Name: 1st European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Start: 2013-06-02T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-06-07T19:00:00+02:00
Location: La Biodola, Isola d'Elba

1st European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop

from Sunday, June 2, 2013 (5:00 PM) to Friday, June 7, 2013 (7:00 PM)

Monday, May 27, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Sunday, June 2, 2013

5:00 PM Opening of the Registration
Opening of the Registration
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Elba

7:30 PM Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: by the pool

Monday, June 3, 2013
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - Massimo Ferrario (LNF)

8:40 AM The Future is Fiber Accelerators - GERARD MOUROU (ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE)

9:20 AM Frontiers of Dielectric Laser Acceleration - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

10:00 AM The European Perspective of Accelerator Research - maurizio vretenar (cern)
10:30 AM coffee break
coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: on the lawn
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Story of Laser Plasma Accelerators - Victor Malka (LOA)

11:40 AM Overview of Advanced Compton Sources - Luca Serafini (MI)

12:10 PM High-Brightness High-Duty Cycle Electron Injectors. - Fernando Sannibale (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

3:00 PM Experiments on laser plasma acceleration driven in longitudinally-profiled plasmas - Wolf rittershofer (university of oxford)

3:15 PM Stable and tunable laser-wakefield acceleration and x-ray generation - Stefan Karsch (LMU Munich)

3:30 PM Advanced Reproduction of Space Radiation Studies by overdense laser plasma interaction - Oliver Karger (University of Hamburg, Institute for Experimental Physics)

3:45 PM Hybrid Laser-Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration - Bernhard Hidding (Uni Hamburg/DESY/UCLA)

4:00 PM Ultra-short electron bunches by Velocity Bunching as required for plasma wave acceleration - Alberto Luigi Bacci (MI)

4:15 PM Laser wakefield acceleration experiments at the University of Michigan - Karl Krushelnick (University of Michigan/Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee)

4:30 PM Status and plans of laser-plasma acceleration research in IAP RAS - Kostyukov Igor (Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod State University)
3:00 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Bonaparte 1
Contributions

3:00 PM 2D Theory of Wake-Field Amplification by Active Medium - Levi Schachter (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

3:20 PM Fibre Laser Based Dielectric Gratings Accelerator - Aimidula Aimierding (Cockcroft Institute and The University of Liverpool, UK)

3:45 PM Dielectric laser acceleration of 28 keV electrons with the inverse Smith-Purcell effect - Peter Hommelhoff (University of Erlangen and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)

4:10 PM Helical Accelerating Structure with Controllable Beam Emittance - Sergey Kuzikov (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

4:30 PM Towards a full C-band multi-bunch/high rep. rate/high gradient injector linac - David Alesini (LNF)

4:55 PM Bimodal Two-Frequency Half-Cell RF Gun - Sergey Kuzikov (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Bonaparte 2
Contributions

3:00 PM Measurement of Nanometer Electron Beamsizes using Laser Interference by Shintake Monitor - Jacqueline Yan (University of Tokyo, School of Science)

3:30 PM High quality proton beams from laser plasma interaction with hybrid acceleration schemes - Giorgio Turchetti (INFN)
5:30 PM coffee break
coffee break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: on the lawn
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

6:00 PM A Proposed Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment Using CLARA Beam - Guoxing Xia (Cockcroft Institute and the University of Manchester)

6:15 PM Preparations for a PWA experiment at PITZ - Matthias Gross (DESY)

6:30 PM Linear Plasma Wakefields and Seeding of the Self-modulation Instability - Patric Muggli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

6:45 PM Feasibility Study of the AWAKE Facility at CERN - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)

7:00 PM Electron injection into proton driven plasma wake-field for the AWAKE experiment at CERN - Alexey Petrenko (CERN, Budker INP)

7:15 PM Proton bunch compression studies for the AWAKE experiment in the CERN SPS - Helga Timko (CERN)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Bonaparte 1
Contributions

6:00 PM High Gradient Wakefield Generation at the Upgraded Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility - Manoel Conde (Argonne National Laboratory)

6:25 PM Recent Dielectric Wakefield Acceleration Results at FACET - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

6:50 PM Analytical and Numerical Studies of Underdense and Overdense Regimes in Plasma-Dielectric Wakefield Accelerators - Gennadiy Sotnikov (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology)

7:10 PM Subpicosecond Bunch Train Production and Tunable Energy Chirp Correction Using the Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator - Alexei Kanareykin (Euclid Techlabs LLC/ANL)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Bonaparte 2
Contributions

6:00 PM Traveling-Wave Thomson-Scattering and optical FELs - Klaus Steiniger (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

6:30 PM IRIDE: An Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure based on Dual Electron linac&laser - Massimo Ferrario (LNF)

7:00 PM IRIDE Round Table discussion (tentative)
7:30 PM
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Elena
Contributions

