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http://indico.eli-beams.eu/e/ELI_UC_2020

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ELI BEAMLINES USER CONFERENCE 2020 PANEL 0 – OPENING & INTRODUCTION / Monday – October 12, 2020

09:30 - 09:35 / Welcome to ELI Beamlines Room A

Michael PROUZA

Director of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

09:35 – 10:00 / Opening session

Roman HVĚZDA Deputy Director, ELI Beamlines

ELI Beamlines Update

Georg KORN Science & Technology Manager, ELI Beamlines

ELI Beamlines Update

Allen WEEKS Director, ELI-DC AISBL

ELI ERIC Update

10:00 – 11:00 / Experimental Stations and Sources Updates

10:00 - 10:15 Daniele MARGARONE Research Program 3 & ELIMAIA Leader - Ion Acceleration ELI Beamlines

10:15 - 10:30 Jakob ANDREASSON Research Program 4 Leader - MBMS ELI Beamlines

10:30 - 10:45 Stefan WEBER Research Programs 5&6 Leader - Plasma Physics and High Intensities ELI Beamlines

10:45 - 11:00 Sergei BULANOV Research Program 2 Team Leader - Radiation Physics and Electron Acceleration and HIFI Project ELI Beamlines

11:00 – 11:45 / Introduction to the ELI Beamlines Main Lasers

11:00 - 11:15 Bedřich RUS Research Program Leader - Laser Systems ELI Beamlines

11:15 - 11:30 Pavel BAKULE Research Program Leader - Technology Infrastructure and Services ELI Beamlines

11:30 - 11:45 / Safety at ELI Beamlines

11:30 - 11:45 Veronika OLŠOVCOVÁ Safety Department ELI Beamlines Safety and Radiation Protection at ELI Beamlines

11:45 – 13:00 / Break

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PANEL 1 (RP4) ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPY

Monday - October 12, 2020 13:00 - 16:00

Room A

13:00 - 13:30 Miroslav KLOZ ELI Beamlines, CZ

Introduction: Ultra-fast Optical Spectroscopy

13:30 - 14:00 Maria ABRAHAMSSON Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy on Solar Energy Conversion Materials

14:00 - 14:30 Donatas ZIGMANTAS Lund University, Sweden

How to Understand Non-linear Spectroscopy Signals using Feynman Diagrams. An example: The Band-shift Signal in Reaction Centers

14:30 - 15:00 Tomáš POLÍVKA University of South Bohemia, CZ

Using Broadband Detection and Ultrashort Pulses to Follow Excited State Dynamics of Infinite Polyenes

15:00 - 15:30 John KENNIS Free University Amsterdam, NL

Photoreceptor Protein Dynamics

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PANEL 2 (RP5) LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION IN THE P3 INFRASTRUCTURE

Monday - October 12, 2020 13:00 - 17:40 13:00 - 15:00 PART I - Status of the P3 Installation et al.

Room F

13:00 - 13:30 Stefan WEBER ELI Beamlines, CZ

E3/P3 overview and Virtual Site Tour

13:30 - 13:45 Tomáš LAŠTOVIČKA ELI Beamlines, CZ

Commissioning Overview

13:45 - 14:00 Noémie JOURDAIN ELI Beamlines, CZ

L4n Initiative

14:00 - 14:15 Uddhab CHAULAGAIN ELI Beamlines, CZ Betatron X-ray Source at P3

14:15 - 14:30 Hannes BOHLIN ELI Beamlines, CZ

Magnetized Plasma Initiative

14:30 - 14:45 Edwin CHACON-GOLCHER ELI Beamlines, CZ

High Performance Computing Services at ELI

14:45 - 15:00 Jakub GROSZ ELI Beamlines, CZ

Virtual Beamline and PaNOSC Web Services for Users

15:00 - 15:20

Break

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PANEL 2 (RP5) LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION IN THE P3 INFRASTRUCTURE 15:00 - 17:40 PART II - User Contributions

Room F

15:20 - 15:40 Akihiro IKEDA Tokyo University, Japan

Developments of Portable Pulse Magnets for High Power Beam Experiments

15:40 - 16:00 Julien FUCHS LULI-CNRS, France

Optimization and Yield of Spallation Neutrons Generated from PW-Laser Driven Proton Beams

16:00 - 16:20 Frank ROSMEJ LULI-Sorbonne, France

Ultra-fast Ionization Dynamics Driven by Supra-thermal Electrons

16:20 - 16:40 Bruno ALBERTAZZI LULI-CNRS, France

Magnetized Laser Produced Plasma: A Way to Reproduce Astrophysical Systems at LULI

