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

6th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts workshop

from Sunday, September 17, 2023 (5:00 PM) to Saturday, September 23, 2023 (5:00 PM)

Monday, September 11, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Friday, September 15, 2023
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Sunday, September 17, 2023

5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Mezzanine floor

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

8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

Monday, September 18, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening remarks

9:20 AM Free electron lasers driven by plasma accelerators: status and near-term perspectives - Michael Litos (University of Colorado Boulder)

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

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

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

12:00 PM On the Confluence of Data-Driven Techniques and Laser-Plasma Acceleration - Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG1 - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

4:25 PM Progress towards resonantly-driven, high-repetition-rate GeV-scale plasma accelerators - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)

4:45 PM 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)

5:05 PM Observation of resonant wakefield excitation by pulse trains guided in long plasma channels - Linus Feder

5:25 PM Energy Depletion and Re-Acceleration of Driver Electrons in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator - Felipe Peña (DESY)

5:45 PM Experimental Observation of Beam-Plasma Resonance Detuning due to Motion of Ions - Marlene Turner (CERN/TU Graz)

6:05 PM 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)

6:25 PM discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Bonaparte 1
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG2 - Gilles Cheriaux (Institut de Physique de Nice) Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa)

4:25 PM The ZEUS laser user facility - Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

4:45 PM 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)

5:05 PM Amplitude Roadmap for high average power ultraintense laser for plasma accelration - Franck Falcoz

5:25 PM “Bivoj / DiPOLE” as a pump source for high repetition rate laser particle accelerators - Jan Pilar (Hilase, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences Czech Republic)

5:45 PM 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)

6:05 PM Diode Laser Pumps for Advanced Accelerators - Andrea Knigge (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut)

6:25 PM discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Bonaparte 2
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG3 first session - Andrea Renato Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Maxence Thevenet (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany)

4:25 PM Energy conserving theory of plasma blowout - Anton Golovanov (Weizmann Institute of Science)

4:45 PM Accurate electron beam phase-space theory for ionization injection schemes - Paolo Tomassini (ELI-NP & INO-CNR)

5:05 PM A Lattice Boltzmann approach to plasma simulation in the context of wakefield acceleration - Daniele Simeoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:25 PM Optimised density tailoring for dephasing mitigation in laser wakefield accelerators - Matthew Streeter (Queen's University Belfast)

5:45 PM Start-to-end simulations of HOFI waveguides - Mathis Mewes (DESY)

6:05 PM 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)

6:25 PM discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Elena
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG5 - Gianluca Sarri Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

4:25 PM Seeded FEL lasing of the COXINEL beamline driven by the HZDR plasma accelerator - Arie Irman (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)

4:45 PM EuPRAXIA Advanced Photon Source - Alessandro Cianchi (Tor Vergata University and INFN)

5:05 PM Advanced bandwidth control of an all-optical Compton source - Martin Meisel

5:25 PM 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)

5:45 PM 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)

6:05 PM Laser-driven positron sources for applications - Jyotirup Sarma (Queens University Belfast)

6:25 PM Discussion
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

7:00 PM Beam Instrumentation for EuPRAXIA - Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

7:00 PM FEL performance of the APPLE-X undulators for the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB AQUA beamline - Michele Opromolla (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM 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)

7:00 PM Simulation study on the impact of a single plasma accelerator stage to existing free-electron lasers. - Sarah Schroeder (DESY)

7:00 PM Proton Beam Self-Modulation Instability in a DC Discharge Plasma Source at AWAKE - Carolina Amoedo (CERN)

7:00 PM 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)

7:00 PM 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)

7:00 PM Towards spin-polarised electron beams from a laser-plasma accelerator - Felix Stehr (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, University of Hamburg)

7:00 PM Measurement of the timing-jitter effects on a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator - Francesco Demurtas (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM Experimental parameters for plasma wakefield acceleration in a narrow plasma channel - Valentina Lee (University of Colorado, Boulder)