7:30 PM Relativistic charged-particle beam dynamics via the generation of wake field - Fatema Tanjia (NA)

7:30 PM Diagnostics of laser wakefield electron accelertion inside capillary tubes - Jinchuan JU (Universite Paris-Sud 11)

7:30 PM Reproducibility of Electron Beams from Laser Wakefield Acceleration in Capillary Tubes - Frédéric Guillaume Desforges (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, CNRS-Université Paris-Sud XI)

7:30 PM High-Quality Multi-GeV Electron Beams from Auto-Resonance Laser-Acceleration - Yousef Salamin (American University of Sharjah)

7:30 PM Laser-driven Radiation Sources for Applications - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR and INFN)

7:30 PM a novel plasma source for beam driven wakefield acceleration - Erdem Oz (Max Planck for Physics)

7:30 PM Extending the Acceleration Length in Laser-Plasma Techniques - Danilo Giulietti (PI;LNF) Giada Cantono (Università di Pisa)

7:30 PM An injector for multi-stage Laser Plasma Accelerators - sandrine dobosz dufrénoy (CEA-Saclay - DSM/IRAMIS/SPAM)

7:30 PM Concepts of Short Period RF Undulators - Sergey Kuzikov (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

7:30 PM Resonantly-enhanced multiple-pulse laser plasma wakefield acceleration - J. Cowley (Atomic & Laser Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK)

7:30 PM High energy electrons from interaction with a structured gas-jet at FLAME - Gabriele Maria Grittani (Università di Pisa)

7:30 PM Pre-Excitation Studies for Rubidium-Plasma Generation - Vesztergombi Gyorgy (Wigner RCP)

7:30 PM Diagnostic considerations for the Plasma Wakefield Acceleration experiment proposed at PITZ - Gaurav Pathak (University of Hamburg)

7:30 PM Nanofabrication at the LZH - Kristian Boroz (Laser Zentrum Hannover)

7:30 PM Amplification of a Surface Electromagnetic Wave by a Running Over Plasma Surface Ultrarelativistic Electron Bunch as a New Scheme for Generation of Terahertz Radiation - Konstantin V. Khishchenko (Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS) Saltanat Polatovna Sadykova (DESY, Hamburg)

7:30 PM Design of a Plasma Discharge Circuit for Particle Wakefield Acceleration - Maria Pia Anania (LNF)

7:30 PM Laser Pulse Shaping for Multi-Bunches Photoinjectors - Fabio Villa (INFN - LNF)

7:30 PM Transformer Ratio Studies for Single Bunch Plasma Wakefield Acceleration - Francesco Massimo (Department SBAI, Sapienza Università di Roma)

7:30 PM Preliminary studies and design for laser-driven electron and x-ray sources at the Salamanca High-Power Laser Facility (CLPU) - Andreas Döpp (Centro de Laseres Pulsados)
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

8:30 AM Review on Plasma Accelerators Driven by Laser Beams - Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College London)

9:10 AM Review on Plasma Electron Driven by Electron Beams and First FACET Results - Vitaly Yakimenko (SLAC)

9:50 AM Review on Advanced Diagnostics for Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerators - New Insights Into the Acceleration Process - Malte Kaluza (University of Jena, Helmholtz-Institute Jena)
10:30 AM coffee break
coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: on the lawn
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

11:00 AM Simulations of Plasma Based Accelerators - Ricardo Fonseca (ISCTE - IUL)

11:40 AM AWAKE: A Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield Experiment at CERN - Patric Muggli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

12:10 PM Advanced Positron Sources - alessandro variola (LAL IN2P3 CNRS)
12:40 PM lunch
lunch
12:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

4:00 PM Prospects for High-Repetition-Rate Multi-Pulse Laser Wakefield Accelerators - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)

4:18 PM High efficiency fiber laser systems for wake-field particle accelerators - Jens Limpert Limpert (FSU Jena)

4:36 PM Non-laminar charged particle beams from quantum to thermal regime - Renato Fedele (NA)

4:54 PM Study of LWFA as Injectors for Synchrotron Light Sources - Steffen Hillenbrand (CERN, KIT)

5:12 PM Primary Beam Lines for the AWAKE project at CERN - Chiara Bracco (CERN)
4:00 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Bonaparte 1
Contributions

4:00 PM Radiation pressure assisted acceleration of ions using multi-component foils in high-intensity laser-matter interactions - Bastian Aurand (Department of physics; Lund University)

4:25 PM Ion acceleration beyond 100MeV/amu in relativistic transparent laser-matter interactions - Daniel Jung (Quee's University Belfast)

4:50 PM Ion Acceleration and Neutron Production Based on Relativistic Transparency of Solids - Markus Roth (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Bonaparte 2
Contributions

4:00 PM TADPOLE for longitudinal electron-bunch diagnostics based on electro-optic upconversion - Jan-Patrick Schwinkendorf (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)

