Scientific program

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Monday, March 6th

08:00 - 09:00 Registration (also available Sunday, March 5th from 18:00 to 19:00)
09:00 - 09:15 Opening (Versace Room)
Session: WG introduction and Invited 1 (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Ricardo Fonseca
09:15 - 09:25 Yang Wan & Thales Silva
Working Group 1: Lepton acceleration
09:25 - 09:35 Ulrich Schramm & Igor Andriyash
Working Group 2: Ion acceleration
09:35 - 09:45 Amina Hussein & Miguel Pardal
Working Group 3: QED & secondary radiation generation and applications
09:45 - 10:10 Ke Feng (SIOM-CAS)
Free electron lasing based on a laser wakefield accelerator in EUV regime
10:10 - 10:35 Patric Muggli (MPIP & CERN)
Highlights of the AWAKE Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment
10:35 - 11:05 Coffee Break
Session: Invited 2 (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Alexander Pukhov
11:05 - 11:30 Alessandro Flacco (LOA)
Temporal aspects of laser-driven particle sources and application to radiation biology
11:30 - 11:55 Francesco Massimo (LPGP - Paris-Saclay University)
Fast numerical tools and methods for plasma accelerator design
11:55 - 12:20 Miguel Pardal (IST)
Radiation Diagnostic for OSIRIS: Applications in coherent betatron emission
12:20 - 13:50 Lunch
Session: Invited 3 (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Alec Thomas
13:50 - 14:15 Jérôme Faure (LOA)
From all optical guiding and GeV beams to kiloHertz Laser-Plasma acceleration
14:15 - 14:40 Mamiko Nishiuchi (QST)
Enhancement of ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultra-intense laser facilities
14:40 - 15:05 Elisabetta Boella (Lancaster University)
The novel Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications
15:05 - 15:30 Bo Miao (University of Maryland)
Multi GeV Electron Bunches from an All-Optical Laser Wakefield Accelerator
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Session: Honored Speaker (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Luís Silva
16:00 - 17:00 Chan Joshi (UCLA)
A perspective on Plasma Accelerator-based Linear Collider
17:30 - 18:30 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, March 7th