7:00 PM On maximizing LWFA by tailoring the plasma density - Gaetano Fiore (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM Integrated beam physics for the laser wakefield accelerator project EARLI - Samuel MARINI (CEA)

7:00 PM 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)

7:00 PM Dielectric Assist Accelerating (DAA) structures for compact linear accelerators of low energy particles in hadrontherapy treatments. - Pablo Martinez-Reviriego (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC))

7:00 PM Wakefield regeneration in a plasma accelerator - John Farmer (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

7:00 PM Double pulse generator for AWAKE scalable discharge plasma source - Nuno Torrado (Instituto Superior Técnico)

7:00 PM Plasma density and ionisation degree evolution with long-term ion motion in a beam-driven plasma-wakefield accelerator - Judita Beinortaite (FLASHForward, DESY, UCL)

7:00 PM Schemes of Electron Beam Loading in Blowout Regime in Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - Diana Shendryk (Ruhr-Universität Bochum and V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

7:00 PM A focused very high energy electron beam for fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy - Olle Lundh (Lund University)

7:00 PM 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)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM 2023 AWAKE Run Results - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)

9:30 AM The EuPRAXIA ESFRI Preparatory Phase - Ralph Assmann (DESY)

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

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

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

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

11:35 AM 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 AM View on CLPU - Giancarlo Gatti Giancarlo Gatti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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

12:10 PM EuPRAXIA Full Implementation: Round Table
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG1 - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

4:25 PM 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)

4:45 PM Rooting out the gremlins - stable LWFA operation at the PW frontier - Stefan Karsch (LMU München)

5:05 PM The Interaction of Intense Light with Wavelength-Scale Objects - Ishay Pomerantz

5:25 PM Staging of high-efficiency and high-quality laser-plasma accelerators for collider applications - Carlo Benedetti (LBNL)

5:45 PM High-quality polarised electron bunches from colliding pulse injection - Kristjan Poder (DESY)

6:05 PM 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)
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Biodola
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG2 - Christophe SIMON-BOISSON (THALES OPTRONIQUE SAS)

4:25 PM Pulse characterisation technique for multi-pulse laser plasma wakefield accelerators - Wei-Ting Wang (University of Oxford)

4:45 PM EuPRAXIA laser requirements and current conceptual design issues - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (Intense Laser Irraadiation Lab, CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa, Italy)

5:05 PM High-power laser development in Jena - Malte Kaluza (University of Jena, Helmholtz-Institute Jena)

5:25 PM Diode-pumped Laser-drivers for plasma accelerators - Mariastefania De Vido (STFC Central Laser Facility) Rajeev Pattathil (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

5:45 PM Joule-class Yb:YAG lasers for driving plasma-modulated plasma accelerators - Mathias Krüger (LMU Munich)

6:05 PM Robust high-average-power lasers and scaling to high pulse energy - Johannes Weitenberg (Fraunhofer ILT)
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Bonaparte 1
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG4 - Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza) Sami Tantawi (SLAC/Stanford University)

4:25 PM Dielectric Assist Accelerating (DAA) structures for compact linear accelerators of low energy particles in hadrontherapy treatments. - Pablo Martinez-Reviriego (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC))

4:45 PM Tunable Dielectric Structure for Extended Interaction Length Laser-Driven Acceleration - Sophie Crisp (UCLA)

5:05 PM Coherent Nanophotonic Electron Accelerator - Tomáš Chlouba (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg)

5:25 PM Single Electron Accelerator for Dark Matter Search - Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

5:45 PM CEBAF Polarized Positrons and 22 GeV Energy Upgrade - Andrei Seryi (Jefferson Lab)

6:05 PM Discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Bonaparte 2
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG6 - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast) Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institut Jena)

4:25 PM Acceleration of stable, low-divergence proton beams from novel liquid sheet targets - Charlotte Palmer (Queen's University Belfast)

