LAOLA Annual Meeting

Europe/Berlin
Wismar, Germany

Wismar, Germany

Bernhard Schmidt (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY), Eckhard Elsen (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY), Jens Osterhoff (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Description
The 3rd annual meeting of the LAOLA collaboration
  • Monday, 6 October
    • 11:30 12:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 12:45 15:00
      Plenary Session I
      • 12:45
        Opening Remarks 5m
        Speakers: Dr Bernhard Schmidt (DESY), Dr Jens Osterhoff (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
      • 12:50
        The LUX Beamline for Laser-Plasma Driven Undulator Radiation 20m
        Speaker: Dr Andreas R. Maier (University Hamburg)
      • 13:10
        REGAE/LUX Elevator Speeches 8m
        Speakers: Andreas Walker, Mr Christian Werle (CFEL/UHH), Manuel Kirchen, Niels Delbos, Vincent Leroux
      • 13:18
        MSK Elevator Speeches 3m
        Speakers: Dr Matthias Hoffmann (DESY), Mikheil Titberidze
        Slides
      • 13:21
        Status of the Self-Modulation Experiment at PITZ 20m
        Speaker: Dr Matthias Gross (DESY)
        Slides
      • 13:41
        PITZ Elevator Speeches 5m
        Speakers: Gaurav Pathak, Gerald Koss, Martin Khojoyan (DESY)
        Slides
      • 13:46
        SINBAD - A Dedicated Multi-Purpose Accelerator R&D Facility 20m
        Speaker: Dr Ulrich Dorda
        Slides
      • 14:06
        Hybrid Plasma Wakefield Acceleration 20m
        Speaker: Alexander Knetsch
      • 14:26
        HYBRIDS Elevator Speeches 5m
        Speakers: Alexander Knetsch, Georg Wittig, Mr Thomas Heinemann (Universität Hamburg)
        Slides
      • 14:31
        Stability by Understanding More Data -- LWFA at HZDR 20m
        Speaker: Dr Alexander Debus (a.debus@hzdr.de)
      • 14:51
        HZDR Elevator Speech 2m
        Speaker: Klaus Steiniger
        Slides
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:30 16:00
      Plenary Session II
      • 15:30
        FLASHForward - Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration Research at FLASH 20m
        Speaker: Mr Vladyslav Libov (DESY)
      • 15:50
        FLASHForward Elevator Speeches 10m
        Speakers: Dr Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY), Mr Johann Zemella (DESY Hamburg), Lars Goldberg, Olena Kononenko, Mr Steffen Wunderlich (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY), Mr Timon Mehrling (DESY), Violetta Wacker (DESY)
    • 16:00 18:00
      Poster Session
      • 16:00
        A Double-Prism Spectrometer for the Longitudinal Diagnosis of fs-Electron Bunches with Mid-Infrared Transition Radiation 2h
        Speaker: Mr Steffen Wunderlich (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
      • 16:00
        ANGUS 200 TW Laser System 2h
        Speaker: Vincent Leroux
      • 16:00
        Boosted Frame Simulations with the PIC Code WARP 2h
        Speaker: Manuel Kirchen
      • 16:00
        Characterization of Gas Targets for Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration 2h
        Speaker: Lars Goldberg
        Poster
      • 16:00
        Continuous Flow Targets & Technical Realization 2h
        Speaker: Niels Delbos
      • 16:00
        Density Down Ramp Injection at FACET E-215 2h
        Speaker: Olena Kononenko
      • 16:00
        Die Plasmazelle bei PITZ 2h
        Speaker: Gerald Koss
      • 16:00
        Downramp-Assisted Underdense Photocathode Electron Bunch Generation in Plasma Wakefield Accelerators 2h
        Speaker: Alexander Knetsch
      • 16:00
        Efficient Modeling of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration with Electron Injection in Density Transitions 2h
        Speaker: Mr Timon Mehrling (DESY)
      • 16:00
        Electron Output Stabilization and Improvement in the Trojan Horse Plasma Acceleration Scheme 2h
        Speaker: Mr Thomas Heinemann (Universität Hamburg)
      • 16:00
        Final Laser Focussing System at LUX 2h
        Speaker: Mr Christian Werle (CFEL/UHH)
      • 16:00
        HiPACE Simulations of the Self-Modulation Experiments at PITZ 2h
        Speaker: Gaurav Pathak
      • 16:00
        LUX Laser Transport Beamline 2h
        Speaker: Andreas Walker
        Slides
      • 16:00
        Matching and Final Focusing Section for FLASHForward Project 2h
        Speaker: Mr Johann Zemella (DESY Hamburg)
        Slides
      • 16:00
        Novel Femtosecond Level Synchronization of Titanium Sapphire Lasers and Relativistic Electron Beams 2h
        Speaker: Mikheil Titberidze
        Poster
      • 16:00
        Optimization and Transport of Electron Beam for Self-Modulation Experiments at PITZ 2h
        Speaker: Martin Khojoyan (DESY)
      • 16:00
        Plasma Based Dechirper 2h
        Speaker: Violetta Wacker (DESY)
      • 16:00
        Precision LLRF Controls for the S-Band Accelerator REGAE 2h
        Speaker: Dr Matthias Hoffmann (DESY)
      • 16:00
        Traveling-Wave Thomson-Scattering for Brilliant and Efficient Optical Free-Electron Lasers 2h
        Speaker: Klaus Steiniger
      • 16:00
        Tunable Electron Multibunch Production in Palsma Wakefield Accelerators 2h
        Speaker: Georg Wittig
      • 16:00
        Wakefield-Induced Ionization Injection 2h
        Speaker: Dr Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY)
        Slides
    • 19:00 21:00
      Dinner 2h
  • Tuesday, 7 October
    • 09:00 11:30
      Working Group 1

