Name: 3rd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Start: 2017-09-24T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-09-30T19:00:00+02:00
Location: La Biodola, Isola d'Elba

3rd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop

from Sunday, September 24, 2017 (5:00 PM) to Saturday, September 30, 2017 (7:00 PM)

Monday, September 18, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Friday, September 22, 2017
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017

5:00 PM Registration
Registration
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Secretariat Office

7:30 PM Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Monday, September 25, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - Massimo Ferrario (LNF) Ralph Assmann (DESY)

8:40 AM Future Colliders for Particle Physics - Big and Small - FRANK ZIMMERMANN (CERN)

9:20 AM High efficiency, diode pumped Petawatt lasers for the next generation particle accelerators and secondary sources - Constantin Haefner (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

10:00 AM The Accelerator-on-a-Chip International Program - Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) - The ACHIP collaboration)
10:30 AM Coffe Break
Coffe Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Acceleration of electrons in THz driven structures: first steps towards AXSIS - Nicholas Matlis (DESY (Deutches Elektronen Synchrotron))

11:30 AM Graphene and Quantum Dot Photocathodes: Lifetime and Performance Benefits - Robel Istvan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:00 PM Towards a proposal for an Advanced Linear Collider - Brigitte CROS (LPGP-CNRS-UP11)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: SML, Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

4:00 PM Experimental measurement of transverse wakefields in hollow plasma channels - Carl Andreas Lindstrøm (University of Oslo)

4:18 PM Fully optically controlled 90 degree Trojan Horse injection - Daniel Ullmann (University of Strathclyde)

4:36 PM Theoretical and experimental studies of plasma generation for beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators - Gabriele Tauscher (DESY)

4:54 PM Experimental investigation of high transformer ratio PWFA using photocathode laser based bunch shaping - Gregor Loisch (DESY Zeuthen)

5:12 PM Recent results at SPARC_LAB - Riccardo Pompili (LNF)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Observation of ultrafast solid-density plasma dynamics using femtosecond X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser - Melanie ROEDEL

4:25 PM ultrashort PW lasers pulse interaction with target and ion acceleration - Sargis Ter-Avetisyan (ELI-ALPS)

4:50 PM Experimental investigation of sheath-driven proton acceleration in the ultra-short pulse, ultra-high intensity regime - Nicholas Dover (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan)

5:10 PM Features within sheath accelerated proton beams and their implications for electron transport - Charlotte Palmer (Lancaster University/Cockcroft Institute)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Wakefield Acceleration and Phase Space Manipulation at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA) - Manoel Conde (Argonne National Laboratory)

4:30 PM Dielectric wakefield R&D programme at Daresbury Laboratory - Yuri Saveliev (STFC, Daresbury Lab., ASTeC)

4:50 PM Status and Objectives of the Dedicated Accelerator R&D Facility "SINBAD" at DESY - Ulrich Dorda (DESY)

5:10 PM RF injector design studies for the witness beam for a plasma-based user facility - Anna Giribono (ROMA1)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Measuring of ultra-short electron bunch durations from LWFA by using of a broadband, single-shot spectrometer for Coherent Transition Radiation - Omid Zarini (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

4:20 PM Design concept for THz-driven electron streaking with ultrahigh resolution - Mozhgan Hayati (University of Bern)

4:40 PM Proof-of-principle experiment for a sub-femtosecond electron bunch length diagnostic - Maria Katharina Weikum (DESY / University of Strathclyde)

5:00 PM New Measurement Techniques Using a Novel X-band Transverse Deflecting Structure with Variable Polarization - Daniel Marx (DESY)

5:15 PM Innovative single shot diagnostics for electrons from laser-plasma interaction at SPARC_LAB - Fabrizio Giuseppe Bisesto (LNF)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Feedback control of the spatio-temporal properties of high-intensity laser pulses to optimize x-ray and 100 MeV electron generation - Dan Symes (Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK)

4:30 PM Phase-space reconstruction of low-emittance electron beams through betatron radiation in a laser-plasma accelerator at FLAME facility - Alessandro Curcio (LNF)

4:50 PM HDR spatio-temporal intensity mapping by single-shot optical probing - Martin Speicher (LMU Munich)

5:10 PM Effects of pulse shape and plasma density on laser propagation in laser-driven wakefield accelerators - Matthew Streeter (The Cockcroft Institute)
5:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: SML, Sala Maria Luisa
Contributions

6:00 PM FLASHForward X-1: High-brightness electron beams from a plasma cathode - Alexander Knetsch (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

6:18 PM Multi-GeV electron acceleration from self-guided laser wakefield accelerators with extended focussing geometry - Kristjan Poder (DESY)

6:36 PM Demonstration of a beam loaded nanocoulomb-class laser wakefield accelerator - Jurjen Couperus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

