PAC 2020 Agenda
The 2018 PAC reviewed 35 proposals: 7 received an excellent ranking, 23 were ranked as very good or good, 2 were ranked as fair and 3 were not ranked or asked to resubmit.
The experimental area has been constructed to accommodate as many experiments as possible with priority given to the proposals that received an excellent ranking. The proposals prioritized from the 2018 PAC have yet to receive beam time and most will not be reviewed at the 2020 PAC.
The 2020 PAC meeting has three primary purposes:
1. Communicate the status of the FACET-II facility, experimental area, and the plans for commissioning towards first experiments in 2021
2. Review the new proposals submitted since the 2018 PAC meeting
3. Review the status of experiments expected to receive beam time in the next 6-9 months that require significant experimental installations
PAC Meeting, 26-29 October 2020
Remote Connection (Zoom)
Monday
Day 1: Monday, 26 October 2020
Facility Status
Start Time
Topic
Speaker
Duration
07:00
Closed Executive Session
Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)
30m
07:30
Welcome
Norbert Holtkamp (SLAC)
10m
07:40
Meeting Structure, Exp. schedule
Vitaly Yakimenko (SLAC)
10m
07:50
Beam commissioning
Jerry Yocky (SLAC)
20m
08:10
Experimental area and plans
Mark Hogan (SLAC)
20m
08:30
Remote user management
Christine Clarke (SLAC)
20m
08:50
Break
15m
Upgrade Plans
09:05
Experimental Laser
Brendan O'Shea (SLAC)
20m
09:25
PB + diagnostics
Robert Ariniello (CU Boulder)
20m
09:45
Spectrometer diagnostics
Doug Storey (SLAC)
20m
10:05
S20 chicane + Linearizer and Laser heater
Glen White (SLAC)
30m
10:35
Q&A
Vitaly Yakimenko (SLAC)
30m
11:05
Adjourn
Tuesday
Day 2: Tuesday, 27 October 2020
New Proposals
Start Time
Topic
Speaker
Duration
07:00
Closed Executive Session
Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)
20m
07:20
Ultra-solid Beams using Nanostructure Nanoplasmonic Wiggler and Accelerator
Aakash Sahai (CU)
20m
07:40
Near-field-CTR-based self-focusing in beam-multifoil collisions: towards solid-density beams, extremely-dense gamma-ray pulses, and laserless SFQED
Matteo Tamburini (MPIK)
20m
08:00
E305nano (extension of E305scope) Feasibility studies of the FACET-II beam interaction with CNT materials
Toshiki Tajima (UCI)
20m
08:20
Positron Acceleration in an Electron Beam-Driven Plasma Filament Wakefield
Spencer Gessner (SLAC)
20m
08:40
Electron and positron acceleration in self-generated, thin, warm hollow plasma channels
Thales Silva (I.S.T)
20m
09:00
Stable Positron Acceleration Mode in Hollow Plasma Channel Driven by an Asymmetric Beam
Wei Lu (Tsinghua)
20m
09:20
Break
20m
09:40
Two Stage Cascaded High-Transformer-Ratio Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Wei Lu (Tsinghua)
20m
10:00
Attosecond XUV/X-ray source driven by a plasma accelerator
Agostino Marinelli (SLAC)
20m
10:20
Relativistic doppler shift of coherent transition radiation
Agostino Marinelli (SLAC)
20m
10:40
Compressing FACET-II e-beam to hundreds of kA
Yichao Jing (BNL)
20m
11:00
Extreme Nonlinear Coherent Transition Radiation: dielectric response of materials to supercritical fields
David Reis (SLAC)
20m
11:20
Neural network based tuning to exploit machine-wide sensitivities in pursuit of high beam quality
Auralee Edelen (SLAC)
20m
11:40
Closed Executive Session
Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)
20m
12:00
Adjourn
Wednesday
Thursday
Day 4: Thursday, 29 October 2020
Q & A and Closeout
Start Time
Topic
Speaker
Duration
07:00
Closed Executive Session
Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)
20m
07:20
Ultra-solid beams using nanostructure nanoplasmonic wiggler and accelerator
Aakash Sahai
15m
07:35
Near-field-CTR-based self-focusing in beam-multifoil collisions: towards solid-density beams, extremely-dense gamma-ray pulses, and laserless SFQED
Sebastien Corde and Matteo Tamburini
10m
07:45
E305nano (extension of E305 scope) - Feasibility studies of the FACET-II beam interaction with CNT materials
Sebastien Corde and Toshiki Tajima
15m
08:00
Positron acceleration in an electron beam-driven plasma filament wakefield
Spencer Gessner
15m
08:15
Electron and positron acceleration in self-generated, thin, warm hollow plasma channels
Thales Silva and Jorge Vieira
10m
08:25
Stable positron acceleration mode in hollow plasma channel driven by an asymmetric beam
Wei Lu, Chan Joshi, Mark Hogan
15m
08:40
Two stage cascaded high-transformer-ratio plasma wakefield accelerator
Wei Lu, Mark Hogan, Chan Joshi
15m
08:55
Break
15m
09:10
Attosecond XUV/X-ray source driven by a plasma accelerator
Claudio Emma, Mark Hogan, Agostino Marinelli
15m
09:25
Relativistic doppler shift of coherent transition radiation
Agostino Marinelli
10m
09:35
Compressing FACET-II e-beam to hundreds of kA
Yichao Jing
10m
09:45
Extreme Nonlinear coherent transition radiation: dielectric response of materials to supercritical fields
David Reis
10m
09:55
Neural network based tuning to exploit machine-wide sensitivities in pursuit of high beam quality
Auralee Edelen
10m
10:05
Closed Executive Session
Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)
1h 55m
12:00
Closeout
30m