Saturday, July 1, 2017
Time | Event | |
09:00 - 09:20 | Introduction - Ricardo Fonseca and Emmanuel d'Humières | |
09:20 - 10:50 | Installations | |
09:20 - 09:40 | › The Apollon laser facility - Patrick Audebert, Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses | |
09:40 - 10:00 | › The ELI-Beamlines laser facility - Deepak Kumar, ELI-Beamlines | |
10:00 - 10:20 | › High Field Laser-Plasma Experiments at ELI-NP - Petru Ghenuche, Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)/Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering | |
10:20 - 10:35 | › The CLPU laser facility - Luca Volpe, Centro de Laseres Pulsados | |
10:35 - 10:50 | › High Field Science opportunities of HIBEF UC at HED@XFEL.eu - Toma Toncian, HZDR | |
10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee break | |
11:10 - 12:30 | Experiments | |
11:10 - 11:30 | › Fast scintillators and imaging options for plasma diagnostics in a multi PW environment - Dave Neely, Central Laser Facility | |
11:30 - 11:50 | › Obtaining high intensity: Focusing with Elliptical Plasma Mirrors (EPM) - Michal Smid, Institute of Physics (Prague, Czech) | |
11:50 - 12:10 | › Towards experiments in the QED-plasmas regime using multi-PW laser facilities - Paul McKenna, Strathclyde University | |
12:10 - 12:30 | › Radiation reaction and pair production in a purely optical setup: current experiments and perspectives - Gianluca Sarri, QUB Belfast | |
12:30 - 13:50 | Lunch | |
13:50 - 15:10 | Theory and simulations | |
13:50 - 14:10 | › Effective sources of high-energy protons and electrons from innovative low-density targets - Valery Bychenkov, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute | |
14:10 - 14:30 | › Relativistic laser plasma for extreme nonlinear physics: from ultra-bright attosecond light pulse generation to ultra-dense electron-positron pair plasma production - Sheng Zheng-Ming, University of Strathclyde, Shanghai Jiao Tong University | |
14:30 - 14:50 | › Influence of the ion mass on the non-linear Breit-Wheeler process with the next generation high power lasers - Remi Capdessus, Department of Physics SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom | |
14:50 - 15:10 | › Breit-Wheeler pairs production with high intense gamma photons beams - Xavier Ribeyre, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications | |
15:10 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
15:30 - 16:30 | Theory and simulations | |
15:30 - 15:50 | › Numerics for ultra-intense fields - Thomas Grismayer, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon | |
15:50 - 16:10 | › Electron - laser scattering at extreme intensities - a roadmap for future experiments - Marija Vranic, IST Lisboa, ELI-Beamlines | |
16:10 - 16:30 | › Quenching of laser ion acceleration by laser-created electron-positron plasma - Dario Del Sorbo, University of York | |
16:30 - 17:30 | Discussions |