T8: Working Group on Advanced Acceleration Techniques

Plasma Based Acceleration

Phillip Sprangle, Tony Ting and Eric Esarey


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Thursday, July 5, 8:30 - 12:05     Chair:  Phil Sprangle

08:30 - 08:55  "Review of LWFA Experiments", Tony Ting (NRL)

08:55 - 09:20  "Overview of Neptune Facility", Sergei Tochitsky (UCLA)

09:20 - 09:45  "Overview of PWFA Experiments, E-157", Chris Clayton (UCLA)

09:45 - 10:10  "Laser Plasma Channel Guiding", Mike Downer (U. Texas)

10:10 - 10:25   Break

10:25 - 10:50  "Proton Acceleration using Lasers", Tom Cowan (Gen. Atomic)

10:50 - 11:15  "Ion Acceleration", Anatoly Maksimchuk (U. Mich.)

11:15 - 11:40  "Experiments on Laser-Plasma Acceleration at LBNL",  Wim Leemans (LBNL)

11:40 - 12:05  "Plasma Channel Guiding of Laser Beams", Howard Milchberg (U. MD)
 


Friday, July 6, 1:30-5:30                Chair:  Tony Ting

01:30 - 01:55  "Laser-Plasma Accelerator Developments in Japan", Kazuhisa Nakajima (KEK)

01:55 - 02:20  "Laser Interaction Experiments at Michigan", Don Umstadter (U. Mich.)

02:20 - 02:45  "Laser Pulse Propagation and Ionization", Phil Sprangle (NRL)

02:45 - 03:10  "Propagation of Laser Pulses in Plasmas", Eric Esarey (LBNL)

03:10 - 03:25   Break

03:25 - 03:50  "Guiding of Laser Pulses", Bahman Hafizi (NRL)

03:50 - 04:15  "Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Gas Ionization by Short Intense Laser
                         Pulses", D.A. Dimitrov (Tech-X)

04:15 - 04:40  "The Structure of 3D Wakes", Chuang Ren (UCLA)

04:40 - 05:05  "3D Simulation of LWFA", Dan Gordon (NRL)

05:05 - 05:30    Discussions 
 


Saturday, July 7, 1:30 - 5:30           Chair:  Eric Esarey

01:30 - 01:55  "Experimental Results from E-162 Project", Patrick Muggli (USC)

01:55 - 02:20  "E-157 Experiments", M. Hogan (SLAC)

02:20 - 02:45  "Simulation of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration in Three Dimensions", 
                         Glenn Joyce (NRL)

02:45 - 03:10  "Dynamics of a High Charge Electron Bunch in a Plasma", James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

03:10 - 03:25   Break

03:25 - 03:50  "Hosing of GeV Class Drive Beams", Evan Dodd (UCLA)

03:50 - 04:15  "Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Beam-Induced Ionization
                         in Plasma Wakefield Accelerators and Plasma Lenses", D.L. Bruhwiler (Tech-X)

04:15 - 04:40  "Results on Plasma Wakefields from the A0 Experiments at Fermilab", 
                         N. Barov (UCLA)

04:40 - 05:05  "Diagnostics Techniques", Chris Clayton (UCLA)

05:05 - 05:30    Discussions 
 


Sunday, July 8, 1:30 - 5:30              Chair:  Tom Antonsen

01:30 - 01:55  "Simulations of LWFA", Tom Antonsen (U. MD)

01:55 - 02:20  "Scaling Laws for LWFA", Dick Hubbard (NRL)

02:20 - 02:45  "LWFA in Plasma Channels", Joe Penano (NRL) 

02:45 - 03:10  "Applications of Raman Backscattering to Plasma Wave Generation and 
                         Laser Pulse Compression", Gennady Shvets (Princeton U.)

03:10 - 03:25   Break

03:25 - 03:50  "Backward Raman Pulse Amplification", Dan Gordon (NRL)

03:50 - 04:15  "Emittance growth and equilibrium in beam-plasma systems", Jonathan Wurtele (UCB)

04:15 - 04:40  "Fluid simulations of Laser-Plasma Interactions", Brad Shadwick (LBNL) 

04:40 - 05:05  "XOOPIC Particle Simulations of Laser-Plasma Interactions", Peter Mardahl (UCB)

05:05 - 05:30    Discussions
 


Monday, July 16, 1:30 - 5:30  (Visionary Session)        Chair: Phil Sprangle

01:30 - 02:10  "The Continuing Challenge for New Accelerating Concepts", Dave Sutter (DOE)

02:10 - 02:50  "Ultra-High Intensity Laser Physics, Present and Future", G. Mourou (U. Mich)

02:50 - 03:30  "Dedicated Facility for Laboratory Astrophysics Using High Intensity Particle and 
                         Photon Beams", Pisin Chen (SLAC)

03:30 - 03:45   Break

03:45 - 04:25  "A Roadmap to the Energy Frontier", Tom Katsouleas (USC)

04:25 - 05:05  "Realization of a Hollow Plasma Channel for Accelerating Positrons", 
                         Chan Joshi (UCLA)

05:05 - 05:30    Discussions 
 

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