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

Facility Tours

12:30 Lunch, DESY Canteen

SAC: Closed session

FLASHForward: Facility overview

Convener: Dr Richard D'Arcy (DESY)

1 Introduction and Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Brian Foster

Slides FF_Collab_1218.pptx

2 Facility Overview - FLASHForward

Speaker: Dr Jens Osterhoff

Slides Intro.pdf

3 Facility Overview - Electron beamline

Speaker: Dr Stephan Wesch

Slides FfwdCollaborationMeeting2019_electronBeamline_talk.pdf

4 Facility Overview - Laser and BOND laboratories

Speaker: Dr Kris Põder

Slides KP_FFWD_coll_talk.pdf

5 Facility Overview - Plasma sources and diff. pumping

Speaker: Dr Lucas Schaper

Slides FFWD_Plasma_Infrastructure.pdf

15:05 Coffee Break & Registration

FLASHForward: Experimentation presentations

Convener: Dr Mark Hogan (SLAC)

6 Pulsed Dipole

Speaker: Dr Stephan Wesch

Slides 1-Stephan.pdf

7 Beamline extension and X-band TDS

Speaker: Mr Pau Gonzalez

Slides 2-Pau.pdf

8 PolariX capabilities and plans

Speaker: Dr Barbara Marchetti

Slides 3-Barbara.pdf

9 Plasma source characterisation

Speaker: Dr Matthew Garland

Slides 4-Jimmy.pdf

10 Ionisation-based techniques for micron cube particle beam characterisation

Speaker: Dr Roxana Tarkeshian

SAC: Closed session

Wednesday, 5 December

SAC: Closed session

FLASHForward: Ongoing Research Programme

Convener: Prof. Bernhard Schmidt (DESY)

11 Experimental overview

Speaker: Dr Richard D'Arcy

Slides overview.pdf

12 P-8: Active plasma lenses

Speaker: Dr Lucas Schaper

Slides APL_1.pdf

13 P-8: MHD simulations

Speaker: Dr Gregory Boyle

Slides APL_2.pptx

14 P-8: Adiabatic transition plasma lenses

Speaker: Mr Martin Meisel

Slides Adiabatic_Plasmalens.pdf

15 Thomson scattering theory

Speaker: Dr Theresa Brümmer

Slides Bruemmer_FFConferenceTalk2018_.pdf

16 Thomson scattering experimentation

Speaker: Mr Simon Bohlen

Slides FFCollab_TS_Experimental_SImonBohlen.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break & Registration

FLASHForward: Ongoing Research Programme

Convener: Prof. Matthew Wing (UCL)

17 X-1: Plasma cathode

Speaker: Dr Alexander Knetsch

Slides X-1.pdf

18 X-2: Plasma booster

Speaker: Dr Vladyslav Libov

Slides X-2.pdf

19 X-11: Hosing characterisation and mitigation

Speaker: Dr Alberto Martinez de la Ossa

Slides X-11.pdf

20 X-12: MHz PWFA

Speaker: Dr Richard D'Arcy

Slides X-12.pdf

12:45 Lunch

SAC: Closed session (lunch provided)

FLASHForward: Ongoing Research Programme

Convener: Prof. Brian Foster (Oxford, UHH)

21 X-13: Longitudinal phase space manipulation in plasma

Speaker: Dr Richard D'Arcy

Slides X-13.pdf

22 P-3: Betatron radiation

Speaker: Mr Elias Gerstmayr

Slides betatronFF_Gerstmayr.pdf

23 P-4: Transverse laser probe

Speaker: Dr Alexander Sävert

Slides TransversLaserProbing_X3.pdf

14:45 Coffee Break

New proposal presentations

Convener: Dr Jens Osterhoff (DESY)

24 ICARUS

Speaker: Mr Thomas Heinemann

Slides FFWD_ICARUS_THeinemann201801205.ppsx

25 Plasma-photonic electron beam metrology at FLASHForward

Speaker: Prof. Bernhard Hidding

Slides hidding.pptx

26 Energy chirp compensation in a single plasma stage

Speaker: Mr Fahim Habib

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

27 Tunable betatron oscillations from plasma photocathodes

Speaker: Mr Daniel Ullmann

Slides ullmann.pptx

28 Ultrafast imaging towards a two-stage plasma insertion device

Speaker: Mr Robin Wang

Slides ultrafast-imaging-two.pdf

29 Experimental studies of a plasma beam dump at FLASHForward

Speaker: Dr Guoxing Xia

Slides Plasma_beam_dump_experiment_at_FF.pptx

30 Demonstration of incoherent and coherent plasma undulator sources

Speaker: Prof. Dino Jaroszynski

SAC: Closed session

St. Nikolaus Market Dinner

Thursday, 6 December

SAC: Closed session

Collaboration organisation round table discussion

Convener: Prof. Brian Foster

SAC: Q&A session (invite only)

11:00 Coffee Break

New proposal presentations: Specialist discussions: LWFA

Convener: Dr Jens Osterhoff (DESY)

New proposal presentations: Specialist discussions: X-1

Convener: Dr Alexander Knetsch

SAC: Closed session/Presentation prep.

12:30 Lunch Break

SAC: Closed session (lunch provided)

SAC: Review

FLASHForward: Wrap up

Convener: Prof. Brian Foster