Name: 6th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts workshop
Start: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-23T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy

Monday, 18 September 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Opening remarks

09:20 Free electron lasers driven by plasma accelerators: status and near-term perspectives - Michael Litos (University of Colorado Boulder)

10:00 New ideas for high beam quality from plasmas for FELs - Bernhard Hidding (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Advancement in plasma sources towards high repetition rate operation - Aaron Alejo (IGFAE, USC)

11:30 Modeling a novel laser-driven acceleration scheme using particle-in-cell simulations on exascale-class supercomputers - Henri Vincenti

12:00 On the Confluence of Data-Driven Techniques and Laser-Plasma Acceleration - Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG1 - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:25 Progress towards resonantly-driven, high-repetition-rate GeV-scale plasma accelerators - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)

16:45 Evaluation of the transfer matrix of a plasma ramp with squared cosine shape via an approximate solution of Mathieu differential equation - Stefano Romeo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:05 Observation of resonant wakefield excitation by pulse trains guided in long plasma channels - Linus Feder

17:25 Energy Depletion and Re-Acceleration of Driver Electrons in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator - Felipe Peña (DESY)

17:45 Experimental Observation of Beam-Plasma Resonance Detuning due to Motion of Ions - Marlene Turner (CERN/TU Graz)

18:05 Enhanced stability of a Free-Electron Laser driven by a plasma beam-driven accelerator and seeded by an external laser beam - Michele Opromolla (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:25 discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Bonaparte 1
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG2 - Gilles Cheriaux (Institut de Physique de Nice) Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa)

16:25 The ZEUS laser user facility - Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

16:45 ELI Beamlines L1 ALLEGRA laser: experience with operation of high energy, 1 kHz, 15 fs OPCPA based system for user experiments - Pavel Bakule (ELI Beamlines Facility, Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)

17:05 Amplitude Roadmap for high average power ultraintense laser for plasma accelration - Franck Falcoz

17:25 “Bivoj / DiPOLE” as a pump source for high repetition rate laser particle accelerators - Jan Pilar (Hilase, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences Czech Republic)

17:45 Design of direct diode pumped amplification stages based on Tm ceramics for kHz rep-rate, kW average power lasers: Design issues and material characterization - Luca Labate (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Pisa, Italy)

18:05 Diode Laser Pumps for Advanced Accelerators - Andrea Knigge (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut)

18:25 discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Bonaparte 2
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG3 first session - Andrea Renato Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Maxence Thevenet (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany)

16:25 Energy conserving theory of plasma blowout - Anton Golovanov (Weizmann Institute of Science)

16:45 Accurate electron beam phase-space theory for ionization injection schemes - Paolo Tomassini (ELI-NP & INO-CNR)

17:05 A Lattice Boltzmann approach to plasma simulation in the context of wakefield acceleration - Daniele Simeoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:25 Optimised density tailoring for dephasing mitigation in laser wakefield accelerators - Matthew Streeter (Queen's University Belfast)

17:45 Start-to-end simulations of HOFI waveguides - Mathis Mewes (DESY)

18:05 Transverse envelope dynamics of beam slices in a uniform charged ellipsoidal model of the plasma bubble regime - Abdul Mannan (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via Enrico Fermi 54, 00044, Frascati, RM, Italy)

18:25 discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Elena
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG5 - Gianluca Sarri Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

16:25 Seeded FEL lasing of the COXINEL beamline driven by the HZDR plasma accelerator - Arie Irman (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)

16:45 EuPRAXIA Advanced Photon Source - Alessandro Cianchi (Tor Vergata University and INFN)

17:05 Advanced bandwidth control of an all-optical Compton source - Martin Meisel

17:25 High precision probing of laser-solid interaction with LWFA-generated electron beams - Yuliia Mankovska (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, IP Paris)

17:45 Verification Simulation Studies for FLASH therapy Ultra-High-Dose Rate (UHDR) Beams - Evangelos Gazis (2) Institute of Accelerating Systems & Applications, 1) National technical University of Athens)

