Monday May 11th - Laser Plasma Acceleration Workshop 2015

Monday May 11th - Laser Plasma Acceleration Workshop 2015

Monday May 11th
8h45-9h
Introduction
Invited talk session, chairman: B. Bingham
9h-9h30
C. Joshi
Recent Results on Beam and Laser-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
9h30-10h
J. Faure
kHz electron beams from relativistic laser-plasma interaction
 10h-10h30
Coffee break
Main room: Laser wakefield session, chairman: O.
Lundh
Secondary room*: Ion acceleration session, chairman:
M. Passoni
10h30-10h50
S. Kalmykov
Optical control of electron phase space in plasma
accelerators with incoherently stacked laser pulses
10h50-11h10
E. Guillaume
Physics of fully-loaded laser-plasma accelerators
11h10-11h30
N. Hafz
Laser-Plasma Acceleration Experiment at Shanghai
Jiao Tong University
11h30-11h50
J. Hua / C.-H. Pai
Generating high quality electron beams with very
low absolute energy spread in a laser wakefield
accelerator at Tsinghua University
10h30-10h50
B. Dromey*
Temporal characterization of picosecond bursts of
laser-driven ions in SiO2
10h50-11h10
G. Cantono*
Enhanced electron acceleration via ultra-intense
laser interaction with structured targets
11h10-11h30
F. Dollar*
High intensity absorption of short pulse lasers with
solid density plasmas
11h30-11h50
V. Bychenkov*
Ion energy scaling under optimum conditions of
laser plasma acceleration
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12h-13h30
Lunch
Main room: X-ray sources session, chairman: K. Ta
Phuoc
Secondary room*: Particle driven wakefield session,
chairman: W. Mori
13h30-13h50
F. Albert
X-ray radiation from a laser-wakefield accelerator in
the selfmodulated regime
13h50-14h10
K. Behm
The effect of ionization injection on betatron x-ray
emission in a laser wakefield accelerator
14h10-14h30
N. Fazel
Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Betatron X-ray
Radiation from a GeV LPA
14h30-14h50
R. Hu
Energetic electron beam and brilliant gamma-ray
radiation generated from carbon nanotube target
13h30-13h50
J. Vieira*
Experimental studies of the self-modulation of
electron and positron bunches in plasmas
13h50-14h10
M. Ferrario*
Ultra short bunches generation to drive Plasma
Wake Field experiments at SPARC_LAB
14h10-14h30
M. Gross*
Towards a Self-modulation Experiment with long
Electron Beams at PITZ
14h30-14h50
L. Schaper*
Beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration at Flashforward
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15h-15h30
Coffee break
Main room: Laser wakefield session, chairman: Z. He
Secondary room*: Theory & simulation session,
chairman: C. Benedetti
17h30-17h50
V. Pathak
Role of frequency chirp on laser propagation:
Relevance to laser wakefield acceleration
17h50-18h10
K. Poder
Suppression of Self Injection with Ionization
Injection in Laser Wakefield Accelerators
18h10-18h30
A. Rossi
Matching strategies for external injection
18h30-18h50
N. Lemos
Self-modulated laser wake field acceleration as a
self-aligned backscatter X-ray source
17h30-17h50
L. Amorim*
Analytical study of hollow channels self-driven by
tightly focused positron bunches
17h50-18h10
A. Andreev*
Relativistic nano-plasma photonics

18h10-18h30
E. Hill*
Wakefields in HEP and as probes of extreme states
of matter
18h30-18h50
S. Webb*
Geometric Integrators for Advanced Plasma Physics
Algorithms
20h15 Diner
Tuesday May 12th
Invited talk session, chairman: I. Pogorelsky
8h-8h30
M. Hegelich
A decade of Advanced Laser-driven Ion Acceleration - a Review
8h30-9h
C. Benedetti
Plasma wakefields driven by an incoherent combination of laser pulses
9h-9h30
S. Mangles
Laser Wakefield Accelerators: a source of femtosecond X-rays for applications in
medical imaging and high energy density physics
9h30-10h
A. Macchi
Plasmonics effects in laser-driven acceleration

