18th ATF Users Meeting

Oct 1, 2015, 8:30 AM → Oct 2, 2015, 8:00 PM US/Eastern

Room B (Berkner Hall, BNL)

Igor Pogorelsky (C-AD)

The ATF Program Advisory Committee (APAC) and ATF Users Meeting

Thu, October 1

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM APAC Executive Session

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM Welcome Session

9:00 AM Welcome from the Scientific Program Director

Speaker: Ilan Ben-Zvi (BNL)

Slides Welcome_ATF_18th_User_Meeting.pptx

9:20 AM The Accelerator Stewardship Program and the Role of the BNL-ATF as an Office of Science National User Facility

Speaker: Eric Colby (U. S. DOE)

Slides AcceleratorStewardshipUsersMeeting2015.pptx

9:50 AM → 10:30 AM Facility Presentations

9:50 AM Facility Overview and Upgrades

Speaker: Igor Pogorelsky (BNL/CAD)

Slides Users2015Igor(2).pptx

10:15 AM Operational Statistics and Reporting

Speaker: Christina Swinson (BNL)

Slides SwinsonStats_FY15.pptx

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Experiment Status Reports 1

11:00 AM AE39 - Dielectric Wake Field Acceleration

Speaker: James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

Slides DWAtalkexp.pptx

11:15 AM AE48-Experimental study of electron-beam microbunching dynamics

Speaker: James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

Slides ATFSCnoiseexp.pptx

11:30 AM AE41 - RUBICON IFEL

Speaker: Joe Duris (UCLA)

Slides RubiconIFEL-ATFUM2015.pptx

11:45 AM AE65 - NOCIBUR

Speaker: Nick Sudar (UCLA)

Slides Nocibur_ATFuserMeeting.pdf

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch (no host); Working Lunch APAC (hosted)

1:00 PM → 3:15 PM Experiment Status Reports 2

1:00 PM AF69 - Key physics study of LPI with NCD plasma using laser machined plasma structure

Speaker: Wei Lu (Tsinghua Univ.)

Slides ATF_LPI_AF69.pdf

1:15 PM AE43- PWFA Holography

Speaker: Rafal Zgatzaj (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

Slides AE43_Status_Report_Rafal_Zgadzaj_ATF_Users_meeting_2015.pptx AE62_Andonian_ATS.pptx

1:30 PM AE64 - Surface Wave Accelerator

Speaker: Gennady Shvets (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

Slides ATF15_SiC.pptx

1:45 PM AE66 - Ion Acceleration

Speakers: Dan Gordon (NRL), Zulfikar Najmudin (Imerial Colege)

Slides 2016ATF_User_meeting.pdf

2:05 PM AE72 - Material Interaction Physics

Speaker: Dan Gordon (NRL)

Slides gordon-mat-int.pptx (Protected)

2:15 PM AE37 - Deflector Cavity (x-band installation update)

Speaker: Marc Montemagno (ATF)

Slides X-band_klystron_engineering_status_2015(I).pptx

2:30 PM AE60 - UED X-band Gun

Speaker: Tom Schultheiss (AES)

Slides UED-Tabletop-gun.pdf

2:45 PM AE62- Sub-fsec Diagnostic

Speaker: Gerard Andonian (RadiaBeam)

Slides AE62_Andonian_ATS.pptx

3:00 PM AE68 - Ramped Beam Generation Using Dielectric Wakefield Structures

Speaker: Gerard Andonian (RadiaBeam)

Slides AE68_Andonian_WFS.pptx

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee Break and Group Photo

3:45 PM → 6:00 PM Experiment Status Reports 3

3:45 PM AE52 - Beam Manipulation by Self-Wake Fields

Speaker: Sergei Antipov (Euclid Technilabs)

Slides Antipov_ATF_user_meeting.pdf

4:00 PM AF67-Space Radiation

Speaker: Wousik Kim (NASA)

Slides Experiment_Status_Report-AE67.pptx

4:15 PM AE59 - Recirculated ICS

Speaker: Andrey Ovodenko (RadiaBeam)