6:54 PM Demonstration of the Excitation and Control of Plasma Wakefields by Multiple Laser Pulses - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)

7:12 PM Timing measurement of laser-accelerated electron beams - Masaki Kando (KPSI, QST)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM High-performance laser proton acceleration using cryogenic hydrogen jet targets with cylindrical and planar geometry - Lieselotte Obst (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

6:20 PM Isochoric heating of solid gold targets with the PW-laser-driven ion beams - Sven Steinke (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

6:40 PM Laser driven ion beam for multidisciplinary applications at ELIMAIA beamline - Valentina Scuderi (ELI-Beamlines, IoP-ASCR, INFN-LNS)

7:00 PM Spectral and spatial shaping of a laser-accelerated proton beam for radiation biology applications - Alessandro Flacco (LOA/ENSTA)

7:15 PM Proton acceleration studies with ultrashort PW pulses at DRACO - Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM High Gradients in Dielectric Wakefield Accelerators - Brendan O'Shea (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

6:30 PM Experimental demonstration of Ballistic Bunching with Dielectric Lined Waveguides at PITZ - Francois Lemery (DESY)

7:10 PM High frequency laminated metallic structures for particles radiation and acceleration - Vasili Tsakanov (CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM THz-Driven Accelerator Components - Thomas Feurer (University of Bern)

6:20 PM Beam-based measurements of the plasma decay constant - Spencer Gessner (CERN)

6:40 PM Chirp Mitigation of Plasma-Accelerated Beams by a Modulated Plasma Density - Manuel Kirchen (University of Hamburg)

7:00 PM 10 m long laser-ionized uniform Rb plasma source for plasma wakefield accelerators - Erdem Oz (Max Planck for Physics)

7:15 PM Gas cell density characterization for laser wakefield acceleration - Thomas Audet (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Laser technology for k-BELLA and beyond - Wim Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

6:30 PM The FLAME laser at SPARC_LAB - Maria Pia Anania (LNF)

6:45 PM Control and propagation effects of the wavefront quality for a high-power laser system - Vincent Leroux (ELI Beamlines)

7:00 PM Laser beam circulator for high brightness Inverse Compton Scattering Sources - Aurelien Martens (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS) Cheikh Fall Ndiaye (LAL) Kevin Cassou (Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire)

7:15 PM Ten Meter Laser Propagation with Resonance Enhanced Ionization of Rubidium for Plasma Generation at AWAKE - Joshua Moody (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
7:30 PM
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Contributions

7:30 PM The CLEAR User Facility at CERN - Davide Gamba (CERN; John Adams Institute (JAI))

7:30 PM SINGLE-STAGE LASER-DRIVEN PLASMA ACCELERATION WITH EXTERNAL INJECTION FOR EuPRAXIA - Elena Svystun (DESY)

7:30 PM Theoretical studies on laser triggered density down-ramp injection for FLASHForward - Bridget Sheeran (DESY)

7:30 PM Phase portrait dynamics of emittance-dominated beams in solenoids - Helen Barminova (NRNU MEPhI)

7:30 PM External Injection into a Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerator with Sub-Femtosecond Timing Jitter - Ángel Ferran Pousa (DESY)

7:30 PM Measurement of Transformer Ratio from Ramped Beams in the Blowout Regime - Ryan Roussel (University of California Los Angeles)

7:30 PM Research and Development of Tabletop Ion Accelerator - Naoki Ikeda (The University of Tokyo)

7:30 PM Simulations of the possible AWAKE Run-2 experiment at CERN - Alexey Petrenko (CERN)

7:30 PM A Paultrap-system for isolated targets at high-power laser systems - Johannes Gebhard (LMU Munich)

7:30 PM Beam dynamics and tolerance studies of the THz-driven electron linac for the AXSIS experiment - Kostyantyn Galaydych (DESY)

7:30 PM ELECTRON BEAM TRANFER LINE DESIGN FOR PLASMA DRIVEN FREE ELECTRON LASER - Marcello Rossetti Conti (INFN Milano)

7:30 PM Peaked transverse ion spectra from picosecond pulses interacting with underdense targets - Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

7:30 PM Light Ions Acceleration Line (L3IA): commissioning and test experiments - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (PI)

7:30 PM Generation of hollow driver bunches followed by ultra-high brightness witness for plasma wakefield acceleration - Riccardo Pompili (LNF)

7:30 PM Using short drive laser pulses to achieve net focusing forces in tailored dual grating dielectric structures - Frank Mayet (DESY, Hamburg, Germany & University of Hamburg, Germany)

7:30 PM Simulations and plans for possible DLA experiments at SINBAD - Frank Mayet (DESY, Hamburg, Germany & University of Hamburg, Germany)

