Name: 18th ATF Users Meeting
Start: 2015-10-01T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2015-10-02T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Berkner Hall, BNL

18th ATF Users Meeting

from Thursday, October 1, 2015 (8:30 AM) to Friday, October 2, 2015 (8:00 PM)

Monday, September 28, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Thursday, October 1, 2015

8:30 AM APAC Executive Session

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Room B
9:00 AM Welcome Session
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Room B
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome from the Scientific Program Director - Ilan Ben-Zvi (BNL)

9:20 AM The Accelerator Stewardship Program and the Role of the BNL-ATF as an Office of Science National User Facility - Eric Colby (U. S. DOE)
9:50 AM Facility Presentations
9:50 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room B
Contributions

9:50 AM Facility Overview and Upgrades - Igor Pogorelsky (BNL/CAD)

10:15 AM Operational Statistics and Reporting - Christina Swinson (BNL)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room B
11:00 AM Experiment Status Reports 1
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

11:00 AM AE39 - Dielectric Wake Field Acceleration - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

11:15 AM AE48-Experimental study of electron-beam microbunching dynamics - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

11:30 AM AE41 - RUBICON IFEL - Joe Duris (UCLA)

11:45 AM AE65 - NOCIBUR - Nick Sudar (UCLA)
12:00 PM Lunch (no host); Working Lunch APAC (hosted)
Lunch (no host); Working Lunch APAC (hosted)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room B
1:00 PM Experiment Status Reports 2
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

1:00 PM AF69 - Key physics study of LPI with NCD plasma using laser machined plasma structure - Wei Lu (Tsinghua Univ.)

1:15 PM AE43- PWFA Holography - Rafal Zgatzaj (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

1:30 PM AE64 - Surface Wave Accelerator - Gennady Shvets (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

1:45 PM AE66 - Ion Acceleration - Dan Gordon (NRL) Zulfikar Najmudin (Imerial Colege)

2:05 PM AE72 - Material Interaction Physics - Dan Gordon (NRL)

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

2:30 PM AE60 - UED X-band Gun - Tom Schultheiss (AES)

2:45 PM AE62- Sub-fsec Diagnostic - Gerard Andonian (RadiaBeam)

3:00 PM AE68 - Ramped Beam Generation Using Dielectric Wakefield Structures - Gerard Andonian (RadiaBeam)
3:15 PM Coffee Break and Group Photo
Coffee Break and Group Photo
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Room B
3:45 PM Experiment Status Reports 3
3:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

3:45 PM AE52 - Beam Manipulation by Self-Wake Fields - Sergei Antipov (Euclid Technilabs)

4:00 PM AF67-Space Radiation - Wousik Kim (NASA)

4:15 PM AE59 - Recirculated ICS - Andrey Ovodenko (RadiaBeam)

4:30 PM AE50- Plasma Wakefields in the Quasi-Nonlinear Regime - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

4:45 PM AE70 - Nonlinear Inverse Compton Scattering - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

5:00 PM AE63 - Accelerator Laboratory Course - Mikhail Fedurin (ATF)

5:15 PM AE71 - CO2-laser-driven GeV wakefield accelerators with external injection - Vladimir Litvinenko (SUNY SB)

5:30 PM AE45-Advanced imaging and ultra-fast material probing with inverse Compton scattering - Massimo Carpinelli (University of Sassari and INFN)

5:45 PM AF58-ERL BPM Test - Toby Miller (BNL-CAD)
6:30 PM Optional Dinner: Cooperage Inn
Cooperage Inn
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Room B
Friday, October 2, 2015

8:30 AM APAC Executive Session

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Room B
9:00 AM New Proposals 1
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Room B
Contributions

9:00 AM Energy-chirp compensation in plasma - Jens Osterhoff (DESY)

9:25 AM Self-channeling of CO2 laser in air - Sergei Tochitskiy (UCLA)

9:50 AM MEMS Undulator for EUV lasers - Ivan Gadjev (UCLA)
10:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Room B
10:45 AM New Proposals 2
10:45 AM - 11:35 AM
Room: Room B
Contributions

10:45 AM High Duty Cycle IFEL - Alex Murokh (RadiaBeam)

11:10 AM Plasma pre-buncher to generate microbunch train for tunable THz radiation source - Ivan Konoplev (STFC (UK))
11:35 AM ATF-II Discussions 1
11:35 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

11:35 AM ATF-II Progress Report - John Skaritka (BNL-CAD)

11:50 AM Stage 1 Beamline and UED (BNL-PSD) - Mikhail Fedurin (ATF)
12:05 PM Lunch (no host); APAC Working Lunch (hosted)
Lunch (no host); APAC Working Lunch (hosted)
12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room B

1:00 PM ATF&ATF-II Tour

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room B
2:30 PM ATF-II Discussions 2
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

2:30 PM 100TW CO2 Laser Development - Mikhail Polyanskiy (ATF)

2:45 PM Solid state lasers - Marcus Babzien (ATF)

3:00 PM Two-color ionization injection in plasma accelerator - Carl Schroeder (LBNL)

3:15 PM Prospects for CO2, Ti:Sapphire and Linac-driven transformative plasma-based space radiation reproduction and testing at ATF - Bernhard Hidding (University of Strathclyde)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room B
4:00 PM ATF-II Discussions 3
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

4:00 PM Two-color LWFA - Wei Lu (Tsinghua Univ.)

4:20 PM Round Table on LWFA, IFEL, Ion Accel. and Other Experiments - multiple speakers
4:05 PM APAC Executive Session

4:05 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room A

6:00 PM Meeting Adjourned
Meeting Adjourned
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Room B