Program of ExHILP 2023
Day 1: Sep. 12 (Tue.)
9:00-9:15 Welcome address
9:15-10:00 (Keynote) Matteo Tamburini, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
“Numerical Methods and Theory of Strong-Field QED”
Session 1. Theory and numerical methods for strong-field QED
Chair: Arkady Gonoskov, Univ. of Gothenburg
10:00-10:30 (Invited) Luca Fedeli, Univ. Paris-Saclay
“Simulating Strong-Field QED on contemporary supercomputers”
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:15 Samuele Montefiori, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
“SFQEDtoolkit: an open source high-performance library for the accurate modeling of strong-field QED processes in codes”
11:15-11:30 Uwe Acosta, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
“Monte-Carlo event generation for the interaction of x-ray laser fields and hot electrons”
11:30-12:15 (Invited) Christian Schubert, Univ. of Michoacan
“Efficient calculation of one-loop processes in constant and plane-wave fields”
12:15-13:30 Welcome reception
13:30-14:15 Lab tour: group 1
Session 2. QED plasmas: generation and dynamics
Chair: Luca Fedeli, Univ. Paris-Saclay
14:15-14:45 (Invited) Arkady Gonoskov, Univ. of Gothenburg
“Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields”
14:45-15:00 Christopher Arran, University of York
“Optimising Breit-Wheeler Pair Production in High Intensity Laser Experiments”
15:00-15:15 Alexander Samsonov, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
“Generation of electron-positron pairs in interaction of multiple laser pulses with a foil at grazing angle”
15:15-15:30 Deepak Sah, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology
“Longitudinal Momentum Spectra of pair created in pulsed electric field at finite time”
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 (Invited) Mickael Grech, LULI, CNRS
“Pair production in photon- and electron-seeded electromagnetic showers”
16:30-16:45 Arseny Mironov, LULI, Sorbonne Univ.
“Analytical model of selfsustained QED cascades in ultra-intense laser fields: onset and the particle growth rate”
16:45-17:00 Florent Brun, Centre Laser Intenses et Applications
“Gamma ray production by intense attosecond pulses”
17:00-17:15 You Hwan Noh, Center for Relativistic Laser Science
“Generation of charge-neutral electron-positron beams using high-energy bremsstrahlung photons”
17:15-17:30 Suo Tang, Ocean University of China
“Plasma harmonic generation for highly efficient Breit-Wheeler pair creation”
Day 2: Sep. 13 (Wed.)
9:00-9:45 (Keynote) Gianluca Sarri, Queen's Univ. of Belfast
“LUXE: A new experiment to study non-perturbative QED in electron-laser and photon-laser collisions”
Session 3. Strong-field QED experiments
Chair: Matteo Tamburini, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
9:45-10:15 (Invited) Mohammad Mirzaie, Center for Relativistic Laser Science
“Strong-field QED research via Compton scattering pursued with the 4PW laser at CoReLS”
10:15-10:30 Tatiana Smorodnikova, Stanford PULSE Institute
“Experiment 320 at SLAC”
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 (Invited) Felipe Salgado, Friedrich-Schiller Univ. Jena
“Pair-Production in the Non-Perturbative Regime at CALA: First Background Measurements and Experiment Updates”
11:30-11:45 Elias Gerstmayr, Queen's University Belfast
“Single-shot diagnostics for high-flux gamma-ray beams”
11:45-12:00 Calin Hojbota, Center for Relativistic Laser Science
“High-energy particle detection in laser-electron collisions for Strong-Field QED experiments”
12:00-12:15 Wendell Hill, III, Univ. of Maryland
“Petawatt metrology for nonlinear QED experiments”
12:15-12:30 Christoffer Olofsson, Univ. of Gothenburg
“Prospects for statistical tests of strong-field quantum electrodynamics with high-intensity lasers”
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Lab tour: group 2
14:15-15:30 Poster session (The list of presentations is at the end)
Session 4. Ultra-intense laser facilities
Chair: Seong Ku Lee, Center for Relativistic Laser Science
15:30-16:00 (Invited) Bob Bingham, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
“Extreme field physics using intense lasers and particle beams”
16:00-16:30 (Invited) Anatoly Maksimchuk, G. Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science
“The ZEUS laser facility: current performance and plans for strong field QED experiments”
16:30-17:00 (Invited) Liangliang Ji, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics
“Recent Progress of the SEL-100PW Laser Station and Strong-Field QED Physics at SIOM”
17:00-17:15 Wenchao Yan, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.
“High-Field Physics on Dual-Beam Ultrafast High-Power Lasers at SJTU”
Day 3: Sep. 14 (Thr.)
