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, March 26, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, March 28, 2024 (3:30 PM)

Monday, March 25, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

9:30 AM Executive Session
Executive Session
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: BLDG 515 - 2-50
10:30 AM Opening Session
Opening Session
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

10:30 AM Welcome

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

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

11:05 AM Facilities Modifications Status - Andrew Simmonds

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

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

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

12:05 PM Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

1:00 PM AE93 – Direct Measurement of Fields and Radiation in the Self-Modulated Plasma Wakefield Regime - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

1:25 PM AE95 – Relativistic electron beams from CO2-laser-driven wakefield accelerators - Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)

1:50 PM AE98 – Probing electron Weibel instability in optical field-ionized plasmas using ultrashort electron bunches - Mitchell Sinclair (UCLA)

2:35 PM AE100 – The Study of High-Intensity Laser Pulse Interactions with Near-Critical Density Plasmas - Oliver Ettlinger (Imperial College London)

3:00 PM AE101 – Optical Materials for Ultrahigh-Power Long-Wave Infrared Lasers - Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)

3:25 PM AE108 – Development of Wavelength Conversion Techniques for Generation of Coherent Radiation at the Mid- to Long-wave Infrared - William Li (BNL)
3:50 PM PAC Executive Committee Meeting
PAC Executive Committee Meeting
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - 2-50

6:00 PM No Host Dinner
No Host Dinner
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

9:30 AM

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: BLDG 515 - 2-50
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

10:30 AM Announcements & Session Intro

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

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

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

11:40 AM AE131 - Harmonic Nonlinear Inverse Compton Scattering - Yusuke Sakai (UCLA)
12:05 PM Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

1:00 PM NP-315769: Toward the bubble regime of CO2-laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration - Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)

1:30 PM NP-315765: Tunable laser positron source - Aakash Sahai (Univ of Colorado)

2:00 PM NP-315759: Optical probing of simultaneous Biermann battery and Weibel instability generated magnetic fields in over critical density plasma - Audrey Farrell (UCLA)

2:50 PM NP-315766: Ultrafast Electron Radiography of LWFA - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

3:20 PM NP-315758: High-intensity laser interactions with near-critical density plasmas - Oliver Ettlinger (Imperial College London)

3:50 PM NP-Enabling R&D for Advanced M/L-WIR Laser Concepts - Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)
4:20 PM

4:20 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Thursday, March 28, 2024

9:30 AM

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: BLDG 515 - 2-50
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room
Contributions

10:30 AM Announcements & Session Into

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

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

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

11:55 AM Closeout - Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:00 PM Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room

1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: BLDG 820

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room

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