Name: Probing strong-field QED in electron-photon interactions
Start: 2018-08-21T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-08-24T18:00:00+02:00
Location: DESY

Probing strong-field QED in electron-photon interactions

from Tuesday, 21 August 2018 (15:00) to Friday, 24 August 2018 (18:00)

Monday, 20 August 2018
Tuesday, 21 August 2018

15:00 Registration
Registration
15:00 - 16:40
Room: Main Auditorium
16:45 Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems - Christoph H. Keitel (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK))
Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems
- Christoph H. Keitel (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK))
16:45 - 17:30
Room: Main Auditorium The field of laser-matter interaction traditionally deals with the response of atoms, molecules, and plasmas to an external light wave. However, the sustained technological progress is opening up the possibility of employing intense laser radiation to trigger or substantially influence physical processes beyond atomic-physics energy scales. Available optical laser intensities exceeding 1022 W/cm2 can push the fundamental light-electron interaction to the extreme limit where radiation-reaction effects dominate the electron dynamics, can shed light on the structure of the quantum vacuum, and can trigger the creation of particles such as electrons, muons, and pions and their corresponding antiparticles. Also, novel sources of intense coherent high-energy photons and laser-based particle colliders can pave the way to nuclear quantum optics and may even allow for the potential discovery of new particles beyond the standard model. These are the main topics of this talk, which is devoted to a review of recent investigations on high-energy processes within the realm of relativistic quantum dynamics, quantum electrodynamics, and to a smaller degree nuclear and particle physics, occurring in extremely intense laser fields.
18:00 Welcome Reception and Poster Session
Welcome Reception and Poster Session
18:00 - 20:00
Room: DESY Bistro
Wednesday, 22 August 2018

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Sem Rm 4
09:00
09:00 - 12:25
Room: Sem Rm 4
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and logistics - Beate Heinemann (DESY and Freiburg University)

09:10 The European XFEL accelerator and science programme - Robert Feidenhansl (European XFEL)

09:40 The scientific interest in strong-field QED and electron-laser experiments - Anton Ilderton (University of Plymouth)

10:15 The E144 experiment and lessons learned - Kirk McDonald (Princeton)

11:10 New ideas for high-energy electron/laser experiments - Matt Zepf (HIJ)

11:35 Global high energy electron accelerators: present and future - Vitaly Yakimenko (SLAC)

12:00 Overview of high-power lasers - Georg Korn (ELI beamlines)
12:25 Lunch + photo
Lunch + photo
12:25 - 13:45
Room: Sem Rm 4
13:45
13:45 - 17:55
Room: Sem Rm 4
Contributions

13:45 Trident Pair Production in Laser Fields - Greger Torgrimsson (Umeå/Chalmers)

14:05 Laser-Assisted Breit-Wheeler and Schwinger Pair Production - Burkhard Kaempfer (HZDR)

14:25 Next great challenge beyond SLAC E144: probing a fully non-perturbative QED with electron-laser interaction - Alexander Fedotov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI)

14:45 QED processes at high intensities - Stepan Bulanov

15:05 Quantum radiation reaction, e+e- pair production and acceleration in laser-electron beam scattering configurations - Marija Vranic (IST, Lisbon)

15:25 Nonlinear trident pair production in an arbitrary plane wave: a focus on the properties of the transition amplitude - Felix Mackenroth (MPI for Complex Systems)

16:15 Giant energy transfer from an electron bunch to a photon beam mediated by radiation reaction - Matteo Tamburini (MPI Heidelberg)

16:35 Massive scalar and pseudoscalar production in electron-laser collisions - Ben King (University of Plymouth)

16:55 Laser-Matter Interactions at High Intensity: Theoretical Challenges - Mattias Marklund (Gothenburg)

17:15 All optical signatures from the quantum vacuum - Holger Gies (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

17:35 Relevance of laser-based experiments for probing hidden particles - Selym Villalba-Chavez (Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich Heine Universität Dusseldorf)
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Room: Sem Rm 4
Thursday, 23 August 2018
09:00
09:00 - 12:20
Room: Sem Rm 4
Contributions

09:00 XFEL layout and beam properties for a strong-field QED experiment - Evgueni Negodin (DESY)

09:20 Design considerations for the LUXE beamline - Florian Burkart (DESY)

09:40 CERN activities beyond colliders - Mike Lamont (CERN)

10:00 Laser-wakefield experiments - Gianluca Sarri (Queen's University Belfast)

10:40 BELLA laser facility status and plans - Stepan Bulanov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Wim P. Leemans (LBL)

11:00 HiBEF laser for photon science at XFEL - Toma Toncian (HZDR)

11:20 Experiments and plans using the 100 PW laser at Shanghai - Liangliang Ji (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS)

11:40 High field experiments and lasers at ELI Beamlines - Sergei Bulanov

12:00 The ANGUS laser system for a demo-plasma FEL - Andreas R. Maier (University Hamburg)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:35
Room: Sem Rm 4
13:35
13:35 - 15:20
Room: Sem Rm 4
Contributions

13:35 Introduction on parameters and requirements - Matthew Wing (UCL)

13:50 Semi-conductor detectors - Chris Kenney (SLAC)

14:10 Calorimeters for strong-field QED experiments - Borysov Oleksandr (Tel Aviv)

14:30 Cherenkov Detectors for sQED Experiments and ILC R&D Experience - Jenny List (DESY Hamburg)

14:50 Discussion - David Reis Thomas Koffas
15:20 tea break
tea break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Sem Rm 4
15:50
15:50 - 18:05
Room: Sem Rm 4
Contributions

15:50 Light-by-light scattering at SACLA/Spring8 - Toshiaki Inada

16:10 LHC measurements of light-by-light scattering - Mateusz Dyndal (DESY)

16:30 Pairs and gamma-rays produced in the collisions of high density particle beams - Thomas Grismayer (IST, Lisbon)

16:50 X-ray-FEL-based options for exceeding the Schwinger field - David Reis (Stanford PULSE Institute)

17:10 Strong-field QED and radiation-reaction effects in aligned crystals - Ulrik Uggerhøj (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark)

17:30 Gamma-gamma collider on the energy W<12 GeV based on European XFEL - Valery Telnov (Budker INP, Novosibirsk)

17:50 Anomalous x-ray nonlinear Compton scattering - Matthias Fuchs (Stanford PULSE Institute)
Friday, 24 August 2018

09:00 time reserved for parallel sessions or detailed discussions
time reserved for parallel sessions or detailed discussions
09:00 - 18:00
Room: Sem Rm 4