PITZ collaboration meeting

3 Dec 2013, 14:00 → 4 Dec 2013, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

seminar room 1 (DESY)

Frank Stephan

DESY am Zeuthener See

Tuesday 3 December

14:00 → 16:40 Afternoon Session 1

General Issues

14:00 General Issues - Report from the Collaboration Board Meeting

Speaker: Christian Stegmann

14:15 General Issues - Status Report from PITZ

Speaker: Frank Stephan

14:45 Activities and Laboratory Report - News from MBI

Speaker: Ingo Will

15:15 Activities and Laboratory Report - News from FLASH

Speaker: Siegfried Schreiber

15:45 Activities and Laboratory Report - News from E-XFEL

Speaker: TBD

16:15 Coffee Break

16:40 → 18:15 Afternoon Session 2

16:40 MPP:TCTR Experiments

Speaker: O. Reimann

16:55 Novel acceleration methods and SINBAD

Speaker: R. Assmann

17:15 Reports from PITZ - Current Status of the Plasma Acceleration Experiment at PITZ

Speaker: M. Gross

17:30 Report from PITZ - Plasma cell optics design

Speaker: J. Good

17:45 Report from PITZ - HiPACE Simulations for Self-modulation of the PITZ Electron beam

Speaker: G. Pathak

18:00 Report from PITZ - Performance modifications of laser windows and vacuum mirror after operation in the PITZ beam line

Speaker: T. Rublack

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Wednesday 4 December

09:00 → 11:00 Morning Session 1

09:00 Report from PITZ - Longitudinal phase space tomography studies at PITZ

Speaker: D. Malyutin

09:20 Report from PITZ - The effect of space charge along the matching and tomography section at PITZ

Speaker: G. Kourkafas

09:40 Activities and Laboratory Reports- STFC ASTeC: First run of the electron beam facility VELA

Speaker: B. Militsyn

10:00 Activities and Laboratory Reports - LAL: News from PHIL

Speaker: H. Monard

10:20 Reports from PITZ - Status of simulations for a bunch compressor at PITZ

Speaker: A. Oppelt

10:35 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:30 Morning Session 2

11:00 Activities and Laboratory Reports - TU Darmstadt: Beam Dynamics Simulations for PITZ

Speaker: E. Gjonaj

11:20 Reports from PITZ - Emittance investigations at PITZ. Summary of PhD work.

Speaker: G. Vashchenko

11:35 Reports from PITZ - Optimization of CDS booster position for the PITZ photoinjector

Speaker: M. Khojoyan

12:00 Reports from PITZ - Preliminary e-bunch simulations for a THzsource at PITZ

Speaker: B. Marchetti

12:15 Reports from PITZ - Simulation of FEL for PITZ-like THz Sources Project

Speaker: P. Boonpornprasert

12:30 Reports from PITZ - Gun conditioning

Speaker: I. Isaev

12:50 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:00 Visit of PITZ Tunnel / Dedicated Meetings

*Risk analysis of unsing a Lithium plasma cell at PITZ
* Experience on gun conditining and interlocks - future steps