Gamma Factory meeting - CERN

from Monday 25 March 2019 (09:00) to Thursday 28 March 2019 (19:00)
CERN (60/6-015)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Mar 2019
26 Mar 2019
27 Mar 2019
28 Mar 2019
AM
09:00
PSI beams - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN) (until 12:00) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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)  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Ion sources - present status. - Richard Scrivens (CERN)  
11:10 SPS and LHC vacum. - Roberto Kersevan (CERN)  
09:00
Discussion session (Room 4-S-030) (until 12:00) (4/S-030)
09:00
Software tools development, cont. - Alexey Petrenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU)) (until 12:00) (40/R-C10)
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)   (40/R-C10)
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 RH code for photon-PSI collisions. - Laurie Nevay (Royal Holloway University of London)   (40/R-C10)
11:05 Muon pair production Monte Carlo. - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   (40/R-C10)
11:35 Discussion on the way forward in the GF software development - Alexey Petrenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))   (40/R-C10)
09:00
PoP experiment, cont. - Yann Dutheil (CERN) Brennan Goddard (CERN) (until 13:00)
09:00 Laser system(s) for single bunch and bunch train (cavity) “cooling proof” options. - Kevin Cassou (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Dr Kevin CASSOU (LAL/CNRS)  
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)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
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)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
PSI beams, cont - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN) (until 15:15)
14:00 Collimation of PSI beams. - Dr 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 - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN) (until 15:50)
15:15 Beam gas collisions. - Viatcheslav Shevelko  
15:40 Stark effect. - Mieczyslaw Krasny (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (FR))  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
SPS and LHC beam test results - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN) (until 17:15)
16:20 Xe+39, Pb+80 and Pb+81 tests in SPS - Simon Hirlander (CERN)  
16:40 Pb81+ tests in LHC. - Michaela Schaumann (CERN)  
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Gamma Ray source - Andrey Surzhykov (until 17:30) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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))  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Spatiotemporal and spectral optimisation of FEL photon fluxes. - Vittoria Petrillo  
17:30
Software tools development - Alexey Petrenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU)) (until 18:35) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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 ---
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
PoP expriment - Brennan Goddard (CERN) Yann Dutheil (CERN) (until 18:00)
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)  
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Impedance guidelines for the SPS - Aaron Farricker (CERN)  
17:10 Bunch dynamic. - Alexey Petrenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))  
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
15:00
SPS Visit (until 19:00)