Session GO7 : Laser Driven Electron and Ion Acceleration

Chair: Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 7/8


Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

GO7.00001 : Experimental Demonstration of 1 GeV Energy Gain and Stable Self Trapping in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
A. Gonsalves, K. Nakamura, Csaba Toth, E. Cormier-Michel, C.B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, Wim Leemans, S.M. Hooker, J. Cary, D. Panasenko

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

GO7.00002 : Stable electron bunches with low absolute momentum spread using plasma down ramp injection in a laser wakefield accelerator
K. Nakamura, Csaba Toth, E. Esarey, C.B. Schroeder, Wim Leemans, E. Cormier-Michel, J. Cary

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

GO7.00003 : Observation of large-angle quasi-monoenergetic electrons from a laser wakefield
Dmitri Kaganovich, Daniel Gordon, Antonio Ting, Natalie Milioutina, Phillip Sprangle

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

GO7.00004 : Electron Acceleration in Guiding and Non-Guiding Structures
C. Kamperidis, S.P.D. Mangles, S. Kneip, Karl Krushelnick, Z. Najmudin, T.P. Rowlands-Rees, A.J. Gonzalves, S.M. Hooker, E. Brunetti, J. Gallacher, D.A. Jaroszynksi, C.D.M. Murphy, F. Budde

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

GO7.00005 : Direct Acceleration of Electrons in a Corrugated Plasma Waveguide
John Palastro, Thomas Antonsen, Howard Milchberg

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

GO7.00006 : Evolution of Relativistic Plasma-Wave front in LWFA
Fang Fang, Christopher Clayton, Kenneth Marsh, Joseph Ralph, Arthur Pak, Nelson Lopes, C. Joshi

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

GO7.00007 : Laser acceleration with imploding plastic cylinder shell
Kazuki Tsuji, Kazuya Kimura, Kazuo Takeda, Syuji Fukumochi, Mamoru Kashihara, Tsuyoshi Tanimotoi, Takahiko Ishikura, M. Tampo, R. Kodama, K. Mima, K.A. Tanaka, Kiminori Kondo, Eisuke Miura

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

GO7.00008 : Photon acceleration and modulational instability during wakefield excitation using long laser pulses
Raoul Trines, Christopher Murphy, Robert Bingham, K.L. Lancaster, Oleg Chekhlov, Jose Tito Mendonca, Luis Silva, S.P.D. Mangles, C. Kamperidis, Alexander Thomas, Karl Krushelnick, Z. Najmudin

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

GO7.00009 : Control of laser-accelerated ions: Recent advances and preliminary results from the new Trident 250-TW laser
B.M. Hegelich, B.J. Albright, L. Yin, K.A. Flippo, Cort Gautier, S. Letzring, Roland Schulze, M. Schmitt, J.C. Fernandez

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

GO7.00010 : Proton acceleration: new developments for focusing and energy selection, and applications in plasma physics
P. Audebert

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

GO7.00011 : In-situ target preparation and characterization for mono-energetic laser driven ion sources
B.M. Hegelich, Cort Gautier, K.A. Flippo, Roland Schulze, B.J. Albright, L. Yin, J.C. Fernandez

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

GO7.00012 : Generation of Monoenergetic proton beams from double-layer foils by flat-top laser pulses..
P. Rousseau, Stephen Reed, V. Yanovsky, D. Litzenberg, Karl Krushelnick, A. Maksimchuk, Stepan Bulanov, Vladimir Chvykov, V. Bychenkov, G. Kalinchenko, A. Brantov, T. Matsuoka

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

GO7.00013 : ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO SESSION YP8.00079

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:06 PM–12:18 PM

GO7.00014 : Collimated High-Quality Proton Beam Generation in Laser Tailored-Target Interaction
M. Nakamura, R. Sonobe, N. Onuma, Y. Nodera, S. Miyazaki, T. Kikuchi

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