Name: Physics in Intense Fields (PIF2013)
Start: 2013-07-09T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-07-11T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Bulding 1C, DESY Hamburg

Monday 8 July 2013
Tuesday 9 July 2013

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

09:00 Workshop Introduction - Anthony Hartin (DESY)

09:05 tribute to V. Baier - Ulrik Uggerhøj (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark)

09:15 Probing of QED vacuum with superstrong laser field - Nikolay Narozhny (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI)

10:00 Spin effects in laser-induced electron-positron pair production - Carsten Mueller (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf)
10:30 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

11:00 Gamma-ray generation in strong laser field: QED cascading and laser-solid interaction in QED regime - Igor Kostyukov (Institute of Applied Physics RAS)

11:25 Birefringence, dichroism and Raman spectroscopy of the vacuum: searching minicharged particles in a high-intensity laser field - Selym Villalba-Chavez (Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich Heine Universität Dusseldorf)

11:50 Asymmetries of Azimuthal Photon Distributions in Non-Linear Compton Scattering in Ultra-Short Intense Laser Pulses - Daniel Seipt (Helmholtz-Institut Jena)

12:15 Electron-seeded pair-creation in external fields - Ben King (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: DESY Canteen
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

14:00 Nonlinear double Compton scattering in the ultrarelativistic quantum regime - Antonino Di Piazza (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

14:25 Resonances in the 2-vertex Furry picture processes and their potential experimental verification - Anthony Hartin (DESY)

14:50 Analytical Solutions of the Dirac and the Klein-Gordon Equations in Plasma Induced by High Intensity Laser - Erez Raicher (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

15:10 Fermion production in inhomogeneous electric fields - Florian Hebenstreit (Heidelberg University)
15:30 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
16:00
16:00 - 16:45
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

16:00 Ionic and nuclear quantum dynamics in intense low and high-frequency light fields - Christoph H. Keitel (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK))
16:50

16:50 - 16:55
Room: Desy Auditorium steps
17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

17:00 The Search for the Schwinger Effect: Non-perturbative Pair Production from Vacuum - Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut)
18:30

18:30 - 22:00
Room: Canteen extension
Wednesday 10 July 2013
09:00
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

09:00 Workshop Greeting
09:10
09:10 - 10:40
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

09:10 QCD with external magnetic fields - Falk Bruckmann (Regensburg University)

09:35 Properties of photons and hadrons in strong magnetic fields - Kazunori Itakura (KEK Theory Center, IPNS, KEK)

10:00 Particle production from expanding flux tubes - Naoto Tanji (IPhT Saclay/ KEK)

10:20 QCD in Strong Magnetic Fields - Tigran Kalaydzhyan (DESY)
10:40 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

11:00 Dynamically assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect - Ralf Schuetzhold (Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen)

11:25 The Kapitza-Dirac effect in the relativistic regime - Sven Ahrens (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

11:50 Photon emission process from a charged particle under the strong laser field - Takuya Shibata (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University)

12:10 Electron-Positron Pair Production from Multi-Photon Absorption - Christian Kohlfürst (University of Graz)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: DESY Canteen
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

14:00 Straggling in laser-electron beam collisions - John Kirk (MPI Kernphysik)

14:40 Numerical challenges in laser driven electron-positron plasma - Nina Elkina (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich)

15:00 Understanding the Dynamics of Particles in Intense Laser Fields - Christopher Harvey (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

15:20 Development of the quasi-static Particle-In-Cell code HiPACE - Timon Mehrling (DESY)
15:40 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
15:40 - 16:10
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
16:10
16:10 - 18:30
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

16:10 Strongly interacting matter: equation of state and transport properties from a gravity dual - Burkhard Kampfer (HZDR)

16:40 On the properties of the boost modes and existence of the Unruh effect - Alexander Fedotov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI)

17:10 Aspects of QED in an Intense Magnetic Field - Shang-Yung Wang (Tamkang University)

17:40 Optical probes of the quantum vacuum - Felix Karbstein
19:00

19:00 - 22:30
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Thursday 11 July 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

09:00 Present status of the conceptual design for the GEKKO-EXA laser system - Mitsuo Nakai (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

09:20 Any Light Particle Search (ALPS) - II - Babette Döbrich (DESY)

09:40 J/Ψ photo-production in Pb-Pb and p-Pb ultra-peripheral collisions with ALICE at LHC - Daniele De Gruttola (Centro Fermi Roma and Salerno INFN)

10:00 Future linear colliders: an opportunity to study strong field QED - Stefano Porto (Hamburg University)

10:20 Quantum Synchrotron Radiation Measurements using Crystals - Kristoffer Andersen (Aarhus University)
10:40 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

11:00 Radiation reaction in QED: perturbative and non-perturbative approaches. - Anton Ilderton (Chalmers Univesity)

11:20 Effect of radiation reaction on the motion of a high energy particle - Rashid Shaisultanov

11:40 Radiation reaction effects on the interaction of an electron with an intense laser pulse - Adam Noble (University of Strathclyde)

12:00 Radiation reaction directly from QED - Greger Torgrimsson (Chalmers)

12:20 Pre-acceleration from Landau-Lifshitz Series - Sen Zhang (Okayama Institute for Quantum Physics)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: DESY canteen
14:00
14:00 - 15:20
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

14:00 Relativistic plasmas and beams, and the radiative self-force - David Burton (Lancaster University & Cockcroft Institute)

14:20 Simulations of beam-driven plasma acceleration at FLASHForward - Julia Grebenyuk (DESY)

14:40 Quantum radiation reaction in laser-electron beam collisions - Tom Blackburn (Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford)

15:00 Radiation reaction force induced nonlinear mixing of Raman sidebands of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a plasma - Naveen Kumar (Max-Planck-Institute für Kernphysik)
15:20 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
15:40
15:40 - 16:30
Room: Seminar Room 4a/b
Contributions

15:40 Testing non-linear QED with Lasers - Experiments feasible now. - Matthew Zepf (Queens University)

16:25 Wrapup - Anthony Hartin (DESY)