16:40 - 17:00 Miroslav KRUS Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR, PALS, CZ

Charged Particle Stopping Power Measurements in Dense Plasma

17:00 - 17:20 Jean-Claude KIEFFER INRS, Canada

Potential of LWFA X-ray Source for Imaging the Dynamics of Hydrodynamical Instability in P3 Infrastructure

17:20 - 17:40 Felicie ALBERT Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Experiments at SLAC

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PANEL 3 STABLE LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS Monday October 12, 2020 13:00 - 18:50

DARK ROOM

Organizer/Moderator 13:00 - 13:20 Gabriele Maria GRITTANI ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

The ELI-ELBA Project Status and Schedule

13:20 - 13:40 Konstantin KRUCHININ ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

LUIS: Laser Driven Undulator Source

13:40 – 14:10 Masaki KANDO KPSI-QST

Recent Laser Based Electron Acceleration Experiments in Japan

14:10 - 14:40 Hyung Taek KIM APRI-GIST

Electron Acceleration and Gamma-ray Generation with PW Laser Pulses

14:40 - 15:10 Andreas MAIER UHH-DESY, Germany

TBC

15:10 - 15:40 Cedric THAURY LOA, France

Phase-locked Laser-wakefield Electron Acceleration

15:40 – 16:10 Luca LABATE INO-ILIL

TBC

16:10 – 16:40 Stefan KARSCH LMU-MPQ

Injection and beam-loading of high-charge electron bunches

16:40 – 17:00 Break - followed by talks on High Power Laser Guiding

17:00 – 17:20 Michal NEVRKLA ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

Discharge Plasma Experiments at ELI-Beamlines

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17:20 – 17:35 Bo MIAO University of Maryland, USA

Optical Guiding in Meter-scale Plasma Waveguides

17:35 - 17:50 Linus FEDER University of Maryland, USA

Self-waveguiding of Relativistic Laser Pulses in Neutral Gas Channels

17:50 – 18:20 Alexander PICKSLEY University of Oxford, UK

Low-Density Waveguides for Multi-GeV Laser-Plasma Accelerators

18:20 - 18:50 Gennadiy BAGDASAROV KIAM

Numerical Study of Capillary Discharge Plasmadynamics in 3D

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PANEL 4 (RP2 & RP4) SCIENCE WITH COHERENT XUV SOURCES Tuesday October 13, 2020 9:00 - 12:00

Room A

09:00 - 09:20 Maria KRIKUNOVA & Ondřej HORT ELI Beamlines, CZ

Introduction: HHG and AMO Science

09:20 - 09:45 Marcel MUDRICH Aarhus University, DK

Relaxation Dynamics of Singly and Multiply Excited Helium Nanodroplets

09:45 - 10:10 Rusell MINNS University of Southampton, UK

Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Studied Via Extreme Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy

10:10 - 10:35 Bill BROCKLESBY University of Southampton, UK

High-resolution XUV Ptychography of Biological Samples Using HHG Sources

10:35 – 11:00 Amelle ZAÏR Kings College, UK

Control of Electronic Quantum Paths Using Multicolour Laser Fields

11:00 – 11:25 Tatyana LISEYKINA Universität Rostock, Germany

Intense THz Radiation from Gas Targets Ionized by Tailored Two-color IR Pulses

11:25 – 11:50 Vasily TULSKY Universität Rostock, Germany

Phase-of-the-phase Spectroscopy as a Tool for Analyzing Photoelectron Spectra

11:50 Concluding Remarks

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PANEL 5 LASER-PLASMA ION SOURCES AT THE ELIMAIA BEAMLINE

Tuesday - October 13, 2020 9:00 - 12:00

Room F

Organizer/Moderator Daniele MARGARONE ELI Beamlines & QUB

9:00 - 9:25 Invited Speaker Marco BORGHESI Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Advanced Laser-Plasma Ion Sources at ELIMAIA

9:25 - 9:50 Paul McKENNA University of Strathclyde, UK

Emerging Mechanisms of Laser-plasma Ion Acceleration

9:50 - 10:15 Sonja GERLACH Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Germany

