Name: Laser-Plasma Accelerator Workshop 2019
Start: 2019-05-05T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2019-05-10T14:00:00+02:00
Location: MedILS

Monday, May 6, 2019
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

9:30 AM High-Performance Modeling of Laser-Plasma Acceleration Physics - Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:00 AM Recent developments of the Betatron source at LOA - Kim TA PHUOC (LOA)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

11:00 AM External injection acceleration with ~100% capture efficiency - Jianfei Hua (Tsinghua University)

11:30 AM Hybrid acceleration: Studying PWFAs with LWFAs - Max F. Gilljohann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

12:00 PM Proton Bunch Self-Modulation and Electron Acceleration in AWAKE - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Electron beam acceleration to 8 GeV with laser-assisted capillary discharge waveguides - kei nakamura (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2:20 PM Carrier-Envelope-Phase and Dispersion in Laser-Plasma Acceleration Driven by Single-Cycle Laser Pulses - Jerome Faure (LOA)

2:40 PM Controlling the Self-Injection Threshold in Laser Wakefield Accelerators - Stephan Kuschel (SLAC national accelerator laboratory)

2:55 PM Effects of Beam Loading in LWFAs - Johannes Götzfried (Ludwig Maximilian University)

3:10 PM Laser wakefield acceleration research at Center for Relativistic Laser Science - Hyung Taek Kim (IBS & GIST)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Recent progress in LWFA
Recent progress in LWFA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

4:00 PM CO2-laser-driven laser-wakefield acceleration experiments at Brookhaven’s Accelerator Test Facility - Rafal Zgadzaj (University of Texas at Austin)

4:15 PM Transport of a laser plasma accelerated electron beam on COXINEL - Driss Oumbarek Espinos (Synchrotron SOLEIL)

4:30 PM Plasma eyepiece for petawatt laser wakefield accelerators - Ming Zeng (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

4:45 PM A novel scheme in the plasma beam dump - Guoxing Xia (University of Manchester)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Meeting Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Laser-proton acceleration from a cryogenic hydrogen jet - M. Rehwald (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

4:15 PM Modification of proton spectra using optical shaping of over-dense gas jets - George Hicks (Imperial College London)

4:30 PM Investigation on near-critical targets for enhanced laser-driven ion acceleration - Andrea Pazzaglia (Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy)

4:45 PM Ion acceleration from ultra-thin foil targets with on-shot monitored temporal contrast - Tim Ziegler (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
5:00 PM Break
Break
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
5:15 PM
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

5:15 PM Transverse electron probing of interactions of long CO$_2$ laser pulse with plasma at ATF - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

5:30 PM Impact of ultrafast laser generated Weibel magnetic fields on propagation dynamics of relativistic electron bunches - O. Kononenko (LOA, ENSTA ParisTech, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)

5:45 PM Presence and future of X-ray scattering techniques for the understanding of ultra-short pulse laser matter interactions - Thomas Kluge

6:00 PM Optical measurements of nanosecond-scale plasma channel evolution excited by beam-driven plasma wakes at FACET - Rafal Zgadzaj (University of Texas at Austin)
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Meeting Room
Contributions

5:15 PM DLA of electrons in plasma channels using extremely intense lasers - Marija Vranic (GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal)

5:35 PM Simulations of laser-driven ion acceleration using the quasi-cylindrical PIC code CALDER-CIRC and application to the PETAL facility - Xavier Davoine (CEA, DAM, DIF)

5:55 PM Simulations of long-term wakefield evolution in a radially bounded plasma - Konstantin Lotov (Budker INP)
6:15 PM Break
Break
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM
6:30 PM
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

6:30 PM Determining impact of LWFA injection schemes on electron bunch profiles and peak currents based on broadband, spectral CTR diagnostics at single shot - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

6:45 PM Few-cycle shadowgraphy of plasma wave trains - Hao Ding (LMU Munich)

7:00 PM Excitation of beam driven plasma waves in a hybrid LPWFA - Susanne Schöbel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics)

7:15 PM Single-shot movies of evolving GeV laser-plasma accelerators by multiplexed Faraday rotation - Yenyu Chang (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Meeting Room
Contributions

6:30 PM Efficient 3D envelope modelisation for two-stage laser wakefield acceleration experiments - Francesco Massimo (LLR)

6:50 PM A three-dimensional ponderomotive guiding center solver in Osiris - Anton Helm (Inst Superior Tecnico (IST))

