Name: International Workshop on Breakdown Science and High Gradient Technology (HG2021)
Start: 2021-04-19T06:45:00-07:00
End: 2021-04-21T18:00:00-07:00
Location: No location set

International Workshop on Breakdown Science and High Gradient Technology (HG2021)

from Monday, 19 April 2021 (06:45) to Wednesday, 21 April 2021 (18:00)

Monday, 19 April 2021
06:50 Welcome - Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Welcome
- Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
06:50 - 07:00
07:00 Facility Update
Facility Update
07:00 - 16:00
Contributions

07:00 UCLA High Gradient Cryogenic RF Research Program - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

07:30 Design and high-power test of a short prototype of high gradient S-band accelerating structure for the FERMI free electron laser linac upgrade - Nuaman Shafqat

08:00 Update on CERN X-band activities - Nuria Catalan Lasheras (CERN)

08:30 The CompactLight Design Study - Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)

09:00 The EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB X band LINAC - David Alesini (INFN)

09:45 CERF-NM: The C-band Engineering Research Facility in New Mexico - John Lewellen (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:15 Gyrotron-based High Gradient THz Accelerator Test Facility - Sudheer Jawla (MIT)

10:45 RF activities concerning S-band high-gradient applications at PSI - Riccardo Zennaro (PSI)

11:15 Smart*Light: Current Activities and Future Concepts - Thomas Lucas

11:45 High Gradient Research Activities at AWA - John Power (Argonne National Lab)

12:30 Update on High Gradient Research at SLAC - Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Sami Tantawi (SLAC)

13:00 High Gradient Research at KEK / Nextef - Tetsuo Abe

13:30 Updates from Tsinghua X-band High power Test Stand (TPOT) - Jiaru Shi

14:00 High Gradient Research Activities at SSRF/SARI - Wencheng Fang

14:30 Overview of High Gradient Research Activities at IHEP - Jingru Zhang
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
07:00 HG Structure: Design & Tests
HG Structure: Design & Tests
07:00 - 12:45
Contributions

07:00 Design consideration and R&D towards high gradient RFQs - Alexej Grudiev (CERN)

07:30 Development of brazeless accelerating cavities - Chunguang Jing (Euclid Techlabs)

08:00 Welded Cavities - Luigi Faillace (INFN/LNF)

08:30 A Ka-Band accelerating structure as a linearizer for the Compact Light XLS project - Bruno Spataro (INFN/LNF)

09:00 High Gradient S-Band experiments at IFIC - Nuria Fuster (IFIC)

09:45 Development and high power testing of C-band accelerator components - Evgenya Simakov (LANL)

10:15 Design, fabrication and cold-testing of DLA structures - Yelong Wei

10:45 High power test of mm-wave accelerators - Mohamed Othman (SLAC)

11:15 C-band high gradient cryogenic photoinjector research at UCLA - Atsushi Fukasawa (UCLA)

11:45 High gradient, short filling-time parallel-coupled structure - Hao Zha (Tsinghua)

12:15 Development of an X-band Field Emission RF Gun at Tsinghua University - Liuyuan Zhou (Tsinghua)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 13:15
13:15 Industry
Industry
13:15 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 High gradient hadron linacs R&D for medical applications - Sergey Kutsaev

13:45 High Efficiency, Low Cost, RF Sources for Accelerators and Colliders - R. Lawrence Ives (Calabazas Creek Research, Inc.)

14:00 Accelerator-driven radiotherapy methods - Jim Lewandowski

14:15 High does rate linacs for FlashRT - Arun Ganguly

14:30 Dielectric Based Compact Accelerator for Industrial Applications - Alexei Kanareykin

14:45 Sources for high gradient accelerators - Mikael Lindholm (ScandiNova Systems)
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
07:00 Theory & Materials
Theory & Materials
07:00 - 11:30
Contributions

07:00 Atomistic approach in understanding of mechanisms leading to vacuum arcing - Flyura Djurabekova (University of Helsinki)

07:30 Model and observations linking plastic activity to arc nucleation - Yinon Ashkenazy (Racah Institute of Physics- Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

08:00 Atomistic modeling of the coupling between electric fields and bulk plastic deformation in RF structures - Danny Perez (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:30 Ab initio alloy design for C-band accelerators - Gaoxue Wang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:30 Developing Field Emission Models Employing Nanoscale Surface Characterization - Matthew Hopkins (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:00 Diamond at High Gradients - Sergey Baryshev (Michigan State University)

10:30 Local power coupling as a predictor of high-gradient breakdown performance - Jan Paszkiewicz (CERN)

11:00 Multi-scale multi-physics simulations of vacuum breakdown phenomena - Andreas Kyritsakis (University of Tartu)
11:30 Snowmass Discussion
Snowmass Discussion
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 RF Sources and Pulsed Power
RF Sources and Pulsed Power
12:30 - 15:00
Contributions

12:30 Development of X-band High Power High Efficiency Klystron - Jinchi Cai (CERN)

13:00 A 3MW, 36GHz gyro-klystron for driving a harmonic lineariser for an X-ray FEL - Adrian Cross (University of Strathclyde)

13:30 The LANL C-Band Engineering Research Facility (CERF-NM) Test Stand Installation, Operation and Initial Conditioning. - Mark Middendorf (LANL)

14:00 Development of Compact, Low-Voltage RF Power System Prototypes at SLAC - Brandon Weatherford

14:30 Generation of 510 MW of power at X-Band using a metamaterial structure at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility - Julian Picard (MIT)