Welcome

• Wim Leemans

Room: 264

Overview of the BELLA Center and our vision for BELLA-i, W. Leemans and T. Schenkel

• Thomas Schenkel

Room: 264

BELLA-i - a new tool for ion acceleration, rel. plasma physics and applications, M. Roth Room: 264

Laser ion acceleration at the centre for advanced laser applications in Munich, J. Schreiber Room: 264

Acceleration of ions using ultra-thin targets with the BELLA laser, F. Beg Room: 264

Chirped standing wave acceleration: High-energy ion control, F. Mackenroth Room: 264

Exploiting lights momentum to boost laser wakefield accelerators towards high field physics, J. Vieira Room: 264

Betatron x-rays from laser-wakefield accelerators: a novel probe for time-resolved high energy density science experiments, F. Albert Room: 264

Potential for high intensity QED experiments on Bella, M. Zepf Room: 264

Ionization physics at extreme intensity, D. Gordon Room: 264

Relativistic electron transport in HED plasmas -- future prospects at XFELs, T. Cowan Room: 264

Exploiting relativistic nonlinearities in near-critical density plasmas for laser driven ion acceleration, J. Bin Room: 264

Discussion of Day 1 experiments at BELLA-i Room: 264

no host dinner, some of us will go to Jupiter 2181 Shattuck Ave Room: 264

A perspective on laser-driven ion acceleration: new mechanisms and their dependence on laser-pulse duration, J. Fernandez Room: 264

Dense Gamma-ray and Pair Creation using Ultra-intense Lasers, E. Liang Room: 264

Why does a quantum field theory for intense laser matter interactions matter?, B. M. Hegelich Room: 264

All Optical Nonlinear Compton Scattering and Pair-Plasma Production, A. Thomas Room: 264

Resolving ultrafast dynamics in warm dense matter, D. Kraus Room: 264

Nuclear-Plasma Experiments using Lasers, L. Bernstein Room: 264

Laser-nucleus interaction with keV and MeV photons, J. Gunst Room: 264

QED-driven absorption of high-intensity lasers, T. Blackburn Room: 264

From electron-Positron photoproduction in strong laser fields to QED cascades, S. Meuren Room: 264

What can we learn about electron velocity distribution functions by Raman amplifying a probe beam off a sub-ps time scale sculpted pump wave using STUD pulses (spike trains of uneven duration and delay) in a high energy density plasma?, B. Afeyan Room: 264

Discussion of requirements for experiments at BELLA-i Room: 264

no host dinner, China Village, $30 per person, please RSVP to [email protected] Room: 264

Liquid crystal films as plasma mirrors and targets for high repetition rate secondary beam generation, P. Poole Room: 264

Integrating a high-power laser system into the accelerator infrastructure at DESY, A. Meier Room: 264

Status of the ELI-MED beamline, V. Scuderi Room: 264

BELLA-i ion beam transport, Q. Ji Room: 264

no host lunch Room: 264

optional tours of the BELLA center and other LBNL faciltities Room: 264