CompactLight Complementary Use and Opportunities

8 Nov 2021, 14:00 → 9 Nov 2021, 18:20 Europe/Zurich

We are pleased to announce the workshop "CompactLight Complementary Use and Opportunities", held remotely on 8 and 9 November 2021, from 14:00 to 18:00 CET each day.

The CompactLight project gathers world-leading experts united to achieve two objectives:

1. Disseminate X-band technology as a new standard for accelerator-based facilities
    
2. Advance undulators to the next generation of compact photon sources. In addition, CompactLight aims to facilitate the development of X-ray FEL facilities across and beyond Europe by making them more affordable to build and operate.

 

Videoconference room: The Zoom video conference room link will appear in the left-hand side menu only after registration. To see the link, you need to log in with your Indico account. If you don't have one, you can create it using a CERN lightweight account: https://account.cern.ch/account/Externals

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 777431.

For any questions, email compactlight@elettra.eu.

Monday 8 November

1 Welcome and introduction

Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra Trieste)

GdA_CompactLight Complementary use WS_3.pdf

2 X-ray phase contrast CT - moving closer to clinical implementation: recent experiences and planned activities at the IMBL

Speaker: Patrick Brennan

Elettra talk, Nov 2021.pdf

Elettra talk, Nov 2021.pptx

3 Multiscale phase contrast imaging in biomedical research: the experience at Elettra - Part I

Speaker: Cristian Dullin

Multiscale phase contrast imaging in biomedical research the experience at Elettra.pdf

4 Multiscale phase contrast imaging in biomedical research: the experience at Elettra - Part II

Speaker: Giuliana Tromba (Elettra)

pres_GT.pdf

5 Potential biomedical imaging with ICS sources - prospects for dual-energy applications

Speaker: Paolo Cardarelli

Cardarelli_CompactLight_2021.pdf

6 ICS system application for semiconductors wafer inspection

Speaker: Jos de Klerk (VDL ETG)

20211108_Indico_ICSsystemApplicationforSemiconWaferInspection.pdf

16:10 Break

7 High gradient accelerators, electromagnetic undulators and Compact light sources

Speaker: Giuseppe Dattoli (ENEA, Frascati, Roma)

COMPAC LIGHT.pdf

COMPAC LIGHT.ppt

8 ICS studies at CERN

Two high-current injectors were considered for ICS use, together with a short X-band linac. The first injector is based on the CompactLight technology, while the second is based on a design from CERN. The pulse energy of a 1 kW laser was increased by using a Fabry-Pérot cavity. To perform these studies, an ICS simulation module was developed within the particle tracking code RF-Track. A benchmark of flux and brilliance calculations against CAIN was performed. Runtime comparisons proved RF-Track to be orders of magnitude faster than CAIN. Given the two setups, the ICS simulations showed MeV x-rays with flux values in the order of 10^12 to 10^13 photons/sec. The resulting high intensity and high energy x-rays allow for various applications, including cancer therapy, tomography, and nuclear waste management.

Speaker: Vlad Musat (University Politehnica of Bucharest (RO))

ICS_studies_at_CERN_CompactLight_workshop.pdf

9 Optical cavities for ICS

Speaker: Aurelien Martens (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

CompactLight_WS2021.pdf

CompactLight_WS2021.pptx

10 Burst mode high-power ps pulses at GHz repetition rates

The aim of kW-flexiburst is to develop a high-power Ultra-short Pulse (USP) laser generating bursts that can be arbitrarily adjusted in terms of burst repetition rate, intra-burst repetition rate, number of pulses per burst, relative intensities in the burst while maintaining a 1 kW average power. This will be enabled by a radically new concept of seed oscillator, which offers the opportunity to work at GHz repetition rates.

Speaker: Eric Cormier (Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences (LP2N) )

Gigapico_Compact_Light.pdf

Tuesday 9 November

11 The Munich Compact Light Source

Speaker: Martin Dierolf (Technische Universität München)

2021_11_09_dierolf_CompactLight_workshop.pdf

12 The ThomX project status

Speaker: Hugues Monard

ThomX_status_HMonard-21_11_08.pdf

13 The STAR Infrastructure

Speaker: Raffaele Agostino

Agostino_STAR2_nov21_CompactLight_Compl_Use&Opp.pdf

14 Towards Ångström Laser @ FREIA

Speaker: Vitaliy Goryashko (Uppsala University)

Angstrom_Laser_FREIA.pdf

15 Very Compact Inverse Compton Scattering Gamma-ray Source at Tsinghua University

Speaker: Jiaru Shi

202111 VIGAS at Tsinghua University.pdf

202111 VIGAS at Tsinghua University.pptx

16:05 Break

16 BoCXS: An ICS-Based Multipurpose Compact X-ray Source

Speaker: Massimo Placidi

CmpctLght_21_fin.pdf

CmpctLght_21_fin.pptx

17 Smart*Light: a compact hard X-ray ICS source based on X-band acceleration

Speaker: Otger Jan Luiten

XLS complementary use-SmartLight 20210911.pdf

18 EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB: An X-band linac as driver for plasma acceleration

Speaker: Massimo Ferrario

XLS_EuPRAXIA_2021_compressed.pdf

19 The CHUV-CERN collaboration on a high-energy electron FLASH therapy facility

A very hot topic in radiation oncology is so-called FLASH therapy which involves delivering an entire radiation treatment in a few hundred ms, or less. This fast delivery can reduce toxicity to healthy tissue while maintaining tumor control expanding the parameter space for treatment. The effect has been observed in experiments and clinical translation is now underway. As part of this effort, Lausanne Hospital (CHUV) and CERN have formed a collaboration to design and build a clinical FLASH-capable facility for treatment of large, deep-seated tumors using high-energy, 100 MeV-range, electrons accelerated with electron linac technology developed by the CLIC linear collider study.

Speaker: Walter Wuensch (CERN)

CERN CHUV FLASH.pptx

20 Development of C-band electron linacs for FLASH-RT at La Sapienza University & INFN

Speaker: Luigi Palumbo (Università di Roma La Sapienza)

PALUMBO - WORKSHOP COMPACTLIGHT.pdf