ATF Scientific Needs Workshop

Name: ATF Scientific Needs Workshop
Start: 2017-05-31T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-06-01T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Physics, Bldg 510

31 May 2017, 09:00 → 1 Jun 2017, 17:30 US/Eastern

Large Seminar Room (Physics, Bldg 510)

Large Seminar Room

Physics, Bldg 510

Mark Palmer (BNL)

Description

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Participation in this event will be supported both in person and via videoconference (details to be provided).

Members of the community are encouraged to prepare a 5-minute presentation (Please restrict yourself to no more than 5 slides). Upon submission, please clearly identify which working group your presentation belongs to.

To be added to the presentation schedule, please submit a presentation request.

Support: Alyssa Petrone

apetrone@bnl.gov

Wednesday 31 May
- Wed 31 May
- Thu 1 Jun
- Workshop Introduction
  - 1
    
    Laboratory Welcome
  - 2
    
    Accelerator Stewardship Program Comments
    
    Speaker: Dr Eric Colby (U. S. DOE)
  - 3
    
    Workshop Opening
    
    Speaker: Dr Mark Palmer (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    Scientific Needs Survey Highlights
    
    Speaker: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility)
    
    Slides
- Topic #1: Topics in Mid-IR Laser Research
  - 5
    
    Working Group Survey Results
    
    Speaker: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility)
    
    Slides
  - 6
    User Community Presentations
    
    a) AE74: Long-range Self-Channeling of Multi-TW CO2 Laser Pulses in Air
    
    Speaker: Eric Welch (UCLA)
  - 10:45
    
    Coffee Break
  - 7
    
    User Community Presentations
  - 8
    
    Discussion
- 12:45
  
  Lunch (On Your Own)
- Topic #2: Topics in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Laser Wakefield Acceleration
  - 9
    
    Working Group Survey Results
    
    Speaker: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility)
    
    Slides
  - 10
    User Community Presentations
    
    a) Plasma-based Particle Acceleration Using Synchronized Mid-IR and Near-IR Laser Pulses
    
    Speaker: Prof. Gennady Shvets (Cornell University)
    
    Slides
    
    b) Mid-IR laser-driven plasma-based insertion devices for compact coherent x-ray production
    
    Speaker: Dr Aakash Sahai (Imperial College London)
    
    c) Mid-IR Driven Laser Wakefield Acceleration
    
    Speakers: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility), Mike Downer (University of Austin Texas)
    
    Slides
  - 15:15
    
    Coffee Break
  - 11
    User Community Presentations
    
    a) Laser Wakefield Acceleration in the Bubble Regime
    
    Speaker: Navid Vafei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    Discussion
- 18:00
  
  No Host Dinner- Bistro 72
Thursday 1 June
- Wed 31 May
- Thu 1 Jun
- Committee Executive Session
- Topic #3: Topics in Laser-Electron Beam Interactions
  - 13
    
    Working Group Survey Results
    
    Speaker: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    User Community Presentations
    
    a) Nonlinear Compton Scattering
    
    Speaker: Dr Yusuke Sakai (UCLA)
    
    Slides
    
    b) Beam-driven Surface Wave Accelerator Based on Silicon Carbide
    
    Speaker: Prof. Gennady Shvets (Cornell University)
    
    Slides
    
    c) Scaling of plasma-based ion acceleration using multi-TW mid-IR lasers
    
    Speaker: Dr Aakash Sahai (Imperial College London)
  - 10:45
    
    Coffee Break
  - 15
    User Community Presentations
    
    a) TBD
    
    Speaker: Prof. Pietro Musumeci (UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy)
    
    Slides
    
    b) TBD
    
    Speaker: Yu-shin Chen (Naval Research Laboratory)
  - 16
    
    Discussion
- 12:45
  
  Lunch (On Your Own)
- The ATF-II Facility Plan and Response to Community Needs
  - 17
    
    Overview of the Facility Plan
    
    Speaker: Dr Mark Palmer (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    Addressing the Needs of WG#1
    
    Speaker: Dr Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    Adressing the Needs of WG#2
    
    Speaker: Dr Igor Pogorelsky (BNL/CAD)
    
    Slides
  - 20
    
    Addressing the Needs of WG#3
    
    Speaker: Dr Mikhail Fedurin (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 15:50
    
    Coffee Break
  - 21
    
    User Community Discussion