18:05 Laser-driven positron sources for applications - Jyotirup Sarma (Queens University Belfast)

18:25 Discussion
19:00
19:00 - 20:30
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

19:00 Beam Instrumentation for EuPRAXIA - Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

19:00 FEL performance of the APPLE-X undulators for the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB AQUA beamline - Michele Opromolla (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 High Resolution Radiography for Inertial Confinement Fusion Fuel Capsule Target Metrology from Laser-Plasma Acceleration based X-ray Sources - Isabella Pagano (the University of Texas at Austin/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

19:00 Simulation study on the impact of a single plasma accelerator stage to existing free-electron lasers. - Sarah Schroeder (DESY)

19:00 Proton Beam Self-Modulation Instability in a DC Discharge Plasma Source at AWAKE - Carolina Amoedo (CERN)

19:00 Generation of high-quality electron beams from trojan horse injection in a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams - Patrick Ufer (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

19:00 All-optical GeV electron bunch generation in a laser-plasma accelerator via truncated-channel injection - Emily Archer (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science and Department of Physics)

19:00 Towards spin-polarised electron beams from a laser-plasma accelerator - Felix Stehr (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, University of Hamburg)

19:00 Measurement of the timing-jitter effects on a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator - Francesco Demurtas (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 Experimental parameters for plasma wakefield acceleration in a narrow plasma channel - Valentina Lee (University of Colorado, Boulder)

19:00 On maximizing LWFA by tailoring the plasma density - Gaetano Fiore (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 Integrated beam physics for the laser wakefield accelerator project EARLI - Samuel MARINI (CEA)

19:00 Beam Dynamics Simulation of a High Brightness, High Repetition Rate RF C-band Photoinjector for Future EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB Upgrade - Gilles Jacopo Silvi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 Dielectric Assist Accelerating (DAA) structures for compact linear accelerators of low energy particles in hadrontherapy treatments. - Pablo Martinez-Reviriego (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC))

19:00 Wakefield regeneration in a plasma accelerator - John Farmer (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

19:00 Double pulse generator for AWAKE scalable discharge plasma source - Nuno Torrado (Instituto Superior Técnico)

19:00 Plasma density and ionisation degree evolution with long-term ion motion in a beam-driven plasma-wakefield accelerator - Judita Beinortaite (FLASHForward, DESY, UCL)

19:00 Schemes of Electron Beam Loading in Blowout Regime in Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - Diana Shendryk (Ruhr-Universität Bochum and V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

19:00 A focused very high energy electron beam for fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy - Olle Lundh (Lund University)

19:00 Very High Energy Electrons with high charge and moderate energy spread from laser- wakefield acceleration - Federico Avella (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica INO-CNR, and Università di Pisa-"E.Fermi" Department of Physics)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant
Tuesday, 19 September 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 2023 AWAKE Run Results - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)

09:30 The EuPRAXIA ESFRI Preparatory Phase - Ralph Assmann (DESY)

10:00 EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB - Alessio Del Dotto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:30
Contributions

10:50 EuPRAXIA Second Site Options - Arnd Specka (LLR - Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)

11:15 View from ELI-Beamlines - Alexander Molodozhentsev (ELI-Beamlines)

11:25 View on EPAC - Rajeev Pattathil (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

11:35 View from CNR - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa) Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa)

11:45 View on CLPU - Giancarlo Gatti Giancarlo Gatti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:55 View on Excellence Centers - Massimo Ferrario (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:10 EuPRAXIA Full Implementation: Round Table
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG1 - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:25 All-optical GeV electron bunch generation in a laser-plasma accelerator via truncated-channel injection - Emily Archer (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science and Department of Physics)

16:45 Rooting out the gremlins - stable LWFA operation at the PW frontier - Stefan Karsch (LMU München)

