PAC Meeting, 9-11 October 2018
Trinity Conference Room B53-1350 (map)
Remote Connections (Zoom) available (information)
The charge of the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) is to evaluate the merit and the feasibility of proposed experiments and review the progress of the existing R&D program at SLAC’s FACET- II National user facility. In addition, experiments that have already received beam time are evaluated concerning progress and effectiveness.
The committee is Chaired by Edda Gschwendtner and is expected to meet approximately once per year and reports to the Head of the SLAC FACET Division. The committee is supported with ad hoc consultants as necessary.
The full charge may be found here (link).
| Tuesday, 9 October 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time | Topic | Speaker | Duration |
| 08:00 | Executive Session | 50m | |
| 08:50 | Welcome | 10m | |
| 09:00 | Facility Overview | ||
| 09:00 | Review Structure | 15m | |
| 09:15 | FACET-II beams | 30m | |
| 09:45 | Experimental Area | 45m | |
| 10:30 | Coffee | 30m | |
| 11:00 | Machine Learning and Diagnostics | ||
| 11:00 | A post-plasma longitudinal bunch diagnostic for FACET-II with fs resolution | Jens Osterhof (DESY) | 20m |
| 11:20 | Automatic tuning for high gain, low energy spread, and low variance PWFA | Alexander Scheinker (LANL) | 20m |
| 11:40 | Non-Intercepting Diagnostics for High Intensity Beams and Computer Control | Brendan O’Shea (SLAC) | 20m |
| 12:00 | Virtual diagnostic for phase space prediction and customization at FACET-II | Claudio Emma (SLAC) | 20m |
| 12:20 | Lunch | 60m | |
| 13:20 | Optical visualization of beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators | Mike Downer (UT Austin) | 30m |
| 14:50 | Plasma Afterglow Attosecond Metrology | Bernhard Hidding, Paul Scherkl, Andrew Sutherland (Strathclyde) | 20m |
| 14:10 | Laserwire for Sector 20 IP Transverse Beam Diagnostics | Glen White (SLAC), Laura Corner (Liverpool) - presenting remotely | 20m |
| 14:30 | Coffee | 20m | |
| 14:50 | Absolute Bunch Length Measurements using Coherent Diffraction Radiation Imaging | Ralph Fiorito - presenting remotely (Ralph B. Fiorito, LLC) | 20m |
| 15:10 | Gas Sheet Viewscreen | Gerard. Andonian (UCLA), Marcos Ruelas (RadiaBeam) | 20m |
| 15:30 | Other | ||
| 15:30 | Probing Strong-field QED at FACET-II | Sebastian Meuren (PPPL) | 30m |
| 16:00 | Extreme compression of high-brightness electron beams | Vladimir N Litvinenko (Stony Brook U.) | 20m |
| 16:20 | Enhancement and Localization of Magnetic Field in Magnetic Resonator | I-Wei Chen (U. Penn) | 20m |
| 16:40 | Executive session | 1h 20m | |
| 18:00 | Adjourn | ||
| 18:00 | Reception | ||
| Wednesday, 10 October 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time | Topic | Speaker | Duration |
| 08:00 | Executive Session | 15m | |
| 08:15 | Q&A | 1h 45m | |
| 10:00 | Coffee | 30m | |
| 10:30 | PWFA Quality | ||
| 10:30 | Energy Doubling of Narrow Energy Spread Witness Bunch while Preserving Emittance with a High Pump-to-Witness Energy Transfer Efficiency in a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator | Chan Joshi (UCLA), Mark Hogan (SLAC) | 30m |
| 11:00 | Tailored Plasma Source for Emittance Preservation in Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and High-Brightness Plasma Injected Beams | Michael Litos (UC Boulder) | 20m |
| 11:20 | Transverse wakefields and instabilities in plasma wakefield accelerators | Erik Adli (U. Oslo) | 30m |
