Name: AAC24 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Start: 2024-07-21T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-26T19:30:00-05:00
Location: NIU Naperville Conference Center

AAC24 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop

from Sunday, 21 July 2024 (08:00) to Friday, 26 July 2024 (19:30)

Monday, 15 July 2024
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Thursday, 18 July 2024
Friday, 19 July 2024
Saturday, 20 July 2024
Sunday, 21 July 2024

15:00 Workshop registration
Workshop registration
15:00 - 18:30
Room: Atrium

18:00 Sunday reception
Sunday reception
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Atrium

Monday, 22 July 2024

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 08:45
08:45 Welcome & logistics [BALLROOM] - John Power (Argonne National Lab)
Welcome & logistics [BALLROOM]
- John Power (Argonne National Lab)
08:45 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary 1
Plenary 1
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The 10 TeV Wakefield Accelerator Collider Design Study [BALLROOM] - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

09:30 Advanced Accelerator Concepts and the 2023 P5 Report [BALLROOM] - Cameron Geddes (LBNL)

10:00 Status and Outlook of Advanced Accelerator Concepts Research in Europe [BALLROOM] - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary 2
Plenary 2
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Low divergence and high charge multi-GeV acceleration of electrons with a < 300 TW laser [BALLROOM] - Ela Rockafellow (University of Maryland)

11:30 Multi-GeV monoenergetic electron beams from an optical shock front accelerator [BALLROOM] - Stefan Karsch (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany)

12:00 High-energy electron beams in optically-formed plasma channels [BALLROOM] - Alex Picksley (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Programmable-trajectory ultrafast flying focus pulses - Manfred Virgil Ambat (University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

13:50 Compact collinear staging of laser wakefield acceleration - Jacob Pierce (UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy)

14:10 QED effects in future TeV class laser wakefield accelerators - Qian Qian (University of Michigan)

14:30 Short Wavelength Drivers of Laser Plasma Acceleration and Strong Field QED - Daniel Gordon (Naval Research Laboratory)

14:50 Gauge Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Variational Formulation of Macro-Particle Plasma Models - Brad Shadwick

15:10 Extreme manifestations of phase- and polarization-dependent electron in the ultra-relativistic regime of LWFA - Ji Hoon Kim (Cornell University)
13:30 - 16:10
Room: room 266
Contributions

13:30 High-repetition rate laser proton acceleration and plasma benchmark experiments using cryogenic hydrogen jets - Martin Rehwald (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

13:50 Characterizing Laser Transmission in the Relativistically Induced Transparency Regime for PW Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration - Marvin E. P. Umlandt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

14:10 Laser Channeling and Electron Filamentation in Near-Critical Density Plasma - Igor Pogorelsky (BNL)

14:30 Dephasing of ion beams as the Magnetic Vortex Acceleration regime transitions into a bubble-like field structure - Stepan Bulanov (LBNL)

14:50 Enhanced Target Normal Sheath Acceleration of heavy ions using nanostructured targets - Roopendra Singh Rajawat (Cornell University)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: room 265
Contributions

13:30 Lifetime of beam-driven wakes at FACET-II - Jason Brooks

13:50 Transverse plasma density redistribution in discharge capillaries for plasma acceleration - Advait Kanekar (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

14:10 Positron Acceleration in a Narrow Plasma Column: Concept and Initial Results of Electron Beam Guidance - Valentina Lee (University of Colorado Boulder)

14:30 Measuring the beam-breakup instability in beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators - Ole Gunnar Finnerud (University of Oslo)

14:50 Experimental Progress of Passive Plasma Lens at FACET-II - Michael Litos (University of Colorado Boulder)

15:10 WG3 Discussion 1
13:30 - 15:30
Room: room 167
Contributions

13:30 A 180 GHz Corrugated Waveguide-Based Colinear Wakefield Accelerator - Alexander Zholents (ANL)

13:45 Status and plan for beam-driven THz wakefield structure - Seong Hee Park (Korea University Sejong campus)

14:00 Skew-Quadrupole-Like Transverse Wakefields in a Planar Dielectric Structure Driven by a Tilted Flat Beam - Walter Lynn (UCLA)

14:15 Start-to-End simulation of THz-wakefield acceleration in dielectric-lined waveguides with multiple-bunch excitation - Cassandra Phillips (Northern Illinois University)