4:45 PM Demonstrating MeVs protons acceleration in near critical imploding gas target - Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science)

5:05 PM Deuteron acceleration and fast neutron generation with a 10Hz few-cycle laser - Karoly Osvay (University of Szeged)

5:25 PM Transverse instabilities induced periodic modulation in laser driven proton beams - Jianhui Bin (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

5:45 PM Highly efficient proton acceleration from solid and pre-expanded thin foils - Israa Salaheldin (Helmholtz Institute Jena)

6:05 PM Efficient Laser ion acceleration from foils and isolated targets - Peter Hilz (Helholtzinstitut Jena)
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Elena
Contributions

4:20 PM Session 1A: Single-shot diagnostics - Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich) Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

4:25 PM 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))

4:45 PM Diagnosing longitudinal electron bunch profiles by single-shot CTR spectrometry -- a window to LWFA injection dynamics - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

5:05 PM Single-Shot Ionization-Based Monitor for Pulsed Electron Beams - Pietro Musumeci

5:25 PM Session 1B: Bayesian optimization - Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich) Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

5:40 PM Multi-objective and multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization of laser-plasma acceleration - Faran Irshad (Center of Advanced Laser Applications at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

6:05 PM Tuning curves for a laser-plasma accelerator - Sören Jalas (DESY)
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

7:00 PM Transverse instability in HALHF plasma stages - Jian Bin Ben Chen (University of Oslo)

7:00 PM Electron yield numerical studies for the EuAPS betatron source - Andrea Renato Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM A tale of three beams: towards stable and reproducible operation of the AWAKE facility - Giovanni Zevi Della Porta (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, CERN)

7:00 PM Machine Learning-based Data Analysis and Surrogate Modeling For COXINEL Experiment - Anna Willmann (HZDR)

7:00 PM External Electron Injection for the AWAKE Run 2b Experiment - Nikita van Gils (CERN)

7:00 PM Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven nonlinear plasma wakefields - Anton Golovanov (Weizmann Institute of Science)

7:00 PM Instability and Efficiency in Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - Ole Gunnar Finnerud (University of Oslo)

7:00 PM Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy - Susanne Schoebel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

7:00 PM Laser Wakefield Accelerator Design for the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC) - Oliver Finlay (Central Laser Facility)

7:00 PM Reduced divergence of TNSA proton beams using a foil target and a gas jet - Peter Parsons

7:00 PM The Oxford Plasma Accelerator Laboratory - David McMahon (University of Oxford)

7:00 PM 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))

7:00 PM Characterization of Liquid Micro-Droplets for Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration - Mathis Nolte (Friedrich-Schiller Universität)

7:00 PM 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)

7:00 PM Witness-driver beam dynamics optimization in the SPARC_LAB photoinjector - Martina Carillo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM 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)

7:00 PM Status of the CLARA Facility at Daresbury Laboratory and exploitation for advanced acceleration research - Edward Snedden (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

7:00 PM Superconducting undulator activities at the European XFEL - Sara Casalbuoni

7:00 PM Phase Control of Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler Pair Creation - Bernardo Barbosa (GoLP/IPFN - Instituto Superior Técnico)

7:00 PM Bayesian optimization of the LUX laser-plasma accelerator - Sören Jalas

7:00 PM Toward an automated tool for interferogram analysis for real time characterization of plasma density profile in laser produced plasmas - Francesco Filippi (ENEA)

7:00 PM LASY: an open-source Python library for easy interfacing of laser pulses between experiments and simulations - Maxence Thevenet (DESY)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Status and recent results of FLASHForward - Felipe Peña (DESY)

9:35 AM High-quality 1 GeV electron beam with a 50 TW laser - Cedric Thaury (LOA)

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

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

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

12:00 PM FACET-II: Status of the first experiments and the road ahead - Mark Hogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG1 - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

4:25 PM Novel positron source for PWFA experiments - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