4:20 PM First single-shot and non-intercepting longitudinal bunch diagnostics for comb-like beam by means of Electro-Optic Sampling - Riccardo Pompili (LNF)

4:40 PM Single shot longitudinal profile monitors using Smith-Purcell radiation - Nicolas Delerue (LAL, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud 11)

5:00 PM Experimental Measurements of Electron-Bunch Trains in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator - Olle Lundh (Lund University)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Elena
Contributions

4:00 PM Challenges in Modeling Beam Driven Plasma Accelerators - Jorge Vieira (Instituto Superior Tecnico)

4:25 PM New Algorithms for Cylindrical PIC Code - Application to Wakefield Accelerators - Xavier Davoine (CEA DAM DIF)

4:40 PM Fast and accurate simulations of 10 GeV-scale laser plasma accelerators - Jonathan SMITH (Tech-X UK Ltd)

4:55 PM Numerical Investigation of Bunch-Driven PWFA in Quasi-Nolinear Regime - Pasquale Londrillo (INFN-Bologna (Italy))

5:10 PM Kick off for Discussion on the Future Directions for Theory and Modeling of Plasma Based Accelerators
5:30 PM coffee break
coffee break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: on the lawn
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

6:00 PM Radiative losses in plasma-based electron accelerators in ultrahigh energy limit - Kostyukov Igor (Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod State University)

6:18 PM Merging Conventional and Laser Wakefield Accelerators - Benno Zeitler (CFEL & UHH)

6:36 PM Development of a kHz laser plasma accelerator for ultrafast electron diffraction - Jerome Faure (LOA)

6:54 PM Collider design issues based on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration - Guoxing Xia (Cockcroft Institute and the University of Manchester)

7:12 PM Transport line for a multi-staged laser-plasma acceleration: DACTOMUS - Antoine Chance (CEA IRFU)
6:00 PM - 7:40 PM
Room: Bonaparte 1
Contributions

6:00 PM Laser ion acceleration with low density targets: a new path towards high intensity, high energy and high current ion beams - Patrizio Antici (LNF)

6:25 PM Mapping of intense magnetic fields in relativistic laser plasma interaction - Alessandro Flacco (LOA)

6:50 PM Tunable Achromatic Focusing Optics for High-Current Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams - julien fuchs (luli-cnrs)

7:15 PM Dose enhancement and localisation by combining reduced mass targets and a pulsed solenoid for radiobiological effectiveness studies of laser accelerated protons - Florian Kroll (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Bonaparte 2
Contributions

6:00 PM THz diagnostics for the plasma density and charged particle self-modulation measurement in AWAKE experiments - roxana tarkeshian (Postdoc)

6:25 PM Pickup design for arrival-time measurements at REGAE - Aleksandar Angelovski (TU Darmstadt)
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Elena
Contributions

6:00 PM Discussion on the Future Directions for Theory and Modeling of Plasma Based Accelerators

6:20 PM Conclusion of Discussion
9:30 PM Jazz Concert
Jazz Concert
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Maitu' Hall
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration: Review of Mechanisms, State of the Art and Applications - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast)

9:10 AM The European Light Infrastructure - Wolfgang Sandner (Max Born Institute Berlin)

9:50 AM Shortest Possible Beams from Conventional Accelerators - Klaus Floettmann (DESY)
10:30 AM coffee break
coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: on the lawn
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Experimental and Theoretical Progress LC Final Focus Design and ATF2 Facility - Andrei Seryi (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science)

11:40 AM C-Band LINAC Module Developments - Alessandro Citterio (PSI - Villigen)

12:10 PM Inverse-Free-Electron Laser Accelerators for Advanced Light Sources - Pietro Musumeci (UCLA)
12:40 PM lunch
lunch
12:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

4:00 PM Wakefield dynamics and electron acceleration in guiding structures - Nikolay Andreev (Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS)

4:15 PM All-optical control of electron injection for GeV-scale acceleration in mm-scale, tapered plasmas. - Serguei Kalmykov (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

4:30 PM Electron laser wakefield acceleration with the CILEX facility, a PIC simulation based investigation - Arnaud Beck (LAboratoire Leprince Ringuet)

4:45 PM Optical Transverse Injection: A New Mechanism of Injection in Laser-Wakefield Acceleration - Remi Lehe (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee (LOA))

5:00 PM Radiation Reaction in Laser Wakefield Accelerators - Marija Vranic (GoLP/IPFN - Instituto Superior Tecnico)

5:15 PM External-Injection experiment at the SPARC_LAB facility - Andrea Renato Rossi (INFN - Milan)
4:00 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Bonaparte 1
Contributions

4:00 PM Experimental Studies of Ion Charge Equilibrium in the Warm Dense Matter Regime Using Laser-Based Plasma - Sophia Chen (CNRS/LULI)