14:30 Efficient modeling of structure-based wakefield accelerators via separated representations - Nathan Cook (RadiaSoft)

14:45 Comparative Analysis of Electron Acceleration by Laser Pulse in Flat and Grating Dielectric Structures - Gennadiy Sotnikov (NSC KIPT)

15:00 Exploring Dark Matter with Dielectric Laser Acceleration - Raziyeh Dadashi Motlagh
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Development of 100mJ coherently combined CPSA fiber laser laboratory demonstrator for driving particle acceleration and secondary radiation experiments - Christopher Pasquale (Graduate Student)

16:20 Optimization of a hollow-core fiber based nonlinear pulse compressor for laser wakefield acceleration experiments - Hao Ding (Lawrence Berkeley National Laborratory)

16:40 Development of High Peak and Average Power Tm:YLF Lasers - Leily Kiani (LLNL)

17:00 Thermal lensing in Ti:Sa amplifiers – a browser-based GUI and future directions - David Bruhwiler (RadiaSoft LLC)

17:20 Loss-free shaping of few-cycle terawatt pulses at 1 kHz for laser wakefield acceleration - Manh Le (University of Maryland)

17:40 Enabling Technologies for Next-Generation M/L-WIR Lasers - Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: room 265
Contributions

16:00 Demonstration of proton bunch self-modulation in a discharge plasma source - Carolina Amoedo

16:25 Filamentation of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma - Livio Verra (INFN/Frascati National Laboratory)

16:50 Acceleration and Focusing Electron/Positron Bunches in Plasma-Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator - Gennadiy Sotnikov (NSC KIPT)

17:15 Flat beam plasma wakefield experiment at the AWA facility - Pratik Manwani (University of California, Los Angeles)

17:40 WG3 Discussion 2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: room 260
Contributions

16:00 Modeling, Growth, and Characterization of Advanced Photocathode Materials at Northern Illinois University - Oksana Chubenko (Northern Illinois University)

16:24 Development of a High-Field X-band Photoemission RF Gun Powered by Short RF Pulses - Gongxiaohui Chen

16:48 A high-intensity laser-based positron source - Stepan Bulanov (LBNL)

17:12 Production and detection of muons using electron beams from a Laser Plasma Accelerator - Davide Terzani (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:36 Coherent synchrotron radiation simulation methods using cavity Green's functions - Omkar Ramachandran (Argonne National Laboratory)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: room 261
Contributions

16:00 A high-power and tunable narrowband THz radiator design - Tinglian Zhang (Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI))

16:20 Dephasingless two-color terahertz generation - John Palastro (Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

16:40 Creation of a THz Smith-Purcell Radiation Source using a LWFA Electron Bunch - Ross Rudzinsky (The University of Texas at Austin)

17:00 High-power terahertz emission from laser wakefield acceleration - KI YONG KIM (University of Maryland)

17:20 Cyclotron resonance accelerators for industrial applications - Yong Jiang (Omega-P R&D, Inc.)

17:40 Commissioning of a photocathode and interaction laser system at RadiaBeam compact Inverse Compton Light Source - Loic Amoudry
18:00 Poster Session 1
Poster Session 1
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 Stabilizing numerical electrostatic PIC instabilities for channel expansion simulations - Luke Adams (University of Colorado Boulder)

18:00 Recent developments of a laser-driven ion acceleration beamline at SIOM - Jianhui Bin (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

18:00 Beam position monitor for high intensity environments - Loic Amoudry

18:00 Lifetime of beam-driven wakes at FACET-II (student) - Jason Brooks

18:00 Breakdown insensitive acceleration regime in a metamaterial accelerating structure (student) - Dillon Merenich (Northern Illinois University)

18:00 On-line Source Characterization of Betatron Radiation using a Deep Learning Based X-ray spectrometer - Nicholas Beier (University of Alberta)

18:00 QPAD: Highly efficient quasi-static particle-in-cell algorithm based on azimuthal decomposition - Fei Li (Tsinghua University)

18:00 Recent progress on GPU enabled OSIRIS - Roman Lee (UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy)

18:00 Inter-stage coupling of plasma accelerators - Sarah Schroeder (LBNL)

18:00 Experimental design for coherent synchrotron radiation with shielding - Omkar Ramachandran (Argonne National Laboratory)