17:05 The Interaction of Intense Light with Wavelength-Scale Objects - Ishay Pomerantz

17:25 Staging of high-efficiency and high-quality laser-plasma accelerators for collider applications - Carlo Benedetti (LBNL)

17:45 High-quality polarised electron bunches from colliding pulse injection - Kristjan Poder (DESY)

18:05 Bright attosecond electron beams and brilliant gamma ray sources with the Resonant Multi-Pulse Ionization Injection - Paolo Tomassini (ELI-NP & INO-CNR) Paolo Tomassini (INO-CNR, and ELI-NP)
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Biodola
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG2 - Christophe SIMON-BOISSON (THALES OPTRONIQUE SAS)

16:25 Pulse characterisation technique for multi-pulse laser plasma wakefield accelerators - Wei-Ting Wang (University of Oxford)

16:45 EuPRAXIA laser requirements and current conceptual design issues - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (Intense Laser Irraadiation Lab, CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa, Italy)

17:05 High-power laser development in Jena - Malte Kaluza (University of Jena, Helmholtz-Institute Jena)

17:25 Diode-pumped Laser-drivers for plasma accelerators - Mariastefania De Vido (STFC Central Laser Facility) Rajeev Pattathil (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

17:45 Joule-class Yb:YAG lasers for driving plasma-modulated plasma accelerators - Mathias Krüger (LMU Munich)

18:05 Robust high-average-power lasers and scaling to high pulse energy - Johannes Weitenberg (Fraunhofer ILT)
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Bonaparte 1
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG4 - Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza) Sami Tantawi (SLAC/Stanford University)

16:25 Dielectric Assist Accelerating (DAA) structures for compact linear accelerators of low energy particles in hadrontherapy treatments. - Pablo Martinez-Reviriego (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC))

16:45 Tunable Dielectric Structure for Extended Interaction Length Laser-Driven Acceleration - Sophie Crisp (UCLA)

17:05 Coherent Nanophotonic Electron Accelerator - Tomáš Chlouba (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg)

17:25 Single Electron Accelerator for Dark Matter Search - Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

17:45 CEBAF Polarized Positrons and 22 GeV Energy Upgrade - Andrei Seryi (Jefferson Lab)

18:05 Discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Bonaparte 2
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG6 - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast) Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institut Jena)

16:25 Acceleration of stable, low-divergence proton beams from novel liquid sheet targets - Charlotte Palmer (Queen's University Belfast)

16:45 Demonstrating MeVs protons acceleration in near critical imploding gas target - Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science)

17:05 Deuteron acceleration and fast neutron generation with a 10Hz few-cycle laser - Karoly Osvay (University of Szeged)

17:25 Transverse instabilities induced periodic modulation in laser driven proton beams - Jianhui Bin (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

17:45 Highly efficient proton acceleration from solid and pre-expanded thin foils - Israa Salaheldin (Helmholtz Institute Jena)

18:05 Efficient Laser ion acceleration from foils and isolated targets - Peter Hilz (Helholtzinstitut Jena)
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Elena
Contributions

16:20 Session 1A: Single-shot diagnostics - Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich) Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

16:25 GA-assisted Single-shot 3D-charge-density reconstruction of a laser wakefield kilo-ampere electron bunch via a TR-EO detector - Kai Huang (Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST))

16:45 Diagnosing longitudinal electron bunch profiles by single-shot CTR spectrometry -- a window to LWFA injection dynamics - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

17:05 Single-Shot Ionization-Based Monitor for Pulsed Electron Beams - Pietro Musumeci

17:25 Session 1B: Bayesian optimization - Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich) Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

17:40 Multi-objective and multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization of laser-plasma acceleration - Faran Irshad (Center of Advanced Laser Applications at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

18:05 Tuning curves for a laser-plasma accelerator - Sören Jalas (DESY)
19:00
19:00 - 20:30
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

19:00 Transverse instability in HALHF plasma stages - Jian Bin Ben Chen (University of Oslo)

