The 10th International Conference "Charged & Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena" to be organised by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on 8-13 September 2024 in Riccione (RN) (Italy).
The series of the International conference “Channeling – Charged & Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena” organised by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in collaboration with other world research facilities and research initiatives is devoted to the common discussion on advances in physics of coherent/incoherent interaction of relativistic and nonrelativistic hadrons and leptons (protons, ions, electrons, muons and related antiparticles) in strong electromagnetic fields of various origins and structures, from solid amorphous and crystalline, to laser and plasma based ones. Since the first meeting, the Channeling topics have been extended over the interaction of radiations and beams (wide broad electromagnetic radiations, atoms, and neutrons) in various structured media as well as meta-materials to be investigated at the channeling physics approach. Main present applications of the channeling physics relate to the future accelerators, storage rings and radiation optics projects. Channeling phenomenology can be applied to describe other mechanisms of interaction of both charged and neutral particle beams in external electromagnetic fields casing the research areas from crystal and capillary based accelerators, undulators, waveguides, and x-ray/neutron micro- and nano-optical elements.
The scope of the "Channeling" meeting is to attract the attention of researchers from many world laboratories specialising in accelerator physics, in radiation and nuclear physics, in materials science, biology and medicine to the research on both relativistic particles and radiations interactions in strong electromagnetic fields that results in various applications on advanced accelerator as well as radiation physics within the following main conference topics:
- coherent scattering of relativistic charged particles in strong electromagnetic fields;
- crystal channeling and related phenomena for hadron and lepton beams;
- energetic ion interactions processes (backscattering and channeling of low energy ions, high energy ion channeling);
- electromagnetic radiation by relativistic charged particles in periodic structures (coherent bremsstrahlung, channeling radiation, transition radiation, diffraction radiation, parametric x-ray radiation, LPM effect, FEL, Compton scattering, Cherenkov radiation-based phenomena, quantum coherence radiation phenomena);
- channeling of radiations in capillary systems (micro- and nano-channeling, micro-channel plates, nanotubes, nano-porous);
- novel techniques for beams handling and acceleration (channeling-based acceleration, plasma wake-fields, cross-laser fields, crystal assisted collimation, plasma-ion channels, capillary channeling);
- advanced x-ray & neutron optics (capillary/polycapillary optics, compound refractive optics, micro- and nano-focusing, beams and radiations waveguides);
- applications based on channeling phenomena (beams shaping, positron sources, powerful radiation sources, diagnostic tools, novel x-ray table-top instruments, applications in material and biomedical studies, etc.).
Channeling 2024 will host two satellite workshops:
Channeling Applications for FCC and other Future Accelerators
Recent studies have shown the feasibility of channeling phenomenology application for description of various mechanisms of interaction of charged and neutral particles beams in solids, plasmas, and electromagnetic fields. This workshop is dedicated to the discussion on common aspects of novel acceleration techniques as well as related phenomena and charged beams channeling within the main topics.
Laser and Particle Guiding in Plasmas and Related Phenomena
The propagation of intense laser pulses or bunches of energetic charged particles in plasmas is often accompanied by the formation of channels of low electron density produced in the first case by the ponderomotive force and in the second case by the Coulomb repulsion. The formation of these channels, within which the transport of energy is facilitated, has important consequences in different fields of research, for instance, Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, the acceleration of particles in plasmas and related secondary sources such as Thomson Scattering, Betatron and Transition Radiation.
The scientific program of Channeling 2024 will be composed of invited reports and lectures as well as oral and poster presentations and selected round tables. The organization of the event and the program will foresee and stimulate any kind of formal and informal discussion.