18:00 Progress Towards Measurement of Shaped Electron Bunch at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator using Phase Diversity Electro-Optic Sampling - Spencer Kelham (Northern Illinois University)

18:00 Electro-optic sampling based electron beam measurements - Maximilian Lenz (UCLA Physics)

18:00 Manipulating Transverse Wakefields With an Alternating Gradient Dielectric Structure - Walter Lynn (UCLA)

18:00 Status of electron acceleration experiments at the BELLA center - Josh Stackhouse

18:00 Transverse plasma density redistribution in discharge capillaries for plasma acceleration - Advait Kanekar (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

18:00 QED effects in future TeV class laser wakefield accelerators (student)) - Qian Qian (University of Michigan)

18:00 Programmable-trajectory ultrafast flying focus pulses (student) - Manfred Virgil Ambat (University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

18:00 Finite grid instability and its relationship with aliasing - Rebecca Udby

18:00 The PAX Experiment at FACET-II - Rafi Hessami (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

18:00 Adiabatic plasma lens designs for the final focus of TeV electrons(student) - Qianqian Su (University of California, Los Angeles)

18:00 Atto-second bunch generation using reversed chicane at Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) - Buse Naz Temizel Ozdemir

18:00 Multiplexed magneto-optic probe of wakefield accelerators - Timothy Araujo (University of Texas at Austin)

18:00 Tunable plasma waveguide generation with diffractive axicons for laser wakefield acceleration - Nishchal Tripathi (University of Maryland, College Park)

18:00 The ZEUS multi-Petawatt laser system: first results - Alec Thomas

18:00 Optical properties and damage thresholds of materials for high-peak-power LWIR laser applications - Igor V Pogorelsky (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

18:00 Simulating the transverse probing of laser-driven plasma wakefields using ultrarelativistic electrons - Evan Trommer

18:00 Low divergence and high charge multi-GeV acceleration of electrons with a < 300 TW laser - Ela Rockafellow (University of Maryland)

18:00 Development of 100mJ coherently combined CPSA fiber laser laboratory demonstrator for driving particle acceleration and secondary radiation experiments (Student Poster) - Christopher Pasquale (Graduate Student)

18:00 Progress Toward Experiments on an Integrated 10-MeV X-band Photoinjector Powered by a Two-Beam Acceleration Technique (student) - Emily Frame (Northern Illinois University)

18:00 Measurement of CSR-affected beams using generative phase space reconstruction (student) - Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Aguilera (University of Chicago)

18:00 Ionization Front Acceleration revisited: collective GeV-scale acceleration of high-charge ion bunches by high-current electron beams - Jiyuan Chen (Cornell University)

18:00 Loss-free shaping of few-cycle terawatt pulses at 1 kHz for laser wakefield acceleration (student) - Manh Le (University of Maryland)

18:00 Conditions of Simultaneous Retention of a Self-injected Bunch in the Phase of the Maximum Accelerating Wakefield and Greatest Bunch Stability in LPA with an Optimal Longitudinal Profile of Plasma Density - Vasyl MASLOV (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)

18:00 Hose Instability Suppression by Bunch Anharmonic Radial Oscillations in Plasma Wakefield Accelerator in Weakly Nonlinear and Blowout Regimes - Vasyl Maslov

18:00 Updates to Xopt for online accelerator optimization and control - Ryan Roussel (SLAC National Laboratory)

18:00 EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB – Overview on Beam Diagnostics - Livio Verra (INFN/Frascati National Laboratory)

18:00 Optimization of filamentation compression of CPA laser pulses using machine-learning techniques - Jon Murphy (University of Michigan)

18:00 Generation of an attosecond beam using Beam-Induced Ionization Injection in PWFAs - Jiayang Yan (Stony Brook University)

18:00 Multiple-drive-bunch plasma wakefield acceleration - Livio Verra (INFN/Frascati National Laboratory)

18:00 Optical pump generation for long-wave infrared drivers for wakefield accelerators - William Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

18:00 Most of the EMP in gas-target experiments results from ejecting the cloud of slow electrons, not the beam of fast electrons - Joshua Latham (University of Michigan)
Tuesday, 23 July 2024

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary 3
Plenary 3
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Attosecond x-ray free-electron lasers utilizing an optical undulator in a self-selection regime [BALLROOM] - Xinlu Xu (Peking University)