      9:00-11:00 Short presentations on topics influencing stability, e.g. stability of the driver (laser and particle beam), injection mechanisms (internal and external), witness beam requirements, synchronisation and plasma targets and density profiles. Presentations are intended to raise awareness of specific issues influencing the stability and guide the general discussion on how to enhance it.

      11:00-11:30 Wrap up results of the previous discussion.

    • 09:00 11:30
      Working Group 2: Post-Plasma Beam-Quality Preservation

      9:00-10:00 Short (~10 mins) presentations on current activities from the different projects in the context of the working group scope.
      Presentations:
      FLASHForward (Vladyslav Libov, Timon Mehrling)
      LUX (Andi Meier)
      REGAE (Klaus Floettmann)
      HYBRIDS (Thomas Heinemann)
      PITZ (Gaurav Pathak, Martin Khojoyan)

      We will relate people's studies to one or more of the subtopics, note their challenges in this topic, the status of their studies and the aim of their studies.

      10:00-11:00 Discussing and formulating a common plan on how to achieve the preservation of the beam quality.

      11:00-11:30 Finding overlap in points of interest and agreeing on future collaborations and activities.

      slides
    • 09:00 11:30
      Working Group 3: Extreme Beams

      LWFA
      - What are the limits for the energy gain?
      - Overcoming/extending dephasing and depletion limits
      - Review injection techniques: How can we generate the most extreme beams in terms of charge, emittance, energy spread, etc?
      - External.
      - Wavebreaking.
      - DDR.
      - Ionization-induced.
      - New ideas:
      - Resonant addition of laser drivers.
      - Plasma wakefield excitation by incoherent laser pulses.

      PWFA
      - What are the limits for the energy gain?
      - Driver depletion, head-erosion
      - Review injection techniques: Which one can generate the most extreme beams in terms of charge, emittance, energy spread, etc?
      - External.
      - Wavebreaking?.
      - DDR.
      - Ionization-induced:
      - Self-induced: Beam and Wakefield triggered.
      - Assisted: Trojan Horse.
      - New ideas:
      - Resonant excitation with muilt-peaked high current electron drivers.
      - Witness-to-driver staging.
      - Hybrid LWFA + PWFA.

    • 09:00 11:30
      Working Group 4: Chirp Mitigation by Alternate Gradient Plasma Structures
      1. Introduction to alternate gradient plasma structures for dechirping - Reinhard Brinkmann
      2. Alternate gradient focusing theory - Bernhard Schmidt
      3. AG plasma dechirping theory and first Astra simulations - Irene Dornmair
      4. Matching the bunch
      5. Plasma Cell Design - Niels Delbos
      6. Constraints
        6.1 for PWFA - Violetta Wacker
        6.2 for LWFA
        6.3 further complicating factors, e.g. energy gain...
      7. Task assignment - distribution of the research topics
    • 11:30 12:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:00 14:30
      Working Group Summary
      • 13:00
        Summary WG 1 20m
        Speakers: Ms Julia Grebenyuk (DESY), Mr Lucas Schaper (Universitaet Hamburg)
      • 13:20
        Summary WG 2 20m
        Speakers: Dr John Dale, Mr Timon Mehrling (DESY)
      • 13:40
        Summary WG 3 20m
        Speakers: Dr Alberto Martinez de la Ossa (DESY), Dr Matthew Streeter
      • 14:00
        Summary WG 4 20m
        Speakers: Irene Dornmair (Universität Hamburg), Violetta Wacker
    • 14:30 15:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:00 15:30
      Wrap Up