Slides Recirculated_ICS_v[3]-_ATF_Users_Meeting_.pptx

4:30 PM AE50- Plasma Wakefields in the Quasi-Nonlinear Regime

Speaker: James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

Slides QNL_ATF_User_2015.pptx

4:45 PM AE70 - Nonlinear Inverse Compton Scattering

Speaker: James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

Slides NLICSTalkBNLATF.pptx

5:00 PM AE63 - Accelerator Laboratory Course

Speaker: Mikhail Fedurin (ATF)

Slides AE63-PHY542_AAL.pdf AE63-PHY542_AAL.pptx

5:15 PM AE71 - CO2-laser-driven GeV wakefield accelerators with external injection

Speaker: Vladimir Litvinenko (SUNY SB)

Slides ATFworkshop_Litvinenko.pdf ATFworkshop_Litvinenko.pptx

5:30 PM AE45-Advanced imaging and ultra-fast material probing with inverse Compton scattering

Speaker: Massimo Carpinelli (University of Sassari and INFN)

Slides ATF-report.4.ppt

5:45 PM AF58-ERL BPM Test

Speaker: Toby Miller (BNL-CAD)

Slides ATF_Users_Meeting%20TM.pptx

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Optional Dinner: Cooperage Inn

Fri, October 2

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM APAC Executive Session

9:00 AM → 10:15 AM New Proposals 1

9:00 AM Energy-chirp compensation in plasma

Speaker: Jens Osterhoff (DESY)

Slides Dechirper3.0.pdf

9:25 AM Self-channeling of CO2 laser in air

Speaker: Sergei Tochitskiy (UCLA)

9:50 AM MEMS Undulator for EUV lasers

Speaker: Ivan Gadjev (UCLA)

Slides MEMSundulatorJBRIIG.pptx

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 11:35 AM New Proposals 2

10:45 AM High Duty Cycle IFEL

Speaker: Alex Murokh (RadiaBeam)

Slides high_rep_rate_IFEL_v3.pptx

11:10 AM Plasma pre-buncher to generate microbunch train for tunable THz radiation source

Speaker: Ivan Konoplev (STFC (UK))

Slides BNL_application-30_09_2015.pdf BNL_application-30_09_2015.pptx

11:35 AM → 12:05 PM ATF-II Discussions 1

11:35 AM ATF-II Progress Report

Speaker: John Skaritka (BNL-CAD)

Slides ATF-II_Project_Status_2.1.pptm

11:50 AM Stage 1 Beamline and UED (BNL-PSD)

Speaker: Mikhail Fedurin (ATF)

Slides ATF2_BeamLine&UED.pdf ATF2_BeamLine&UED.pptx

12:05 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch (no host); APAC Working Lunch (hosted)

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM ATF&ATF-II Tour

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM ATF-II Discussions 2

2:30 PM 100TW CO2 Laser Development

Speaker: Mikhail Polyanskiy (ATF)

Slides polyanskiy_bestia.pptx

2:45 PM Solid state lasers

Speaker: Marcus Babzien (ATF)

Slides M_Babzien_solid_state_lasers_r5.pdf M_Babzien_solid_state_lasers_r5.pptx

3:00 PM Two-color ionization injection in plasma accelerator

Speaker: Carl Schroeder (LBNL)

Slides Schroder-BNL-ATF_UserMtg.pdf Schroder-BNL-ATF_UserMtg.pptx

3:15 PM Prospects for CO2, Ti:Sapphire and Linac-driven transformative plasma-based space radiation reproduction and testing at ATF

Speaker: Bernhard Hidding (University of Strathclyde)

Slides 2015-10-02-BNL-ATF-ProspectsSpaceRad-Hidding-final.ppt

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM ATF-II Discussions 3

4:00 PM Two-color LWFA

Speaker: Wei Lu (Tsinghua Univ.)

Slides ATF-user-meeting-weilu.pdf

4:20 PM Round Table on LWFA, IFEL, Ion Accel. and Other Experiments

Speaker: multiple speakers

4:05 PM → 6:00 PM APAC Executive Session

6:00 PM → 6:15 PM Meeting Adjourned