09:30 A Pathway toward a SWFA-based Compact Coherent Light Source [BALLROOM] - Philippe Piot (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:00 Demonstration of a reliable, high gain laser plasma accelerator driven free electron laser [BALLROOM] - Sam Barber (LBNL)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary 4
Plenary 4
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Exploiting novel liquid sheet targets for the generation of bright MeV proton beams [BALLROOM] - Charlotte Palmer (Queen's University Belfast)

11:30 Above 150 MeV proton acceleration with 10 PW laser system at ELI NP [BALLROOM] - DOMENICO DORIA (Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP))

12:00 Exploration of ultra-high dose rate radiobiology with laser-driven protons at BELLA [BALLROOM] - Lieselotte Obst-Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Progress towards high-repetition-rate GeV-scale plasma-modulated plasma accelerators - Simon Hooker (University of Oxford)

13:50 Controlled Injection in a Channel-Guided Laser Plasma Accelerator via All-Optical Plasma Density Tailoring - Rob Shalloo (DESY)

14:10 Three stage model of LWFA drive pulse evolution in meter-scale plasma waveguides - Jaron Shrock (University of Maryland, College Park)

14:30 Hydrodynamic modeling of plasma channel systems for laser plasma accelerators - Nathan Cook (RadiaSoft)

14:50 Benchmarking of hydrodynamic plasma waveguides for multi-GeV laser-driven electron acceleration - Bo Miao (University of Maryland, College Park)

15:10 Performance envelope of laser wakefield accelerators - Lance Labun (University of Texas, Austin)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: room 265
Contributions

13:30 Latest Results from the FLASHForward Experiment - Jonathan Wood (DESY)

13:55 Advances in Two-Bunch Plasma Wakefield Acceleration at FACET-II - Doug Storey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:20 Towards maximal drive-plasma interaction at FACET-II - Robert Ariniello

14:45 Wakeless and PWFA regime experiments at FACET-II - Sebastien Corde (SLAC)

15:10 WG3 Discussion 3
13:30 - 15:30
Room: room 260
Contributions

13:30 Sub-THz passive detector performance evaluation with RadiaBeam photoinjector - Maksim Kravchenko (RadiaBeam Technologies)

13:54 Peering into electron beam 5D phase space with coherent optical transition radiation - Maxwell LaBerge (HZDR)

14:18 Development of an Electro-Optic Sampling Beam-Position Monitor at FACET-II - Claire Hansel (University of Colorado Boulder)

14:42 Single-Shot Diagnosis of Electron Energy Evolution via Streaked Betatron X Rays in a Curved Laser Wakefield Accelerator - Yong Ma (University of Michigan)

15:06 Non-invasive beam diagnostics using machine learning - Robbie Watt (SLAC)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: room 261
Contributions

13:30 The PAX Experiment at FACET-II - Rafi Hessami (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

13:50 Challenges of Laser-driven Wakefield Accelerator Beams as Drivers for Free-Electron Lasers - Alex Lumpkin (Fermilab)

14:10 Reaching extreme intensity XUV light with beam driven wakefield acceleration of photons - Alec Thomas (University of Michigan)

14:30 X-ray Free-Electron Lasing in a Flying-Focus Undulator - Dillon Ramsey (Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

14:50 Photon acceleration of high-intensity vector vortex beams into the extreme ultraviolet - Kyle Miller (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)

15:10 High-flux betatron x-rays for fast tomography of pore dynamics in advanced materials - Vigneshvar Senthilkumaran (University of Alberta)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
15:30 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Overview of SWFA for TeV collider - Chunguang Jing (Euclid Techlabs)

16:15 Application of laser-plasma accelerators to future linear colliders - Carl Schroeder (LBNL)

16:30 Beam Delivery and MDI design considerations for advanced colliders - Andrei Seryi (SLAC)

16:45 Energy Upgrades of a linear Higgs factory - Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:00 Interactions of Lasers and Electron Beams for Collider-Directed R&D at FACET-II - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

17:15 Overview of PWFA Collider Proposals - Brendan O'Shea (SLAC National Laboratory)

17:30 Adiabatic plasma lens designs for the final focus of TeV electrons - Qianqian Su (University of California, Los Angeles)
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: room 266
Contributions

16:00 High-energy proton beams generated from PW laser-irradiated 3D printed microstructures - Sergei Tochitsky (University of California at Los Angeles)

16:20 Characterization of ion beams from solid targets driven by a 0.5 kJ short-pulse laser - Chengkun Huang (Los Alamos National Lab.)

