Target Interaction Challenges and
Developments
28th April 2014
The Cosener’s House, Abingdon
Agenda
09:00 – 09:30 Registration – Tea and Coffee on arrival
09:30 – 09:40 Workshop Opening
09:40 – 10:00 Welcome – Professor John Collier
10:00 – 11:00 Session 1 – High Repetition Rate Target Positioning
Chair: David Neely
Rodrigo Lopes-Martens: High repetition rate solid target for kHz laser-plasma interactions
Nicola Booth: High rep-rate target positioning at the Astra-Gemini laser facility
11:00 – 11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Session 2 – High Repetition Rate Targetry 1
Chair: Martin Tolley
Bastian Aurand: Target developments at the Lund Laser Centre
Chris Spindloe: High repetition rate target fabrication
Aurélien Ricci: Laser-plasma targetry: Towards attosecond pump-probe
experiments from XUV light from surface high-order harmonics
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session 3 – Facility Developments and Issues
Chair: Nicola Booth
Sophia Chen: Design of the experimental hall of the Apollon/Cilex laser facility
Rob Clarke: OAP debris
15:00 – 15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30 – 16:30 Session 4 – High Repetition Rate Targetry 2
Chair: Sophia Chen
Frank Hall: The future of high rep rate foam production
Stefan Bedacht: Laser-driven ion acceleration with cryogenic hydrogen targets
16:30 – 17:30 Session 5 – Target characterisation and positioning
Chair: Chris Spindloe
Gabriel Schaumann: Thin film characterisation and alignment
Discussion
18:00
Dinner
Target Interaction Challenges and
Developments
29th April 2014
The Cosener’s House, Abingdon
Agenda
09:00 – 09:30 Tea/Coffee
09:30 – 10:45 Session 6 – Targetry Issues for Future Facility Developments
Chair: Gabriel Schaumann
Alvaro Peralta Conde: Vega: a unique Pettawat laser for Science and Innovation.
Targetry related issues
Motoaki Nakatsutsumi: High repetition sample strategy for the HED instrument at
European XFEL
10:45 – 11:15 Tea/Coffee
11:15 – 12:00 Session 7 – Discussion – Joint Activities and Opportunities for Collaboration
Chair: David Neely
12:00 – 12:30 Summary Discussion and Close
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Travel to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
14:00 – 16:00 Tours of the Central Laser Facility
16:00 –
Travel back to Abingdon/Airport