4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop

Session

Plenary Session 1

16 Sept 2019, 09:00

Sala Maria Luisa (SML) (Hotel Hermitage)

356. Opening remarks

Massimo Ferrario (INFN / LNF), Ralph Assmann (DESY)

16/09/2019, 09:00

12. Passion Extreme Light

Gerard Mourou (Ecole Polytechnique)

16/09/2019, 09:20

Invited Plenary Talk

talk

Extreme-light laser is a universal source providing a vast range of high energy radiations and particles along with the highest field, highest pressure, temperature and acceleration. It offers the possibility to shed light on some of the remaining unanswered questions in fundamental physics like the genesis of cosmic rays with energies in excess of 1020 eV or the loss of information in...

130. Laser systems with accelerator-like performance, key for stable plasma electron beams

Andreas Maier (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

16/09/2019, 10:00

Invited Plenary Talk

talk

Successful applications of laser-plasma accelerators require stable electron beams. The drive laser plays a crucial role in the generation of such beams: even slight variations in laser pulse quality on target deform the shape of the plasma wake and thereby the fields inside the plasma cavity with direct impact on the generated electron phase space. All efforts to improve the laser performance...