7:30 PM Generation handling and transport of laser-accelerated heavy ion beams within LIGHT - Johannes Ding (Technical University Darmstadt)

7:30 PM Preliminary RF design of an X-Band LINAC for the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB project - Marco Diomede (Sapienza University of Rome)

7:30 PM Towards a realistic model for the ELI-NP GBS RF linac - Anna Giribono (ROMA1)

7:30 PM Numerical Studies for Bunch Length and Bunch Arrival Time Jitter Minimization in Preparation of a LaserPlasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment with External Injection at the SPARC_LAB Facility - Valentina Martinelli (LNF)

7:30 PM Possible experiments using dielectric-loaded waveguides on the ARES linac - thomas vinatier (DESY)

7:30 PM Simulation of deflecting structures for dielectric laser driven accelerators - Willi Kuropka (DESY Hamburg, University of Hamburg)

7:30 PM Multi-MeV, stable electron bunch using supersonic air jet target - Uddhab Chaulagain (ELI beamlines)

7:30 PM Full PIC simulation of first ACHIP experiment @ SINBAD - Willi Kuropka (DESY Hamburg, University of Hamburg)

7:30 PM Investigation of the self-modulation seeding by a short electron bunch within a long proton bunch - Mathias Hüther (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

7:30 PM Silicon nano-structures for dielectric laser accelerators: fabrication, simulation and testing - Peyman Yousefi (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen Nürnberg)

7:30 PM Characterization of self-injected electron beams from LWFA experiments at SPARC_LAB - Gemma Costa (LNF-INFN)

7:30 PM Simulations of an energy dechirper based on dielectric lined waveguides - Guoxing Xia (Cockcroft Institute and the University of Manchester)

7:30 PM Time and space characterization of a laser pulse for a new multi-pulse LWFA design - Gianluca Vantaggiato (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

7:30 PM Low Energy Bunch Compression with Dogleg Chicane - Ke WANG (LAL)

7:30 PM AWAKE: operational safety in a proton driven plasma wakefield facility - Ans Pardons (CERN)

7:30 PM LIGHT: Improving the proton beam homogeneity and first imaging results - Diana Jahn (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

7:30 PM Design of a 5 GeV laser plasma accelerating module in the quasi-linear regime - Xiangkun LI (CEA/IRFU)

7:30 PM High quality LWFA: design and implementation at ILIL-PW - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (PI)

7:30 PM The ESCULAP project in Orsay - Nicolas Delerue (LAL, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud 11)

7:30 PM The ACHIP experimental chambers at PSI - Eugenio Ferrari (Epfl)

7:30 PM Emittance preservation of a electron bunch in a loaded quasi-linear plasma wakefield - Veronika K. Berglyd Olsen (UiO Department of Physics)

7:30 PM Simulation Study of a LWFA-Based Electron Injector for AWAKE Run II - Barney Williamson (University of Manchester / CERN)

7:30 PM Multi-proton bunch driven hollow plasma wakefield acceleration in the nonlinear regime - Yangmei Li (University of Manchester, Cockcroft Institute)

7:30 PM Electron-THz interaction in dielectric-lined waveguide deflecting structures - Alisa Healy (The Cockcroft Institute)

7:30 PM Towards a single-shot diagnostics of ultra-short lasers for THz pulse shaping in optical rectification experiments - Alessandro Curcio (LNF) Massimo Petrarca (ROMA1) Valerio Dolci (ROMA1)

7:30 PM Viable Laser-driven Ion Source for Applications at CALA - Daniel Haffa (LMU Muenchen)

7:30 PM Trojan Horse injection into a dielectric wakefield accelerator - Alexander Knetsch (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY)

7:30 PM Concept of the long wakefield accelerator based on the tunnel gas ionization by the electric field from a dense electron bunch - Aleksandr Gorn (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia)

7:30 PM Laser-Ion-Acceleration using Water Droplets and Optical Probing - Georg Alexander Becker (University Jena, Germany)

7:30 PM Wake fields effects in dielectric capillary - Angelo Biagioni (LNF)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Overview of State of the Art Diagnostics of Plasma Accelerators - Rafal Zgadzaj (University of Texas at Austin)

9:10 AM Plasma sources for laser- and beam-driven plasma accelerators - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)

9:50 AM First experimental results of the AWAKE experiment - Patric Muggli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM First experimental evidence for self-modulation of an electron bunch in a plasma - Matthias Gross (DESY)

11:30 AM Overview of recent electron acceleration and X-ray generation results from Garching - Stefan Karsch (LMU Munich)

12:00 PM Recent results on compact FEL based on laser plasma accelerators - Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie (Synchrotron SOLEIL)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Inverse Thomson Scattered x-rays from a Laser-Plasma Accelerator and Plasma Mirror - Andrea Hannasch (University of Texas at Austin)