19:00 Electron yield numerical studies for the EuAPS betatron source - Andrea Renato Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 A tale of three beams: towards stable and reproducible operation of the AWAKE facility - Giovanni Zevi Della Porta (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, CERN)

19:00 Machine Learning-based Data Analysis and Surrogate Modeling For COXINEL Experiment - Anna Willmann (HZDR)

19:00 External Electron Injection for the AWAKE Run 2b Experiment - Nikita van Gils (CERN)

19:00 Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven nonlinear plasma wakefields - Anton Golovanov (Weizmann Institute of Science)

19:00 Instability and Efficiency in Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - Ole Gunnar Finnerud (University of Oslo)

19:00 Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy - Susanne Schoebel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

19:00 Laser Wakefield Accelerator Design for the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC) - Oliver Finlay (Central Laser Facility)

19:00 Reduced divergence of TNSA proton beams using a foil target and a gas jet - Peter Parsons

19:00 The Oxford Plasma Accelerator Laboratory - David McMahon (University of Oxford)

19:00 Radioisotope production using a high-repetition-rate, laser-based proton source - Adrián Bembibre Fernández (Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE). Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC))

19:00 Characterization of Liquid Micro-Droplets for Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration - Mathis Nolte (Friedrich-Schiller Universität)

19:00 BELLA iP2: The Short Focal Length Beamline for High Energy Density Research at High Repetition Rates at the BELLA PW - Lieselotte Obst-Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

19:00 Witness-driver beam dynamics optimization in the SPARC_LAB photoinjector - Martina Carillo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 The E336 experiment at FACET-II: Wakefield acceleration and modulation of dense electron beams in nanostructures - Max GILLJOHANN (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

19:00 Status of the CLARA Facility at Daresbury Laboratory and exploitation for advanced acceleration research - Edward Snedden (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

19:00 Superconducting undulator activities at the European XFEL - Sara Casalbuoni

19:00 Phase Control of Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler Pair Creation - Bernardo Barbosa (GoLP/IPFN - Instituto Superior Técnico)

19:00 Bayesian optimization of the LUX laser-plasma accelerator - Sören Jalas

19:00 Toward an automated tool for interferogram analysis for real time characterization of plasma density profile in laser produced plasmas - Francesco Filippi (ENEA)

19:00 LASY: an open-source Python library for easy interfacing of laser pulses between experiments and simulations - Maxence Thevenet (DESY)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Status and recent results of FLASHForward - Felipe Peña (DESY)

09:35 High-quality 1 GeV electron beam with a 50 TW laser - Cedric Thaury (LOA)

10:10 Experimental Demonstration of Laser Guiding and Wakefield Acceleration in a Curved Plasma Channel - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 3D structure of microbunched plasma-wakefield-accelerated electron beams inferred by coherent optical transition radiation - Maxwell LaBerge (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

11:30 Temperature effects in plasma-based positron acceleration - Severin Diederichs (DESY)

12:00 FACET-II: Status of the first experiments and the road ahead - Mark Hogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG1 - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:25 Novel positron source for PWFA experiments - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

16:45 Full Energy Beam Exploitation at CLARA: Opportunities for Advanced Accelerator Experiments - Thomas Pacey (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

17:05 The effect of exit plasma scale-length and plasma mirrors on electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator - Michael Backhouse

17:25 Laboratory Astrophysics and Plasma Wakefield Acceleration: Experimental Study of Magnetic Field Generation by Current Filamentation Instability of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma - Livio Verra (CERN)

17:45 Beam dynamics studies for a stable, reliable and reproducible high brightness, high gradient plasma wakefield accelerator - Anna Giribono (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:05 Real-time electron microscopy of the laser-plasma wakefield dynamics - Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science)

18:25 discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Elena
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG3 second session - Andrea Renato Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Maxence Thevenet (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany)

16:25 Affordable simulations of collider-relevant plasma-based accelerators (and more) with mesh refinement - Maxence Thevenet (DESY)