4:25 PM Laser Induced Light Ion Acceleration at LNF - Danilo Giulietti (Physics Department of University and INFN, Pisa-I)

4:50 PM LIGHT – from laser ion acceleration to future applications - Simon Busold (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

5:15 PM ELIMED: a Future Hadrontherapy Concept Based on the Laser-Driven Beams - Valentina Scuderi (INFN - LNS)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Bonaparte 2
Contributions

4:00 PM Follow-up on Overview of Advanced Compton Sources (tentative) - Luca Serafini (MI)

4:30 PM Follow-up on Advanced positron Sources )tentative) - alessandro variola (LAL IN2P3 CNRS)

5:00 PM Follow-up on Shortest Possible Beams from Conventional Accelerators (tentative) - Klaus Floettmann (DESY)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Elena
Contributions

4:00 PM Issues with phase space characterization of laser-plasma generated electron beams - Alessandro Cianchi (ROMA2;LNF)

4:25 PM High resolution laserwire electron beam size measurements and fibre laser development for high repetition rate laserwire applications - L. Corner (John Adams Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
5:30 PM coffee break
coffee break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: on the lawn
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Maria Luisa
Contributions

6:00 PM Beam-Driven Plasma Acceleration with Density Downramp Injection at FLASH - Julia Grebenyuk (DESY)

6:15 PM Numerical Modeling of Laser-Wakefield Electron Acceleration Inside a Dielectric Capillary Tube - Bhooshan Paradkar (LPGP, University of Paris Sud-11)

6:30 PM Lighting Up the Inner Workings of LWFA – How Radiative Particle-in-Cell Simulations can Shed New Light into the Dynamics of Laser-Accelerated Electrons - Richard Pausch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)

6:45 PM Two-Pulse Ionization Injection into Quasi-Linear Plasma Wakefields - Nicolas Bourgeois (University of Oxford)

7:00 PM High-Quality Electron Beams from Ionization-Induced Self-Trapping in the Strong Blow-out Regime of Beam-Driven Plasma Wakes. - Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY)

7:15 PM New Exact Solutions of the Dirac Equation of a Charged Particle Propagating in a Strong Laser Field in an Underdense Plasma - Sandor Varro (Wigner Research Centre of Physics, Budapest, Hungary)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Bonaparte 2
Contributions

6:00 PM Summary Preparation (tentative)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Elena
Contributions

6:00 PM Optical probing of laser-driven electron acceleration with synchronized few cycle pulses - Alexander Sävert (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Helmholtz Institute Jena)

6:25 PM 3D reconstruction of electron trajectories in a LWFA using spectrally and spatially resolved Betatron radiation - Felicie Albert (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

6:50 PM High sensitivity gas-density profilometry for laser- and beam-driven plasma acceleration experiments - Lucas Schaper (University Hamburg / DESY)
8:30 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Maitu' Hall
Thursday, June 6, 2013
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Novel Accelerators in Asia - Chuanxiang Tang (Tsinghua University)

9:10 AM Advanced Accelerator Activity in Russia - Igor Kostyukov (Institute of Applied Physics RAS)

9:40 AM New Collider Concepts for Particle Physics - Marco Zanetti (CERN)

10:10 AM The European Network for Novel Accelerators (EuroNNAc) - Ralph Assmann (DESY)
10:30 AM coffee break
coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Future Linear Colliders - Steinar Stapnes (CERN)

11:40 AM What can we do with a 5 PW laser? - Brigitte CROS (LPGP-CNRS-UP11)

12:10 PM Coherent Diffraction Imaging - a Novel and Promising Tool to Investigate Non Crystalline Matter at Atomic Resolution - Cinzia Giannini (CNR - Institute of Crystallography)
12:40 PM lunch
lunch
12:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM WG1 Summary - Patric Muggli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik) Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College London)

4:30 PM WG2 Summary - julien fuchs (luli-cnrs)

5:00 PM WG3 Summary - Manoel Conde (Argonne National Laboratory)
5:30 PM coffee break
coffee break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: on the lawn
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM WG4 Summary - Andrei Seryi (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science)

6:30 PM WG5 Summary - Alessandro Cianchi (ROMA2;LNF) Jens Osterhoff (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

7:00 PM WG6 Summary - Luis O. Silva (Istituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa)
Friday, June 7, 2013
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Room: Bonaparte
Contributions

8:30 AM Approval of Agenda

8:40 AM Introduction of Participants

9:00 AM European Strategy for Particle Physics - What Does it Mean for Us?

9:30 AM Short Status and Plans at Institutes, if not reported at EAAC

11:00 AM What Could a European Distributed R&D Facility for Novel Acc. Do for Us?

4:00 PM Review of Network Goals and Discussion of Network Plans up to 2016

6:00 PM AOB

6:30 PM Close-Out