Name: Gamma Factory meeting - CERN
Start: 2019-03-25T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2019-03-28T19:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Gamma Factory meeting - CERN

from Monday, 25 March 2019 (09:00) to Thursday, 28 March 2019 (19:00)

Monday, 25 March 2019
09:00 PSI beams
09:00 - 12:00
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Overview of the Gamma Factory Study initiative -Yellow report: where do we stand - Mieczyslaw Krasny (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (FR))

09:45 Acceleration and storage of ion beams at CERN. - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)

10:40 Ion sources - present status. - Richard Scrivens (CERN)

11:10 SPS and LHC vacum. - Roberto Kersevan (CERN)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 PSI beams, cont
14:00 - 15:15
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

14:00 Collimation of PSI beams. - Arkadiusz Gorzawski (University of Malta (MT))

14:25 Optimisation of the stripper foil material and thickness for GF. - Felix Kroeger

14:50 PSI operation constraints: Run 3 and Run 4. - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)
15:15 Stability aspects of PSI beams
15:15 - 15:50
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

15:15 Beam gas collisions. - Viatcheslav Shevelko

15:40 Stark effect. - Mieczyslaw Krasny (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (FR))
15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
16:20 SPS and LHC beam test results
16:20 - 17:15
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

16:20 Xe+39, Pb+80 and Pb+81 tests in SPS - Simon Hirlander (CERN)

16:40 Pb81+ tests in LHC. - Michaela Schaumann (CERN)
Tuesday, 26 March 2019

09:00 Discussion session (Room 4-S-030)

09:00 - 12:00
Room: 4/S-030

12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 Gamma Ray source
14:00 - 17:30
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

14:00 Overview of the gamma-ray sources. - Luca Serafini (INFN-Milan)

14:35 Atomic Physics aspects of the GF software. - Simon Rochester

15:10 Spatiotemporal and spectral optimisation of the Laser+F-P photon fluxes - Aurelien Martens (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:40 Gamma Factory ion beam dynamics - Alexey Petrenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))

16:30 Spatiotemporal and spectral optimisation of FEL photon fluxes. - Vittoria Petrillo
17:30 Software tools development
17:30 - 18:35
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

17:30 Overview and plans - Alexey Petrenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))

18:00 PSI driven gamma source — fundamentals. - Dimitry Budker (Mainz University)
18:35 Dinner
Dinner
18:35 - 20:35
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
09:00 Software tools development, cont.
09:00 - 12:00
Room: 40/R-C10
Contributions

09:00 Semi-Analytical calculations. - Aurelien Martens (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:25 GF-CMCC. - Camilla Curatolo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Camilla Curatolo (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

09:50 GF-Cain. - Wiesiek Placzek (Jagiellonian University)

10:45 RH code for photon-PSI collisions. - Laurie Nevay (Royal Holloway University of London)

11:05 Muon pair production Monte Carlo. - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

11:35 Discussion on the way forward in the GF software development - Alexey Petrenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 PoP expriment
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

14:00 Overall concept, stages and procedure. - Brennan Goddard (CERN)

14:40 SPS accelerator aspects. - Yann Dutheil (CERN)

15:00 Ion transition parameters and their present uncertainties. - Andrey Surzhykov

15:20 Photon flux simulations. - Camilla Curatolo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Camilla Curatolo (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

16:10 Impedance guidelines for the SPS - Aaron Farricker (CERN)

17:10 Bunch dynamic. - Alexey Petrenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))
Thursday, 28 March 2019
09:00 PoP experiment, cont.
09:00 - 13:00
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

09:00 Laser system(s) for single bunch and bunch train (cavity) “cooling proof” options. - Kevin CASSOU (LAL/CNRS) Kevin Cassou (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:40 Laser system for single bunch, “photon production” option. - Stephen Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London)

10:00 Radiation aspects. - Ruben Garcia Alia (CERN)

11:10 SPS-RF - Timing and synchronization. - Wolfgang Hofle (CERN)

11:50 Photon detection system(s) - photon production and beam cooling observation functions. - Thibaut Lefevre (CERN)

12:30 Experiment Layout and schedule - Brennan Goddard (CERN)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 15:00

15:00 SPS Visit

15:00 - 19:00

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