4:18 PM Enhanced Betatron Radiation from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator in a Long Focal Length Geometry - Jonathan Wood (Imperial College London)

4:36 PM High-brilliance betatron gamma-ray source powered by laser-accelerated electrons - Julien Ferri (Chalmers University of Technology)

4:54 PM Traveling-Wave Electron Acceleration - Beyond the dephasing and depletion limits of laser-wakefield acceleration - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

5:12 PM Laser wakefield electron acceleration with high power, few-cycle mid-IR lasers - Daniel Papp (ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., H-6720 Szeged, Dugonics tér 13., Hungary)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Ultra-brilliance isolated attosecond gamma-ray light source from nonlinear Compton scattering - Jinqing Yu (Peking University)

4:15 PM Time resolved X-ray absorption measurements of high energy density matter using broadband X-rays from an electron beam - Brendan Kettle (Imperial College London)

4:30 PM Laser wakefield accelerators as x-ray sources for biomedical imaging applications - Jason Cole (Imperial College London)

4:45 PM Bright betatron X-rays for imaging applications - Johannes Goetzfried (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

5:00 PM Discussion Session
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Plasma-based diagnostics of High-Brightness Electron Beams at the frontier of Temporal and Spatial Resolution - Roxana Tarkeshian (Universität Bern)

4:20 PM Observation of annular point spread function of optical transition radiation from low-emittance e-beams emerging from a laser-plasma accelerator - Maxwell LaBerge (HZDR/University of Texas at Austin)

4:40 PM Plasma-based spatiotemporal synchronization and alignment of electron and laser beams - Paul Scherkl (SUPA, University of Strathclyde, and the Cockcroft Institute)

5:00 PM Calibration of Charge Diagnostics using Electrons from a Laser Plasma Accelerator - Simon Bohlen (DESY/University of Hamburg)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM 150 years of Maxwell's (other) equations and application to plasma wakefield acceleration - Timon Mehrling (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

4:20 PM Saturation of the beam-hosing instability in quasi-linear plasma-wakefield accelerators - Remi Lehe (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

4:40 PM Development of a non-numerical model for emittance calculation in external injection scenarios - Alexander Aschikhin (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Conventional and advanced concepts in the designs of plasma-based colliders - Andrei Seryi (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science)

4:30 PM Energy spread of the beam induced by betatron radiation in PWFA - Vladimir Shpakov (LNF)

4:45 PM Adiabatic plasma lens experiments at SPARC - Francesco Filippi (LNF) James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

5:00 PM Multiple beam acceleration based on proton-driven wakefield in a hollow plasma channel - Yangmei Li (University of Manchester)
5:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM High quality plasma wakefield acceleration experiment in linear regime at SPARC_LAB - Stefano Romeo (LNF)

6:18 PM High brightness, plasma boosted beams for driving a Free Electron Laser - Andrea Renato Rossi (MI)

6:36 PM FLASHForward X-2: Beam quality preservation in a plasma booster - Vladyslav Libov (DESY)

6:54 PM Particle acceleration in twisted plasma waves with orbital angular momentum - Jorge Vieira (Instituto Superior Tecnico)

7:12 PM On the impact of short laser pulses on cold low-density plasmas - Gaetano Fiore (Università Federico II, and INFN, Napoli)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Plasma acceleration based space radiation reproduction and hardness assurance - Daniel Ullmann (University of Strathclyde)

6:15 PM Experimental observation of radiation reaction due to hard photon emission in the collision of a high-intensity laser with a laser-wakefield accelerated electron beam - Jason Cole (Imperial College London)

6:30 PM electron-gamma compact colliders for muon based applications - Luca Serafini (MI)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Probing active plasma lenses - Jan-Hendrik Roeckemann (DESY)

6:20 PM Plasma lens experiments at the CLEAR Test Facility, CERN - Carl Andreas Lindstrøm (University of Oslo)

6:40 PM Propagation of trains of laser pulses in pre-formed plasma channels - Roman Walczak (University of Oxford)

7:00 PM Experimental demonstration of a low-density plasma channel capable of high repetition rate operation - Robert Shalloo (JAI, University of Oxford)

7:15 PM Plasma ramps generation by outflow in gas-filled capillaries - Francesco Filippi (LNF)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Design of high brightness Plasma Wakefield Acceleration experiment at SPARC LAB test facility with the 3D particle-in-cell ALaDyn - Alberto Marocchino (LNF)

6:20 PM Characterization of beam driven ionization injection in the blowout regime of Plasma Acceleration - Francesco Mira (ROMA1)

6:40 PM Optimization of laser-wakefield acceleration using ionisation-induced injection - Patrick Lee (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas)

7:00 PM Optically controlled laser-plasma electron accelerators for compact gamma-ray sources - Serge Kalmykov (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

7:15 PM TNSA proton maximum energy laws for 2D and 3D PIC simulations - Stefano Sinigardi (BO)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Considerations for Energy Scaling of Dielectric Laser Accelerators - Joel England (SLAC)

6:20 PM Laser wakefield electron acceleration to multi-GeV energies - Nikolay E. Andreev (Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS)

6:35 PM Matched electron beams in multi stage laser wakefield acceleration. - Daria Pugacheva (JIHT RAS)

6:50 PM Warp-X: a new exascale computing platform for Beam-Plasma Simulations - Jean-Luc Vay (Berkeley Lab)
7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Review of laser-plasma acceleration scaling in quasi-linear and blowout regimes - Daniel Gordon (Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington D.C., USA)

9:10 AM Progress on Experiments towards LWFA Based FELs - Axel Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

9:50 AM Evolution of electrical fields generated during interaction of high intensity laser with structured targets - Arie Zigler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Foam-based, multi-layer targets for laser-driven ion acceleration - Arianna Formenti (Politecnico di Milano)

11:30 AM Laser-driven charged particle beam structures in the relativistic transparency regime - Martin King (University of Strathclyde)

12:00 PM Mitigation of the hose instability in plasma-wakefield accelerators - Timon Mehrling (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Indirect Measurement of the Self-Modulation Instability in the AWAKE experiment at CERN - Marlene Turner (CERN/TU Graz)

4:18 PM First results of CTR measurement of modulated proton bunch in AWAKE - Mikhail Martyanov (Max Planck Institut fur Physik, Munich)

4:36 PM Heterodyne measurement of CTR from self-modulation instability (SMI) in AWAKE - Falk Braunmueller (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

4:54 PM Status of the Electron source and transfer lines for the AWAKE Experiment at CERN - Kevin PEPITONE (CERN)

5:12 PM Studies of an ultra-short bunch injector for AWAKE RUN2 - Barney Williamson (University of Manchester / CERN) Steffen Doebert (CERN)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Cascaded acceleration of highly energetic carbon ions by single femtosecond laser pulses and nanotargets - wenjun ma (Peking university)

4:20 PM Light Sail Acceleration of Ultra-Thin Foils - Aodhan McIlvenny (Queen's University of Belfast)

4:40 PM Exploring Energy Absorption in Ultra-Thin Targets - Emma-Jane DITTER (Imperial College London)

5:00 PM Laser driven plasma acceleration at PEARL laser system: progress and prospects. - Alexander Soloviev (Institute of Applied Physics of RAS)

5:15 PM New concept of light ion acceleration from low-density target - Andrey Brantov (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Ultra-High Brightness Electron Beams From Very-High Field Cryogenic Radiofrequency Photocathode Sources - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

4:30 PM n-machining, surface analysis and characterization measurements of a copper photocathode at SPARC_LAB - Jessica Scifo (LNF)

4:50 PM extreme high brightness electron beam generation in a space charge regime - Luca Serafini (MI)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Study of the electron transport in the COXINEL FEL beamline using a laser plasma accelerated electron beam - Thomas ANDRE (Synchroron SOLEIL)

4:15 PM Tunable High Gradient Quadrupoles For A Laser Plasma Acceleration Based FEL - Amin Ghaith (SOLEIL)

4:45 PM EUPRAXIA at SPARC_LAB: Beam Dynamics studies for the X-band Linac - Cristina Vaccarezza (LNF)

5:00 PM Discussion Session
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Radial Equilibrium of ultrarelativistic particle beams in plasma wakefield accelerators - Konstantin Lotov (Novosibirsk State University)

4:20 PM Intrinsic elimination of the numerical Cherenkov instability in Lorentz-boosted frame simulations of plasma accelerators - Manuel Kirchen (University of Hamburg)

4:40 PM Symplectic Particle-in-Mode Algorithms for Modeling Plasma Accelerators - Stephen Webb (RadiaSoft, LLC)

5:00 PM Modeling Multiple Coherent and Incoherent Photon Scattering in Solid-Density Plasmas with Particle-In-Cell Simulations - Marco Garten (HZDR, TU Dresden)

5:15 PM Generation of Controllable Plasma Wakefield Noise in Particle-in-Cell Simulations - Roman Spitsyn (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
5:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB: design study towards a new compact FEL facility at LNF - Massimo Ferrario (LNF)

6:15 PM Prospects for Plasma Wakefield Acceleration at the MAX IV Laboratory - Olle Lundh (Lund University)

6:30 PM Lattice design and start-to-end simulations for the ARES linac - Jun Zhu (MPY, DESY)

6:45 PM FLASHForward - A Future-Oriented Wakefield-Accelerator Research and Development Facility at FLASH - Jens Osterhoff (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

7:00 PM Layout considerations for a future electron plasma research accelerator facility EuPRAXIA - Paul Andreas Walker (DESY)

7:15 PM Discussion on facilities for collider relevant R&D
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM LIGHT: Generation of highest peak intensities of ultrashort MeV proton bunches and going towards applications - Diana Jahn (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

6:20 PM Kinetic and finite ion mass effects on the transition to relativistic self-induced transparency in laser-driven ion acceleration - Evangelos Siminos (Chalmers University of Technology)

6:40 PM Laser-driven neutron sources and their applications - Seyed Reza Mirfayzi (Queen's University Belfast)

7:00 PM Laser-plasma acceleration inducing nuclear fusion reactions - danilo giulietti (Pisa University)

7:15 PM Parametric study of proton beams driven by 200TW laser system using a tape driven target system - Muhammad Noaman ul Haq (Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Performance of the prototype THz-driven electron gun for the AXSIS project. - Grygorii Vashchenko (DESY)

6:30 PM Simulations of an hybrid and compact attosecond X-ray source based on RF and THz technologies - thomas vinatier (DESY)

6:50 PM Simulation studies for dielectric wakefield programme on CLARA facility - Thomas Pacey (Cockcroft Institute/University of Manchester)

7:10 PM High Energy Narrowband Terahertz Generation with Broadband Chirped Pulse Trains in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate - Spencer Jolly (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Commissioning Results From The LUX Beamline For Plasma-Driven Undulator Radiation - Andreas Maier (CFEL/UHH)

6:15 PM Development of a Novel Undulator with a Very Short Period Length - Shigeru Yamamoto (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Photon Factory)

6:30 PM Undulator Upgrade for the LUX Beamline - Christian Werle (University of Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Warp-X: a new exascale computing platform for Beam-Plasma Simulations - Jean-Luc Vay (Berkeley Lab)

6:25 PM Accurate modeling of plasma accelerators with arbitrary order pseudo-spectral solvers - Soeren Jalas (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

6:50 PM Next-Generation Simulations for XFEL-Plasma Interactions with Solid Density Targets with PIConGPU - Solutions for Predictive 3D Modeling - Axel Huebl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

7:10 PM Shedding light on LWFA plasma dynamics - in-situ radiation diagnostics in PIConGPU - Richard Pausch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
7:30 PM
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Contributions

7:30 PM LUX Electron Beam Optic - Paul Winkler (DESY and CFEL, Universität Hamburg)

7:30 PM LCODE 3D: a free quasistatic plasma wakefield acceleration code - Alexander Sosedkin (Novosibirsk State University)

7:30 PM BEAM QUALITY PRESERVATION IN A LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR WITH EXTERNAL INJECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF EuPRAXIA - Elena Svystun (DESY)

7:30 PM Results from a New Technique for Fast and Sensitive Measurement of Plasma Wakefields - Christopher Arran (University of Oxford)

7:30 PM PyCAMFT code for the multi-component ion bunch dynamics simulation with parallel computing - Helen Barminova (NRNU MEPhI)

7:30 PM On application of wobbling in experiments with cylindrical targets - Helen Barminova (NRNU MEPhI)

7:30 PM Laser pulses for Traveling-Wave Electron Acceleration and Thomson Scattering - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

7:30 PM Energy Measurements by Means of Transition Radiation in novel LINACs - Marco Marongiu (ROMA1)

7:30 PM Acceleration of a positron beam in a hollow channel plasma - Spencer Gessner (CERN)

7:30 PM Simulations of low-density plasma channels capable of high repetition rate operation - Christopher Arran (University of Oxford)

7:30 PM LWFA: Electron Cyclotron Resonance Imaging - Matthew Schwab (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

7:30 PM Numerical study of the focusing and propagation of complex laser pulses in under-dense plasmas - Clément Caizergues (LOA)

7:30 PM The open source PIC code SMILEI - Arnaud Beck (Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet)

7:30 PM The ANGUS 200TW laser at the LUX plasma accelerator and its online diagnostics system at the laser repetition rate - Matthias Schnepp (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

7:30 PM Gas-filled capillary discharge for tens-centimetre long plasma channel - Francesco Filippi (LNF)

7:30 PM Convergence of the ponderomotive guiding center approximation in the LWFA - Thales Silva (GoLP/Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon))

7:30 PM FLASHForward P-9: An X-band transverse deflection cavity for femtosecond-scale longitudinal phase space diagnostics - Richard D'Arcy (DESY)

7:30 PM A MW field-emission electron beam sources - Osama Mohsen (Northern Illinios University)

7:30 PM Tapering of plasma density ramp profiles for adiabatic lens experiments - Francesco Filippi (LNF)

7:30 PM Analytic model for electromagnetic fields in the bubble regime in non-uniform plasma - Anton Golovanov (Institute of Applied Physics RAS)

7:30 PM Time resolved diagnostics in AWAKE - Mikhail Martyanov (Max Planck Institut fur Physik, Munich)

7:30 PM Laser-Assisted Discharge Ignition for Plasma Waveguides - Carola Wirth (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

7:30 PM Modelling of laser-plasma acceleration of relativistic electrons in the frame of ESCULAP project - Viacheslav Kubytskyi (LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France)

7:30 PM Plasma-based diagnostic for the SMI in AWAKE - Anna-Maria Bachmann (CERN)

7:30 PM Cryogenic Undulator Development and First Observed Radiation on COXINEL - Amin Ghaith (SOLEIL)

7:30 PM Construction and characterization of a short-period undulator for a laser-plasma driven light source - Maximilian Trunk (University of Hamburg)

7:30 PM Numerical studies on capillary discharges as focusing elements for electron beams - Emanuele Brentegani (LNF)

7:30 PM Photon beamline for a soft x-ray FEL driven by high gradient acceleration at EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB - Fabio Villa (LNF)

7:30 PM Conceptual design of electron beam diagnostics for high brightness plasma accelerator - Alessandro Cianchi (ROMA2)

7:30 PM Plasma targets for the laser-plasma driven undulator x-ray source LUX - Philipp Messner (University of Hamburg)

7:30 PM Simulation of electron trapping with quasistatic code - Petr Tuev (Novosibirsk State University)

7:30 PM High Repetition Rate Laser Wakefield Acceleration - Niels Delbos (University of Hamburg / Center for Free Electron Laser Science)

7:30 PM A New Scheme for High-Intensity Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration in a Plasma - Saltanat Sadykova (Juelich Research Centre)

7:30 PM Progress of the Development of the ELI-NP GBS High Level Applications - Giovanna Campogiani (INFN-Roma1)

7:30 PM Seeded Self-Modulation along the Proton Bunch at AWAKE - Fabian Batsch (CERN)

7:30 PM Indirect imaging of optical near-fields in dielectric laser accelerators - Norbert Schönenberger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

7:30 PM Characterization of Field-Emission from Silicon Nano Cathodes - Osama Mohsen (Northern Illinios University)

7:30 PM Relativistic magnetic reconnection driven by a laser interacting with a micro-plasma-slab - Yi Longqing

7:30 PM Study of Transverse Instabilities in Proton Driven Hollow Plasma Wakefield Acceleration - Yangmei Li (University of Manchester, Cockcroft Institute)

7:30 PM On the spontaneous emission in quantum free-electron lasers - Hesham FARES

7:30 PM EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB: the high-brightness RF photoinjector layout proposal - Anna Giribono (ROMA1)

7:30 PM Particle-Driven Wakefield Dynamics in a Confined Plasma Channel - Thomas Heinemann (Uni Strathclyde / DESY)

7:30 PM Betatron radiation emission from laser-wakefields driven by pulses with OAM - Joana Martins (Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden; GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

7:30 PM Experimental design for generating low-density plasma channels by optical field ionization - Jakob Jonnerby (University of Oxford)

7:30 PM Spectroscopic characterisation of plasma targets with absolute calibration - Lars Goldberg (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday, September 28, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Overview of Plasma Lens Experiments and Recent Results - Enrica Chiadroni (LNF)

9:00 AM MeV electron beams at 1 kHz - Howard Milchberg (University of Maryland)

9:30 AM High-quality GeV-scale electron bunches with the Resonant Multi-Pulse Ionization Injection - Paolo Tomassini (INO-CNR)

10:00 AM Status of ImPACT Program in Japan aiming for repeatable GeV-class LWFA - Tomonao HOSOKAI (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM A European Plasma Accelerator Project - Ralph Assmann (DESY)

11:25 AM Eupraxia Laser design optimization and industry - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (PI)

11:50 AM Simulations and Performance - Alban Mosnier (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA/IRFU))

12:15 PM Progress on Petawatt level experiments at BELLA Center for electron and ion acceleration - Wim Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:40 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Controlled and combined injection schemes for laser wakefield accelerators - Andreas Döpp (LMU / MPQ)

4:18 PM Laser wakefield acceleration in a heterogeneous plasma - Rozario Savio (Imperial College London)

4:36 PM The role of direct laser acceleration of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator with ionization injection - Nuno Candeias Lemos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

4:54 PM Effects of the nitrogen concentration in direct laser acceleration of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator - Isabel Gallardo Gonzalez (Lund University)

5:12 PM A tunable electron beam source using density down-ramp trapping - Henrik Ekerfelt (Lund University)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Staging, focusing and microbunching in dielectric laser accelerators - Joshua McNeur (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen Nürnberg)

4:20 PM Laser-driven Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

4:40 PM Demonstration of increased interaction length in a high gradient dielectric laser accelerator - David Cesar (UCLA-PBPL)

5:00 PM Energy efficiency studies for dual-grating dielectric laser-driven accelerators - Yelong Wei (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute)

5:15 PM Transfer matrix and transfer function analysis for grating-type dielectric laser accelerators - Andrzej Szczepkowicz (University of Wroclaw, Institute of Experimental Physics)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Laser-Generated Proton Beams for High-Precision Ultra-Fast Crystal Synthesis - Patrizio Antici (Institut Lumiere Extreme)

4:15 PM Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams as Diagnostics for Cultural Heritage - Massimiliano Sciscio' (INFN - ROMA1)

4:30 PM Geant4 simulation of the ELIMED transport and dosimetry beamline for high-energy laser-driven ion beam multidisciplinary applications - Giuliana Giuseppina Milluzzo (LNS)

4:45 PM A compact Laser based Neutron source - Alessandro Cianchi (ROMA2)

5:00 PM Ultrafast pulsed proton radiolysis in water: Delayed solvation time of electron - Brendan Dromey (Queen's University Belfast)

5:15 PM Stress testing of materials using Laser-accelerated protons - Patrizio Antici (INRS)
5:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Two-Pulse Ionisation Injection with simultaneous space-time focused pulses - James Holloway (The University of Oxford)

6:18 PM Long-range attraction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam by a column of neutral plasma - Erik Adli (University of Oslo, Norway)

6:36 PM A laser-to-beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator - Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY)

6:54 PM Research Towards Hybrid Accelerators - Max Gilljohann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

7:12 PM Emittance of the accelerated electron bunch in two-stage AWAKE scenario - Vladimir Minakov (Budker Institute of nuclear physics)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Demonstration of cascaded pre-bunching for enhanced particle trapping in an Inverse Free Electron Laser accelerator - Nicholas Sudar (University of California, Los Angeles)

6:30 PM Group and phase velocity matching in THz IFEL interaction - Emma Curry (UCLA)

6:50 PM Resonnant excitation of surface plasma waves in the relativistic regime: electron bunches and high order harmonic generation - Tiberio Ceccotti (CEA Saclay)

7:10 PM Toward a proof-of-principle experiment of Optical Stochastic Cooling - Matthew Andorf (Northern Illinois University)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Ultrahigh 6D brightness electron beams from a single plasma acceleration stage - A. Fahim Habib (SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Department of Physics, Glasgow, UK and Cockcroft Institute, Sci-Tech Daresbury.)

6:15 PM Laser wakefield injector in the frame of EuPRAXIA - Thomas Audet (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay)

6:30 PM Transverse electron beam dynamics in a nanocoloumb-class laser wakefield accelerator - Alexander Koehler (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

6:45 PM X/Gamma-ray emission from self-modulated wakefield accelerators - Nuno Candeias Lemos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
8:00 PM Social Dinner and Dance
Social Dinner and Dance
8:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Friday, September 29, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM High Gradient X-band RF accelerating structures - Alexej Grudiev (CERN)

9:40 AM The potential socio-economic impact of a breakthrough in the technology of particle accelerators - Massimo Florio (Università degli studi di Milano)

10:20 AM Advances @ ELI Beamlines: Status of user facility development - Georg Korn (x)
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Overview of laser-driven positron sources - Gianluca Sarri (Queen's University Belfast)

12:00 PM Time Resolved Imaging of Shock Compressed Matter Using X-Rays from a Laser Wakefield Electron Accelerator - Jonathan Wood (Imperial College London)

12:30 PM X-ray absorption spectroscopy of warm dense matter with betatron x-ray radiation - Felicie Albert (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM WG1 - Erik Adli (University of Oslo, Norway) Riccardo Pompili (LNF) Stefan Karsch (LMU Munich)

4:30 PM WG2 - Alessandro Flacco (LOA/ENSTA) Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

4:50 PM WG3 - Alexej Grudiev (CERN) Franz Kaertner (DESY, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, and Universität Hamburg)

5:10 PM WG7 - Barbara Marchetti (DESY) Leonida Antonio Gizzi (PI) Rajeev Pattathil (Central Laser Facility,)
5:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:50 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM WG4 - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC, Daresbury Laboratory) Stuart Mangles (Imperial College London)

6:30 PM WG5 - Bernhard Schmidt (DESY) Olle Lundh (Lund University)

6:50 PM WG6 - Alberto Marocchino (LNF) Arnaud Beck (Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet)

7:10 PM WG8 - Brigitte CROS (LPGP-CNRS-UP11) Carl Schroeder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Chuanxiang Tang (Tsinghua University) Patric Muggli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

7:30 PM Summary EAAC2017 - Massimo Ferrario (LNF) Ralph Assmann (DESY)
8:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2017

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