26th Accelerator Test Facility Users' Meeting

Mar 26, 2024, 9:00 AM → Mar 28, 2024, 3:30 PM US/Eastern

BLDG 515 - ITD Large Conference Room (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

The schedule is still in the process of being compiled and this is not reflective of the final timeline.  

The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) is a DOE Office of Science User Facility that provides users with high-brightness electron- and laser-beams, and ultrafast electron diffraction capabilities. The Accelerator Facilities Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory has provided a facility for users to study the properties of modern accelerators and new techniques of particle acceleration and radiation generation for over 30 years. It is the designated user facility for the Accelerator Stewardship Program.

Meeting Objectives

• The ATF Program Advisory Committee (APAC) will review the progress of the ongoing user experiments and approve new experimental proposals that are synergistic with the mission of the DOE Office of Science Accelerator Stewardship Program. They will also review the facility’s science goals and planning.
• The meeting will serve as a forum for collaboration and a platform for users to report their work to APAC and the research community.
• The current status, performance, and future plans for the ATF will be presented.

Please be advised that all sessions will be recorded.  

Zoom Meeting Information

Tuesday, March 26

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM PAC Executive Committee Meeting: Executive Session

10:30 AM → 12:00 PM Opening Session

10:30 AM Welcome

10:35 AM Meeting Logistics and Opening Remarks

Speaker: Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Welcome_Logistics.pptx

10:45 AM ATF Operations Status Report

Speaker: Igor Pogorelsky (BNL/CAD)

ATF Status 2024.pptx

11:05 AM Facilities Modifications Status

Speaker: Andrew Simmonds

Facility Modifications Status 2024.pptx

11:25 AM Accelerator Readiness Review & FY24/25 Running Plans

Speaker: Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

ATF_ARR_and_RunningPlans.pptx

11:45 AM Comments from DOE ARDAP

Speaker: Eric Colby (U. S. DOE)

12:00 PM → 12:05 PM Group Photo

12:05 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch on your own

1:00 PM → 3:50 PM Status Reports & Close Outs

1:00 PM AE93 – Direct Measurement of Fields and Radiation in the Self-Modulated Plasma Wakefield Regime

Speaker: Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

AE93_closeout_ATF_UM_2024 v3,1.pptx

1:25 PM AE95 – Relativistic electron beams from CO2-laser-driven wakefield accelerators

Speaker: Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)

AE95 closeout (Downer).pptx

1:50 PM AE98 – Probing electron Weibel instability in optical field-ionized plasmas using ultrashort electron bunches

Speaker: Mitchell Sinclair (UCLA)

2024.ATF User Meeting.AE98_99.Closeout.pptx

2:15 PM Coffee Break

2:35 PM AE100 – The Study of High-Intensity Laser Pulse Interactions with Near-Critical Density Plasmas

Speaker: Oliver Ettlinger (Imperial College London)

AE100_2024_UserMeeting.pdf

3:00 PM AE101 – Optical Materials for Ultrahigh-Power Long-Wave Infrared Lasers

Speaker: Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)

AE-101 closeout - Polyanskiy.pptx

3:25 PM AE108 – Development of Wavelength Conversion Techniques for Generation of Coherent Radiation at the Mid- to Long-wave Infrared

Speaker: William Li (BNL)

AE108_2024.pptx

3:50 PM → 4:50 PM PAC Executive Committee Meeting

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM No Host Dinner

Wednesday, March 27

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM PAC Executive Meeting

10:30 AM → 12:05 PM Status & Closeout Reports

10:30 AM Announcements & Session Intro

10:35 AM AE120 – Characterization of the Collinear Wakefield Accelerator Module

Speaker: Alexander Zholents (ANL)

Closeout experiment AE120 Zholents.pptx

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

Speaker: Matthias Fuchs

ATF-Talk_Fuchs_upload.pptx

11:20 AM AE124 – Simulation-aided Instrument Optimization using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods

Speaker: Thomas Morris (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

240327-ATF-User-Meeting.pdf

11:40 AM AE131 - Harmonic Nonlinear Inverse Compton Scattering

Speaker: Yusuke Sakai (UCLA)

BNL_ATF_USERMEETING_2024yr_AE131_v09.pdf

12:05 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch on your own

1:00 PM → 4:20 PM Status Reports & New Proposals

1:00 PM NP-315769: Toward the bubble regime of CO2-laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration

Speaker: Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)

UTexas proposal (Downer AE95 renewal).pptx

1:30 PM NP-315765: Tunable laser positron source

Speaker: Aakash Sahai (Univ of Colorado)

NP-315765-Tunable_Laser_Positron_Source_BNL-ATF_2024.pdf

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

Speaker: Audrey Farrell (UCLA)

NP-315759_ATF_Users_Meeting_2024.pdf

2:30 PM Coffee Break

2:50 PM NP-315766: Ultrafast Electron Radiography of LWFA

Speaker: Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

NP-315766_proposal_ATF_UM_2024.pptx

3:20 PM NP-315758: High-intensity laser interactions with near-critical density plasmas

Speaker: Oliver Ettlinger (Imperial College London)

ICL_NP-315758_Talk.pdf

3:50 PM NP-Enabling R&D for Advanced M/L-WIR Laser Concepts

Speaker: Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)

Enabling R&D new prposal - Polyanskiy.pptx

4:20 PM → 5:20 PM PAC Executive Committee Meeting

Thursday, March 28

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM PAC Executive Committee Meeting

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Status Reports & New Proposals

10:30 AM Announcements & Session Into

10:35 AM AE128 – Ionization Currents and Secondary Radiation from Two-Color Pulses at Long Laser Wavelengths

Speaker: Englesbe Alexander (United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL))

AE128-StatusUpdate-Mar2024-v3.pdf

10:55 AM AE129 – Advanced Accelerator and Laser Laboratory Course

Speaker: Mikhail Fedurin (BNL)

AE129_Continuing_report.pdf

AE129_Continuing_report.pptx

11:25 AM → 12:00 PM Closing Session

11:25 AM Science Priority Research Directions & Next Science Planning Workshop

Speaker: Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

ATF Science Planning UM2024 - NVafaei-Najafabadi.pptx

11:55 AM Closeout

Speaker: Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch on your own

1:00 PM → 3:00 PM ATF Tour

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM PAC Executive Committee Meeting