20th ATF Users' Meeting

5 Dec 2017, 08:00 → 7 Dec 2017, 17:00 US/Eastern

Room B (Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488)

Mark Palmer (BNL)

Meeting Homepage | ATF Homepage | ATF Program Advisory Committee

Important Dates:
Group Photo: Tuesday, December 5, 2017, outside of Berkner Hall at 1:30 pm
No Host Dinner: Tuesday, December 5, 2017, time at 7:00 pm
Facility Tours: Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 9:00 am outside Berkner Hall
 

Tuesday, 5 December

08:30 → 09:30 APAC Executive Session

09:30 → 10:45 Opening and Operations Updates

09:30 Welcome

Speaker: Berndt Mueller (BNL)

09:35 User Meeting Overview

Speaker: Mark Palmer (BNL)

Slides ATF_20th_UsersMeeting_Welcome.pptx

09:45 ATF Operations Status

Speaker: Christina Swinson (BNL)

Slides 20UM_Swinson.pdf 20UM_Swinson.pptx

10:15 ATF Maintenance & Upgrades

Speaker: Christian Cullen (BNL)

Slides ATF_Maintenance_&_Upgrades,_R2.pptx

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Experimental Status Reports

11:00 AE66: Modification of Gas Jet Density Profile with Hydrodynamic Shocks for CO2 Laser Ion Acceleration Experiment

Speaker: Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College London)

Slides IC_AE66_2017.pptx

11:15 AE74: Self-Channeling of CO2 Laser in Air

Speaker: Sergei Tochitsky (UCLA)

11:30 AE39: DWA - High Gradient, High Field Dielectric Wakefield Acceleration Experiments at the ATF

Speaker: James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

Slides ATFDWA.ppt

11:45 AE75: MEMS Undulator for EUV Lasers

Speaker: James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

Slides MicroandMesoundulators.pptx

12:00 AE52: Beam Manipulation by Self-Wakefield at the ATF

Speaker: Sergey Antipov (Euclid Techlabs LLC / ANL)

Slides Antipov_ATF_user_meeting_October2017_final.pdf Antipov_ATF_user_meeting_October2017_final.pptx

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch (On your own)

13:30 → 13:45 Group Photo

13:45 → 15:15 New Proposals

13:45 Plasma Ion Channel Undulator (PICU) Using Electron Beam in CO2 Laser-Driven Channel

Remote Presentation

Speaker: Aakash Sahai (Imperial College London)

Slides PROP_BNL_ICU_ebeam_radiation_Dec_2017.pdf

14:00 Multiatmospheric CO2 Amplifier Optically Pumped by a 4.3 um Fe:ZnSe Laser

Speaker: Sergei Tochitsky (UCLA)

Slides Multiatmosphere_CO2_OPML.pptx

14:15 Hard X-ray ICS

Speaker: Yusuke Sakai (UCLA)

Slides HARD_Xray_ICS_New_Proposal_BNL_ATF_2017Users_meeting_20171201_ver_1.pdf

14:30 Feasibility Study for Measurement of X-ray Vortices at ATF

Speaker: Yoshitaka Taira (AIST)

Slides ATFUserMeeting20171205_taira.pdf

14:45 Diagnostic and Detectors for Changing and Damage of Dielectrics in High-Gradient Accelerators

Speaker: Sergey Shchelkunov (Yale University)

Slides DDD_talk(by_SVShchelkunov).pptx

15:15 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Experimental Status/Closeout Reports

15:30 AE62: Sub-Femtosecond Beam Line Diagnostics

Speaker: Gerard Andonian (UCLA/Radiabeam)

Slides AE62_Andonian2017_atto.pptx

15:45 AE68: Ramped Beam Generation Using Dielectric Wakefield Structures

Speaker: Gerard Andonian (UCLA)

Slides AE68_Andonian_2017_rampbeam.pptx

16:00 UF82: Thermal Transport in Thermoelectric Material

Speaker: Junjie Li (BNL)

Slides user_meeting_2017.pptx

16:15 UF84: UED Thin Film Meeting

Speaker: Yue Cao (BNL)

Slides CaoY_ATF_UED_2017_no_video.pptx

16:30 UF83: Charge Order Formation

Speaker: Tatiana Konstantinova (BNL/SBU)