10h-10h30
Coffee break
Main room: Laser wakefield session, chairman: J.
Vieira
Secondary room*: Ion acceleration session, chairman:
A. Macchi
10h30-10h50
V. Litvinenko
Proposal for CO2-laser-driven wakefield accelerators
with external injection
10h50-11h10
O. Lundh
Down-ramp injection and independently controlled
acceleration of electrons in a tailored laser
wakefield accelerator
11h10-11h30
A. Maier
Laser-Plasma Acceleration in Hamburg
11h30-11h50
I. Nam
Energy Enhancement of Electron Beams by Laser
Wakefield with a Density-Tapered Gas Cell
10h30-10h50
Y. Fukuda*
Acceleration of background gas ions induced by the
Coulomb explosion of clusters
10h50-11h10
F. Kroll*
A laser-driven ion beamline for generating welldefined ultra-short ion bunches at highest
intensities
11h10-11h30
D. Margarone*
ELIMAIA: ELI Multidisciplinary Applications of laserIon Acceleration
11h30-11h50
J. Metzkes*
Experimental observation of spatially modulated

12h-13h30
Lunch
Main room: X-ray sources session, chairman: A.
Rousse
Secondary room*: Application session, chairman: A.
Ting
13h30-13h50
I. Andriyash
Ultra-compact and tuneable source of the
synchrotron radiation based on nanostructured laser
plasmas
13h50-14h10
M.-E. Couprie
An application of Laser Plasma Acceleration:
Towards a Free Electron Laser amplification
14h10-14h30
S. Rykovanov
Laser plasma undulator based on laser excitation of
wakefields in a plasma channel
14h30-14h50
K. Steiniger
Realizing Optical Free-Electron Lasers with TravelingWave Thomson-Scattering
13h30-13h50 P. Antici*
Laser-driven protons for nanomaterial production
13h50-14h10
C. Brenner*
Demonstration experiments for applications
development of laser-driven acceleration
14h10-14h30
M. Coughlan*
Observation of Ion-induced Opacity in Borosilicate
and Soda-lime Glass
14h30-14h50
J. Wood*
Imaging of Laser Driven Shocks with Betatron X-rays
from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

15h-15h30
Coffee break
Main room: X-ray sources session, chairman: F. Albert
Secondary room*: Theory and simulation session,
chairman: C. Joshi
17h30-17h50
J. Ferri
Production of Betatron radiation with a 3 PW and
500 fs laser
17h50-18h10
S. Cousens
The temporal structure of laser-driven coherent
synchrotron emission
18h10-18h30
J. Holloway
Developments of Ultra Bright Plasma Based X-Ray
Sources at Oxford
18h30-18h50
T-.P. Yu
Ultra-bright X/γ ray emission from ultra-intense
laser solid target interaction
17h30-17h50
K. Hanahoe*
Plasma Wakefield Acceleration at VELA/CLARA at
Daresbury Laboratory
17h50-18h10
W. Mori*
Recent progress on simulations of plasma based
acceleration
18h10-18h30
N. Vafaei-Najafabadi*
Localized Ionization Injection of Electrons in a
Plasma Wakefield Accelerator at FACET
18h30-18h50
Y. Ma*
Effects of laser pulse profile on electron bow-wave
injection of electrons in laser-driven bubble
acceleration

19h30 Diner
Wednesday May 13th
Invited talk session, chairman: X. Davoine
8h-8h30
A. Goers
Quasi-phase matched laser-driven direct and wakefield acceleration
8h30-9h
C. Thaury
Plasma shaping in laser-plasma accelerators : injection, energy boost
and beam collimation
9h-9h30
G. Shvets
Hybrid Laser Wakefield/Direct Laser Acceleration: Past, Present, and Future
9h30-10h
J. Vieira
Large scale numerical simulations of plasma acceleration towards ultra-relativistic
electron and positron bunches

10h-10h30
Coffee break
Main room: Laser wakefield session, chairman: C-.H.
Pai
Secondary room*: Ion acceleration session, chairman:
B. Hegelich
10h30-10h50
N. Andreev
Wakefield electron acceleration at broken cylindrical
symmetry
10h30-10h50
E. d'Humieres*
Longitudinal laser ion acceleration in gas jets:
experimental optimization on the Titan laser facility
and numerical investigation of the ultra-high
intensity limit
10h50-11h10
M. Passoni*
Laser-driven ion acceleration with foam-based,
multilayer targets
11h10-11h30
I. Pogorelsky*
BESTIA – next generation ultra-fast multi-terawatt
laser for plasma accelerator studies in mid-IR
11h30-11h50
W. Schumaker*
Monolithic,
high-repetition
rate
deuteron
acceleration with high intensity lasers using
cryogenic microjets
10h50-11h10
W. Wang
Hollow screw-like drill in plasma using an intense
Laguerre–Gaussian laser
11h10-11h30
J. Shaw
Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons in a Laser
Wakefield Accelerator with Ionization Injection
11h30-11h50
S. Kuschel
Demonstration of passive plasma lensing with laser
wake field accelerated electrons

