ADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS WORKSHOP 2002
Tentative Schedule – Working Group #6
Laser Plasma Acceleration
8:30 am
8:40-9:10 am
9:10-9:40 am
9:40-10:00 am
10:00-12:30 pm
12:30-2:00 pm
2:00-3:20 pm
3:20-3:40 pm
3:40-5:30 pm
Monday, June 24
announcements
TBA
Ziegler
break
Progress and
Overview of Laser
Plasma Accelerator
Experiments
lunch
Joint Session with
Group 7
Electron Injection in
Laser Plasma
Accelerators I
break
Joint Session with
Group 7
Electron Injection in
Laser Plasma
Accelerators II
Tuesday, June 25
announcements
Conde
Barov
break
Injection, Wakefield
and Beatwaves
lunch
Joint session with
Group 1
Modeling LaserPlasma Acceleration I
break
Joint session with
Group 1
Modeling LaserPlasma Acceleration II
Wednesday, June 26
announcements
Bohn
Fiorito
break
Optical guiding and
plasma channels I
lunch
Excursions
Thursday, June 27
announcements
Ko
Barov
break
Optical guiding and
plasma channels II
lunch
Novel acceleration
mechanisms and
planned experiments
break
Concluding
Discussions and
Summary Writing
Friday, June 28
announcements
WG Summaries
WG Summaries
break
WG Summaries
Tentative Schedule – Working Group #6
Laser Plasma Acceleration
6/24, Mon. morning
Progress and Overview of Laser Plasma Accelerator Experiments
1. Chris Clayton, UCLA
“Overview of the Neptune Lab”
2. Ned Saleh, Univ. of Michigan
“A P.O.P. experiment of the LILAC concept”
3. Sven Fritzler, LOA, Ecole Polytechnique
“200 MeV SM-LWFA”
4. Dmitri Kaganovich, NRL
“NRL LWFA Experiment”
5. Masaki Kando, JAERI-APR, Japan
“High energy, high quality laser-plasma particle accelerator developments at JAERI-APR”
6. Yoneyoshi Kitagawa, Osaka University
“Growth and Saturation of Large Amplitude Self-Modulated Wakefield in 60 TW Laser
Plasma and Possible GeV Electron Generation”
25 min
25 min
25 min
25 min
25 min
25 min
6/24, Mon. afternoon
Electron Injection in Laser Plasma Accelerators
(Joint Session with Working Group 7)
1. Sergei Tochitsky, UCLA
“Bunched beam injection in PBWA”
2. Wim Leemans, LBNL
“Laser wakefield injection and control”
3. John Cary, TechX
25 min
25 min
25 min
“Simulations of Colliding Pulse Injection”
4. Rainer Pitthan, SLAC
“Progress In Understanding Plasma Based Electron Injectors”
5. M Thompson, UCLA
“Plasma Density Trnasition Trapping as a Possible High-Brightness Electron Beam Source”
6. X.J. Wang, BNL
“Femto-second kilo-Ampere electron generation from RF Photoinjector”
25 min
25 min
25 min
6/25, Tues. morning
Injection, wakefield and beatwaves
1. Eric Esarey, LBNL
“Simulations of particle injection in plasma accelerators”
2. Dmitri Kaganovich, NRL
“Staged SM-LWFA”
3. Dan Gordon, NRL
“Modeling of Staged SM-LWFA”
4. Kenichi Kinoshita, University of Tokyo
“High energy e-beam generation using specially designed supersonic gas jet”
5. Milchberg, U. Maryland
“Recent results at Maryland”
6. Catalin Filip, UCLA
“Interpretation of resonant and nonresonant beat wave excitation: experiments and simulations”
8. Chen Guang, UCLA
“Design of a Magnetized Cherenkov Wake Experiment in the Neptune Plasma Beat wave lab”
25 min
15 min
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min
15 min
6/25, Tues. afternoon
Modeling Laser Plasma Acceleration
(Joint Session with Working Group 1)
1. Joe Penano, NRL
“Raman forward scattering and self-modulation of laser pulses in tapered channels”
2. Carl Schroeder, LBNL
“Raman scattering of chirped laser pulses”
3. Dimitre Dimitrov, TechX
“Simulation of laser propagation and ionization in L’OASIS experiments”
4. Dan Gordon, NRL
“Modeling the Acceleration of Background Electrons to 200 MeV in a
Laser Wakefield Accelerator”
5. Alexander Pukhov, Max Planck Inst.
“Direct Laser Acceleration and 3D PIC simulations of LWFA in highly non-linear
wave-breaking regime”
6. Jonathan Wurtele, LBNL
“PIC simulations of the colliding beam accelerator in two dimensions”
7. Warren Mori, UCLA
“Simulation of LWFA using OSIRIS”
25 min
25 min
25 min
25 min
25 min
25 min
25 min
6/26, Wed. morning
Optical guiding and plasma channels I
1. Mike Downer, U. Texas
“Optical guiding of terawatt optical pulses”
2. Igor Pogorelsky, BNL
“CO2 laser guiding in capillary plasma channels”
3. Brigette Cros, LPGP at Université Paris XI
“Intense laser pulse guiding by capillary tubes for laser-plasma accelerators”
25 min
25 min
25 min
4. Masaki Kando, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
“Optical Guiding of Intense Laser Pulses by Fast Z-pinch Discharges”
5. Ted Jones, NRL
“Plasma density measurement inside a capillary channel”
25 min
20 min
6/27, Thurs. Morning
Optical guiding and plasma channels II
1. Joe Penano, NRL
“Multi-GeV Electron Acceleration in a Staged Laser Wakefield Accelerator”
2. Bahman Hafizi, NRL
“Optical guiding in a tapered plasma channel”
3. Ritesh Narang, UCLA
“Beat Wave and Channel Guided Wakefield Acceleration”
4. Ilya Alexeev, U. Maryland
“Measurement of the superluminal propagation of bessel beams”
5. Kiyong Kim, U. Maryland
“Single shot supercontinuum spectral interferometry”
25 min
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min
6/27, Thurs. afternoon
Novel acceleration mechanisms and planned experiments
1. Gennardy Shvets, Illinois Inst. Tech.
“Magnetically-Induced Transparency of Magnetized Plasma, and How It Can Lead to
New Plasma Accelerators”
2. Loren Steinhauer, STI Optronics
“Analysis of Laser Wakefield Acceleration Using ATF CO2 Laser”
3. Dick Hubbard, NRL
25 min
20 min
20 min
“Capillary plasma channel lens simulations”
4. Dan Gordon, NRL
“Staged LWFA: Dual capillary discharge with plasma lens coupling”
5. Dino Jaroszynski, University of Strathclyde
“A coherent radiation source based on a laser-plasma accelerator”
6. Bahman Hafizi, NRL
“Distribution of photoionized electrons”
6/27, Thurs. afternoon
Concluding Discussions and Summary Writing
20 min
20 min
15 min