16:45 Exascale and ML Models for Accelerator Simulations - Axel Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:05 DiWaCAT: An Efficient Field Solver and Beam Tracker for Dielectric Wakefield Acceleration Applications - Toby Overton (ASTeC, STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

17:25 Latest algorithmic advances in the Exascale Particle-In-Cell code WarpX - Jean-Luc Vay (Berkeley Lab)

17:45 Beam Reproducibility in a Density Downramp Plasma Wakefield Accelerator - Sarah Schroeder (DESY)

18:05 Recent progress in the modeling of laser wakefield acceleration - Francesco Massimo (LPGP - CNRS)

18:25 Unravelling ultrashort dynamics of plasma-based accelerators -- leveraging synthetic diagnostics to match PIC simulations with experimental data - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Bonaparte 2
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG5 - Gianluca Sarri Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

16:25 A new facility dedicated to VHEE radiotherapy based on laser-plasma accelerators - Arnaud Courvoisier (Weizmann Institute of Science)

16:45 Emerging trends in cellular response to proton irradiations at ultra-high dose rates - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast)

17:05 Recent BELLA PW experiments exploring radiobiological effects in the ultra-high instantaneous proton dose rate regime - Lieselotte Obst-Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:25 High-Field Physics on Dual-Beam Ultrafast High-Power Lasers at SJTU - Wenchao Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

17:45 E-320: Current Status and Future Plans - Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (On behalf of the E-320 collaboration))

18:05 The E332 experiment at FACET-II: Towards solid density beams and intense gamma-ray beams - Max GILLJOHANN (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

18:25 Discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Biodola
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG6 - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast) Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institute Jena)

16:25 ALBUS – Advanced Laser-driven Beamlines for User-specific Studies - Florian-Emanuel Brack (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

16:45 New methods to produce polarized 3He ion beams - Markus Büscher (Forschungszentrum Jülich / PGI-6)

17:05 Characterization of Liquid Micro-Droplets for Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration - Mathis Nolte (Friedrich-Schiller Universität)

17:25 Monoenergetic ion acceleration in laser-plasma peeler regime - Alexander Pukhov (uni duesseldorf)

17:45 A mid-beta booster for proton beams - Davide Terzani (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

18:05 Boosting Laser-Driven Proton Beams to Relativistic Energies with Hollow-Channel Magnetic Vortex Acceleration and Readily Available Petawatt Laser Pulse Energy - Marco Garten (LBNL)

18:25 discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Bonaparte 1
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG8 - Angelo Biagioni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Malte Kaluza (University of Jena, Helmholtz-Institute Jena)

16:25 Optical Probing of Ultrafast Laser-Induced Transitions from Solid to Overdense Plasma - Malte Kaluza (University of Jena, Helmholtz-Institute Jena)

16:45 Reduction of the electron beam divergence of laser wakefield-accelerators by integrated plasma lenses - Arie Irman (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)

17:05 Segmented plasma discharge capillary for staged particle acceleration - Lucio Crincoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:25 Plasma afterglow light dynamics and measurement technics of a plasma accelerator plasma source - Valentina Lee (University of Colorado, Boulder)

17:45 First test of a 10 m discharge plasma source with a proton beam in the AWAKE experiment - Alban Sublet (CERN)

18:05 Gas jet design for laser plasma wakefield acceleration - Laura Corner (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)

18:25 Plasma source development at LUX - Manuel Kirchen (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
19:00
19:00 - 20:30
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

19:00 Radiation generation in high power laser applications - Simon Bohlen (DESY)

19:00 Spatiotemporal beam-plasma instabilities in the ultrarelativistic regime - Yuliia Mankovska (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, IP Paris)

19:00 Noninvasive Cavity-Based Charge Diagnostic for Plasma Accelerators - Simon Bohlen (DESY)

19:00 Research data management of laser-plasma science at HZDR - Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

