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)
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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
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
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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",
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
04:15 - 04:40
"Results on Plasma Wakefields from the A0 Experiments at Fermilab",
04:40 - 05:05 "Diagnostics Techniques", Chris Clayton (UCLA) 05:05 - 05:30
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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
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
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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
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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",
05:05 - 05:30
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