08:30 - 09:00 Registration
Session: Invited 4 (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Arie Irman
09:00 - 09:25 Massimo Ferrario (INFN - LNF)
Free-electron lasing with compact beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator
09:25 - 09:50 Matthew Streeter (Queen's University Belfast)
Automation and modelling of laser-driven plasma accelerators
09:50 - 10:15 Andreas Döpp (LMU Munich)
Machine-learning strategies for high-power laser experiments
10:15 - 10:55 Coffee Break
Session: WG1 (Versace Room) Session: WG2 (Armani Room)
10:55 - 11:13 Matthias Fuchs (Uni. Nebraska–Lincoln)
High-efficiency compact laser-plasma electron accelerator		 Martin Rehwald (HZDR)
Ultra-short pulse laser acceleration of protons from cryogenic hydrogen jets tailored to near-critical density
11:13 - 11:31 Moritz Foerster (LMU Munich)
High stability electron beams from staged laser and plasma wakefield accelerators		 Yasmina Azamoum (Helmholtz Jena)
Optical Probing of Ultrafast Laser-Induced Transitions from Solid to Overdense Plasma
11:31 - 11:49 Aaron Liberman (Weizmann)
First Electron Acceleration with an Axiparabola		 Igor Andriyash (LOA)
Acceleration of low-divergence proton beams at kHz rate
11:49 - 12:07 Kosta Oubrerie (INRS)
Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide		 Martin Matys (ELI Beamlines)
Plasma shutter for ion acceleration and spiral pulse generation
12:07 - 12:25 Linus Feder (University of Oxford)
Observation of resonant wakefield excitation by pulse trains guided in long plasma channels		 Omri Seemann (Weizmann)
Relativistic interaction with critical laser-machining gas target
12:25 - 13:55 Lunch
Joint Session: Machine Learning (WG1+2) (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Andreas Döpp		 Session: WG3 (Armani Room)
13:55 - 14:13 Alexander Debus (HZDR)
From laser-plasma accelerator experiments to digital twins: Exploit machine learning methods to tighten the links between theory and experiment		 Milenko Vescovi (HZDR)
Relativistic high harmonic generation with a PW short pulse laser as a laser-plasma interaction diagnostic
14:13 - 14:31 Marko von der Leyen (Uni. of Oxford)
Optical Alignment using Reinforcement Learning		 Daniel Seipt (Helmholtz Jena)
Spin and polarization in effects in high-intensity laser-plasma interactions
14:31 - 14:49 Brendan Loughran (Queen's U. Belfast)
Automated control and optimisation of laser-driven ion acceleration		 Ewan Bacon (University of Strathclyde)
High order modes of intense second harmonic light produced from self-generated and preformed plasma apertures
14:49 - 15:07 Ewan Dolier (University of Strathclyde)
Multi-parameter Bayesian optimization of laser-driven ion acceleration and synchrotron emission in PIC simulations		 Mario Balcazar (University of Michigan)
Dynamic ultrafast X-ray imaging of shocks in water
15:07 - 15:25 Elena Svystun (DESY)
Numerical studies on spin-polarised electron beam generation from a laser-driven plasma accelerator		 Gabriele Grittani (ELI Beamlines)
ELI-ELBA all-optical GeV electron - PW laser collider
15:25 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 19:30 Poster Session (Valentino Room)
Poster Presentations
#01 Elias Catrix (INRS)
Clusterized surface transformation under intense heating generated by laser-accelerated proton irradiation
#02 Patric Muggli (MPIP)
Current Filamentation Instability of a Long Proton Bunch in Plasma
#03 Jinpu Lin (LMU Munich)
Applications of object detection networks at high-power laser systems and experiments
#04 Faran Irshad (LMU Munich)
Multi-objective and multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization of laser-plasma acceleration
#05 Dragos Popescu (ELI-NP)
Automatic scanning and benchmarking of thin film targets using Machine Learning techniques
#06 Rakesh Yembadi (Imperial College London)
Bayesian optimization of ultrashort, 100 MeV-scale, 1 kHz rep. rate laser-plasma electron accelerator at Eli-Alps: First results
#07 —
#08 Vlad Gaciu (ELI-NP)
Machine learning for beam profile classification in the operation of the ELI-NP high power laser
#09 Cruz Méndez (CLPU)
VEGA PW facility: usage statistics and management tools
#10 Eyal Kroupp (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Commissioning and First Results from the new 2X100 TW laser at the WIS
#11 Valeria Istokskaia (ELI Beamlines)
Laser-driven ion acceleration at the ELIMAIA user beamline: commissioning experiments
#12 Hyung Taek Kim (GIST)
Strategy and planning for construction of next-generation ultra-intense laser facility in Korea
#13 Amin Ghaith (HZDR)
Operation of the COXINEL line at HZDR
#14 Slava Smartsev (LOA)
Characterization of spatiotemporal couplings with far-field beamlet cross-correlation
#15 Xinhe Huang (DESY)
3-dimensional full characterization of laser pulses with optical angular momentum
#16 Rafael Almeida (IST)
Arbitrarily non-paraxial electromagnetic wave-packets in particle-in-cell codes
#17 Szilárd Majorosi (ELI-ALPS)
Numerical representation of tightly focused ultra-short laser pulses with different beam modes
#18 Anton Golovanov (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Energy-conserving theory of plasma wakefield in the bubble regime