19:00 Surrogate model for laser-plasma injector development - Viacheslav Kubytskyi (IJCLab)

19:00 Megahertz repetition rate discharge plasma cells for plasma-based particle accelerators - Gregor Loisch (Deutches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

19:00 Shadowgraphy of the plasma evolution around water micro-droplets irradiated by high-power laser pulses - Martin Beyer (Helmholtz Institue Jena)

19:00 Internally self-consistent temperature diagnostic of hydrogen plasma from H-alpha and H-beta line spectra - Harry Jones (DESY)

19:00 Laser-based plasma stabilization effect on a particle PWFA beam - Fabio Villa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 Parametric study of low-divergence X-rays from a laser-plasma-lens - Cornelia Gustafsson (Lund University)

19:00 Average Current Enhancement of Laser-Plasma Accelerators - Lorenzo Martelli (Thales-MIS & LOA)

19:00 Towards the first electron acceleration with an industrial Yb:YAG laser - Bonaventura Farace (DESY)

19:00 Compact beamline for laser-plasma electron characterization - Coline Guyot (IJCLab)

19:00 Stability of the Plasma-Modulated Plasma Accelerator (P-MoPA) - Johannes van de Wetering (University of Oxford)

19:00 Undepleted Direct Laser Acceleration - Ishay Pomerantz

19:00 Exploring Wavelength Dependence in Laser Plasma Accelerators - Annabel Gunn

19:00 Lattice Boltzmann Method applications: a characterization of thermal effects in plasma waves - Gianmarco Parise (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 Fast laser field reconstruction method based on a Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm with modes decomposition - Ioaquin Moulanier (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et Plamas)

19:00 A plasma-based acceleration method for heavier particles - Chiara Badiali

19:00 Betatron radiation from accelerated electrons: an analytical study - Andrea Frazzitta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 Burst shot of the self-injection dynamics of a laser wakefield accelerator in bubble regime - Yu Zhao

19:00 ON THE BETATRON RADIATION IN CYLINDRICALLY SYMMETRIC PLASMA-ION CHANNELS - Daniele Francescone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

19:00 Transport line design for laser wakefield accelerators - Laury Batista (French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission)

19:00 The Plasma Injector for PETRA IV: Conceptual Design Report - Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY) Maxence Thevenet (DESY)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant
Thursday, 21 September 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Probing strong-field QED in beam-plasma collisions - Aimé Matheron (LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91762 Palaiseau, France)

09:35 Coherence and superradiance from a plasma-based quasiparticle accelerator - Bernardo Malaca (GoLP/ Instituto Superior Técnico)

10:10 Accelerator on a chip: Recent results and perspectives for applications - Roy Shiloh (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Acceleration of polarized protons from laser-plasmas - Lars Reichwein (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

11:30 Ion acceleration activities at ELI NP with the acceleration of more than 100 MeV protons - Domenico Doria (ELI-NP, IFIN-HH)

12:00 High energy proton acceleration at DRACO-PW and radiobiological applications - Josefine Metzkes-Ng
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Elena
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG10 - Brigitte CROS (LPGP-CNRS-UP11) Rajeev Pattathil (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

16:25 Acceleration of positrons in plasmas with high energy efficiency - Sébastien Corde (Ecole Polytechnique)

16:45 Energy recovery in filament-regime plasma wakefield acceleration of positron beams - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

17:05 Schemes for Simultaneous Large Transformer Ratio, High Efficiency, Low Energy Spread, High Charge of Accelerated Electron Beams by Tailored Wakefield Plateaus for Long Driver and Witness Bunches - Diana Shendryk (Ruhr-Universität Bochum and V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

17:25 AWAKE and future colliders - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)

17:45 Staging in LWFA - challenges and prospects - Michael Backhouse

18:05 Toward start-to-end modeling of plasma-based colliders with the Exascale Particle-In-Cell code WarpX - Jean-Luc Vay (Berkeley Lab)

