14th Collaboration Workshop on Longitudinal Diagnostics

29 Sept 2025, 08:30 → 1 Oct 2025, 14:30 Europe/Berlin

Building 3, Meeting Room BAH1 (DESY Campus, Hamburg)

This workshop series focuses on joint developments of longitudinal diagnostics for ultra-short THz pulses as well as electron bunches in current and future accelerators.

The program contains a few overview talks with updates on the different machines and systems, tutorial-style talks on specific topics and most of the time will be organized in working groups. 

As a registered participant you are encouraged to actively contribute to the working group(s) with the aim of exchanging ideas and planning of collaborations or joint measurements.

Morevoer, you have the opportunity to present a poster, including a 3 min speed talk. 

Monday 29 September

08:30 → 09:00 Breakfast Snack / Coffee

09:00 → 11:00 MON morning 1: Intro & Facility Overview Talks

facility / project overview talks

11:00 → 11:15 Workshop Photo

11:15 → 12:30 Working Lunch Break

12:30 → 14:00 MON afternoon

intro / /overview EuXFEL,
safety trainings
handing out visitor badges & transponders

14:30 → 19:45 XFEL Visit incl. Tour, Talks and Welcome Reception

XFEL injector tour,
transition to XFEL GmbH Campus, Schenefel (through tunnel or by public transport)

Talks,
Reception

14:30 Transition to EuXFEL Campus Schenefeld

20 min - shuttle to EuXFEL Campus
10 min - safety margin

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sum = 00:30h

15:00 Refreshments

Tea, Water, juice

15:15 Visit Experimental Hall + Photon Tunnel

sightseeing tour with a stop at the photon beam diagnostics and an experimental station.

16:15 Reception & Snacks

17:15 Evening Talk

18:30 Transition from Schenefeld to DESY Campus

either car shuttle or bus.

18:30 Walk through XFEL (from Schenefeld Campus back to DESY Campus)

9 min - check into gate
45 min - walk ( 3 km) + sightseeing
6 min - back to EG and check out through gate

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sum = 01:00h

(a bit faster if by bike)

19:00 Tour XFEL Injector

8 min - check into gate and go to UG7
20 min - tour through injector
10 min - look into XTL
6 min - back to EG and check out through gate

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sum = 00:40h

Tuesday 30 September

08:30 → 09:00 Breakfast Snack / Coffee

09:00 → 09:45 TUE morning 1 : Guest Talk

09:45 → 10:00 Coffee Refill

10:00 → 11:30 TUE morning 2: Speed Talks

working goups

11:30 → 13:00 Working Lunch Break & Poster Session

13:00 → 14:30 TUE afternoon 1: Parallel Working Groups

working groups

13:00 Working Group - A

Diagnostics in the Spectral Domain

13:00 Working Group - B

Detector Design, Fast Electronics for Detectors and Data Acquisition

13:00 Working Group - C

Diagnostics in the Time-Domain

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 16:30 TUE afternoon 2: Parallel Working Groups

talks / special topics

15:00 Working Group - A

15:00 Working Group - B

15:00 Working Group - C

16:30 → 17:30 TUE afternoon 3: Guest Talk

19:00 → 21:00 Social Get-together

meeting in a nice restaurant close to ELBE or Altona harbor (self-organized)

Wednesday 1 October

08:30 → 09:00 Breakfast Snacks & Coffee

09:00 → 09:45 WED morning 1 : Guest Talk

09:45 → 11:00 WED morning 2: Working Group Summaries

working group summaries,
discussion & plans

11:00 → 11:45 Coffee Break with Snacks

11:45 → 12:45 WED afternoon 1 : Workshop Results: Exchange on new collaboration topics and upcoming joint measurement campaigns.

Exchange on new collaboration topics and joint measurement campaigns.

12:45 → 13:15 WED summary & close-out: Workshop Summary & Plans