4:45 PM Full Energy Beam Exploitation at CLARA: Opportunities for Advanced Accelerator Experiments - Thomas Pacey (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

5:05 PM The effect of exit plasma scale-length and plasma mirrors on electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator - Michael Backhouse

5:25 PM 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)

5:45 PM Beam dynamics studies for a stable, reliable and reproducible high brightness, high gradient plasma wakefield accelerator - Anna Giribono (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

6:05 PM Real-time electron microscopy of the laser-plasma wakefield dynamics - Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science)

6:25 PM discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Elena
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG3 second session - Andrea Renato Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Maxence Thevenet (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany)

4:25 PM Affordable simulations of collider-relevant plasma-based accelerators (and more) with mesh refinement - Maxence Thevenet (DESY)

4:45 PM Exascale and ML Models for Accelerator Simulations - Axel Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:05 PM DiWaCAT: An Efficient Field Solver and Beam Tracker for Dielectric Wakefield Acceleration Applications - Toby Overton (ASTeC, STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

5:25 PM Latest algorithmic advances in the Exascale Particle-In-Cell code WarpX - Jean-Luc Vay (Berkeley Lab)

5:45 PM Beam Reproducibility in a Density Downramp Plasma Wakefield Accelerator - Sarah Schroeder (DESY)

6:05 PM Recent progress in the modeling of laser wakefield acceleration - Francesco Massimo (LPGP - CNRS)

6:25 PM Unravelling ultrashort dynamics of plasma-based accelerators -- leveraging synthetic diagnostics to match PIC simulations with experimental data - Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Bonaparte 2
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG5 - Gianluca Sarri Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

4:25 PM A new facility dedicated to VHEE radiotherapy based on laser-plasma accelerators - Arnaud Courvoisier (Weizmann Institute of Science)

4:45 PM Emerging trends in cellular response to proton irradiations at ultra-high dose rates - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast)

5:05 PM Recent BELLA PW experiments exploring radiobiological effects in the ultra-high instantaneous proton dose rate regime - Lieselotte Obst-Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:25 PM High-Field Physics on Dual-Beam Ultrafast High-Power Lasers at SJTU - Wenchao Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

5:45 PM E-320: Current Status and Future Plans - Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (On behalf of the E-320 collaboration))

6:05 PM The E332 experiment at FACET-II: Towards solid density beams and intense gamma-ray beams - Max GILLJOHANN (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

6:25 PM Discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Biodola
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG6 - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast) Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institute Jena)

4:25 PM ALBUS – Advanced Laser-driven Beamlines for User-specific Studies - Florian-Emanuel Brack (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

4:45 PM New methods to produce polarized 3He ion beams - Markus Büscher (Forschungszentrum Jülich / PGI-6)

5:05 PM Characterization of Liquid Micro-Droplets for Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration - Mathis Nolte (Friedrich-Schiller Universität)

5:25 PM Monoenergetic ion acceleration in laser-plasma peeler regime - Alexander Pukhov (uni duesseldorf)

5:45 PM A mid-beta booster for proton beams - Davide Terzani (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

6:05 PM Boosting Laser-Driven Proton Beams to Relativistic Energies with Hollow-Channel Magnetic Vortex Acceleration and Readily Available Petawatt Laser Pulse Energy - Marco Garten (LBNL)

6:25 PM discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Bonaparte 1
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG8 - Angelo Biagioni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Malte Kaluza (University of Jena, Helmholtz-Institute Jena)

4:25 PM Optical Probing of Ultrafast Laser-Induced Transitions from Solid to Overdense Plasma - Malte Kaluza (University of Jena, Helmholtz-Institute Jena)

4:45 PM Reduction of the electron beam divergence of laser wakefield-accelerators by integrated plasma lenses - Arie Irman (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)

5:05 PM Segmented plasma discharge capillary for staged particle acceleration - Lucio Crincoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:25 PM Plasma afterglow light dynamics and measurement technics of a plasma accelerator plasma source - Valentina Lee (University of Colorado, Boulder)

