoft LLC)

11:15 The University of Maryland Electron Ring distributed octupole lattice: marrying quasi-integrable optics with the FODO lattice. - Kiersten Ruisard (University of Maryland)

11:30 Compact, Energy Efficient Superconducting Asymmetric ERL for Ultra-high Fluxes of X-ray and THz Radiation - Ivan Konoplev (JAI, Department of Physics, University of Oxford)
Modeling and design for accelerator development
Modeling and design for accelerator development
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 4
Contributions

10:30 Light optics simulation for optical stochaistic experiment at Integrable optics test accelerator - Jinhao Ruan (Fermi National accelerator lab)

10:55 Modelling Space Charge Effects of High-Energy Proton and Ion Machines with Low-Energy Electrons in UMER - Santiago Bernal (IREAP, University of Maryland)

11:20 Design Considerations for Plasma Channel Lenses - Richard Hubbard (Naval Research Laboratory)

11:45 Ionization and Pulse Front Tilt Effects on Laser Propagation - Daniel Mittelberger (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: On-your-own

14:00 Social Event
Social Event
14:00 - 18:30
Room: Air&Space Museum
Thursday, 4 August 2016

08:15 Announcements
Announcements
08:15 - 08:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
08:30 Plenary
Plenary
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

08:30 Inverse free electron laser acceleration for compact light sources - Joseph Duris (SLAC)

09:00 E-beam interaction with high frequency structures: from THz generation to beam phase space manipulation - sergey antipov (Euclid Techlabs)

09:30 Effect of macroscopic geometry on microscopic field emission - Faya Wang (SLAC National Accelerator Lab)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
10:30 Laser-Plasma
Laser-Plasma
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

10:30 Gas density structure of supersonic flows impinged on by thin blades for laser-plasma accelerators - Hann-Shin Mao (LBNL)

10:50 MeV electron acceleration at 1 kHz with <10 mJ laser pulses - Fatholah Salehi (University of Maryland)

11:10 Shock-Front Injection for Laser Plasma Acceleration - Kelly Swanson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:30 Control and steering of quasi-monoenergetic electron beams from laser plasma accelerators - Hai-En Tsai (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Computations
Computations
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Baltimore 2
High Gradient
High Gradient
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 3
Contributions

10:30 Ultra-High Gradient Channeling Acceleration in Nanostructures: Design and Progress of the Proof-Of-Concept (POC) Experiments - YOUNG-MIN SHIN (Northern Illinois University/Fermilab)

10:50 High power CW cyclotron autoresonance accelerator - Jay Hirshfield (Yale University)

11:10 Advantages of Artificial Materials for Structure Based Laser Acceleration - Adi Hanuka (Technion)

11:30 Numerical study of dielectric laser acceleration of nonrelativistic electrons with colonnade structure - Zhaofu Chen (The Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, The University of Tokyo)
Beam-Driven
Beam-Driven
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 1
Contributions

10:30 A Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory for Plasma Wakes - Stephen Webb (RadiaSoft, LLC)

10:52 Wake excited in plasma by an ultra-relativistic point-like bunch - Gennady Stupakov (SLAC)

11:14 Mitigation of the hose instability in plasma-wakefield accelerators - Timon Mehrling (University of Hamburg/DESY and Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)

11:36 Self-loading in a positron beam driven plasma wakefield accelerator - Weiming An (University of California Los Angeles)
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 2
Contributions

10:30 Nondestructive Proton Beam Transverse Position and Profile Monitor - Sergey Shchelkunov (Yale University)

10:50 Non-destructive picocoulomb charge measurements for laser plasma accelerators - Kei Nakamura (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Laser-Ion
Laser-Ion
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Baltimore 1
Radiation
Radiation
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson B
Contributions

10:30 Tapering-Enhanced Stimulated Superradiant Amplification - Pietro Musumeci (UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy)

10:45 Development of the two-stream instability in a single bunch - Nikolai Yampolsky (LANL)

11:00 Enhanced multi-MeV photon emission by a laser-driven electron beam in a self-generated magnetic field - Alexey Arefiev (University of Texas)

11:15 OPTIMIZATION OF GAMMA PHOTON BEAMS GENERATION USING ULTRA HIGH INTENSITY LASERS TO STUDY THE TWO-PHOTON BREIT-WHEELER PAIR GENERATION PROCESS - Emmanuel d'Humières (University of Bordeaux)