I-BEAT: Acoustic Characterization of Laser-accelerated Ions for a User Beamline

10:15 - 10:30 / BREAK

10.30-11.00 User proposal for future user experiments at ELIMAIA

6 min

Christian ROEDEL Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

High Repetition Rate Targetry for Ion Acceleration

6 min

Fabien SOURIS CEA, France

ELISE: A Cryogenic Target for Ion Acceleration

6 min

Satyabrata KAR Queen's University Belfast, UK

Coil Target: Compact Ion Beam Acceleration and Transport

6 min

Marc ZIMMER Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

Neutron Generation at High Repetition Rate

6 min Luca VOLPE (CLPU, Spain), Dimitri BATANI (CEA, France)

Stopping Power in Plasma at ELIMAIA

11.00-12.00 Panel Discussion

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PANEL 6 COLLIDING LASER ACCELERATED ELECTRON BEAMS WITH HIGH INTENSITY LASERS

Tuesday - October 13, 2020 14:30 - 19:00

DARK ROOM

Moderator 14:30 - 15:00 Sergey V. BULANOV ELI Beamlines

Prospects of Studying Fundamental Physics Colliding Strong Laser Pulse with Laser Accelerated Electrons

15:00 - 15:40 Alexander PIROZHKOV KPSI-QST

Overview of the 10^22 Experiment in KPSI-QST

15:40 - 16:20 Martin JIRKA ELI-Beamlines

Reaching the High Laser Intensity by a Radiating Electron

16:20 - 17:00 Christoph Helmut KEITEL MPI Heidelberg, Germany

Testing Fundamental Theories and Applications with Extreme Laser-Particle Beam Collisions

17:00 - 17:40

Alexander George Roy THOMAS

CUOS University of Michigan, USA

High Intensity Laser-electron Beam Collisions

17:40 – 18:20 Stepan S. BULANOV LBNL, USA

Multiple Colliding Laser Pulses as a Basis for Studying High-field High-energy Physics

18:20 – 19:00 Gianluca SARRI QUB, United Kingdom

Non-linear QED with Ultra-high Intensity Lasers: Current Status and Prospectives

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PANEL 7 MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS OF LASER-DRIVEN IONS

Tuesday - October 13, 2020 13:00 - 16:00

Room F

Organizer/Moderator Daniele MARGARONE ELI Beamlines & QUB

13:00 - 13:25 Invited Speaker Pablo CIRRONE Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Italy

Multidisciplinary User Applications at ELIMED

13:25 - 13:50 Kevin PRISE Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Radiobiology Experiments with Ultrahigh Dose-rate Laser-driven Ion Beams

13:50 - 14:15 Ulrich SCHRAMM Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, Germany

Hadrontherapy Related Experiments at the DRACO-PW Target Area

14:15 - 14:30 / BREAK

14.30-15.00 User proposal for future user sample irradiation at ELIMED 5 presentations (5x 5min)

6 min

Giusi FORTE CNR, Italy

Radiobiology Experiments at ELIMED

6 min

Pavel BLAHA, Lorenzo MANTI Naples University, Italy

On the combination of PBCT and FLASH radiotherapy

6 min Katalin HIDEGHETY ELI-ALPS, Hungary

In-vivo irradiation with laser accelerated ion beams

6 min

Patrizio ANTICI INRS, Canada

Cultural Heritage and Material Science Realted Experiments

6 min

Fernando BRANDI INO-CNR, Italy

A Few-MeV Laser-accelerated Proton Beam in Air, Collimated Using Permanent Quadrupole Magnets

15.00-16.00 Panel Discussion

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PANEL 8 (RP4) TIME-RESOLVED AND XUV ELLIPSOMETRY Tuesday - October 13, 2020 13:00 - 17:00

Room A

13:00 - 13:20 Shirly ESPINOZA ELI Beamlines, CZ

Update on the Ellipsometry Station at ELI Beamlines

13:20 - 13:40 Ben MALLETT The University of Auckland, NZ

The Distinct Electronic Properties of Thin-film Multilayers of a Superconductor and Manganite

13:40 - 14:00 Adam DUBROKA CEITEC, CZ

Exploring the Phase Diagram of Cobaltites with Pump-probe Ellipsometry

14:00 - 14:20 Zsuzsanna PÁPA ELI ALPS, HU

Monitoring Electron Occupancies in the Gold Film upon Plasmon Excitation

14:20 - 14:40 Chris STURM Leipzig University, Germany

Ellipsometry on CuI

14:40 - 15:00 Michele MAGNOZZI University of Genoa, Italy

Optical Properties of Monolayer WS2 Revealed Through Imaging and Time-resolved Ellipsometry

