Laser Applications at Accelerators Conference 2015

from Wednesday 25 March 2015 (08:30) to Friday 27 March 2015 (14:30)
Son Caliu Hotel

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Mar 2015
26 Mar 2015
27 Mar 2015
AM
09:00 Welcome / Admin & Logistics - Rob Ashworth (University of Liverpool)   ()
09:10 Lasers and Accelerators as Drivers for Innovation - Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)   ()
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09:30 Session 1. Particle Beam Generation: Laser Ion Sources - Rafael Ferrer (KU Leuven)   ()
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10:00 Optimal ionization schemes for the dual dye - Ti:Sa laser system of RILIS at ISOLDE - Thomas Day Goodacre (CERN)   ()
10:15 An ultra-cold electron source from an alternating current Magneto-Optical Trap (AC-MOT) - Michael Jones (THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)   ()
10:30 Integration of RILIS @ SPIRAL2 TISS - Jose Luis Henares (GANIL)   ()
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10:45 Development of the Ti:Sa laser system for REGLIS - Lara Hijazi (GANIL)   ()
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Photo Injectors - Lee Jones (ASTeC - STFC)   ()
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09:15 Session 3. Electron acceleration - Alexander Pukhov (University of Dusseldorf)   ()
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09:45 Targetry for Laser Wakefield Acceleration - Jurjen Couperus   ()
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10:00 The Status of the Southern Europe Thomson Source for Applied Research - Dennis Palmer (INFN-Milano)   ()
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10:15 Diagnostic Tools for Plasma-Electron Accelerators - Malte Kaluza (University of Jena)   ()
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10:45 Femtosecond X-ray sources from laser-driven electron accelerators - Andreas Döpp (Centro de Laseres Pulsados)   ()
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Session 4. Industry applications: Applications at the Interface between Lasers and Accelerators - Dr François Sylla (SourceLAB)   ()
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09:30 Diagnostics at Free Electron Lasers - Gero Kube (DESY)   ()
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10:00 Measurement of the longitudinal bunch shape with electro-optical techniques in an electron accelerator - Andrii Borysenko (KIT)   ()
10:15 EO bunch time profile monitor for CLIC - Mateusz A. Tyrk (University of Dundee)   ()
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10:30 Summary of SiPM studies and overview of applicability for Beam Loss Monitoring systems - Eduardo Nebot Del Busto (University of Liverpool (GB))   ()
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10:45 Accelerator Timing Monitor with Femtosecond Precision - Rui Pan (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))   ()
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Development of a laserwire emittance scanner for CERN‘s LINAC4 - Thomas Hofmann (CERN)   ()
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11:45 The new design of the THz streak camera at PSI - Ishkhan Gorgisyan (PSI)   ()
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PM
12:00 Photo cathodes sensitive to visible laser beams for photoinjector applications - Irene Martini (CERN)   ()
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12:15 Study of laser shaping using Digital Micro-mirror-array device - Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool)   ()
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12:30 High brightness SRF photo injector at ELBE - Pengnan Lu (HZDR)   ()
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12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Laser control and distributed data acquisition for ‘in-source’ laser spectroscopy at CERN-ISOLDE - Ralf Rossel (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))   ()
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14:45 Photocathodes for high-brightness photoinjectors - Rong Xiang (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) Jochen Teichert (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)   ()
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15:00 First results on Ge resonant laser photoionization in hollow cathode lamp - Emilio Mariotti (Università di Siena – DSFTA)   ()
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15:15 Developments towards Doppler-free in-source laser spectroscopy at ISOLDE RILIS - Matthieu Veinhard (CERN)   ()
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15:30 Session 2. Laser-based ion acceleration - Jörg Schreiber (LMU)   ()
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Investigations into laser-driven ion acceleration with ultrathin targets - Luca Christopher Stockhausen (C)   ()
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16:45 Dielectric Laser Acceleration - Peter Hommelhoff (U)   ()
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17:15 Numerical optimization on dielectric laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a grating-based microstructure - Yelong Wei (University of Liverpool)   ()
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17:30
Discussion Session -Prof. Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool) (until 17:45) ()
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00 Developing the current experimental research into laser acceleration to a pre-commercial level - Jakob Matthias Krämer (Danfysik)   ()
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12:15 Novel laser-engineered surface structures (LESS) for electron cloud mitigation in accelerators - Allan Gillespie (Unversity of Dundee, Scotland, UK)   ()
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12:30 Computer-based modelling and experimental optimization of power supplies - Kamil Nowacki (FOTON)   ()
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12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Poster Session / Steering Committee meeting (until 16:00) ()
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Neutron production from 2 stage nuclear reactions driven by TW laser-target interactions - Stanimir Kisyov (IFIN-HH)   ()
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16:45 Seminar: The Extreme Light Infrastructure - Sydney Gales (ELI)   ()
20:00 --- Banquet ---
12:00 Velocity measurements usuing self-mixing technique in laser diodes - Alexandra Alexandrova (University of Liverpool/Cockroft Institute)   ()
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12:15 Precision determination of electron beam energy with Compton backscattered laser photons at ANKA - Cheng Chang (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))   ()
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12:30 Summary & Conclusion - Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)   ()
12:45 --- Lunch ---