16:40 Enhancing of deuteron acceleration with spectral phase modulation of few-cycle laser pulses - Karoly Osvay (NLTL, University of Szeged)

17:00 Theoretical model of post acceleration and focalization of protons produced with TNSA - Clément Lacoste

17:20 Delivering Laser-Driven Proton Beams to Biological Samples at BELLA iP2 - Jared De Chant (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:40 Flash poster introductions
16:00 - 18:00
Room: room 260
Contributions

16:00 Efficient 6-dimensional phase space reconstructions from experimental measurements using generative machine learning - Ryan Roussel (SLAC National Laboratory)

16:24 Measurement of CSR-affected beams using generative phase space reconstruction - Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Aguilera (University of Chicago)

16:48 Phase space reconstruction of downramp-injection LPA electron beam for modeling FEL operation - Christopher Doss (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:12 Extreme focusing of high-energy beams using near-field coherent transition radiation - Doug Storey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:36 Modeling of a Laser-Assisted Bunch Compression Scheme for a Compact Free-Electron Laser - Afnan Al Marzouk (Northern Illinois University)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: room 261
Contributions

16:00 Increasing repetition rate of PW laser drivers for modern secondary sources - Antoine Courjaud (Amplitude Laser)

16:20 Project overview of ICMuS2: Developing plasma accelerator based active sources of GeV muons - Jackson Williams (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:40 Unraveling the Direct Laser Acceleration of electron beams - Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)

17:00 The Effect of Plasma Density Gradient on the Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons - Hongmei Tang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:20 Extreme plasma-based compression for mega-amp, attosecond electron bunches at FACET-II - Kelly Swanson (SLAC)

17:40 Update on the progress of the E-320 SFQED experiment - ALEXANDER KNETSCH (SLAC)
18:00 Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 Plasma Instabilities with external magnetic field - Clément Lacoste

18:00 Field mapping of blowout regime CO2-laser-driven LWFA at low density using electron beam probing - Apurva Gaikwad (Stony Brook University)

18:00 Testing of a W-band Corrugated Waveguide for High-Gradient High-Efficiency Wakefield Acceleration (student) - Brendan Leung (Northern Illinois University)

18:00 Start-to-End simulation of THz-wakefield acceleration in dielectric-lined waveguides with multiple-bunch excitation (student) - Calcifer Phillips (Northern Illinois University)

18:00 Measuring the beam-breakup instability in beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators (student) - Ole Gunnar Finnerud (University of Oslo)

18:00 Expected Performance of a Photocathode Electron Gun Injector for the Advanced Photon Source Linac - Kent Wootton (Argonne National Laboratory)

18:00 Standing Wave Dielectric Disk Accelerating Structure Design and Cold Test Results - Sarah Weatherly (Illinois Institute of Technology, Argonne National Laboratory)

18:00 Fabrication of Submillimetric Dielectric Nozzles using Ultrafast Laser Micromachining for kHz Repetition Rate Laser Electron Acceleration - Armando Valter Felicio Zuffi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Nuclear and Energy Research Institute)

18:00 Investigation of spectral phase fluctuations on the performance of an LPA-driven FEL - Finn Kohrell (LBNL)

18:00 Beam shaping and homogenization using combined refractive beam shaper and adaptive optics - Anthony Lu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

18:00 Development and characterization of meter scale gas jets suitable for ≥10 GeV electron acceleration in HOFI plasma channels - Raymond Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

18:00 A PWFA-LC stage with beam realignment and emittance preservation - Lance Hildebrand (University of California, Los Angeles)

18:00 Optimizing plasma-downramp profiles and beam transport for emittance preservation in multi-stage plasma accelerators - Marco Garten (LBNL)

18:00 Creation of a THz Smith-Purcell Radiation Source using a LWFA Electron Bunch - Ross Rudzinsky (The University of Texas at Austin)

18:00 Capillary discharge based plasma source at UCLA - Pratik Manwani (University of California, Los Angeles)

18:00 The GPU Algorithm in QuickPIC - Yueran Tian (Beijing Normal University)

18:00 Observing Self-Modulation Growth through Light Emission of Dissipating Wakefields - Jan Mezger (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

18:00 Multi-Joule Scalable, Distortion-Free Pre-Pulse Contrast Enhancement Using Multi-pass Cells - Michael Garner (Univerity of Michigan)

