High Brightness Beams Workshop

Mar 28, 2016, 8:00 AM → Apr 1, 2016, 6:00 PM US/Central

Cuba, L'Havana

Fidel Castro Smirnov, James Rosenzweig (UCLA), Massimo Ferrario (LNF)

Monday, March 28

8:30 AM → 10:15 AM Electron Sources

Convener: Massimo Ferrario (LNF)

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

Speakers: F. A. CASTRO SMIRNOV, James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

9:30 AM Generation of Ultra-Short Electron Bunches

Speaker: Klaus Floettmann (DESY)

Slides Floettmann.pptx

9:50 AM TopGun: An Ultra-High Gradient Cryogenic RF Photoinjector

Speaker: Alex Cahill (UCLA)

Slides CAHILL.pptx

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Electron Sources

Convener: Fernando Guzman Martinez

10:45 AM Dielectric laser acceleration of sub-relativistic electrons – recent experimental progress

Speaker: M. Kozak

Slides Kozak.pptx

11:10 AM High‐brightness beams from the Trojan Horse mechanism

Speaker: Prof. Bernhard Hidding (University of Strathclyde / Hamburg)

Slides HIDDING.pdf

11:35 AM Laser cooled electron source

Speaker: J. Luiten

12:00 PM RF photoinjector‐based ultraf ast electron microscopy

Speaker: David Cesar (UCLA-PBPL)

12:15 PM LCLS Injector Improvements & Plans

Speaker: F. Zhou

Slides ZHOU.pptx

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM FEL

Convener: Dr Alexander Zholents (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:00 PM Advanced seeding techniques

Speaker: Luca Giannessi (ENEA & ST)

Slides GIANNESSI.pdf

2:25 PM High efficiency energy extraction from high brightness beams

Speaker: J. DURIS

2:50 PM Echo‐seeding results

Speaker: E. Hemsing

Slides HemsingEchoHBB2016.pdf

3:15 PM High efficiency, terawatt X-ray free electron lasers via fresh bunch self-seeding

Speaker: C. Emma

Slides EMMA_talk.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM FEL

Convener: Rodolfo Alfonso La Guardia

4:00 PM Temporal Shaping of X-ray Pulses at LCLS and LCLS-II

Speaker: A. Marinelli

4:25 PM Enhanced X-ray FEL performance from tilted electron beams

Speaker: E. Prat

Slides Prat.pptx

4:50 PM Demonstration of energy‐chirp control in relativistic electron bunches at LCLS using a corrugated structure

Speaker: K. BANE

Slides BANE.pptx

5:15 PM Generation, measure and FEL radiation of ultrashort electron beams at Sparc_lab

Speaker: Fabio Villa (LNF)

Slides Villa.pptx

Tuesday, March 29

8:30 AM → 10:15 AM Beam Manipulation

Convener: Prof. Ezio Puppin (CNISM - Politecnico di Milano)

8:30 AM Beam manipulation and acceleration using dielectric-lined waveguides

Speaker: F. Lemery

Slides LEMERY.pptx

8:55 AM Recent advances in laser wakefield accelerators

Speaker: A. Lifschitz

Slides lifschitz.pdf

9:20 AM Demonstration of longitudinal b unch shaping with double dog‐leg emittance exchange beamline

Speaker: G. HA

9:45 AM The UCLA RF photoinjector at low charge and small spatial and temporal scales

Speaker: J. Maxson

Slides Maxson.pptx

10:00 AM Stabilization of a HHG‐seeded FEL by time‐synchronization control with EO‐sampling

Speaker: H. Tomizawa

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:40 PM Beam Manipulation

Convener: Enrica Chiadroni (LNF)

10:45 AM Diagnostics for high brightness electron beams

Speaker: Alessandro Cianchi (ROMA2)

Slides cianchi.pptx

11:10 AM Temporal profile measurements using self-induced fields

Speaker: P. Craievich

Slides Craievich.pdf

11:35 AM Emittance preserving staging optics for LWFA and PWFA

Speaker: Mr Carl Andreas Lindstrøm (University of Oslo)

Slides Lindstrom_Cuba_Emittance_preserving_staging_optics.pdf

12:00 PM Ultrashort electron beams generation

Speaker: Alberto Luigi Bacci (MI)