#19 Anton Golovanov (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Tailoring density downramp injection in particle-driven wakefield accelerators
#20 Zsolt Lécz (ELI-ALPS)
Laser Wakefield Acceleration with Two Collinear Laser Pulses
#21 John Farmer (MPIP)
Wakefield regeneration in a plasma accelerator
#22 Richard Pausch (HZDR)
What is going on in a laser plasma wakefield accelerator (LPWFA)? - a theoretical perspective on the hybrid concept
#23 Claudia Cobo (University of York)
Effects of plasma density fluctuations on density transition-injected electrons in laser wakefield accelerators
#24 Max Gilljohann (LOA)
The E336 experiment at FACET-II: Wakefield acceleration and modulation of dense electron beams in nanostructures
#25 Paolo Tomassini (ELI-NP)
Accurate electron beam phase-space theory for ionisation injection schemes
#26 Alexander Debus (HZDR)
Impact of LWFA injection schemes on longitudinal electron bunch properties diagnosed by single-shot CTR spectrometry
#27 Kristjan Põder (DESY)
High-quality polarised electron bunches from colliding pulse injection
#28 Mariana Moreira (IST)
Mapping out the dynamic growth rate of the self-modulation instability
#29 Carola Zepter (FSU Jena)
The Influence of Spatio-Temporal Couplings on Laser Wakefield Accelerators
#30 —
#31 Chiara Badiali (IST)
Plasma-based acceleration of non-relativistic particles
#32 Ronan Lahaye (LOA)
Measurement and control of the group velocity of an axiparabola for dephasingless acceleration of electron
#33 Pablo Morales Guzmán (MPIP)
Numerical study of non-linear plasma response to a long proton bunch and its effect on an electron bunch
#34 Bertrand Martinez (IST)
Direct Laser Acceleration of Bethe-Heitler positrons in a plasma channel
#35 Alec Thomas (University of Michigan)
Modeling chromatic emittance growth in staged plasma wakefield acceleration to 1 TeV using nonlinear transfer matrices
#36 Alec Thomas (University of Michigan)
A spin and polarization-dependent QED module for OSIRIS 4.0 for modeling strong field QED laser-plasma experiments
#37 Óscar Amaro (IST)
Toolkit for efficient modelling of realistic laser scattering experiments
#38 Lars Reichwein (HHU Düsseldorf)
Simulations of spin-polarized ion beams from laser-plasma interaction
#39 Israa Salaheldin (Helmholtz Jena)
Laser-driven Ion Acceleration from pre-expanded thin foils
#40 Paul McKenna (University of Strathclyde)
Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime
#41 Camilla Willim (IST)
High-energetic proton beams with low divergence driven by twisted laser from double-layer target
#42 Stefan Assenbaum (HZDR)
Investigation of laser-induced breakdown and target pre-expansion for laser proton acceleration
#43 Esin Aktan (HHU Düsseldorf)
Laser Contrast Study of Laser-Accelerated Multi-MeV Protons from a Continuous Hydrogen Cluster-Jet Target
#44 Marvin Umlandt (HZDR)
Optimizing PW Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration by Characterizing Laser Transmission of Relativistically Transparent Targets
#45 Malte Kaluza (FSU Jena)
High-Resolution Diagnostics for Laser-Plasma Interactions with Overdense Plasmas
#46 Haress Nazary (TU Darmstadt)
Towards Stopping Power Experiments with LIGHT
#47 Alma Kurmanova (INFN - LNS)
A compact high resolution Thomson Parabola Spectrometer
#48 Yuliia Mankovska (LOA)
High precision probing of laser-solid interaction with LWFA-generated electron beams
#49 Sheroy Tata (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Probing the dynamics of under-dense plasma expansion with ultra-short electron bunches
#50 Abigail James (University of Oxford)
Noise-dependence of Frequency Domain Holography reconstruction algorithms
#51 Yu Zhao (Helmholtz Jena)
Monochromatic shadowgraphy and mid-infrared probing of LWFA
#52 Jan Pucek (MPIP)
Reproducibility of wakefield amplitude from a plasma light diagnostic
#53 Sunny Howard (University of Oxford)
Hyperspectral Compressive Wavefront Sensing
#54 Marcel Lamač (ELI Beamlines)
Laser-plasma accelerator driven X-ray sources and advanced concepts at ELI Beamlines
#55 Sandrine Dobosz Dufrénoy (CEA Paris-Saclay)
Dosimetry development for extreme dose rate electron beams from laser-driven particle sources
#56 Maksym Tryus (ELI Beamlines)
Liquid jet target system for laser-plasma interactions at kHz repetition rate
#57 Camilla Giaccaglia (LOA)
Exploring high-charge irradiation conditions with laser-driven very high energy electrons for radiation biology
#58 Luís O. Silva (IST)
Transverse phase-space dynamics of betatron cooled electron beams in ion channels
#59 Alexander Sävert (Helmholtz Jena)
Nonlinear Plasma Phenomena: Observation of Relativistic Postsolitons and Rayleigh Taylor Like Instabilities
#60 Andreas Seidel (FSU Jena)
Controlled Injection in a Multi-Stage Gas Cell
#61 Nelson Lopes (IST)
A length-scalable discharge plasma source for plasma wakefield accelerators
#62 Vidmantas Tomkus (FTMC)
Two-stage nozzle optimised for laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel-Gauss beams
#63 Sebastian Lorenz (ELI Beamlines)
Development of Gas Targets for Stable Laser Wakefield Electron Acceleration at ELI-Beamlines