15:00 - 15:20 Marina TJUNINA University of Oulu, Finland & FZÚ, Czech Republic

Optical revelation of defects in functional oxides

15:20 - 15:40 Luca POLETTO University of Padova, Italy

XUV polarimetry using an all-reflective mirror system

15:40 - 16:00 Juan Antonio ZAPIEN City University of Hong Kong, HK

Quantitative Finite-Difference Time-Domain modelling of the far field ellipsometric response of complex materials

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16:00 - 16:20 Farzin ABADIZAMAN New Mexico State University, USA

Temperature Dependent Optical Properties of Ni

16.20 - 16:40 Carola EMMINGER New Mexico State University, USA

Analysis of Critical Points in Ellipsometry Spectra Using Digital

Filtering

16:40 - 17:00 Daniel FRANTA Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Dispersion Models with Natural Optical Activity: Golden Grail of

Dispersion Models

17:00 Shirly ESPINOZA ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

Closing Remarks

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PANEL 9 (RP2 & RP4) LASER DRIVEN X-RAY SOURCES AND APPLICATION

Wednesday - October 14, 2020 9:00 - 12:00

Room A

Organizer/Moderator Jakob ANDREASSON Research Program Leader - MBMS / ELI Beamlines

9:00 - 9:25 Dong Du MAI ELI Beamlines, CZ

Introduction: X-ray Sources at ELI Beamlines

9:25 - 9:55 Zulfikar NAJMUDIN Imperial College, London, UK

LWFA Based X-ray Sources and Applications: Present Status and Challenges

9:55 - 10:20 Andreas DÖPP Max Planck Institute für Quantenoptik, Germany

Laser Plasma Accelerator and X-ray Source - Recent Results and Development

10:20 - 10:45 Adrïan GROLLEAU CEA, France

Energy transport dynamics observed in warm dense copper using femtosecond time-resolved XANES spectroscopy

10:45-10:55

Break

10:55 - 11:20 Gergely KATONA University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Structural Response of a Protein Crystal to Strong Pulsed THz Fields

11:20 - 11:45 Jens UHLIG Lund University, Sweden

Science for and with Laser-based X-ray Sources

11:45 - 12:10 Suraj PANDEY University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA

Time Resolved Serial Femtosecond Crystallography at the EuXFEL

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PANEL 10 LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION IN NEAR CRITICAL DENSITY PLASMAS AT HIGH REPETITION RATE

Wednesday - October 14, 2020 15:00 - 18:00

DARK ROOM

Moderator 15:00 - 15:10 Carlo Maria LAZZARINI ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

Introduction on High Repetition LWFA at ELI-Beamlines for User Experiments

15:10 – 15:30 Sebastian LORENZ ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

Design and Characterization of Gas Targets

15:30 - 15:50 Petr VALENTA ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

Theory related to LWFA in near-critical density plasmas

15:50 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:30 Howard MILCHBERG University of Maryland, USA

Laser Accelerated 15 MeV Quasi-monoenergetic Electron Bunches at 1 kHz

16:30 - 17:00 Florian GRÜNER University Hamburg, Germany

Experiments and Needs for Pre-clinical X-ray Fluorescence Imaging Based on a Thomson Source

17:00 - 17:30 Julius HUIJTS LOA, Ecole Polytechnique, France

Latest Results on Kilohertz Laser Wakefield Acceleration: Micro-shocks, Mega-stability and Malignant Cells

17:30 - 18:00 Aakash SAHAI University of Colorado, USA

ELI Beamlines Based Experiments on the Strongly Mismatched Regime of LPA by Stepwise Variation of the Incident Laser Focal Spot-size

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PANEL 11 (RP2 & RP4) X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS Wednesday - October 14, 2020 13:00 - 15:00

Room A

Moderator Anna ZYMAKOVA ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

13:00 - 13:30 Jacinto SA Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Plasmonics: From Light Absorption to Charge Generation and Utilization

13:30 - 14:00 Jakub SZLACHETKO Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Polychromatic Sources for Modular X-ray Spectroscopy Setups

14:00 - 14:30 Zoltán NÉMETH Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary

Quest for an Optimal High Energy Resolution X-ray Spectrometer

14:30 - 15:00 Jozef ULIČNÝ Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

Improving S/N ratio for experiments with limited photon budget

15:20 - 16:00

Anna Zymakova

Visegrad Group Discussion:

15:20 - 15:40 Prospectives and aims of Visegrad round 2020-2021

15:40 - 16:00 CELIXS discussion

16:15 - 16:45 Discussion of prospective user application