Slides Bacci.pptx

12:25 PM Project towards CO 2‐laser driven wakefield accelerator with external injection

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Litvinenko (Stony Brook University)

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:10 PM All optical/Medical

Convener: Luca Serafini (MI)

2:00 PM All optical Thomson/Compton phot on sources from laser‐plasma accelerators

Speaker: C. Geddes

2:25 PM Recent experimental results at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA)

Speaker: Dr Manoel Conde (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:40 PM The CALIFES‐based Accelerator Test Stand proposal at CERN, status and perspectives

Speaker: Roberto Corsini (CERN)

Slides HBB_Cuba_2016_RC.pptx

2:55 PM Eurogammas Gamma Characterization System for ELI‐NP: The Nuclear Resonance Scattering Technique

Speaker: Dr Maria Grazia Pellegriti (CT)

Slides HBB_cuba_pellegriti.pptx

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM Coffe Break

3:30 PM → 6:05 PM Medical Roundtable

Convener: Castro Smirnov

3:30 PM Opportunities and Challenges in Modern Radiation Therapy

Speaker: K. Sheng

Slides Sheng.pptx

3:55 PM High energy electron beam radiotherapy

Speaker: P. Maxim

4:20 PM BNCT: a binary radiotherapy at cellular leve

Speaker: C. Ceballos-Sanchez

Slides Ceballos.ppt

4:40 PM BNCT: a binary radiotherapy at cellular level

Speaker: E. Mussachio

4:50 PM Approaches on the role of medical physicists in implementing the hybrid technologies in Nuclear Medicine

Speaker: A. Lopez

5:00 PM DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS FOR INTERNAL RADIATION DOSIMETRY AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Speaker: L. Torres

Slides TORRES.pptx

5:15 PM Physics and Applications of High Brightness Beams

Speaker: C. Calderon

Slides Calderon_ICFA_Biological_basis_of_combined_treatment_in_radiotherapy_2.pptx

5:25 PM Approaches on the role of medical physicists in implementing the hybrid technologies in Nuclear Medicine

Speaker: L. Diaz

Slides LOPEZ-DIAZ.ppt

5:35 PM Updates in small field dosimetry current situation in Cuba

Speaker: F.G. YIP

Slides YIP.pptx

5:45 PM Image Guidance Systems for Radiotherapy Beams

Speaker: R. Alfonso

Slides Alfonso.pptx

5:55 PM Introduction of Intraoperatory Radiotherapy with electron beams: the Cuban Experience

Speaker: L. Morales

6:05 PM → 8:00 PM Poster Session

Wednesday, March 30

8:30 AM → 10:25 AM Advanced Accelerators

Convener: A. Meier

8:30 AM Recent Results in Dielectric Laser Acceleration of Electrons

Speaker: J. England

Slides ENGLAND.pdf

8:55 AM Gigavolt-per-meter fields in dielectric wakefield accelerator structures

Speaker: Dr Gerard Andonian (UCLA)

Slides Andonian.pptx

9:20 AM High brightness beam research at SINBAD

Speaker: Barbara Marchetti (DESY)

Slides MARCHETTI.pdf

9:45 AM Searching for a dark photon with DarkLight

Speaker: R. Corliss

Slides CORLISS.pdf

10:10 AM Self‐similar staging and wakefieldinduced ionization injection

Speaker: Dr Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY)

10:25 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Advanced Accelerators

Convener: C. Geddes

10:45 AM THz Electron Gun development

Speaker: E. Nanni

Slides Nanni_PAHBB_THz_Acclerator_Web_2.pdf

11:10 AM Free‐space longitudinal electron acceleration

Speaker: S. Carbajo

Paper PhysRevAccelBeams.19.021303.pdf

Slides hhb_Carbajo.pptx

11:35 AM Beam manipulation for resonant PWFA

Speaker: Enrica Chiadroni (LNF)

Slides CHIADRONI.pdf

12:00 PM Laser Triggered Injection and Acceleration in Beam-driven Plasma Wakefield

Speaker: A. Deng

Slides DENG.pdf

12:15 PM Advanced electron acceleration experiments planned at the CILEX-Apollon facility

Speaker: Dr Alban Mosnier (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA/IRFU))

Slides AMosnier.pptx

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM 5th generation

Convener: Luca Giannessi (ENEA & ST)