7:10 PM RaDiO-Radiation Diagnostic for Osiris: an efficient radiation processing tool for particle-in-cell simulations - Miguel Pardal (IST-ID)
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
9:00 AM Ions acceleration
Ions acceleration
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

9:00 AM Laser-driven ion acceleration: High-energy protons from ultrathin foils - Paul McKenna (University of Strathclyde)

9:30 AM Megagauss magnetic fields in intense laser-solid interactions - Gourab Chatterjee (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)

10:00 AM Towards accelerator-quality beams of high energy protons guided by laser driven helical coils - Hamad Ahmed (Queen's University Belfast)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Novel Concepts
Novel Concepts
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

11:00 AM Particle acceleration using laser-controlled relativistic plasma-mirrors - Philippe MARTIN (LIDYL Saclay)

11:30 AM Relativistic nanophotonics - Laszlo Veisz (Umea University)

12:00 PM Flying Focus and its application to Laser-Plasma Accelerators - Jessica Shaw (LLE)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

2:00 PM High Field QED Experiments with Lasers Progress and Challenges - Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institut Jena)

2:20 PM The control of laser wakefield accelerated electron beams and betatron X-ray radiation using arrays of multiple gas jets - Vidmantas Tomkus (Center for Physical Sciences and Technology)

2:40 PM Creation of Electron-Positron Pairs in Photon-Photon Collisions Driven by 10-PW Laser Pulses - Jinqing Yu (Peking univeristy)

3:00 PM 1 MeV Thomson backscatter x-ray source from a 250 MeV laser-plasma accelerator and plasma mirror - Yenyu Chang (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)

3:20 PM Gamma-ray radiation in beam-plasma interaction as a diagnostics for emittance growth in PWFA and for beam filamentation instabilities - Pablo San Miguel (Ecole Polytechnique)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

4:00 PM Spatial and spectral filtering of laser-accelerated proton beams for radiobiology applications - Marco Cavallone (Ecole Polytechnique)

4:15 PM Probing the energy loss of TNSA ions in plasma with the LIGHT beam line - Abel Blazevic (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

4:30 PM Recombination of Protons Accelerated by a High Intensity High Contrast Laser - Sheroy Tata (Weizmann Institute of Science)

4:45 PM Tunable Metallic Nanocrystal Generation using Laser-Driven Proton Irradiation - Patrizio Antici (INRS)
5:00 PM Break
Break
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
5:15 PM
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

5:15 PM Laser -driven particle acceleration at high repetition rate - Karl Krushelnick (University of Michigan)

5:35 PM Status of CALA and overview about LMU's LWFA-related activities - S. Karsch (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik)

5:55 PM Energy absorption, photon-photon scattering and channelling with ultra-intense laser pulses - Peter Norreys (University of Oxford and UKRI-STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
6:15 PM Poster Session and Industry Exhibition
Poster Session and Industry Exhibition
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM BBQ Dinner
BBQ Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

9:00 AM New approaches to high energy physics with lasers for radiation-nuclear applications - Valery Bychenkov (Lebedev Institute)

9:30 AM Recent studies on plasma channel based new laser wakefield staging scheme and radiation source at SJTU - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

10:00 AM X-ray radiation sources based on laser-wakefield accelerators driven by structured pulses - Joana Luís Martins (GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM X-ray sources
X-ray sources
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

11:00 AM X-rays from Laser Wakefield Accelerators - Alec Thomas

11:30 AM Inverse Compton X/γ Source Based on Laser-Wake Field Accelerator - Wenchao Yan (ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics ASCR)

12:00 PM Mastering the spectral properties of the COXINEL undulator radiation driven by a laser plasma accelerator - Eléonore Roussel (PhLAM-CNRS, Lille University)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

2:30 PM Beam diagnostics for high brightness beams at FACET-II - Douglas Storey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:50 PM Algorithmic ultrafast imaging - Robin Wang (University of Oxford)

3:10 PM Off-harmonic optical probe diagnostic for high intensity laser interaction with hydrogen targets - Karl Zeil (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

4:00 PM Superluminal laser plasma acceleration - Slava Smartsev (Weizmann Institute of Science)

4:15 PM Traveling-Wave Electron Acceleration - Energy-efficient Laser-plasma acceleration beyond the dephasing and depletion limits - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

4:30 PM Electron beam dynamics in the laser-plasma accelerator - Nikolay Andreev (Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

