Preliminary Program
 
Session 1: State-of-the-art and perspectives
  • Radiofrequency Accelerators - A. Mosnier (CEA/DAPNIA)
  • Laser Plasma Acceleration - W. Leemans (LBNL)
  • Beam Plasma Acceleration - P. Muggli (USC)
  • Laser Systems - G. Mourou (LOA)
Session 2: Requirements on a Mutli-TeV Plasma Wave accelerator
Conveners: D. Habs (LMU Munich), T. Katsouleas (USC)
  • Final focus and beam-beam interactions
  • Power consumption and energy recycling `
Session 3: Characteristics of the beam accelerated in a plasma acceleration cell
Conveners: R. Bingham (RAL) , C. Clayton (UCLA)
  • Regimes of acceleration (single/multi-stage)
  • Beam transport and focussing issues
  • Acceleration of bunch trains in the successive buckets of a plasma wave
  • Evolution of the polarisation of a polarized beam of particles accelerated in a plasma wave
Session 4: Conceptual design of high energy accelerator using plasmas
Conveners: T. Garvey (LAL Orsay), P. Muggli (USC)
  • Energy range: where are plasmas the most efficient
  • Mixed techniques
  • Case study: How to obtain using plasmas the beam properties expected in CLIC
Session 5: Shorter term projects
Conveners: W. Leemans (LBNL), V. Malka (LOA)
  • Define the next steps
  • Discussion of the parameters of the next facility