9:00-9:45 (Keynote) Frederico Fiuza, Instituto Superior Tecnico
“High-Energy Plasma Astrophysics”
Session 5. Vacuum polarization and breakdown
Chair: Sang Pyo Kim, Kunsan National Univ.
9:45-10:15 (Invited) Baifei Shen, Shanghai Normal Univ.
“Photon-photon scattering and axion-like particle generation”
10:15-10:30 Martin Jirka, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC
“Synergic Cherenkov-Compton emission in a laser-particle collision”
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 (Invited) Adrien Kraych, Univ. Paris-Saclay
“Slowing down the light in vacuum with intense laser pulses”
11:30-12:00 (Invited) Ralf Schuetzhold, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
“Detection schemes for quantum vacuum diffraction and birefringence”
12:00-12:15 Chul Min Kim, Center for Relativistic Laser Science
“Vacuum birefringence under wrenched electromagnetic fields”
12:15-13:30 Lunch
Session 6. Strong-field phenomena in astrophysics
Chair: Frederico Fiuza, Instituto Superior Tecnico
13:30-14:00 (Invited) Yasuhiro Kuramitsu, Osaka Univ.
“Relativistic plasma astrophysics with intense lasers: intrinsic dynamics of collisionless shocks and nonthermal particle acceleration”
14:00-14:30 (Invited) Dong-Hoon Kim, Seoul National Univ.
“Electromagnetic radiation from neutron star magnetospheres”
14:30-15:00 (Tutorial) Ralf Schuetzhold, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
“From Hawking radiation to ultra-intense lasers”
15:00-18:30 Excursion
18:30-20:00 Conference dinner
Day 4: Sep. 15 (Fri.)
Session 7. Extreme classical electrodynamics and particle acceleration
Chair: Baifei Shen, Shanghai Normal Univ.
9:00-9:30 (Invited) Gabriele Grittani, Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC
“Extreme energy LWFA electron beams: applications for fundamental sciences”
9:30-9:45 Evgeny Gelfer, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC
“Coherent nonlinear Thomson scattering and radiation friction at moderate laser intensities”
9:45-10:00 Michael Quin, Max Planck Inst. for Nuclear Physics
“Interparticle Fields and Collective Radiation Reaction”
10:00-10:15 Kyle Fleck, Queen's Univ. of Belfast
“Inferring Intensity using Gamma Rays in Electron-Laser Interactions”
10:15-10:30 Qing Zheng Lv, Max Planck Inst. for Nuclear Physics
“Ultrarelativistic electrons in counterpropagating laser beams: theory and application”
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Session 8. New physics with strong fields
Chair: Evgeny Gelfer, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC
11:00-11:30 (Invited) Kensuke Homma, Hiroshima Univ.
“Search for axion-like particles with combinations of high-intensity coherent fields”
11:30-11:45 Stefan Evans, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
“Searching for axions in quantum vacuum birefringence”
11:45-12:15 (Invited) Martin Formanek, ELI Beamlines Facility
“Accumulation of strong field effects in long-duration flying focus pulses”
12:15-12:30 Yue-Yue Chen, Shanghai Normal Univ.
“Helicity Transfer in Strong Laser Fields via the Electron Anomalous Magnetic Moment”
12:30-12:45 Concluding remarks
12:45-14:00 Farewell lunch
Poster presentations
No | Name | Affiliation | Title |
1 | Hyeongil Kim | Gwangju Inst. of Sci. and Tech. | Electron-positron beam generation by irradiating four different materials of solids with laser-accelerated electrons |
2 | Fabian Schütze | Helmholtz Inst. Jena | Enhancing the signal-to-background separation for quantum vacuum signals in laser pulse collisions |
3 | Tatiana Smorodnikova | Stanford PULSE Inst. | Experiment 320 at SLAC |
4 | Jeong-uk Shin | Center for Relativistic Laser Science | Shaping octave-spanning ultrashort laser pulses using multiple prisms |
5 | Wosik Cho | Center for Relativistic Laser Science | Temporal contrast measurement using tunneling ionization |
6 | Taeyong Kwon | Center for Relativistic Laser Science | Wavefront reconstruction from multiple near-focus beam profile measurements |
7 | Yinren Shou | Center for Relativistic Laser Science | Over-110 MeV Protons Accelerated from Petawatt-Laser-Driven Nanometer Foils |
8 | Chiwan Song | Center for Relativistic Laser Science | Temperature evolution of dense gold and diamond heated by energetic laser-driven aluminum ions |
9 | Frida Brogren | Gothenburg Univ. | Machine learning based prediction of electron and X-ray properties for non-invasive measurements |
10 | Giulio Audagnotto | Max Planck Inst. for Nuclear physics | Proportionality of gravitational and electromagnetic radiation by an electron in an intense plane wave |