2:00 PM All Optical FEL A challenging, next generation radiation source: realistic feasibility considerations

Speaker: Andrea Renato Rossi (MI)

Slides Rossi_HBB.pdf

2:25 PM From table‐top laser plasma accelerator to free electron lasers

Speaker: Mr Jeroen van Tilburg (Physik Institut, Universitat Zurich)

2:40 PM Commissioning of the LUX Beamline for Laserplasma driven undulator radiation

Speaker: A. Maier

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM 5th generation

Convener: James Benjamin Rosenzweig (LNF)

4:00 PM Dielectric accelerator based 5th generation light source

Speaker: Dr Alexander Zholents (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides ZHOLENTS.pptx

4:25 PM Fundamental processes of coherent emission from a bunched electron beam: Spontaneous, Super-radiant, Stimulated-Super-radiant

Speaker: A. Gover

Slides Gover.pptx

4:40 PM Perspectives for future X-ray FELs

Speaker: Prof. Claudio Pellegrini (UCLA)

Slides PELLEGRINI.pdf

Thursday, March 31

8:30 AM → 10:15 AM Compton sources

Convener: Luca Serafini (MI)

8:30 AM Compton sources for gamma and X‐ray applications

Speaker: Alessandro Variola (LNF)

Slides Variola,_31_03.ppt

8:55 AM Advanced topics in the physics of Thomson/Compton scattering

Speaker: Vittoria Petrillo (MI)

Slides PETRILLO.pptx

9:20 AM The compact X-ray source ThomX

Speaker: Prof. Fabian Zomer (IN2P3/CNRS Université Paris 11)

Slides hbb_zomer.pptx

9:45 AM Drafting a roadmap to gamma colliders driven by mid-IR lasers

Speaker: Dr Igor Pogorelsky (BNL)

Slides POGORELSKY.potx

10:00 AM IFEL driven ICS X-ray Source at the ATF at BNL

Speaker: Ivan Gadjev (UCLA PBPL)

Slides hbb2016-IFELICS-IvanGadjev.pptx

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Compton sources

Convener: Luca Serafini (MI)

10:45 AM Towards industrial X‐ray source based on Inverse Compton Scattering

Speaker: A. Murokh

11:10 AM Phase space analysis of secondary beams generated in hadron-photon collisions

Speaker: Camilla Curatolo (MI)

Slides Curatolo.pdf

11:25 AM Channeling of charged particle beams in carbon nanotubes

Speaker: D. Hernandez

11:40 AM Methodology trends on gamma and electron radiation damage simulations studies in solids under high fluency irradiation environments

Speaker: Carlos M. Cruz Inclán (CEADEN, Havana, Cuba)

12:00 PM Effects of vacancies on atom displacement threshold energies calculations through Molecular Dynamic Methods in BaTiO3 with tetragonal crystalline structure

Speaker: Eduardo González Lazo (CEADEN, Havana, Cuba)

12:15 PM Upgrading attempts of the Monte Carlo Simulation of Atom Displacements, MCSAD, in solids induced by electron and gamma irradiation algorithm under high fluency irradiation environments

Speaker: Arturo Rodríguez Rodríguez (InSTEC, Havana, Cuba)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

Friday, April 1

8:30 AM → 10:15 AM Caribbean Light Source

Convener: Prof. Pietro Musumeci (UCLA)

8:30 AM tba

Speaker: Prof. James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

8:55 AM The African Light Source Roadmap

Speaker: Dr Caterina Biscari (ALBA-CELLS)

Slides AfLS_Roadmap.pptx

9:20 AM STAR Southern Europe TBS source for Applied Research

Speaker: Prof. Ezio Puppin (CNISM - Politecnico di Milano)

Slides PUPPIN.pdf

9:45 AM ELI: New frontiers of particle acceleration and radiation sources

Speaker: Prof. Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza)

Slides MOSTACCI.pptx

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Caribbean Light Source

Convener: Angelina Diaz

10:45 AM tba

Speaker: G. Kamel

11:10 AM The Impact of Light Sources on Science and Society in Developing Countries

Speaker: H. Winick

Slides WINICK.ppt

11:25 AM Final discussion and closing remarks

Speaker: Massimo Ferrario (LNF)

Slides FERRARIO.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch