International Conference on High Energy Density Science 2018(HEDS2018)

Program

April 23 Mon.

HEDS1: Mon-A1
Chair: Tomonao Hosokai(Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University/RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Laser Accelerator R&D Team, Japan)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
9:30 9:45 Opening Remarks Tomonao Hosokai
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University/RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Laser Accelerator R&D Team, Japan
9:45 10:30 HEDS1-1
Plenary
Latest Results in Advances in HEDS with Lasers and Particle Beams Chandrashekhar Joshi
University of California Los Angels, USA
I will present some latest results on our work on several topics related to high energy density science with intense but ultra short laser and charged particle beam pulses.
10:30 11:00 Break

HEDS2: Mon-A2
Chair: Masaki Kando(KPSI, QST, Japan)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
11:00 11:30 HEDS2-1
Invited
From plasma acceleration to plasma accelerators? Status of PW laser driven experiments in Dresden Ulrich Schramm
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
Status of Petawatt laser driven and application oriented particle acceleration is presented.
11:30 12:00 HEDS2-2
Invited
Laser wakefield electron acceleration with multi-PW laser pulses Hyung Taek Kim1, 2, Jung hun Shin1, C. Aniculaesei1, B. S. Rao1, V. B. Pathak1, M. H. Cho1, C. Hojbota1, 3, S. K. Lee1, 2, J. H. Sung1, 2, H. W. Lee1, J. W. Yoon1, 2, K. Nakajima1, Chang Hee Nam1, 3
1Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea,
2Advanced Photonics Research Institute, GIST, Korea,
3Department of Physics and Photon Science, GIST, Korea
We present the recent progress in LWFA research with multi-PW laser at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science in IBS Korea, and the plan to develop 10-GeV electron beam in near future.
12:00 14:00 Lunch

HEDS3: Mon-P1
Chair: Chandrashekhar Joshi(University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
14:00 14:25 HEDS3-1
Invited
Outlook for laser wakefield acceleration technology in the Japanese national program ImPACT Yuji Sano
JST, Japan
TBD
14:25 14:50 HEDS3-2
Invited
Status of ImPACT Program aiming for repeatable GeV-class LWFA Tomonao Hosokai1, 2, Takamitsu Otsuka3, Yasuo Sakai1, 2, Junpei Ogino4, Naveen Pathak1, 2, Alexei Zhidkov1, 2, Keiichi Sueda1, Hirotaka Nakamura1, 2, Zhang Jin1, Akihiro Ueno1, Hakujun Toran1, Yusuke Tanizawa1, Ryosuke Kodama2, 3, Kai Huang5, Noboru Nakanii5, Michiaki Mori5, Hideyuki Kotaki5, Yukio Hayashi5, Izuru Daito5, Yasuhiro Miyasaka5, Timur Esirkepov5, James Koga5, Sergei Bulanov5, Masaki Kando5, Shin-ichi Masuda6, Shigeru Yamamoto6
1Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan,
2RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Laser Accelerator R&D Team, Japan,
3Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, Japan,
4Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan,
5Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan,
6High Energy Accelerator Organization (KEK), Japan
A laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) research under the ImPACT program in Japan, that aims for table-top sized free-electron laser (FEL) will be reviewed.
14:50 15:15 HEDS3-3
Invited
Plasma and Beam Diagnostics for LAPLACIAN Project Masaki Kando
KPSI, QST, Japan
We are developing laser based electron accelerator aiming a future compact X-ray free-electron laser and the development status for the beam diagnostics will be given.
15:15 15:45 Break

HEDS4: Mon-P2
Chair: Ulrich Schramm(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
15:45 16:15 HEDS4-1
Invited
Gamma ray emission from wakefield accelerated electrons wiggling in laser filed Liming Chen
Institute of Physics, CAS, China
we present a method for high energy radiation via the accelerated electrons wiggling in an additional laser field whose intensity is one order higher than the self generation transverse field of the bubble.
16:15 16:35 HEDS4-2 Slow wave excitation using head-on two-color TW laser pulses toward plasma ion accelerator Yoshitaka Mori, Yoneyoshi Kitagawa
GPI, Japan
We have investigated experiments of plasma wave excitation for ion acceleration. Using double-line TW laser system (200 mJ/150 fs): BEAT, we have counter irradiated two-color (787 nm and 813 nm) ultra-intense laser pulses into a hydrogen gas jet flow to excite a plasma wave of slow-wave branch.
16:35 16:55 HEDS4-3 Current Sheet and Plasmoid Formation in Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection via Laser-Plasma Interaction Yanjun Gu1, 2, Sergei V. Bulanov1, 3, 4
1Institute of Physics of ASCR, ELI-Beamlines, Czech Republic,
2Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, Czech Republic,
3Kansai Photon Research Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan,
4Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
3D PIC simulations of relativistic magnetic reconnection via laser-plasma interactions are reported. Magnetic field lines variation and plasmoids are obtained. The magnetic islands are clearly shown. The inductive electric field grows and accelerates the electrons.
April 24 Tue.

HEDS5: Tue-A1
Chair: Victor Malka(Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, France)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
9:00 9:40 HEDS5-1
Plenary
TBD Ralph Asmann TBD
9:40 10:10 HEDS5-2 A step towards laser plasma electron based free electron laser : undulator radiation observed after an electron beam manipulation line Couprie Marie Emmanuelle
SOLEIL, France
Towards laser plasma acceleration qualification with a free electron laser application, undulator spontaneous emission measurement after a manipulation electron beam line is reported. The measured undulator radiation provides an insight on the electron beam properties.
10:10 10:40 HEDS5-3 LUX – A Laser-Plasma Driven Undulator Beamline Andreas R. Maier
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Germany
We present experimental results from the LUX Beamline, that recently generated first x-rays at few-nm wavelength from a plasma-driven undulator. We report on stable laser and beamline operation and discuss first experiments.
10:40 11:10 Break

HEDS6: Tue-A2
Chair: Couprie Marie Emmanuelle(SOLEIL, France)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
11:10 11:40 HEDS6-1
Invited
Applications of light sources driven by laser-wakefield acceleration Felicie Albert
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
We will review hard x-ray light sources driven by laser wakefield acceleration (betatron X-ray radiation, Compton scattering, bremsstrahlung) developed at LLNL in the self-modulated and blowout regimes.
11:40 12:00 HEDS6-2 High quality X-ray/gamma-ray radiation from a plasma undulator Jingwei Wang
Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany
TBD
12:00 14:00 Lunch

HEDS7: Tue-P1
Chair: Felicie Albert(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
14:00 14:20 HEDS7-1 Electro-optic spatial decoding on the spherical-wavefront Coulomb fields of plasma electron sources Kai Huang
Kansai Photon Science Institute, QST, Japan
The Coulomb field of electron beams near the source position has been found to have spherical shape, which is different with previously widely used model. A new temporal mapping relationship was established.
14:20 14:40 HEDS7-2 Effect of linearly chirped laser pulses on Laser Wakefield Acceleration Naveen Chandra Pathak1, Alexei Zhidkov1, Tomonao Hosokai1, 2, Zhang Jin1, Yasuo Sakai1, Keiichi Sueda1, Hirotaka Nakamura2, Junpei Ogino1, Takamitsu Otsuka1, Ryosuke Kodama1, 2, 3
1Photon Pioneers Center, Osaka University, Japan,
2Graduate School of Engineering,Osaka University, Japan,
3Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
Linearly chirped laser pulses are useful for online control of electron self- injection, accelerated bunch charge and energy gain in laser wakefield acceleration.
14:40 15:00 HEDS7-3 Generation and Detection of Terahertz Radiation in Laser-solid Interaction Zhan Jin1, Hongbin Zhuo2, 3, Takuya Fukuda4, Shouta Tajima5, Noboru Yugami4, Tomonao Hosokai5, Zhengming Sheng3, 6, Ryosuke Kodama1, 5, 7
1Photon Pioneers Center, Osaka University, Japan, Japan,
2National University of Defense Technology, China,
3Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China,
4Utsunomiya University, Japan,
5Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan,
6University of Strathclyde, U.K.,
7Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
We report experimental results on efficient generation of radially polarized terahertz radiation behind laser-solid interaction. A single-shot terahertz time-domain spectroscopy method is also developed to obtain the temporal waveform of the terahertz wave.
15:00 15:30 Break

HEDS8: Tue-P2
Chair: Alexei Zhidkov(Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
15:30 16:00 HEDS8-1
Invited
Control of Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation (BISER) with density jump Alexander Pirozhkov1, T. Zh. Esirkepov1, A. Sagisaka1, K. Ogura1, N. Nakanii1, H. Kai1, T.A. Pikuz2, S. Namba3, I. Daito1, Y. Fukuda1
1KPSI, QST, Japan,
2Osaka University, Japan,
3Hiroshima University, Japan
We for the first time demonstrated the Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation (BISER) control employing a sharp plasma density jump generated by a shock in supersonic gas flow in experiments with the J-KAREN-P laser.
16:00 16:20 HEDS8-2 X-ray structures with nanometer-spatial resolution in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions Bruno Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Masaki Kando, Alexander Pirozhkov
Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan
A technique to measure the spatial distribution of x-ray sources in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions with a few hundred nanometer resolution is presented. This enables the x-ray source size and brightness estimation.
16:20 16:40 HEDS8-3 Collective Stopping of Laser Ion Beam in Plasmas Kunioki Mima
The Graduate School for the creation of New Photonics Industries, Japan
The collective interaction between intense ion beams and plasmas is studied where a high-current density proton beams produced by short pulse laser interacts with a plasma.
16:40 16:50 HEDS8-4 Increase of escaping electrons from laser irradiated foils by producing preformed plasma at the back side Sadaoki Kojima, Masaki Hashida, Shuji SakabeShunsuke Inoue, Kensuke Teramoto, 
Kyoto University, Japan
We show that electrons emitted from a foil target irradiated by an intense laser pulse are increased by irradiation of the second femtosecond laser pulse in advance on the other surface of the target.
April 25 Wed.

Joint Session:Joint Session ALPS+HEDS+XOPT
Chairs: Ryosuke Kodama(Osaka University, Japan)
Hitoki Yoneda(Institute for Laser Science, The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan)
Makina Yabashi(RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan)

Room 303

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
13:30 14:00 HEDSj-1Invited Manipulating Electrons with Intense Laser Pulses Victor Malka1,2
1Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, France,
2Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
I’ll then show how by controlling the quiver motion of relativistic electrons intense and bright X-rays beam are produced in a compact and elegant way. Finally I’ll show some examples of applications.
14:00 14:30 ALPSj-1Invited Development and Commissioning of a 20 fs, 4 PW Laser Junghun Shin1, Hyung Taek Kim1,2, Seong Ku Lee1,2, Jae Hee Sung1,2, Hwang Woon Lee1, Jin Woo Yoon1,2, Cheonha Jeon1, Chang Hee Nam1,3
1Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea,
2Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea,
3Department of Physics and Photon Science, GIST, Korea
A 20 fs, 4 PW Ti:Sapphire laser beamline is developed at CoReLS. Details of the new beamline, and commissioning experiments that include focal spot optimization, double plasma mirror, and laser wakefield electron acceleration is presented.
14:30 15:00 XOPTj-1Invited European XFEL – New Opportunities for X-ray Science Robert Krarup Feidenhans’l
European XFEL, Germany
The European X-ray Free Electron Laser is the brightest X-ray free electron in the world due to its superconducting accelerator that allows the delivery of up 27000 intense, ultrashort pulses per second.
15:00 15:30 Break

HEDS9: Wed-P2
Chair: Alexei Zhidkov(Osaka University, Japan)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
15:30 15:50 HEDS9-1 SourceLAB : laser plasma supplier for physics and applications François Sylla
Source Lab., France
TBD
15:50 16:20 HEDS9-2
Invited
TBD Rodrigo Lopez-Martens
Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, France
TBD
16:20 16:40 HEDS9-3 Tracking Strain Field Evolution in Graphite Shaken by Femtosecond Laser Pulses Wenxi Liang
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
TBD
16:40 17:00 HEDS9-4 TBD Franck Falcoz
Amplitude Technology, France
TBD
April 26 Thu.