12h-13h30
Lunch
Invited talk session, chairman: C. Thaury
13h30h-14h
S. Karsch
LWFA-driven X-rays and applications
14h-14h30
M. Litos
Latest Results from FACET

14h30-16h30
Poster session and industrial exhibition
1) list of posters
Quasi nonlinear plasma wakefield experiments, S. Barber
Enhanced laser energy absorption and proton acceleration with nanotubes targets, T. Ceccotti
Vlasov simulation of laser-driven shock acceleration and ion turbulence, A. Macchi
Enhanced laser-driven electron beam acceleration due to ionization-induced injection, S. Li
High-quality GeV electron beams from single-stage LWFA by ionization injection, M. Mirzaie
Interaction of high intensity femtosecond laser with over-critical target for ion acceleration, F. Mollica
Neutralization of laser-driven proton beam through dense Argon gas jets as a new pathway for neutral beam
production, B. Vauzour
Enhanced electron acceleration using cluster targets, P. Rajeev
Laser Driven Proton Beam for Protontherapy, L. Pommarel
Extending Laser Plasma Studies into Mid-IR Spectral Domain, I. Pogorelsky
Radiative trapping and acceleration of electrons in strong rotating fields, H. Ruhl
Photo Cathode Laser Pulse Shaping for Generating Ultimate Electron Beam Quality, F. Stephan
Angular emission profiles of surface harmonics from plasma mirrors, M. Taylor
Laser transport for the LUX laser plasma beamline, A. Walker
Development and characterization of gas-jet and discharge capillary, J. Couperus
Ponderomotive force enhancing Electron injection in the laser-driven bubble acceleration by ultra-intense
laser irradiating foil-gas targets, G-.B. Zhang
Longitudinal Phase Space Tomography at FACET, J. Allen
Boosted Frame simulations on tailored adiabatic matching sections, I. Dornmair
Recent developments of OFI collisional soft X-ray lasers, A. Depresseux
Recent progress on understanding LWFA in the nonlinear self-guided blowout regime, W. Mori
2) list of industrial sponsors
-Radiabeam
-Thales
-Bergoz
-Sourcelab
-Amplitude

19h30 Conference diner
Thursday May 14th
Invited talk session, chairman: N. Hafz
8h-8h30
A. Ting
Laser Acceleration of Ions in Gaseous Plasma at Near Critical Densities
8h30-9h H-.T. Kim
Laser Wakefield Electron Acceleration Driven by Chirped PW Laser Pulses
9h-9h30
S. Chen
Development of high-quality laser-wakefield-accelerated electron beams for laser
driven x-ray source
9h30-10h
C-.H. Pai
High quality electron acceleration at L2PA of Tsinghua and NCU: Experiment and
Simulation

10h-10h30
Coffee break
Main room: Laser wakefield session, chairman: S.
Chen
Secondary room*: Diagnostics session, chairman: J.
Faure
10h30-10h50
X. Davoine
Positron beam generation with two PW-class laser
beams
10h50-11h10
M. Thevenet
Observing the scattering of relativistic electrons in
an ultra-intense laser pulse: ponderomotive and
sub-cycle acceleration
11h10-11h30
A. Martinez de la Ossa
Wakefield-induced ionization injection in beamdriven plasma wakes
11h30-11h50
Z. Zhao
High Flux Femtosecond X-ray Emission from
Controlled Transverse Injection in a Laser Wakefield
Accelerator
10h30-10h50
J. Bergoz*
Pico-coulomb charge measured at BELLA to percentlevel precision using Turbo-ICT
10h50-11h10
L. Goldberg*
Electron density determination via broadening and
shift of spectral lines
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
11h10-11h30
M. Kasim*
Plasma Wakefield Diagnostic using Photon
Acceleration with an Oblique Crossing Angle
11h30-11h50
J-.P. Schwinkendorf*
Betatron radiation diagnostic for FLASHForward
12h-13h00
13h00-18h
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19h
Lunch
External activity
Diner
Friday May 15th
Invited talk session, chairman: V. Bychenkov
8h-8h30
R. Lehe
A pseudo-spectral, cylindrical and dispersion-free Particle-In-Cell algorithm
8h30-9h
K. Zeil
Efficient laser-driven proton acceleration for radiobiological studies using ultrashort laser pulses
9h-9h30
A. Gonsalves/C. Benedetti
Multi-GeV Electron Beams at the BErkeley Lab Laser Accelerator
9h30-10h
Z. He
Coherent control of laser-generated plasma wakefield by feedback-optimized
wavefront manipulation
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10h-10h30
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10h30-11h30
11h30-12h

12h-13h30
Coffee break
Summaries
Closing remarks
Lunch