| 11:50 | Hollow Channel Plasma Wakefield Acceleration | Spencer Gessner (CERN) | 20m |
| 12:10 | Flat-beam plasma wakefield acceleration and focusing | Gerard Andonian, James B. Rosenzweig (UCLA) | 20m |
| 12:30 | Lunch | 60m | |
| 13:30 | PWFA Injection | ||
| 13:30 | Trojan Horse-II | Bernhard Hidding (Strathclyde), James Rosenzweig (UCLA) | 30m |
| 14:00 | Investigating the physics of beam loading using localized beam-induced ionization injection | Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stonybrook) | 20m |
| 14:20 | Downramp Trapping in PWFA for generating low emittance beams | Chaojie Zhang (UCLA), Sebastien Corde (Ecole Polytechnique), Xinlu Xu (UCLA) | 20m |
| 14:40 | Plasma Torch Optical Density Downramp Injection | Bernhard Hidding (Strathclyde), James B. Rosenzweig (UCLA), Daniel Ullmann (Strathclyde) | 20m |
| 15:00 | Coffee | 20m | |
| 15:20 | Multibunch dechirper for ultrahigh 6D brightness beams | Bernhard Hidding (Strathclyde), Fahim Ahmad Habib (Strathclyde) | 20m |
| 15:40 | High Brightness Electron Beams from Dragon Tail Injection | James B. Rosenzweig (UCLA), Bernhard Hidding (Strathclyde) | 20m |
| 16:00 | PWFA Other | ||
| 16:00 | Plasma-based hard X-Ray FEL with ultrahigh gain and sub-fs capability | Bernhard Hidding (Strathclyde), Fahim Ahmad Habib (Strathclyde) | 20m |
| 16:20 | Executive session | 1h 10m | |
| 17:30 | Adjourn | ||
| Thursday, 11 October 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time | Topic | Speaker | Duration |
| 08:00 | Executive Session | 15m | |
| 08:15 | Q&A | 1h 45m | |
| 10:00 | Coffee | 30m | |
| 10:30 | PWFA Other, Machine Learning, Diagnostics | ||
| 10:30 | Attosecond strong-field physics | Agostino Marinelli (SLAC) | 20m |
| 10:50 | Extreme Focusing in Vacuum with a Passive Plasma Lens | Mike Litos (UC Boulder) | 20m |
| 11:10 | Beam filamentation and bright Gamma ray Burst | Sébastien Corde (Ecole Polytechnique), Ken Marsh (UCLA), Frederico Fiuza (SLAC) | 20m |
| 11:30 | Coherent off-axis undulator radiation as a bunch length diagnostic for FACET-II | Claudio Emma (SLAC) | 20m |
| 11:50 | A Non-Invasive Current Profile Diagnostic for Electron Bunches | Quinn Marksteiner (LANL) | 20m |
| 12:10 | Beam-Driven Ion Channel Laser | Michael Litos (UC Boulder) | 20m |
| 12:30 | Lunch | 60m | |
| 13:30 | PWFA Other | ||
| 13:30 | Icarus: Transient Tunneling Ionisation of crossing laser and electron beams | Bernhard Hidding (Strathclyde), Thomas Heinemann (DESY) | 20m |
| 13:50 | Generation and Acceleration of Positrons at FACET II | Ken Marsh, Chan Joshi (UCLA) | 20m |
| 14:10 | TeV/m plasma wakefield acceleration | James B. Rosenzweig (UCLA), Agostino Marinelli (SLAC) | 20m |
| 14:30 | Other, PWFA Other | ||
| 14:30 | Dielectric wakefield acceleration at GV/m gradients | James B. Rosenzweig (UCLA), Brendan O’Shea (SLAC) | 30m |
| 15:00 | Coffee | ||
| 15:20 | Experimental Investigations of Ion Collapse in the PWFA | James B. Rosenzweig (UCLA), Bernhard Hidding (Strathclyde) | 20m |
| 16:00 | Executive session | 1h 30m | |
| 17:30 | Adjourn | ||
| 17:30 | Reception | ||
| Friday, 12 October 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time | Topic | Speaker | Duration |
| 08:00 | Executive Session | 15m | |
| 08:50 | Q&A | 1h 45m | |
| 10:30 | Coffee | 30m | |
| 11:00 | Executive Session | 1h 30m | |
| 12:20 | Lunch | 60m | |
| 18:00 | Adjourn | ||