HEDS10: Thu-A1
Chair: Alexander Pirozhkov(KPSI, QST, Japan)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
9:00 9:30 HEDS-10-1
Plenary
Capillary discharges for optical guiding and for optics of charged particle beams Sergei V. Bulanov1, 2, 3
1Institute of Physics of ASCR, ELI-Beamlines, Czech Republic,
2Kansai Photon Research Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan,
3Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
We discuss the plasma and magnetic field properties in capillary discharges intended for optical guiding and for optics of charged particle beams.
9:30 10:00 HEDS-10-2 Characteristics of femtosecond-laser-assisted discharges for laser wake-field acceleration Alexei G. Zhidkov
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
Femtosecond laser pulse induced discharges can be stable and well reproducible to serve as optical elements in laser driven accelerators. Results of full kinetic PIC and MHD simulations are presented.
10:00 10:30 HEDS-10-3
Invited
TBD Mitsuhiro Yoshida
KEK, Japan
TBD

HEDSp11: Poster Session
Chair: Hirotaka Nakamura(Osaka University, Japan)

Exhibition Hall A

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
10:30 12:00 HEDSp11-1 Exploration of Efficient Laser Driven Plasma Acceleration Using an Intense Mid-Infrared Laser Pulse Eisuke Miura1, Shin-Ichi Masuda2, Eiji Takahashi3
1AIST, Japan,
2Osaka University, Japan,
3RIKEN, Japan
We discuss the feasibility of efficient laser-driven plasma acceleration using an intense mid-infrared laser pulse through particle-in-cell simulations. The number of accelerated electrons is enhanced using a 1.5 m laser pulse.
HEDSp11-2 Probing ultrafast motion of critical surface pushed by multi-pico-second relativistic radiation pressure Yugo Ochiai1, Sadaoki Kojima2, Shunsuke Inoue2, Masayasu Hata1, Natsumi Iwata1, Yasunobu Arikawa1, Alessio Morace1, Shouhei Sakata1, Seungho Lee1, Kazuki Matsuo1
1Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan,
2Advanced Research Center for Beam Science, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
The ultrafast motion of critical surface is important key to understand during multi-picosecond interaction. We designed frequency-resolved optical gating to observed the ultrafast plasma motion with high temporal-resolution (~150 fs) and wavelength resolution (~0.2 nm).
HEDSp11-3 Gamma-ray Generation from Plasma-based resonant Wiggler Bifeng Lei, Jingwei Wang, Vasily Kharin, Matt Zepf, Sergey Rykovanov
Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany
A flexible gamma-ray radiation source based on the resonant laser plasma wakefield wiggler is proposed. The wiggler is achieved by inducing centroid oscillations of a short laser pulse in a plasma channel. The photon generation
HEDSp11-4 Investigation of plasma parameters from Cu wire/Al foil combined target heated by high intensity LFEX laser pulse Daniil Golovin1, Akifumi Yogo1, Tatiana Pikuz2, 3, Anatoly Faenov2, 3, Maria Alkhimova3, 4, Igor Skobelev3, 4, Sergey Pikuz3, 4, Yuki Abe1, Yasunobu Arikawa1, Keisuke Koga1, Kazuki Okamoto1, Satoru Shokita1, Hiroaki Nis1

1Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, Japan,
2Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, Japan,
3Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 125412, Russia, Russia,
4National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI), Moscow 115409, Russia, Russia
In our research we propose and applied two channels focusing spectrometer with spatial resolution (FSSR), to observe X-ray radiation of plasma from the target, heated by high-intensity LFEX laser.
HEDSp11-5 Stabilization of LWFA injector electron beam using pulse solenoid Yusuke Tanizawa, Akihiro Ueno, Gakujun Toran, Hirokazu Takeuchi, Masahiro Yano,  We proposed a pulse-driven solenoid capable of focusing high-energy electrons and evaluated the relation between the applied voltage and the selected energy of the electron beams.
HEDSp11-6 Measurement of high-order harmonics generated from relativistic plasma in gas target Akito Sagisaka1, Alexander S. Pirozhkov1, Timur Zh. Esirkepov1, Tatiana A. Pikuz2, 3, Anatoly Ya. Faenov3, 4, Sergei V. Bulanov1, 5, Koichi Ogura1, Hideyuki Kotaki1, Yukio Hayashi1, Yuji Fukuda1, James K. Koga1, Kiminori Kondo1, Tetsuya Kawachi1, Hiromitsu Kiriyama1, Masaki Kando1
1National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan,
2PPC and Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan,
3Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia,
4Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Japan,
5Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project, Japan
High-order harmonics generated from relativistic plasma driven by Ti:sapphire laser in helium gas target are measured.
HEDSp11-7 Interaction of multi-PW class laser pulses with underdense plasmas Masahiro Yano, Alexei Zhidkov, Ryosuke Kodama For the first time the interaction of multi-PW laser pulses with underdense plasma, in the regime of strong relativistic wave-breaking, is investigated via 3D particle-in-cell simulation
HEDSp11-8 Development of a multi keV x-ray backlighter source based on laser irradiation of extended cluster gases H.F. Lowe1, 2, S .Patankar2, 3, S. Giltrap2, N. H. Stuart2, T.S. Robinson2, E.T. Gumbrell3, 4, R.A. Smith2
1KPSI, QST, Japan,
2Imperial College London, U.K.,
3LLNL, USA,
4AWE Aldermaston, U.K.
We will show the estimation of the characteristics of the X-ray beam generated by extremely short period undulatorand design of quadrupole magnets and with magnets to transfer very low emittance electron beam into undulator.
HEDSp11-9 On the effect of high intensity laser prepulse on laser wakefield acceleration Hakujun Toran In this poster, I will explain the effect of laser prepulse on electron injection of staging acceleration using laser wakefield acceleration.
HEDSp11-10 Investigation of Discharged plasma guiding channel for staged laser wakefield acceleration Yasuo Sakai, Tomonao Hosokai, Naveen Pathak, Alexey Zhidkov, Akihiro Ueno, Hakujyun Toran, Hirokazu Takeuchi, Yusuke Tanizawa, Masahiro Yano, Takamitsu Otsuka, Junpei Ogino, Keiichi Sueda, Hirotaka Nakamura, Jin Zhang, Shinichi Masuda, Ryousuke Kodama
Osaka University, Japan
Aiming to produce an optical guiding channel to produce GeV class electron beam acceleration, optimum discharged plasma condition including discharge system will be investigated.
HEDSp11-11 Performance of High energetic X-ray detector by using X-ray generator Yukio Hayashi, Hideyuki Kotaki, Nobuhiko Nakanii, Kai Huang, Michiaki Mori, Masaki Kando
KPSI, QST, Japan
We make the X-ray spectrometer for betatron X-rays measurement. Recently, the spectrometer was tested with an X-ray generator. In the conference, we will explain the result of this test.
HEDSp11-12 Detection of alpha particles from 7Li(p,a)4He/19F(p,a)16O reactions by etching of CR-39 using potassium hydroxide ethanol solution Yosuke Nishiura1, 2, Shunsuke Inoue1, 2, Kensuke Teramoto1, 2, Sadaoki Kojima2, Yoshihide Nakamiya2, Masaki Hashida1, 2, Shuji Sakabe1, 2
1Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan,
2Advanced Research Center for Beam Science, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
By etching of CR-39 using A solution, we have demonstrate the discrimination between protons and alpha particles to know the availability of this method to the applications of laser accelerated ions
HEDSp11-13 How to measure the parameters of a nonlinear electrodynamics model by focusing axially-symmetric polarized laser in vacuum Takumi Hara, Ryousuke Kodama In this paper, we show that the two parameters that characterize nonlinear electrodynamics models could be measured by focusing the axially-symmetric polarized laser in vacuum.
HEDSp11-14 Asymmetry Terahertz Radiation from a Thin Foil Irradiated by Ultrashort Relativistic Laser Pulse Shota Tajima1, Zhan Jin2, Takuya Fukuda1, 3, Ryosuke Kodama1, 2, 3
1Graduate School of Osaka University, Japan,
2Photon Pioneers Center, Osaka University, Japan,
3Graduate School of Utsunomiya University, Japan
HEDSp11-15 Terahertz Radiation from Laser Created Plasma by Applying a Transverse Static Electric Field Takuta Fukuda1, Zhan Jin2, Noboru Yugami1, Yasuhiko Sentoku3, Hitoshi Sakagami4, Hideo Nagatomo3, Ryousuke Kodama3
1Utsunomiya University, Japan,
2Photon Pioneers Center. Osaka University, Japan,
3ILE Osaka University, Japan,
4National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan
We have observed that a significantly increased THz emission intensity in the forward direction when the transverse static electric field is applied to the plasma.
HEDSp11-16 Experimental investigation of electron and proton acceleration scaling to ultra-high intensity pulses Nicholas P. Dove1, Mamiko Nishiuchi1, H. Sakaki1, M.A. Alkhimova2, A. Ya. Faenov3, 4, Y. Fukuda1, H. Kiriyama1, A. Kon1, K. Kondo1, T. Miyahara1, 5, K. Nishitani1, 5, K. Ogura1, T.A. Pikuz3, 4, A.S. Pirozhkov1, A. Sagisaka1, M. Kando1
1National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan,
2National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI), Russia,
3Osaka University, Japan,
4Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia,
5Kyushu University, Japan
We investigated electron and proton acceleration using the ultra-high intensity J-KAREN-P laser. The electron temperature is found to be spot size dependent, and protons show the most favourable intensity scaling when increasing laser energy.
HEDSp11-17 Recent progress on multi-stage laser wakefield acceleration at LAPLACIAN T. Otsuka1, 2, J. Ogino2, K. Sueda2, N. Nakanii3, M. Mori3, H. Kotaki3, H. Kai3, Y. Sakai2, N. C. Pathak2, S. Masuda2, H. Nakamura4, A. G. Zhidkov2, Z. Jin2, A. Ueno4, H. Toran4, M. Kando3, T. Hosokai2, R. Kodama2, 4, 5
1Department of Optical Engineering, Graduate School of Utsunomiya University, Japan,
2Photon Pioneers Center, Osaka University, Japan,
3National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan,
4Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan,
5Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
Multistage acceleration scheme has been proposed for improving stability and repeatability. To achieve GeV-class electron with multistage acceleration scheme, we constructed platform for multistage LWFA.
HEDSp11-18 LPA Generated Electron Bunch Transport for in a Manipulation Line Driss Oumbarek
SOLEIL, France
HEDSp11-19 Fast time-resolved imaging method with Imaging Plates Masahiro Yoshida1, Sadaoki Kojima2, Shunsuke Inoue1, 2, Yoshihide Nakamiya2, Masaki Hashida1, 2, Shuji Sakabe1, 2
1Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan,
2Advanced Research Center for Beam Science, Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University,  Japan
12:00 14:00 Lunch