18:25 Readiness of electron plasma linacs for a collider application - Erik Adli (University of Oslo, Norway)

18:45 discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG1 - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:25 Beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration at Megahertz repetition rates - Gregor Loisch (Deutches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

16:45 Acceleration and focusing capabilities integrated in a new plasma-based device - Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:05 Gas-dynamic density downramp injection in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator - Susanne Schoebel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

17:25 High average gradient in a laser-gated multistage plasma wakefield accelerator - Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:45 Electron beam self-focusing and X-ray radiation in a self-ionized plasma wakefield accelerator - Viktoriia Zakharova (LOA)

18:05 Longitudinally Resolved Measurements of Energy-Transfer Efficiency in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator - Lewis Boulton (DESY , University of Strathclyde, Cockcroft Institute)

18:25 discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Biodola
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG2 - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa)

16:25 Laser development for LWFA and future plans - Laura Corner (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)

16:45 Precision high average power ultrashort pulse lasers - Cameron Geddes (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:05 High peak power and high average power Ti :Sa lasers for high performance particle acceleration - Christophe SIMON-BOISSON (THALES OPTRONIQUE SAS)

17:25 A 100 Hz laser system with with few-cycle and TW Pulses - Karoly Osvay (University of Szeged)

17:45 Industrial Compact Free Electron Lasers and Laser-driven Accelerators - Catalin Neacsu (Tau Systems)

18:05 The X-lites Network - Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

18:25 The HORIZON project : towards face-cooled kiloWatt-class Yb:YAG laser systems - Philippe Balcou (CELIA/Université de Bordeaux)

18:45 discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Bonaparte 1
Contributions

16:20 Introduction to WG4 - Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza) Sami Tantawi (SLAC/Stanford University)

16:25 Development and commissioning of a novel C-band hybrid photoinjector at RadiaBeam - Alex Murokh (RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC.)

16:45 Beam Dynamics Simulation of a High Brightness, High Repetition Rate RF C-band Photoinjector for Future EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB Upgrade - Gilles Jacopo Silvi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:05 High Gradient Cryo-RF Enabled Hard X-ray Free-electron Laser for Chip Metrology - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

17:25 Superconducting short period undulators - Sara Casalbuoni

17:45 Discussion
16:20 - 19:00
Room: Aula Bonaparte 2
Contributions

16:20 Session 2A: Multi-shot diagnostics - Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich) Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

16:25 All-optical emittance measurement of LWFA electron beams - Alexander Sävert (Helmholtz Institut Jena)

16:45 In Situ Measurement of Electron Energy Evolution in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator - Simon Bohlen (DESY)

17:05 Session 2B: Surrogate Models and Data Management, including discussion

17:20 Machine Learning-based Data Analysis and Surrogate Modeling For COXINEL Experiment - Anna Willmann (HZDR)

17:45 HELPMI: HElmholtz Laser-Plasma Metadata Initiative - Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

18:10 Concluding Working Group Discussion
20:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
20:30 - 00:00
Friday, 22 September 2023
09:20
09:20 - 10:40
Contributions

09:30 Introduction to the European XFEL - Thomas Feuer (EuXFEL)

10:00 Toward an Inertial Fusion Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities in Science & Technology - Tammy Ma (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 A hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory (HALHF) - Carl A. Lindstrøm (University of Oslo)

11:30 The plans to prepare for the next European Strategy - Rajeev Pattathil (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

12:00 Advanced Accelerator Concept activities at Snowmass - Cameron Geddes (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 16:00
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 19:00
Contributions

16:20 Laser plasma accelerators: then and now through cutting-edge experiments - Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science)

17:00 Simon Van der Meer Award - Roman Walczak (University of Oxford)

17:45 Poster Prizes Ceremony and talks - Bernhard Holzer (CERN)

18:30 Closing remarks - Massimo Ferrario (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant
Saturday, 23 September 2023

10:00

10:00 - 16:00