LUXE Steering Board #13

Wednesday 26 Nov 2025, 11:00 → 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Federico Meloni (DESY), Jenny List (DESY), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.))

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11:00 → 11:20 Introduction, news and items for discussion

Speakers: Federico Meloni (DESY), Jenny List (DESY), Matthew Wing (UCL), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.))

• Meeting with new FH direction Ulrich Husemann
• Plan to update LUXE TDR studies with new location
• Interest in Calorimetry from Humboldt University in Berlin (C. Issever)
• ELBEX Coordination meeting with XFEL - their fusion call is out and they are now rapidly producing a CDR until end of January so in good timing with ours.
• From Elbex side we are working on our CDR and want a first draft by end of year
• Tomorrow is the PAB for ELBEX
• Jenny was awarded Synergy grant for NP-QED (congrats!) - synergies and interplay between projects to be understood

11:20 → 11:30 Status of ELBEX

Speakers: Louis Helary (DESY - ALPS), Ruth Magdalena Jacobs (FHR (Bereichsreferent FH))

11:30 → 11:40 Laser status

Speakers: Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institut Jena), Matt Zepf (Eur.UPEX)

11:40 → 11:50 Theory and simulation status

Speakers: Ben King (University of Plymouth), Ben King (None), Thomas Blackburn (None), Tom Blackburn (University of Gothenburg), Tom Blackburn (University of Gothenburg)

11:50 → 12:00 Software & analysis status

Speakers: Daniel Seipt (Helmholtz Institut Jena), Daniel Seipt (None), Noam Tal Hod (Weizmann Institute of Science), Oleksandr Borysov (DESY)

12:00 → 12:10 Electron detection system status

Speakers: Ivo Schulthess (ETH Zurich), Ruth Magdalena Jacobs (FHR (Bereichsreferent FH))

• EDS @ E320 paper is progressing
• First simulations of coherent bremsstrahlung for gamma-laser mode (collaboration with INFN Ferrara)

12:10 → 12:20 Positron detection system status

Speakers: Halina Abramowicz (FTX (FTX Fachgruppe AST)), Oleksandr Borysov (DESY)

12:20 → 12:30 Photon detection system

Speakers: Prof. Gianluca Sarri (None), Gianluca Sarri (Queen's University Belfast), Ivo Schulthess (ETH Zurich), Marco Bruschi (INFN and University of Bologna)

12:30 → 12:40 Computing & DAQ status

Speakers: Federico Meloni (DESY), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.)), Matthew Wing (UCL)

- Work on consolidation of software repositories continuing: ECALe dd4hep model (from Shan & co) being integrated

12:40 → 13:00 Discussion