Wednesday, March 8th

Session: Invited 5 (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Kristjan Põder
09:00 - 09:25 Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie (Synchrotron SOLEIL)
The COXINEL seeded Free Electron Laser driven by the HZDR Laser Plasma Accelerator
09:25 - 09:50 Karl Zeil (HZDR)
Surpassing TNSA performance in laser proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime
09:50 - 10:15 Yang Wan (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Femtosecond electron microscopy of the laser-plasma wakefield dynamics
10:15 - 10:55 Coffee Break
Session: WG1 (Versace Room) Session: Sources (Armani Room)
Chairperson: Malte Kaluza
10:55 - 11:13 Tatiana Nechaeva (MPIP)
Hosing of a long proton bunch induced by short electron bunch		 Karl Krushelnick (Uni. of Michigan)
Laser Wakefield Acceleration at the ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan
11:13 - 11:31 Joséphine Monzac (LOA)
Observation of carrier-envelope phase (CEP) effects in a kiloHertz laser-wakefield accelerator		 Oliver Finlay (STFC)
Laser Wakefield Accelerator Design for the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC)
11:31 - 11:49 Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Jena)
Polarisation and CEP dependence of the transverse phase-space in laser driven accelerators		 Christian Greb (FZ Juelich)
KAIO-Beamline – a modular high-repetition rate laser-plasma electron accelerator for a broad range of applications
11:49 - 12:07 Tom Katsouleas (Uni. of Connecticut)
Micro Plasmonic Wakefield Accelerators		 Carlo Maria Lazzarini (ELI Beamlines)
50 MeV electron beams from a scalable kHz laser
12:07 - 12:25 Victor Malka (Weizmann)
Laser Plasma Accelerator for VHEE-RT: the ebeam4therapy project		 Anna Golinelli (Amplitude)
The quest for high repetition rate PW lasers: record 750TW @ 10Hz
12:25 - 13:55 Lunch
Joint Session: WG1+WG3 (Versace Room) Session: WG2 (Armani Room)
13:55 - 14:13 Alexander Pukhov (HHU Düsseldorf)
Peeler regime of laser-plasma interaction: electron and ion acceleration, X-ray emission		 Pilar Puyuelo-Valdes (CLPU)
High-repetition-rate targets at the CLPU: liquid, gas, and tape targets
14:13 - 14:31 Tito Mendonça (IST)
Classical Unruh effect in plasma based accelerators		 Antoine Maitrallain (Uni. of Bordeaux)
Ion acceleration from optically shaped high density gas jet targets
14:31 - 14:49 Arie Irman (HZDR)
Development of laser-plasma accelerators at HZDR for FEL applications		 Chuan Zheng (FZ Juelich)
Laser-induced acceleration of Helions from a high-density polarized gas-jet target
14:49 - 15:07 Marija Vranic (IST)
Optimizing direct laser acceleration of leptons		 Peter Hilz (Helmholtz Jena)
High Efficiency Ion Acceleration from nano-scale targets reaching approaching 30 MeV/J
15:07 - 15:25 Pablo San Miguel (LOA & IST)
First X-ray and Gamma-ray measurements at FACET-II		 Martin Metternich (TU Darmstadt)
The LIGHT beamline as a potential synchrotron injector
15:25 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
 
