EPS workshop on high field laser-plasma interaction

›9:00 (20min)

Introduction
Ricardo Fonseca and Emmanuel d'Humières

9:00 - 9:20 (20min)

Introduction

Ricardo Fonseca and Emmanuel d'Humières

›9:20 (1h30)

Installations

9:20 - 10:50 (1h30)

Installations

› The Apollon laser facility - Patrick Audebert, Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses 09:20-09:40 (20min)

› The ELI-Beamlines laser facility - Deepak Kumar, ELI-Beamlines 09:40-10:00 (20min)

› 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 10:00-10:20 (20min)

› The CLPU laser facility - Luca Volpe, Centro de Laseres Pulsados 10:20-10:35 (15min)

› High Field Science opportunities of HIBEF UC at HED@XFEL.eu - Toma Toncian, HZDR 10:35-10:50 (15min)

›10:50 (20min)

Coffee break

10:50 - 11:10 (20min)

Coffee break

›11:10 (1h20)

Experiments

11:10 - 12:30 (1h20)

Experiments

› Fast scintillators and imaging options for plasma diagnostics in a multi PW environment - Dave Neely, Central Laser Facility 11:10-11:30 (20min)

› Obtaining high intensity: Focusing with Elliptical Plasma Mirrors (EPM) - Michal Smid, Institute of Physics (Prague, Czech) 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› TBA - Paul McKenna, Strathclyde University 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› Radiation reaction and pair production in a purely optical setup: current experiments and perspectives - Gianluca Sarri, QUB Belfast 12:10-12:30 (20min)

›12:30 (1h20)

Lunch

12:30 - 13:50 (1h20)

Lunch

›13:50 (1h20)

Theory and simulations

13:50 - 15:10 (1h20)

Theory and simulations

› Effective sources of high-energy protons and electrons from innovative low-density targets - Valery Bychenkov, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute 13:50-14:10 (20min)

› 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 14:10-14:30 (20min)

› 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 14:30-14:50 (20min)

› Breit-Wheeler pairs production with high intense gamma photons beams - Xavier Ribeyre, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications 14:50-15:10 (20min)

›15:10 (20min)

Coffee break

15:10 - 15:30 (20min)

Coffee break

›15:30 (1h)

Theory and simulations

15:30 - 16:30 (1h)

Theory and simulations

› Numerics for ultra-intense fields - Thomas Grismayer, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon 15:30-15:50 (20min)

› Electron - laser scattering at extreme intensities - a roadmap for future experiments - Marija Vranic, IST Lisboa, ELI-Beamlines 15:50-16:10 (20min)

› Quenching of laser ion acceleration by laser-created electron-positron plasma - Dario Del Sorbo, University of York 16:10-16:30 (20min)

›16:30 (1h)

Discussions

16:30 - 17:30 (1h)

Discussions