4:45 PM LWFA in mismatched regime - Igor Kostyukov (Lobachevsky University, IAP RAS)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Meeting Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Towards an all-optical Thomson source for X-ray flourescence imaging - Kristjan Poder (DESY)

4:20 PM Using laser plasma accelerator for simultaneous X-ray absorption and 2-photon Light Induced Fluorescence imaging of a car engine spray. - Diego Guenot (Lund university)

4:40 PM Double Optical Gating of XUV pulses in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions - Mark Yeung (Queen's University Belfast)
5:00 PM Break
Break
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
5:15 PM
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

5:15 PM Few-cycle laser wakefield acceleration on solid targets with controlled plasma scale length - Neil Zaim (LOA)

5:30 PM Generation of super-ponderomotive electrons in interaction of relativistic laser pulses with long scale near critical plasmas. - Olga N Rosmej (GSI Darmstadt)

5:45 PM Generation of high energy electrons in moderately intense laser matter interaction with mass-limited targets - Angana Mondal (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

6:00 PM Multi Spectral Coherent Transition Radiation Imaging and Interferometry of Laser Wakefield Accelerated Electron Bunches - Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Meeting Room
Contributions

5:15 PM Relativistic Laser Plasma Interactions at Short Wave Infrared Wavelengths - Franklin Dollar (University of California, Irvine)

5:35 PM Generation of tunable relativistic, single-cycle infrared pulses from a tailored plasma structure - Chih-Hao Pai (Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

5:55 PM Terahertz Pulse Generation by Laser Plasma Wakefield Accelerator - Jérémy Déchard (CEA DAM)
6:15 PM Break
Break
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM
6:30 PM
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

6:30 PM Plasma acceleration - what were we thinking in those early days and where are we headed? - Chandrashekhar Joshi (UCLA)
7:30 PM Gala Dinner
Gala Dinner
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, May 9, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

9:00 AM Diagnostics for plasma-based electron accelerators - Mike Downer (The University of Texas at Austin)

9:30 AM Controlling the dynamics of a laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. - Matthew Streeter (Imperial College London)

10:00 AM Laser-driven proton beam profiles in ultra-high fields - Lieselotte Obst-Huebl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

11:00 AM Quasistatic and PIC simulations of electron self-trapping by the wake of low power laser pulse - Petr Tuev (Budker INP)

11:15 AM Multi-dimensional evolutions of transverse instability in the “light sail” ion acceleration - Yang Wan

11:30 AM Modeling hybrid plasma accelerator experiments with PIConGPU - Richard Pausch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

11:45 AM First fully kinetic full 3D AWAKE baseline scenario simulation - Nils Moschuering
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Main Hall
Contributions

12:00 PM Beam quality optimization in a beam loaded nanocoulomb-class laser wakefield accelerator - J. P. Couperus Cabadağ (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden -Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics)

12:15 PM First demonstration of a hybrid laser-electron-beam driven plasma wakefield accelerator - T. Kurz (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics)

12:30 PM Influence of proton bunch parameters on a proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment - Mariana Moreira (IST, CERN)

12:45 PM Ballistic Injection and acceleration of positrons in bubble regime - Zhiyi Xu (Peking University)

1:00 PM An experimental study of transverse and longitudinal wakefields driven by a self-modulating proton bunch - Marlene Turner (CERN)

1:15 PM Stable positron acceleration in self-generated hollow channels - Thales Silva (Instituto Superior Técnico)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Meeting room
Contributions

12:00 PM The role of nanoscale dimensionality in the ultrafast recovery of materials excited by picosecond bursts of laser-driven ions - Brendan Dromey (Queen's University Belfast)

12:15 PM Observing Dynamics of Electron Solvation in H2O During Ultrafast Pulsed-ion Radiolysis - Mark Coughlan (Queen's University Belfast)
12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Meeting Room
Contributions

12:30 PM Initial benchmark experimental results using high contrast high intensity CAEP-PW laser - Wei Hong

12:45 PM Towards the 100-MeV proton mark at the PHELIX facility - Vincent Bagnoud

1:00 PM Highly charged heavy ion acceleration from a high temperature solid heated by J-KAREN laser system - Mamiko Nishiuchi (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST))

1:15 PM Laser-driven Ion Acceleration and Applications at the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) - Daniele Margarone (ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics of CAS)
Friday, May 10, 2019

9:00 AM Working Group Summaries and Dawson Talks I
Working Group Summaries and Dawson Talks I
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Main Hall

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Main Hall

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM