4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop

Working Groups

Programme Committee Chair: Alessandro Cianchi

WG1 - Electron beams from plasmas

Topics addressed:

• Laser-driven plasma acceleration
• Beam-driven plasma acceleration
• Recent experimental results and planned experiments
• Single and multi drive laser pulses (or particle bunches)
• External and self-injection techniques
• Staging
• Advanced beam control and manipulation

Co-Leader: Sebastien Corde
Co-Leader: Arie Irmann
Co-Leader: Marlene Turner

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WG2 - Ion beams from plasmas

Topics addressed:

• Ion beams produced by laser-plasma source
• Recent experimental results and planned experiments
• Novel targets
• Novel acceleration mechanisms (radiation pressure, shock and hole-boring, ...)

Co-Leader: Livia Lancia
Co-Leader: Daniele Margarone
Co-Leader: Markus Roth

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WG3 - Electron beams from electromagnetic structures, including dielectric and photonics structures

Topics addressed:

• High power, high frequency RF structures
• Dielectric laser and dielectric wakefield acceleration
• Photonic accelerator structures
• Advanced and exotic structures using novel materials
• Inverse FEL acceleration and other undulator mediated interactions
• Recent experimental results and planned experiments
• Particles sources

Co-Leader: David Alesini
Co-Leader: Reinhard Brinkmann

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WG4 - Application of compact and high-gradient accelerators

Topics addressed:

• All potential application: FEL, medical, radiation generation, cultural heritage...
• Recent experimental results and planned demonstration experiments
• Planned facilities implementing advanced accelerator with applications
• Beam shaping and tailoring to deliver adequate beams for applications
• New undulators for FEL driven by plasma based acceleration (transverse tapering, optical and plasma undulators)

Co-Leader: Ceri Brenner
Co-Leader: Gianluca Sarri

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WG5 - Plasma devices, plasma and beam diagnostics

Topics addressed:

• Gas jets, plasma cells, dielectric capillary tubes, alkali vapor ovens, ...
• Plasma lens
• Plasma dechirper
• Doping for ionization injection
• Laser guiding in plasma modules, preformed plasma waveguide
• Plasma homogeneity, plasma profile tailoring
• Transverse and longitudinal phase space characterization
• Energy, charge, pointing stability measurement
• Single and multi shot techniques

Co-Leader: Richard D'Arcy
Co-Leader: Nicolas Delerue

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WG6 - Theory and simulations   

Topics addressed:

• New theoretical works on plasma based acceleration
• State-of-the-art computational tools for enabling realistic and rapid simulations
• Choices in computational tools (PIC, quasi-static PIC, and fluid)
• Novel algorithms and numerical analysis
• Multi-core computation and graphics processing tools
• Prospective needs for modeling plasma accelerator experimental programs

Co-Leader: Francesco Massimo
Co-Leader: Jorge Vieira

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WG7 - High brightness power sources: from Laser Technology to beam drivers  

Topics addressed:

• Needs for laser driven accelerators (laser-plasma ion source, LWFA, IFEL, dielectric laser, ...)
• State-of-the-art of high peak and average power and perspectives
• Laser beam quality, contrast, stability
• High repetition rate issues

Co-Leader: Laura Corner
Co-Leader: Knut Michel

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WG8 - Advanced and novel accelerators for High Energy Physics  

Topics addressed:

• Examine key challenges
• Discuss suitable concepts and identify topics for future R&D or innovation including electron and positron sources, acceleration of positrons, luminosity, final focus, damping ring and efficiency

Co-Leader: Bruce Carlsten
Co-Leader: Wei Lu
Co-Leader: Daniel Schulte

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