HEDS12: Special Session
Chair: Ryosuke Kodama(Osaka University, Japan)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
14:00 14:05 HEDS-12-1
Dedication Remarks
Ryosuke Kodama1, 2
1Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan,
2Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
14:05 14:35 HEDS-12-2Special Pikuz Tatiana
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
TBD
14:35 15:05 HEDS-12-3Special Tetsuya Kawachi
Kansai Photon Science Institute, QST, Japan
TBD
15:05 15:30 Break

HEDS13: Thu-P2
Chair: Rodrigo Lopez-Martens(Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, France)

Room 311+312

Start End Session No. Title Speaker Description
15:30 16:00 HEDS13-1
Invited
Recent progress of platform development for experiments using XFEL combined with high-intensity laser at SACLA Toshinori Yabuuchi
RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan
An experimental platform using a hard x-ray FEL combined with a high-intensity laser is ready for early users’ experiments starting in 2018 at the SACLA facility. The commissioning status and future perspectives will be presented.
16:00 16:30 HEDS13-2
Invited
TBD Mamiko Nishiuchi
Kansai Photon Science Institute, QST, Japan
TBD
16:30 16:50 HEDS13-3 Generation of ultrahigh field by micro-bubble Coulomb implosion Masakatsu Murakami, Alex Arefiev2, Myles-Allen Zosa1
1Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan,
2UC san diego, USA
We propose a novel concept, Coulomb implosion, to generate an ultrahigh field to accelerate protons to relativistic energies. Coulomb-imploded bubbles behave as nano-pulsars with repeated implosions and explosions to emit protons.
16:50 17:00 Closing Remarks Sergei V. Bulanov1, 2
1ELi-Beamlines, Czech Republic,
2Kansai Photon Science Institute, QST, Japan
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