Agenda

Tuesday

 

Start Time Session Topic Presentation Presenter Affiliation
09:00 am Overview Workshop Introduction Mark Hogan SLAC
09:15 am Overview FACET-II Project Update Vitaly Yakimenko SLAC
09:45 am Overview FACET-II Capabilities: e-, e+, two-bunches, sailboat: extreme peak current, non-neutral fireballs etc Glen White SLAC
10:30 am   Coffee Break    
11:00 am Overview High Level Summary of Anticipated Experimental Program @ FACET-II Mark Hogan SLAC
11:30 am Emittance preservation & pump depletion Energy doubling with emittance preservation and pump depletion Chan Joshi UCLA
12:15 pm   Lunch    
01:15 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion Plasma sources with density ramps (Li oven + apertured controlled gas pressure) Ken Marsh UCLA
01:45 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion Differential pumping: IP integration & performance Christine Clarke SLAC
02:15 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion Plasma source with optically generated density ramps Mike Litos UC Boulder
02:45 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion Emittance measurements: Butterfly technique and implications for spectrometer Brendan O'Shea SLAC
03:15 pm   Coffee Break    
03:30 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion FACET-II diagnostics overview Nate Lipkovitz SLAC
04:00 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion Novel diagnostics and beam phase space recovery Claudio Emma SLAC
04:30 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion Expected beam performance with stability analysis Glen White SLAC
05:00 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion Benefits of a zig-zag compression design for FACET-II Yichao Jing BNL
05:30 pm Emittance preservation & pump depletion Discussion    
06:00 pm   Adjourn    

 

Wednesday

 

Start Time Session Topic Presentation Presenter Affiliation
09:00 am Transverse Wakefields with strong beam loading Emittance vs Loading (introduction, theory with high level simulation results) Sergei Nageitsev FNAL
09:30 am Transverse Wakefields with strong beam loading Theoretical progress (multi-modal analysis) Xinlu Xu UCLA/SLAC
10:00 am Transverse Wakefields with strong beam loading Detailed computational discussion and next steps in understanding emittance vs. loading in PWFA Weiming An UCLA
10:30 am   Coffee Break    
11:00 am Transverse Wakefields with strong beam loading Lessons learned from FACET and path forward for FACET-II experiment
(offset knobs & what we will see on spectrometer)
Erik Adli U. Oslo
11:30 am Transverse Wakefields with strong beam loading Diagnostic requirements for witness bunch offsets (r,z) Mike Litos UC Boulder
12:00 pm Transverse Wakefields with strong beam loading Calculation of wakefields for plasma-wakefield accelerators Gennady Stupakov SLAC
12:30 pm   Lunch    
01:30 pm Positrons, hollow channels and dielectrics Hollow channel longitudinal & transverse wakes Carl Andreas Lindstrom University of Oslo
02:00 pm Positrons, hollow channels and dielectrics Dielectric Wakefield Accelerators: status & what’s next Gerard Andonian UCLA
02:30 pm Positrons, hollow channels and dielectrics Analysis of BBU in compact structure-based wakefield accelerators and a suppression method Stanislav Baturin University of Chicago
03:00 pm Positrons, hollow channels and dielectrics Saturation of the beam-hosing instability in quasi-linear plasma-wakefield accelerators Remi Lehe LBNL
03:30 pm   Coffee Break    
03:45 pm Positrons, hollow channels and dielectrics Positron PWFA - what we’ve learned and what’s next Sebastien Corde Ecole Polytechnique
04:15 pm Positrons, hollow channels and dielectrics Electron Driven Positron Acceleration with the Sailboat Chicane Weiming An UCLA
04:45 pm Positrons, hollow channels and dielectrics Non-neutral fireball and possibilities for accelerating positrons with plasma Jorge Viera IST
05:15 pm Positrons, hollow channels and dielectrics Discussion    
06:00 pm   Adjourn    

 

Thursday

 

Start Time Session Topic Presentation Presenter Affiliation
09:00 am Injection experiments Ionization injection - what we’ve learned and next steps Navid Vafaei Stonybrook University
09:30 am Injection experiments Density Downramp Injection - Prospects for Ultra-high Brightness Beams Xinlu Xu UCLA/SLAC
10:00 am Injection experiments Trojan Horse and Plasma Torch Injection - lessons learned and next steps Bernhard Hidding University of Strathclyde
10:30 am   Coffee Break    
11:00 am Injection experiments Plans @ DESY Jens Osterhoff DESY
11:30 am Injection experiments Low emittance measurements:100nm from betatron spectrum Nathan Majernik UCLA
12:00 pm Plasma Accelerator based FELs Status of task force efforts Mark Hogan SLAC
12:30 pm   Lunch    
01:30 pm Plasma Accelerator based FELs Realizing an FEL from a Plasma Accelerator - Progress and Plans at LBNL Jeroen VanTillborg LBNL
02:00 pm Ion Motion Ion motion effects on emittance Weiming An UCLA
02:30 pm Ion Motion Ion motion effects on energy spread Xinlu Xu UCLA/SLAC
03:00 pm   Coffee Break    
03:15 pm Ion Motion Emittance preservation in plasma-based accelerators with ion motion Carlo Benedetti LBNL
03:45 pm Ion Motion Long term wake evolution: heating & ion wakes Jorge Viera IST
04:15 pm Ion Motion Imaging of beam-induced plasma structures: FACET and FACET-II Mike Downer UT Austin
04:45 pm Ion Motion TeV/m in Plasmas James Rosenzweig UCLA
05:15 pm Ion Motion Discussions    
05:30 pm   Adjourn    
06:00 pm   Wine & Cheese Reception – Building 52 Lobby    

 

Friday

 

Start Time Session Topic Presentation Presenter Affiliation
09:00 am Simulation Codes QuickPIC Weiming An UCLA
09:30 am Simulation Codes OSIRIS Warren Mori UCLA
10:00 am Simulation Codes WarpX & Exascale Jean LucVay LBNL
10:30 am   Coffee Break    
11:00 am Simulation Codes VSIM John Cary UC Boulder & TechX
11:30 am Simulation Codes 8 Years of Beam-Driven Wakefield Simulation
-- ​​​​​lessons learned, reduced models, and future plans
David Bruhwiler Radiasoft
12:00 pm New Directions @ FACET-II Active plasma lenses – limitations on beam energy/density and aberrations Jan-Hendrik Röckeman DESY
12:30 pm   Lunch    
01:30 pm New Directions @ FACET-II High Field QED enabled by 100TW + 15GeV David Reis SLAC
02:00 pm New Directions @ FACET-II High Fields: compressed 10GeV+300MeV—> 100GeV/100GeV Sebastian Meuren Princeton University
02:30 pm New Directions @ FACET-II High Fields: computational challenges Thomas Grismayer IST
03:00 pm   Coffee Break    
03:15 pm New Directions @ FACET-II Laser upgrade options: >100TW, transport and quality improvement Alan Fry SLAC
03:45 pm New Directions @ FACET-II Laboratory Astrophysics studies with electron-positron beams at FACET-II Frederico Fiuza SLAC
04:15 pm New Directions @ FACET-II Material studies with compressed electron & positron beams at FACET-II Ioan Tudosa University of Pennsylvania
04:45 pm New Directions @ FACET-II Discussions    
05:15 pm   Adjourn