John Dawson Thesis Prizes (Versace Room)

Thursday, March 9th

Session: Invited 6 (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Mamiko Nishiuchi
09:00 - 09:25 Dillon Ramsey (University of Rochester)
Direct Electron Acceleration and Radiation Generation in Space–Time Structured Laser Pulses
09:25 - 09:50 Kristjan Põder (DESY)
Compact all-optical precision-tunable narrowband hard Compton X-ray source
09:50 - 10:15 Nicholas Dover (Imperial College London)
Enhanced ion acceleration from thin foils driven by ultra-intense femtosecond lasers
10:15 - 10:55 Coffee Break
Session: WG1 (Versace Room) Session: WG3 (Armani Room)
10:55 - 11:13 Sébastien Corde (LOA)
Acceleration of positrons in plasmas with high energy efficiency		 Raoul Trines (STFC)
Laser harmonic generation with tuneable orbital angular momentum using a structured plasma target
11:13 - 11:31 Nicholas Ernst (University of Michigan)
Controlled electron injection from wake shaping using co-propagating laser pulses		 Max Gilljohann (LOA)
The E332 experiment at FACET-II: Towards solid density beams and intense gamma-ray beams
11:31 - 11:49 Weiming An (Beijing Normal University)
Recent Progress on QuickPIC		 Amina Hussein (University of Alberta)
Imaging of dynamic processes in materials using high-repetition rate betatron x-rays
11:49 - 12:07 Pierre Drobniak (IJCLab)
Fast Particle-in-Cell simulations-based method for the optimisation of a laser-plasma electron accelerator		 Alec Thomas (University of Michigan)
Phase matched photon acceleration from Optical to XUV in a beam driven wakefield
12:07 - 12:25 Paolo Tomassini (ELI-NP)
Bright attosecond electron beams and brilliant gamma ray sources with the Resonant Multi-Pulse Ionization Injection		 Bernardo Malaca (IST)
Coherence and superradiance from a plasma-based quasiparticle accelerator
12:25 - 13:55 Lunch
13:55 - 18:30 Excursion / Free afternoon
20:00 - 23:00 Conference Dinner (Valentino Room)
Banquet Speakers: Tom Katsouleas & Bob Bingham

Friday, March 10th

Session: Invited 7 (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Sébastien Corde
09:00 - 09:25 Rafal Zgadzaj (University of Texas at Austin)
CO2-laser-driven wakefield acceleration
09:25 - 09:50 Hyung Taek Kim (GIST)
Effects of Neon Dopant on LWFA with Multi-PW Laser Pulses
09:50 - 10:15 Aarón Alejo Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Acceleration of ions from ultra-thin foils and neutron generation
10:15 - 10:40 Stefan Karsch (LMU Munich)
Towards stable multi-GeV laser-wakefield operation on PW lasers
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
Session: WG summaries (Versace Room)
Chairperson: Jorge Vieira
11:10 - 11:25 Manuel Kirchen
John Dawson Thesis Prize Winner Presentation
11:25 - 11:45 Yang Wan & Thales Silva
Working Group 1: Lepton acceleration
11:45 - 12:05 Ulrich Schramm & Igor Andriyash
Working Group 2: Ion acceleration
12:05 - 12:25 Amina Hussein & Miguel Pardal
Working Group 3: QED & secondary radiation generation and applications
12:25 - 12:35 Closing (Versace Room)