The Second Orion Workshop

February 18-20, 2003
Stanford, California

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Proceedings: SLAC-WP-026
Final List of Participants
The ORION Project

Workshop Program
SLAC-WP-026

bulletPlenary Session
bulletWorking Group 1: Beam-Plasma Physics
bulletWorking Group 2: Laser Acceleration
bulletWorking Group 3: Laboratory Astrophysics
bulletWorking Group 4: Particle and Radiation Sources
bulletWorkshop Closing Session
bulletWorking Group Summary Reports

 

Plenary Session

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
Robert Siemann (SLAC) Workshop Overview and Charge [PDF]  
Thomas Katsouleas (USC) The ORION Center [PDF] [PPT]
Chris Adolphsen (SLAC) The Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator [PDF]  
Robert Noble (SLAC) ORION Facility Concepual Design [PDF] [PPT]
Dennis Palmer (SLAC) The ORION Photoinjector [PDF]  
Robert Byer (Stanford Univ.) Laser Acceleration Experiments [PDF] [PPT]
Mark Hogan (SLAC) Beam-Plasma Physics Experiments [PDF] [PPT]
James Rosenzweig (UCLA) Particle and Radiation Source Experiments [PDF] [PPT]
Pisin Chen (SLAC) Laboratory Astrophysics [PDF] [PPT]
Warren Mori (UCLA) Simulations [PDF] [PPT]

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Working Group 1: Beam-Plasma Physics

Thomas Katsouleas, chair
Caolionn O'Connell and Chris Barnes, scientific secretaries

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
D. Bruhwiler (Tech-X Corp.) PIC Simulations of Tunneling Ionization in Wakefield Accelerators [PDF]  
D. Dimitrov, et al. (Tech-X Corp.) Parameter Studies of Tunneling Ionization in E164 [PDF]  

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Working Group 2: Laser Acceleration

Robert Byer and Yen-Chieh Huang, co-chairs
Yuan-Yao Lin, An-Chung Chiang, and Ben Cowan, scientific secretaries

bulletExperience from KEK
bulletParameters for Laser Accelerators and Colliders
bulletOngoing and Approved Projects
bulletLaser Acceleration Schemes

 

I. Experience from KEK

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
K. Nakajima (KEK) Advanced Accelerator R&D at JAERI-APRC [PDF] [PPT]
K. Nakajima (KEK) Acceleration and Focusing by Superstrong Laser Fields and Applications to a Laser Micro-Collider [PDF] [PPT]

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II. Parameters for Laser Accelerators and Colliders

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
R. Siemann (SLAC) Efficiency Considerations for a Laser Driven Linear Collider [PDF] [PPT]
L. Schachter (Technion) Optical Accelerator: Scaling Laws and Figures of Merit [PDF] [PPT]

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III. Ongoing and Approved Projects

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
I. Ben-Zvi (BNL) Laser Acceleration Experiments at the BNL ATF [PDF]  
T. Plettner (Stanford) First 6 Years of the Laser Electron Acceleration Project [PDF] [PPT]
E. Colby (SLAC) E163: Laser Acceleration at the NLCTA [PDF] [PPT]

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IV. Laser Acceleration Schemes

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
C. Sears, et al. (SLAC) E163 Micro-Buncher [PDF] [PPT]
B. Cowan (SLAC) Photonic Crystal Acceleration Experiments at ORION [PDF] [PPT]
Y.Y. Lin, et al. (NTHU, Taiwan) Design and Experimental Considerations for Multi-stage Laser Driven Particle Accelerator at 1 micron [PDF] [PPT]
Y-K. Ho (Fudan Univ.) Acceleration Channel and Vacuum Laser Acceleration [PDF] [PPT]
L. Schachter (Technion) Hollow Bragg Fiber Accelerator [PDF] [PPT]
G. Stupakov (SLAC), M. Zolotorev (LBL) Ponderomotive Laser Acceleration and Focusing in Vacuum [PDF]  

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Working Group 3: Laboratory Astrophysics

Pisin Chen, chair
Kevin Reil, scientific secretary

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
P. Sokolsky (Univ. of Utah) Laboratory Particle Astrophysics [PDF] [PPT]
R. Bingham (Rutherford Lab, UK) Hyper-Precision Cold Atom Interferometry in Space [PDF] [PPT]
D. Saltzberg (UCLA) Neutrino Astrophysics and Askaryan Effect [PDF] [PPT]
P. Soklosky (Univ. of Utah) E165 and Measurement of Air Flourescence [PDF] [PPT]
K. Reil (SLAC) UHECR Acceleration via Alfven Wave Induced Plasma Wakefield [PDF] [PPT]
R. Sydora (Univ. of Alberta) Nonlinear Alfven Wave Dynamics: Wave Steepening and Particle Acceleration [PDF] [PPT]
J. Ng (SLAC) Cosmic Accelerators in the Laboratory [PDF]  
K. Nakajima (KEK) Intense Electron-Positron Pair Beam Production in Superstrong Laser-Matter Interactions for Laboratory Astrophysics [PDF]  
R. Klein Creation of Neutron Star Atmospheres on a Petawatt Laser [PDF] [PPT]
A. Spitkovsky (UC, Berkeley) Electrodynamic of Magnetized Rotators [PDF] [PPT]
R. Bingham (Rutherford Lab, UK) Similarities Between Intense Electron and Neutrino Beams in Plasma [PDF] [PPT]
R. Paul Drake (Univ. of Michigan) Connecting Laboratory Experiments with Astrophysical Phenomena [PDF]  

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Working Group 4: Particle and Radiation Sources

James Rosenzweig, chair
Joel England, scientific secretary

bulletBeam Dynamics Relevant to ORION
bulletBeam Diagnostics and Ultra-Fast Measurements
bulletExotic Particle Source Physics

 

I. Beam Dynamics Relevant to ORION

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
E. Colby (SLAC) ORION Beamlines [PDF]  
R.J. England (UCLA) First and Second Order Optics for the ORION Dogleg [PDF]  
L. Serafini (INFN) Beam Dynamics Studies of High Brightness Beams at SPARC [PDF]  
W. Gai (ANL) PARMELA Simulations of Electron Beam from the AWA Gun [PDF]  

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II. Beam Diagnostics and Ultra-Fast Measurements

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
S. Anderson (LLNL) Pulse Compression via Velocity Bunching with LLNL Photoinjector [PDF]  
D. Dowell, et al. (SSRL) Slice Emittance Measurements at the SLAC Gun Test Facility [PDF] [PPT]

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III. Exotic Particle Source Physics

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
G. Fubiani, et al. (LBNL) 6-D Space Charge Estimates for Dense Electron Bunches [PDF] [PPT]
M. Thompson, et al. (UCLA) Plasma Density Transition Trapping [PDF]  
D. Yu (DULY) Polarized Electron Source [PDF]  

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Workshop Closing Session

Presenter Title PDF PowerPoint
Thomas Katsouleas Beam-Plasma Working Group [PDF] [PPT]
Robert Byer Laser Acceleration Working Group [PDF] [PPT]
Pisin Chen Laboratory Astrophysics Working Group [PDF] [PPT]
Luca Serafini Particle and Radiation Sources Working Group [PDF]  

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Working Group Summary Reports

Presenter Title PDF Word
Thomas Katsouleas Beam-Plasma Working Group [PDF] [DOC]
Robert Byer and Yen-Chieh Huang Laser Acceleration Working Group
Table of Experiments		 [PDF]
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Pisin Chen Laboratory Astrophysics Working Group [PDF] [DOC]
James Rosenzweig Particle and Radiation Sources Working Group [PDF] [DOC]

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