ATF Scientific Needs Workshop

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.
 

Workshop Objectives
Support: Alyssa Petrone
  • Wednesday, 31 May
    • 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
    • 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