FLASHForward Collaboration and SAC Meeting

4 Dec 2018, 08:00 → 6 Dec 2018, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

CSSB auditorium (DESY)

Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC): Stefan Karsch (Chair) Erik Adli Brigitte Cros Philippe Piot Mitsuhiro Yoshida

DESY Campus plan - how to get to the CSSB auditorium http://campus.desy.de/location/Hamburg/15

Tuesday, 4 December

09:00 → 12:30 Facility Tours

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch, DESY Canteen

13:00 → 13:30 SAC: Closed session

13:30 → 15:05 FLASHForward: Facility overview

Convener: Dr Richard D'Arcy (DESY)

13:30 Introduction and Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Brian Foster

Slides FF_Collab_1218.pptx

13:40 Facility Overview - FLASHForward

Speaker: Dr Jens Osterhoff

Slides Intro.pdf

13:56 Facility Overview - Electron beamline

Speaker: Dr Stephan Wesch

Slides FfwdCollaborationMeeting2019_electronBeamline_talk.pdf

14:19 Facility Overview - Laser and BOND laboratories

Speaker: Dr Kris Põder

Slides KP_FFWD_coll_talk.pdf

14:42 Facility Overview - Plasma sources and diff. pumping

Speaker: Dr Lucas Schaper

Slides FFWD_Plasma_Infrastructure.pdf

15:05 → 15:20 Coffee Break & Registration

15:20 → 17:00 FLASHForward: Experimentation presentations

Convener: Dr Mark Hogan (SLAC)

15:20 Pulsed Dipole

Speaker: Dr Stephan Wesch

Slides 1-Stephan.pdf

15:40 Beamline extension and X-band TDS

Speaker: Mr Pau Gonzalez

Slides 2-Pau.pdf

16:00 PolariX capabilities and plans

Speaker: Dr Barbara Marchetti

Slides 3-Barbara.pdf

16:20 Plasma source characterisation

Speaker: Dr Matthew Garland

Slides 4-Jimmy.pdf

16:40 Ionisation-based techniques for micron cube particle beam characterisation

Speaker: Dr Roxana Tarkeshian

17:00 → 18:00 SAC: Closed session

Wednesday, 5 December

09:00 → 09:30 SAC: Closed session

09:30 → 11:00 FLASHForward: Ongoing Research Programme

Convener: Prof. Bernhard Schmidt (DESY)

09:30 Experimental overview

Speaker: Dr Richard D'Arcy

Slides overview.pdf

09:40 P-8: Active plasma lenses

Speaker: Dr Lucas Schaper

Slides APL_1.pdf

09:55 P-8: MHD simulations

Speaker: Dr Gregory Boyle

Slides APL_2.pptx

10:10 P-8: Adiabatic transition plasma lenses

Speaker: Mr Martin Meisel

Slides Adiabatic_Plasmalens.pdf

10:25 Thomson scattering theory

Speaker: Dr Theresa Brümmer

Slides Bruemmer_FFConferenceTalk2018_.pdf

10:40 Thomson scattering experimentation

Speaker: Mr Simon Bohlen

Slides FFCollab_TS_Experimental_SImonBohlen.pdf

11:00 → 11:15 Coffee Break & Registration

11:15 → 12:45 FLASHForward: Ongoing Research Programme

Convener: Prof. Matthew Wing (UCL)

11:15 X-1: Plasma cathode

Speaker: Dr Alexander Knetsch

Slides X-1.pdf

11:38 X-2: Plasma booster

Speaker: Dr Vladyslav Libov

Slides X-2.pdf

12:01 X-11: Hosing characterisation and mitigation

Speaker: Dr Alberto Martinez de la Ossa

Slides X-11.pdf

12:19 X-12: MHz PWFA

Speaker: Dr Richard D'Arcy

Slides X-12.pdf

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

12:45 → 13:45 SAC: Closed session (lunch provided)

13:45 → 14:45 FLASHForward: Ongoing Research Programme

Convener: Prof. Brian Foster (Oxford, UHH)

13:45 X-13: Longitudinal phase space manipulation in plasma

Speaker: Dr Richard D'Arcy

Slides X-13.pdf

14:03 P-3: Betatron radiation

Speaker: Mr Elias Gerstmayr

Slides betatronFF_Gerstmayr.pdf

14:21 P-4: Transverse laser probe

Speaker: Dr Alexander Sävert

Slides TransversLaserProbing_X3.pdf

14:45 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 17:00 New proposal presentations

Convener: Dr Jens Osterhoff (DESY)

15:00 ICARUS

Speaker: Mr Thomas Heinemann

Slides FFWD_ICARUS_THeinemann201801205.ppsx

15:17 Plasma-photonic electron beam metrology at FLASHForward

Speaker: Prof. Bernhard Hidding

Slides hidding.pptx

15:34 Energy chirp compensation in a single plasma stage

Speaker: Mr Fahim Habib

Slides 2018-12-05-FLASHForward-SAC-SingleStagePlasmaDechirper-Habib-vfinal.ppsx

15:51 Tunable betatron oscillations from plasma photocathodes

Speaker: Mr Daniel Ullmann

Slides ullmann.pptx

16:08 Ultrafast imaging towards a two-stage plasma insertion device

Speaker: Mr Robin Wang

Slides ultrafast-imaging-two.pdf

16:25 Experimental studies of a plasma beam dump at FLASHForward

Speaker: Dr Guoxing Xia

Slides Plasma_beam_dump_experiment_at_FF.pptx

16:42 Demonstration of incoherent and coherent plasma undulator sources

Speaker: Prof. Dino Jaroszynski

17:00 → 19:00 SAC: Closed session

18:00 → 22:00 St. Nikolaus Market Dinner

Thursday, 6 December

09:00 → 09:30 SAC: Closed session

09:30 → 11:00 Collaboration organisation round table discussion

Convener: Prof. Brian Foster

09:30 → 11:00 SAC: Q&A session (invite only)

11:00 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:30 New proposal presentations: Specialist discussions: LWFA

Convener: Dr Jens Osterhoff (DESY)

11:15 → 12:30 New proposal presentations: Specialist discussions: X-1

Convener: Dr Alexander Knetsch

11:15 → 12:30 SAC: Closed session/Presentation prep.

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

12:30 → 13:30 SAC: Closed session (lunch provided)

13:30 → 15:00 SAC: Review

15:00 → 15:15 FLASHForward: Wrap up

Convener: Prof. Brian Foster