Session KO1: Plasma-Based Accelerators and Radiation Sources

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Chair: Eric Esarey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 10

Wednesday, October 26, 2005
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 KO1.00001: Generation of 300 MeV Quasi-Monochromatic Electron Beams from Laser Wakefield and Initiation of Photonuclear Reactions
A. Maksimchuk , S. Reed , N. Naumova , V. Chvykov , B. Hou , G. Kalintchenko , P. Rousseau , G. Mourou , V. Yanovsky , J.R. Beene , D.R. Schultz , D.W. Stracener , C.R. Vane

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 KO1.00002: WITHDRAWN--Ponderomotive-based temperature sampling of relativistic electron beams
Anthony Valenzuela , Anatoly Maksimchuk , Rahul Shah , Scott Sepke , Sudeep Banerjee , Donald Umstadter

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 KO1.00003: Progress on a 1 GeV laser accelerator at the LOASIS Facility of LBNL
W.P. Leemans , B. Nagler , K. Nakamura , Cs. Toth , C.G.R. Geddes , J. van Tilborg , E. Esarey , C.B. Schroeder , A. Gonsalves , S. Hooker , C. Filip , E. Michel , T. Cowan , D. Bruhwiler , D. Dimitrov , J. Cary

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
10:06AM - 10:18AM

 KO1.00004: Warm wavebreaking of laser-driven plasma waves
C.B. Schroeder , E. Esarey , B.A. Shadwick , W.P. Leemans

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
10:18AM - 10:30AM

 KO1.00005: Improvement of electron beam quality in optical injection schemes using negative plasma density gradients
Gwenael Fubiani , Eric Esarey , Carl Schroeder , Wim Leemans

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

 KO1.00006: High-fidelity Simulations of Laser Pulses in long Plasma Channels
D. Bruhwiler , P. Messmer , J. Cary , C. Nieter , D. Dimitrov , E. Esarey , W. Leemans , C. Geddes

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

 KO1.00007: Beam dynamics in plasma-based accelerators including the effects of betatron radiation
Pierre Michel , Carl B. Schroeder , Bradley A. Shadwick , Eric Esarey , Wim P. Leemans

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

 KO1.00008: Laser driven ion channel x-ray laser.
C.S. Liu , Vipin Tripathi

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

 KO1.00009: Optical Probing of Magnetic Fields in a Self-Injected Laser Wakefield Accelerator
M. Kaluza , S.P.D. Mangles , A.G.R. Thomas , C.D. Murphy , Z. Najmudin , A.E. Dangor , K. Krushelnick

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

 KO1.00010: THz generation by ultra-short laser pulses propagating in nonuniform plasma channels
T. Antonsen , J. Palastro , J. Cooley , A. York , S. Varma , H. Milchberg

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
11:30AM - 11:42AM

 KO1.00011: Photon acceleration by co-propagating plasma waves
Raoul Trines , C. Murphy , R. Bingham , J.T. Mendonca , L.O. Silva , A. Reitsma , P. Norreys

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
11:42AM - 11:54AM

 KO1.00012: Acceleration of overdense plasmas using colliding laser pulses
Edison Liang , Koichi Noguchi , Scott Wilks

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
11:54AM - 12:06PM

 KO1.00013: Collimated Multi-MeV Ion Beams in the Forward Direction from High-Intensity Laser Interactions With Underdense Plasma
L. Willingale , S.P.D. Mangles , P.M. Nilson , Z. Najmudin , A.G.R. Thomas , M.C. Kaluza , M.S. Wei , C. Kamberides , S.R. Nagel , A.E. Dangor , K. Krushelnick , R.J. Clarke , K.L. Lancaster , S. Karsch , J. Schreiber , W. Mori

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
12:06PM - 12:18PM

 KO1.00014: Control of electron cloud in laser foil interaction and suppression of proton beam divergence
Shigeo Kawata , Ryo Sonobe , Shuji Miyazaki , Masaki Nakamura , Takashi Kikuchi

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
12:18PM - 12:30PM

 KO1.00015: Progress on neutralized drift compression experiment (NDCX-Ia) for high intensity ion beam
P. Roy , S. Yu , E. Henestroza , W. Waldron , F. Bieniosek , S. Eylon , J. Coleman , A. Anders , M. Leitner , W. Greenway , D. Baca , D. Vanecek , G. Logan , D. Welch , D. Rose , C. Thoma , R. Davidson , P. Efthimion , I. Kaganovich , E. Gilson , A. Sefkow , W. Sharp

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