18:00 Short-pulse methods in fiber chirped pulse amplification systems towards kHz plasma accelerator drivers - Michelle Hu (BELLA LBNL)

18:00 Designing Flying Focus Optics with Adjoint Optimization - Grace Kim (Stony Brook University)

18:00 Simulation studies on externally injected CO2 driven LWFA - Yuxuan Cao (University of Texas at Austin)

18:00 Enhanced particle acceleration via interaction of an “infinite” array of co-propagating beamlets - Nicholas Ernst (University of Michigan)

18:00 Implementation of a Mesh refinement algorithm into the quasi-static PIC code QuickPIC(student) - Qianqian Su (University of California, Los Angeles)

18:00 High-flux betatron x-rays for fast tomography of pore dynamics in advanced materials (student) - Vigneshvar Senthilkumaran (University of Alberta)

18:00 Exploring Dark Matter with Dielectric Laser Acceleration (student) - Raziyeh Dadashi Motlagh

18:00 Demonstration of proton bunch self-modulation in a discharge plasma source (student) - Carolina Amoedo

18:00 Analytical and Numerical Studies of Dark Current in Radiofrequency Structures for Wakefield Acceleration - Gaurab Rijal (Northern Illinois University)

18:00 Angularly-resolved reconstruction of streaked betatron X-ray spectra from laser wakefield acceleration experiment - Rebecca Fitzgarrald (University of Michigan)

18:00 Canonical Electrodynamics and Continuous Symmetries in Discrete Reductions - Adam Higuet (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

18:00 Delivering Laser-Driven Proton Beams to Biological Samples at BELLA iP2 (student) - Jared De Chant (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

18:00 Experimental demonstration of cascaded round-to-flat and flat-to-round beam transformations at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility - Gongxiaohui Chen

18:00 Upgrade Plans for the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator - Alexander Ody (Argonne National Laboratory)

18:00 Target metrology of Inertial Confinement Fusion fuel capsules using a Laser Wakefield Acceleration based Betatron X-ray source - Isabella Pagano (UT Austin/LLNL)

18:00 Using DFT and Monte Carlo Simulations to Study Scattering Mechanisms and Their Effect on Energy Loss in Thin-Film Akali Antimonide Photocathodes - Daniel Franklin

18:00 Quantum Radiation-Reaction Trapping of an Electron-Positron Pair Plasma - Daniel Younis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester)

18:00 UT3 Accelerator Applications Development Facility - Philip Franke (Tau Systems Inc)

18:00 Amplitude Reproducibility of the Self-Modulation Process of a Proton Bunch in Plasma - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Institüt für Physik)

18:00 Low energy spread beams with single stage, single bunch Trojan Horse injection - Lily Berman (University of Strathclyde)

18:00 SPARTA: Staging of Plasma Accelerators for Realizing Timely Applications - C. A. Lindstrøm (U. of Oslo )

18:00 Aligning Meter-scale Laser-ionized Plasmas to the Electron Beam Using Plasma Afterglow - Valentina Lee (University of Colorado Boulder)

18:00 Ion acceleration and beam quality preservation of structured targets using PetaWatt-class lasers via Hole- Boring Radiation Pressure Acceleration - Ji Hoon Kim (Cornell University)

18:00 Implementation of an Active Laser-Beam Stabilization System for Laser-Plasma Electron Accelerator Improvement - Benjamin Greenwood (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

18:00 Broadband Operation and Machine Protection in a Fiber Laser Driver for Wakefield Accelerators - Mahek Logantha (LBNL, UC Berkeley)

18:00 Effects of pulse evolution on ionization injection in meter-scale multi-GeV laser wakefield acceleration - Ari Sloss (University of Maryland)

18:00 Third harmonic generation for two-color ionization injection in laser-plasma accelerators - Liona Fan-Chiang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL))
19:30 Community inputs on Wakefield collider design study
Community inputs on Wakefield collider design study
19:30 - 20:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

19:30 Community Discussion - Jens Osterhoff (LBNL) Spencer Gessner (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Wednesday, 24 July 2024

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary 5
Plenary 5
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 MeV-scale Dielectric Laser Acceleration - Sophie Crisp (UCLA)

09:30 Coherently-combined fiber lasers for driving plasma accelerators at kHz repetition rates - Tong Zhou (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