Slides Exploring_Charge_Order_Formation_in_IrTe2.pptx

17:00 → 18:00 APAC Executive Session

19:00 → 21:00 No Host Dinner- Bistro 72

Wednesday, 6 December

08:00 → 09:00 APAC Executive Session

09:00 → 10:30 Experimental Status/Closeout Reports

09:00 AE64: Surface Wave Accelerator and Radiation Source Based on Silicon Carbide

Speaker: Gennady Shvets (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides ATF17_SiC.pptx

09:15 AF69: Key Physics Study of LPI with NCD Plasma Using Laser Machined Plasma Structure

Remote Presentation

Speaker: Chih-Hao Pai (Tsinghua University of Beijing, China)

Slides AE69_reports_2017_with_time_request.pptx

09:30 AE71: CO2-Laser-Driven GeV Wakefield Accelerators with External Injection / Key Physics Study of Laser Wakefield

Speakers: James Welch (University of Texas), Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (SBU)

Slides 2017_Downer_Group_BNL_ATF_User_Meeting_Presentation_-_Final_Draft.pptx Vafaei-AE71-2018_Plans.pptx

09:50 UE80: Non-Equilibrium Phenomena w/ UED

Speaker: Tao Jing (BNL)

Slides Presentation_JTao_Dec2017.pptx

10:05 UE81: Phase 1 LDRD for UED

Speaker: Li Hua Yu (BNL)

Slides ATF_user_meeting_11-2017_ld_12-5-2017.pdf

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:30 Experimental Status/Closeout Reports/ New Proposals

10:45 AE76: High Duty Cycle FEL

Speaker: Andrey Ovodenko (RadiaBeam Technologies)

Slides 2IFL_Presentation_ATF-17_Users_Meeting_V3.pdf

11:00 AE73: Energy Chirp Compensation in Plasma

Remote Presentation

Speaker: Richard D'Arcy (DESY)

Slides AE73_ATFUsers2017.pdf

11:15 AE63: Stony Brook Accelerator Laboratory Course, CASE@ATF

Speaker: Mikhail Fedurin (BNL)

Slides 201712061115_AE63-PHY542_AAL_by_MFedurin.pdf 201712061115_AE63-PHY542_AAL_by_MFedurin.pptx

11:30 AE67: Space Radiation Effects Experiments

Remote Presentation

Speaker: Bongim Jun (JPL/NASA)

Slides ATF_user_proposal_2018_JPL_Bongim_Jun.pptx

11:45 AE77: Advanced IFEL (Part 1)

Speaker: Nicholas Sudar (UCLA)

Slides DoubleBuncher_ATFUM_2017_3.pdf

12:00 AE79: Non-Scaling FFAG Arc Test

Speaker: Stephen Brooks (BNL)

Slides Brooks_ATF-FFAG_ATFUM.pptx

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch (on your own)- Working Lunch for Committee

14:00 → 15:15 Mission Need for ATF-II

14:00 Introduction

Speaker: Mark Palmer (BNL)

Slides ATF_SNW_Session_Intro+Discussion.pptx

14:15 Scientific Needs Workshop Report

Speaker: Bruce Carlsten (LANL)

Slides Carlsten_-_SNW_report_slides.pdf

14:45 Discussion

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:30 ATF Facility R&D Program and Future Plans

15:45 Overview of B820 CO2 Laser R&D Program

Speaker: Igor Pogorelsky (BNL/CAD)

Slides IgorUM2017_v2dits.pptx

16:10 CO2 System Modeling & Projections for ATF-II

Speaker: Mikhail Polyanskiy (BNL)

Slides polyanskiy_-_co2_modeling.pptx

16:35 Next Steps in the ATF-II Project

Speaker: Mark Palmer (BNL)

Slides ATF-II_NextSteps_R2.pptx

17:00 Discussion

Thursday, 7 December

08:30 → 14:30 RM C Available for APAC Executive Discussions

09:00 → 11:15 Optional Facility Tours: Meet outside Berkner

11:15 → 12:15 Lunch (On your own)

14:30 → 15:30 Closeout with BNL/ATF Management