Name: 26th Accelerator Test Facility Users' Meeting
Start: 2024-03-26T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-03-28T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory

26th Accelerator Test Facility Users' Meeting

from Tuesday 26 March 2024 (09:00) to Thursday 28 March 2024 (15:30)

Monday 25 March 2024
Tuesday 26 March 2024

09:30 Executive Session
Executive Session
09:30 - 10:30
Room: BLDG 515 - 2-50
10:30 Opening Session
Opening Session
10:30 - 12:00
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

10:30 Welcome

10:35 Meeting Logistics and Opening Remarks - Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:45 ATF Operations Status Report - Igor Pogorelsky (BNL/CAD)

11:05 Facilities Modifications Status - Andrew Simmonds

11:25 Accelerator Readiness Review & FY24/25 Running Plans - Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:45 Comments from DOE ARDAP - Eric Colby (U. S. DOE)
12:00

12:00 - 12:05
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room

12:05 Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
12:05 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:50
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

13:00 AE93 – Direct Measurement of Fields and Radiation in the Self-Modulated Plasma Wakefield Regime - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

13:25 AE95 – Relativistic electron beams from CO2-laser-driven wakefield accelerators - Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)

13:50 AE98 – Probing electron Weibel instability in optical field-ionized plasmas using ultrashort electron bunches - Mitchell Sinclair (UCLA)

14:35 AE100 – The Study of High-Intensity Laser Pulse Interactions with Near-Critical Density Plasmas - Oliver Ettlinger (Imperial College London)

15:00 AE101 – Optical Materials for Ultrahigh-Power Long-Wave Infrared Lasers - Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)

15:25 AE108 – Development of Wavelength Conversion Techniques for Generation of Coherent Radiation at the Mid- to Long-wave Infrared - William Li (BNL)
15:50 PAC Executive Committee Meeting
PAC Executive Committee Meeting
15:50 - 16:50
Room: BLDG 515 - 2-50

18:00 No Host Dinner
No Host Dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Wednesday 27 March 2024

09:30

09:30 - 10:30
Room: BLDG 515 - 2-50
10:30
10:30 - 12:05
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

10:30 Announcements & Session Intro

10:35 AE120 – Characterization of the Collinear Wakefield Accelerator Module - Alexander Zholents (ANL)

11:00 AE121 – High-efficiency Laser-driven Electron Accelerator - Matthias Fuchs

11:20 AE124 – Simulation-aided Instrument Optimization using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods - Thomas Morris (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:40 AE131 - Harmonic Nonlinear Inverse Compton Scattering - Yusuke Sakai (UCLA)
12:05 Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
12:05 - 13:00
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
13:00
13:00 - 16:20
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

13:00 NP-315769: Toward the bubble regime of CO2-laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration - Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)

13:30 NP-315765: Tunable laser positron source - Aakash Sahai (Univ of Colorado)

14:00 NP-315759: Optical probing of simultaneous Biermann battery and Weibel instability generated magnetic fields in over critical density plasma - Audrey Farrell (UCLA)

14:50 NP-315766: Ultrafast Electron Radiography of LWFA - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

15:20 NP-315758: High-intensity laser interactions with near-critical density plasmas - Oliver Ettlinger (Imperial College London)

15:50 NP-Enabling R&D for Advanced M/L-WIR Laser Concepts - Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)
16:20

16:20 - 17:20
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Thursday 28 March 2024

09:30

09:30 - 10:30
Room: BLDG 515 - 2-50
10:30
10:30 - 11:15
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

10:30 Announcements & Session Into

10:35 AE128 – Ionization Currents and Secondary Radiation from Two-Color Pulses at Long Laser Wavelengths - Englesbe Alexander (United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL))

10:55 AE129 – Advanced Accelerator and Laser Laboratory Course - Mikhail Fedurin (BNL)
11:25
11:25 - 12:00
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

11:25 Science Priority Research Directions & Next Science Planning Workshop - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:55 Closeout - Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
12:00 - 13:00
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room

13:00

13:00 - 15:00
Room: BLDG 820

13:00 - 14:00
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room

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