10:00 Overcoming the Limitations of Laser-Wakefield Acceleration with Structured Light Fields - Cedric Thaury (CNRS)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Bunching of relativistic electron beams for superradiant Compton scattering - Brian Schaap (UCLA)

11:30 3D structure of microbunched electron beams from plasma wakefield accelerators - Maxwell LaBerge (HZDR)

12:00 Generation of arbitrary bunch shapes using a multileaf collimator and emittance exchange - Nathan Majernik (SLAC)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Outing to Downtown Chicago. Architectural Boat Tour on Chicago River.
Outing to Downtown Chicago. Architectural Boat Tour on Chicago River.
13:30 - 21:00
Thursday, 25 July 2024

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 AWAKE: proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration for particle physics applications [BALLROOM] - Marlene Turner (CERN)

09:30 Latest Results on PWFA Experiments from FACET-II [BALLROOM] - Chaojie Zhang (UCLA)

10:00 Observation of space-charge field screening in plasma, and other recent experimental results from SPARC_LAB. [BALLROOM] - Livio Verra (INFN/Frascati National Laboratory)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 BeamNetUS: Accelerating Beam-Based Research [BALLROOM] - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

11:30 LaserNetUS: opportunities for the AAC community [BALLROOM] - Felicie Albert

12:00 Long-term community engagement with US industry for the next high energy physics collider [BALLROOM] - Yoko Kawai Parker (L3Harris)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Reduction of the electron beam divergence of laser wakefield-accelerators by integrated plasma lenses - Arie Irman (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)

13:50 On an analytical optimization of plasma density profiles for downramp injection in laser wake field acceleration - Gaetano Fiore (Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", and INFN, Sezione di Napoli)

14:10 Plasma electron acceleration driven by long-wave-infrared laser - Mike Downer (The University of Texas at Austin)

14:30 Tunable laser positron source - Aakash Sahai (University of Colorado Denver)

14:50 Injection of collider-quality e-beams in plasma accelerators - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

15:10 Study of Ionization effects on Laser accelerated electron beam with laser-ablated metallic plasma targets - Seong Hee Park (Korea University Sejong campus)
13:30 - 16:00
Room: room 266
Contributions

13:30 Quality-preserving laser-plasma ion beam booster via hollow-channel magnetic vortex acceleration - Marco Garten (LBNL)

13:50 Acceleration of spin-polarized ions from laser-plasma interaction - Lars Reichwein (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

14:10 Ionization Front Acceleration revisited: collective GeV-scale acceleration of high-charge ion bunches by high-current electron beams - Jiyuan Chen (Cornell University)

14:30 Laser-to-proton conversion efficiency studies for proton fast ignition - Andreas Kemp (LLNL)

14:50 Working group discussion
13:30 - 15:30
Room: room 265
Contributions

13:30 PetaVolts per meter Plasmonics: a new paradigm based on quantum gas - Aakash Sahai (University of Colorado Denver)

13:50 Generation of an ultrashort beam using Beam-Induced Ionization Injection in PWFAs - Jiayang Yan (Stony Brook University)

14:10 A fully plasma based electron injector for a linear collider or XFEL - Thamine Dalichaouch (UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department)

14:30 A Plasma-Based Brightness Transformer - Jonathan Wood (DESY)

14:50 Implementation of a Mesh refinement algorithm into the quasi-static PIC code QuickPIC - Qianqian Su (University of California, Los Angeles)

15:10 WG3 Discussion 4
13:30 - 15:35
Room: room 167
Contributions

13:30 Demonstration of high-charge bunch shaping for wakefield acceleration with high gradient and high transformer ratio - Ha, Gwanghui

13:45 Progress Toward Experiments on an Integrated 10-MeV X-band Photoinjector Powered by a Two-Beam Acceleration Technique - Emily Frame (Northern Illinois University)

14:00 Testing of a W-band Corrugated Waveguide for High-Gradient High-Efficiency Wakefield Acceleration - Brendan Leung (Northern Illinois University)

14:15 Commissioning of hybrid photoinjector at RadiaBeam compact Inverse Compton Light Source - Maksim Kravchenko (RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC.)