5:45 PM First test of a 10 m discharge plasma source with a proton beam in the AWAKE experiment - Alban Sublet (CERN)

6:05 PM Gas jet design for laser plasma wakefield acceleration - Laura Corner (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)

6:25 PM Plasma source development at LUX - Manuel Kirchen (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

7:00 PM Radiation generation in high power laser applications - Simon Bohlen (DESY)

7:00 PM Spatiotemporal beam-plasma instabilities in the ultrarelativistic regime - Yuliia Mankovska (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, IP Paris)

7:00 PM Noninvasive Cavity-Based Charge Diagnostic for Plasma Accelerators - Simon Bohlen (DESY)

7:00 PM Research data management of laser-plasma science at HZDR - Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

7:00 PM Surrogate model for laser-plasma injector development - Viacheslav Kubytskyi (IJCLab)

7:00 PM Megahertz repetition rate discharge plasma cells for plasma-based particle accelerators - Gregor Loisch (Deutches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

7:00 PM Shadowgraphy of the plasma evolution around water micro-droplets irradiated by high-power laser pulses - Martin Beyer (Helmholtz Institue Jena)

7:00 PM Internally self-consistent temperature diagnostic of hydrogen plasma from H-alpha and H-beta line spectra - Harry Jones (DESY)

7:00 PM Laser-based plasma stabilization effect on a particle PWFA beam - Fabio Villa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM Parametric study of low-divergence X-rays from a laser-plasma-lens - Cornelia Gustafsson (Lund University)

7:00 PM Average Current Enhancement of Laser-Plasma Accelerators - Lorenzo Martelli (Thales-MIS & LOA)

7:00 PM Towards the first electron acceleration with an industrial Yb:YAG laser - Bonaventura Farace (DESY)

7:00 PM Compact beamline for laser-plasma electron characterization - Coline Guyot (IJCLab)

7:00 PM Stability of the Plasma-Modulated Plasma Accelerator (P-MoPA) - Johannes van de Wetering (University of Oxford)

7:00 PM Undepleted Direct Laser Acceleration - Ishay Pomerantz

7:00 PM Exploring Wavelength Dependence in Laser Plasma Accelerators - Annabel Gunn

7:00 PM Lattice Boltzmann Method applications: a characterization of thermal effects in plasma waves - Gianmarco Parise (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM Fast laser field reconstruction method based on a Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm with modes decomposition - Ioaquin Moulanier (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et Plamas)

7:00 PM A plasma-based acceleration method for heavier particles - Chiara Badiali

7:00 PM Betatron radiation from accelerated electrons: an analytical study - Andrea Frazzitta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM Burst shot of the self-injection dynamics of a laser wakefield accelerator in bubble regime - Yu Zhao

7:00 PM ON THE BETATRON RADIATION IN CYLINDRICALLY SYMMETRIC PLASMA-ION CHANNELS - Daniele Francescone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7:00 PM Transport line design for laser wakefield accelerators - Laury Batista (French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission)

7:00 PM The Plasma Injector for PETRA IV: Conceptual Design Report - Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY) Maxence Thevenet (DESY)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant
Thursday, September 21, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Probing strong-field QED in beam-plasma collisions - Aimé Matheron (LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91762 Palaiseau, France)

9:35 AM Coherence and superradiance from a plasma-based quasiparticle accelerator - Bernardo Malaca (GoLP/ Instituto Superior Técnico)

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

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

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

12:00 PM High energy proton acceleration at DRACO-PW and radiobiological applications - Josefine Metzkes-Ng
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Elena
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG10 - Brigitte CROS (LPGP-CNRS-UP11) Rajeev Pattathil (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

4:25 PM Acceleration of positrons in plasmas with high energy efficiency - Sébastien Corde (Ecole Polytechnique)

4:45 PM Energy recovery in filament-regime plasma wakefield acceleration of positron beams - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

5:05 PM 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)