11:30 Depletion of intense fields - Stepan Bulanov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Novel techniques for mid-IR laser development
Novel techniques for mid-IR laser development
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Annapolis 4
Contributions

10:30 Novel Methods for Production of Energetic Picosecond 10 micron Pulses in OP CPA - Sergei Tochitsky (UCLA)

10:55 Nonlinear optical compression of high-power, 10 µm CO2 laser pulses in gases and semiconductors - Jeremy Pigeon (UCLA)

11:20 Generation of High Power, Picosecond Mid-infrared Pulses Using Backwards Raman Amplification - Luke Johnson (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: On-your-own
13:30 Joint session with WG8
Joint session with WG8
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

13:50 CO2 Laser-Driven Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Experiment at ATF/BNL - James Welch (University of Texas at Austin)

14:10 Mid-IR lasers for energy frontier plasma accelerators - Igor Pogorelsky (BNL)

14:30 Project towards CO2-laser-driven wake-field accelerator with external injection - Vladimir Litvinenko (StonyBrook University)

14:50 Discussion: The future of CO2 lasers for LWFA
Computations
Computations
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Baltimore 2

High Gradient
High Gradient
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Annapolis 3
Beam-Driven
Beam-Driven
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Annapolis 1
Contributions

13:30 Structure-based, high-transformer-ratio, collinear, two-beam accelerator - Jay Hirshfield (Yale University)

13:52 Beam manipulation and acceleration using dielectric-lined waveguides - Gerard Andonian (RadiaBeam & UCLA)

14:14 Towards a Practical Multi-Meter Long Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator: Problems and Solutions. - Evgenya Simakov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:36 Two Beam Acceleration and Staging at the AWA Facility - Manoel Conde (ANL)
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Annapolis 2
Contributions

13:30 Conceptual design of non-destructive, time profile monitor for femtosecond-long electron bunches - Ivan Konoplev (JAI, Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

13:50 Plasma based diagnostic for characterising high-field ultra-short FEL electron bunches - Roxana Tarkeshian (Research Fellow)

14:10 Ultrananocrystalline diamond field emission electron sources for accelerator injectors - Alexei Kanareykin (Euclid TechLabs)

14:30 Extreme ultraviolet transition radiation beam profile monitor - Alex Murokh (RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC.)
Laser-Ion
Laser-Ion
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Baltimore 1
Radiation
Radiation
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson B
Contributions

13:30 Double Emittance Exchanger as a Bunch Compressor for the MaRIE XFEL electron beam line at 1GeV - Alexander Malyzhenkov (LANL)

13:45 Particle Confinement by a Radially Polarized Laser Bessel Beam - Levi Schachter (Technion)

14:00 Concave Relativistic Plasma Mirrors for Advanced Accelerator Applications - Mike Downer (The University of Texas at Austin)

14:15 OPTIMIZATION OF RADIATION GENERATION IN THE INTERACTION OF HIGH INTENSITY SHORT PULSE LASERS WITH SNAIL-SHAPED TARGETS - Emmanuel d'Humières (University of Bordeaux)

14:30 Simulation of High-Power Tunable Laser Pulse Driven Terahertz Generation in Corrugated Plasma Waveguides - Chenlong Miao (IREAP, University of Maryland, College Park)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
15:30 Laser-Plasma
Laser-Plasma
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson CD
Contributions

15:30 High Energy Electron Acceleration from Underdense Plasmas Using OMEGA EP Laser - Thomas Batson (University of Michigan)

15:50 Role of direct laser acceleration of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator with ionization injection - Chan Joshi (University of California, Los Angeles)

16:10 WG1 General discussion
Computations
Computations
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Baltimore 2

High Gradient
High Gradient
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 3
Beam-Driven
Beam-Driven
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 1
Contributions

15:30 Dark current mitigation in advanced plasma wakefield accelerators - Grace Manahan (University of Strathclyde)

15:52 Ultra-low emittance electron beams from density downramp assisted Trojan Horse PWFA. - Knetsch Alexander (University of Hamburg)