14:30 Breakdown insensitive acceleration regime in a metamaterial accelerating structure - Dillon Merenich (Northern Illinois University)

14:45 Analytical and Numerical Studies of Dark Current in Radiofrequency Structures for Wakefield Acceleration - Gaurab Rijal (Northern Illinois University)

15:00 High-Power Electrically Controlled RF Switches - Sergey Kuzikov (Euclid Techlabs, LLC)

15:15 Recent High-Gradient Results with Cold-Copper and Distributed-Coupling Structures - Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: room 260
Contributions

16:00 Applications of arbitrary correlation generation using transverse wigglers - Gwanghui Ha (ANL)

16:24 Coherent radiation from initially modulated beams using emittance exchange at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator - James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

16:48 Ultra-high current designer beam generation via laser heater shaping at FACET-II - Claudio Emma (SLAC)

17:12 Demonstration of Longitudinal Focal Stabilization on 100 TW Laser-Plasma Accelerator - Kyle Jensen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

17:36 Development of a non-linear plasma lens for achromatic transport - P. Drobniak (University of Oslo)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: room 261
Contributions

16:00 Towards ultrahigh 6D brightness electron beams from plasma wakefield accelerators - A. Fahim Habib (University of Strathclyde)

16:20 A high repetition rate, stable source of neutrons generated by few-cycle laser pulses - Karoly Osvay (NLTL, University of Szeged)

16:40 3D Theory of the Ion Channel Laser - Claire Hansel (University of Colorado Boulder)

17:00 Development of a multi-channel scintillator array for improved reconstruction of high-energy photon spectra in laser-plasma experiments - Rebecca Fitzgarrald (University of Michigan)

17:20 Target metrology of Inertial Confinement Fusion fuel capsules using a Laser Wakefield Acceleration based Betatron X-ray source - Isabella Pagano (UT Austin/LLNL)

17:40 X-ray induced acoustic computed tomography with laser-wakefield accelerated sources: a simulation study - Jose Alejandro Franco Altamirano (The University of Texas at Austin)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Brookhaven’s ATF - a testbed for LPA collider research - Igor Pogorelsky (BNL)

16:15 High Efficiency RF Source Development - R. Lawrence Ives (Calabazas Creek Research, Inc.)

16:30 Laser-gated PWFAs in the context of a 10 TeV parton center-of-mass collider - ALEXANDER KNETSCH (SLAC)

16:45 Luminosity for laser-electron colliders - Ou Labun (University of Texas at Austin)

17:00 New simulation tools for beam-beam collisions at the interaction point - Remi Lehe (LBNL)

17:15 Positron acceleration in plasma wakefields - Sebastien Corde (Ecole Polytechnique)

17:30 Data-Driven Modeling for Wakefield Colliders - New Capabilities for Integrated RF & Wakefield Modeling in BLAST - Axel Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
18:00 AAC banquet at Mason Sabeka in Naperville
AAC banquet at Mason Sabeka in Naperville
18:00 - 21:00
Friday, 26 July 2024

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Summary of the ALEGRO 2024 Workshop at IST - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

09:30 Summary of the P5 vision for Accelerators - Derun Li (LBNL)

09:50 A Community-Driven Wakefield Collider Design Study [BALLROOM] - Carl Schroeder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Chunguang Jing (Euclid Techlabs) Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Students Presentations
Students Presentations
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Tunable plasma waveguide generation with diffractive axicons for laser wakefield acceleration - Nishchal Tripathi (University of Maryland, College Park)

11:12 Delivering laser-driven proton beams to biological samplest at BELLA iP2 - Jared De Chant (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:25 Demonstration of proton bunch self-modulation in a discharge plasma source - Carolina Amoedo

11:38 Breakdown insensitive acceleration regime in a metamaterial accelerating structure - Dillon Merenich (Northern Illinois University)

11:50 Measurement of CSR-affected beams using generative phase space reconstruction - Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Aguilera (University of Chicago)

12:02 Target metrology of Inertial Confinement Fusion fuel capsules using a Laser Wakefield Acceleration based Betatron X-ray source - Isabella Pagano (UT Austin/LLNL)

12:14 Adiabatic plasma lens designs for the final focus of TeV electrons - Qianqian Su (University of California, Los Angeles)

12:27 list of awards - Philippe Piot (Argonne National Laboratory)
12:30 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
12:30 - 12:45

12:45 Lunch-Boxed Lunches provided. Grab and Go
Lunch-Boxed Lunches provided. Grab and Go
12:45 - 14:15