4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop

Session

Plenary Session 6

18 Sept 2019, 11:00

SML (Hotel Hermitage)

246. Recent developments in dielectric laser acceleration

Peter Hommelhoff (University of Erlangen (FAU))

18/09/2019, 11:00

Invited Plenary Talk

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Dielectric laser acceleration has made tremendous progress. We will give an overview of recent results, most of them obtained in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation-funded Accelerator on a Chip International Program, ACHIP. Highlight results include: acceleration gradients of around 1 GeV/m; the generation of electron pulse trains with attosecond bunchlet duration via optical near field or...

249. Key physics study of high quality laser driven ion acceleration

Yang Wan (Weizmann Institute of Science )

18/09/2019, 11:40

Invited Plenary Talk

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For the past two decades, the interaction of ultra-intense lasers with over-critical plasma has been motivated by acceleration of proton/ions for radiobiological applications. Despite some progress, the realization of a stable high-charge narrow-energy-spread protons of hundreds MeV remains a challenge. One promising scheme is the “light sail” acceleration, where laser pressure directly pushes...

236. Near-100 MeV protons via a laser-driven transparency-enhanced hybrid acceleration

Ross Gray (University of Strathclyde)

18/09/2019, 12:10

Invited Plenary Talk

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The range of potential applications of compact laser-plasma ion sources motivates the development of new acceleration schemes to increase achievable ion energies and conversion efficiencies. Whilst the evolving nature of laser-plasma interactions can limit the effectiveness of individual acceleration mechanisms, it can also enable the development of hybrid schemes, allowing additional degrees...