5:25 PM AWAKE and future colliders - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)

5:45 PM Staging in LWFA - challenges and prospects - Michael Backhouse

6:05 PM Toward start-to-end modeling of plasma-based colliders with the Exascale Particle-In-Cell code WarpX - Jean-Luc Vay (Berkeley Lab)

6:25 PM Readiness of electron plasma linacs for a collider application - Erik Adli (University of Oslo, Norway)

6:45 PM discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Maria Luisa
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG1 - Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

4:25 PM Beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration at Megahertz repetition rates - Gregor Loisch (Deutches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

4:45 PM Acceleration and focusing capabilities integrated in a new plasma-based device - Riccardo Pompili (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:05 PM Gas-dynamic density downramp injection in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator - Susanne Schoebel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

5:25 PM High average gradient in a laser-gated multistage plasma wakefield accelerator - Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

5:45 PM Electron beam self-focusing and X-ray radiation in a self-ionized plasma wakefield accelerator - Viktoriia Zakharova (LOA)

6:05 PM Longitudinally Resolved Measurements of Energy-Transfer Efficiency in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator - Lewis Boulton (DESY , University of Strathclyde, Cockcroft Institute)

6:25 PM discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Biodola
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG2 - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa)

4:25 PM Laser development for LWFA and future plans - Laura Corner (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)

4:45 PM Precision high average power ultrashort pulse lasers - Cameron Geddes (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:05 PM High peak power and high average power Ti :Sa lasers for high performance particle acceleration - Christophe SIMON-BOISSON (THALES OPTRONIQUE SAS)

5:25 PM A 100 Hz laser system with with few-cycle and TW Pulses - Karoly Osvay (University of Szeged)

5:45 PM Industrial Compact Free Electron Lasers and Laser-driven Accelerators - Catalin Neacsu (Tau Systems)

6:05 PM The X-lites Network - Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

6:25 PM The HORIZON project : towards face-cooled kiloWatt-class Yb:YAG laser systems - Philippe Balcou (CELIA/Université de Bordeaux)

6:45 PM discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Bonaparte 1
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction to WG4 - Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza) Sami Tantawi (SLAC/Stanford University)

4:25 PM Development and commissioning of a novel C-band hybrid photoinjector at RadiaBeam - Alex Murokh (RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC.)

4:45 PM 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)

5:05 PM High Gradient Cryo-RF Enabled Hard X-ray Free-electron Laser for Chip Metrology - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

5:25 PM Superconducting short period undulators - Sara Casalbuoni

5:45 PM Discussion
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Bonaparte 2
Contributions

4:20 PM Session 2A: Multi-shot diagnostics - Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich) Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

4:25 PM All-optical emittance measurement of LWFA electron beams - Alexander Sävert (Helmholtz Institut Jena)

4:45 PM In Situ Measurement of Electron Energy Evolution in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator - Simon Bohlen (DESY)

5:05 PM Session 2B: Surrogate Models and Data Management, including discussion

5:20 PM Machine Learning-based Data Analysis and Surrogate Modeling For COXINEL Experiment - Anna Willmann (HZDR)

5:45 PM HELPMI: HElmholtz Laser-Plasma Metadata Initiative - Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

6:10 PM Concluding Working Group Discussion
8:30 PM Social dinner
Social dinner
8:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Friday, September 22, 2023
9:20 AM
9:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Introduction to the European XFEL - Thomas Feuer (EuXFEL)

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

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

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

12:00 PM Advanced Accelerator Concept activities at Snowmass - Cameron Geddes (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Laser plasma accelerators: then and now through cutting-edge experiments - Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science)

5:00 PM Simon Van der Meer Award - Roman Walczak (University of Oxford)

5:45 PM Poster Prizes Ceremony and talks - Bernhard Holzer (CERN)

6:30 PM Closing remarks - Massimo Ferrario (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco Restaurant
Saturday, September 23, 2023

10:00 AM

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