16:14 Angled laser triggered electron injection in the electron driven plasma wakefield acceleration scheme: A case study in a pursuit to increase tolerance levels, based on FACET II driver parameters. - Panagiotis Delinikolas (University of Strathclyde)

16:36 Progress and future plans on Trojan Horse-enabled ultrahigh brightness electron and photon sources - Grace Manahan (University of Strathclyde)
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
Beam Sources, Monitoring & Control
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 2

Laser-Ion
Laser-Ion
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Baltimore 1
Radiation
Radiation
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson B
Contributions

15:30 Nonlinear Raman backscattering in laser-plasma accelerators - Dmitri Kaganovich (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:45 X-Ray Characterisation by Energy Resolved Powder (XCERP) Diffraction - Gavin Cheung (University of Oxford)

16:00 Laser high-harmonic generation in cavitated plasma wakefields - Carl Schroeder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:15 Strong Terahertz Generation from Laser-Produced 2D-Plasma Sheets - Donghoon Kuk (University of Maryland)
Mid-IR lasers for wakefield acceleration
Mid-IR lasers for wakefield acceleration
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Annapolis 4
Contributions

15:30 Laser Wakefield Programs at the BNL Accelerator Test Facility Moving Towards External Injection with CO2 Lasers - Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab.)

15:55 BESTIA (Brookhaven Experimental Supra-Terawatt Infrared at ATF) laser: A Status Report. - Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)
18:00 Banquet
Banquet
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
Friday, 5 August 2016

08:00 Announcements
Announcements
08:00 - 08:05
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
08:05 Plenary
Plenary
08:05 - 09:35
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

08:05 Gigavolt-per-meter Gradients in a Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator - Brendan O'Shea (SLAC National Laboratory)

08:35 Challenges in computer simulations to the exascale - Ricardo Fonseca (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)

09:05 Free Electron Lasers driven by Laser Plasma Accelerators - Jeroen van Tilborg (LBNL)
09:35 Coffee
Coffee
09:35 - 10:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
10:00 Student Poster Prize Winners
Student Poster Prize Winners
10:00 - 11:30
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

10:00 WG1: Improved electron beam quality from shock-induced density downramp injection - Kelly Swanson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:10 WG2: Stable modeling of relativistically drifting plasmas - Kirchen Manuel (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany)

10:20 WG3: Increasing the capture rate of the Rubicon inverse free electron laser - Nicholas Sudar (UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy)

10:30 WG4: Transverse evolution of positron beams accelerating in hollow plasma channel non-linear wakefields - Ligia Diana Amorim (IST)

10:40 WG5: Continuous-flow operation of LWFA targets - Niels Delbos (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

10:50 WG6: Critical density target design for ion acceleration on the T-cubed laser - Peter Kordell (University of Michigan)

11:00 WG7: Production of 10-75 MeV Compton gamma-rays from a GeV laser-plasma electron accelerator - Joseph M. Shaw (The University of Texas at Austin)

11:10 WG8: Generation of energetic picosecond seed pulses for CO2 laser using Raman shifter - Eric Welch (University of California, Los Angeles)
11:30
11:30 - 12:20
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

11:30 WG2 (Computations) Summary - Benjamin Cowan (Tech-X Corporation) Carlo Benedetti (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:50 WG6 (Ion Acceleration) Summary - Farhat Beg (University of California San Diego) Stepan Bulanov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:40
Room: On-your-own
13:40 WG Summary
WG Summary
13:40 - 14:55
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

13:40 WG8 (Laser Tech) Summary - Almantas Galvanauskas (University of Michigan)

14:05 WG4 (Beam Driven) Summary - Chunguang Jing (Euclid Techlabs LLC/ Argonne National Laboratory) Michael Litos (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:30 WG1 (LPA) Summary - Gonsalves Anthony (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
14:55 Coffee
Coffee
14:55 - 15:25
Room: Woodrow Wilson A
15:25 WG Summary
WG Summary
15:25 - 16:40
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD
Contributions

15:25 WG7 (Radiation) Summary - Alex Murokh (RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC.) Dmitri Kaganovich (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:50 WG5 (Sources&Diagnostics) Summary - manoel conde (ANL)

16:15 WG3 (structures) Summary - Evgenya Simakov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:40

16:40 - 17:00
Room: Woodrow Wilson BCD