SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
The subject of the interaction of high-power laser beams with high-brightness electron beams is very rich with interesting science, applications and opportunities for new discoveries. This field is experiencing a tremendous growth and there is a great need for scientists exploring various aspects of this exciting discipline to meet, exchange ideas and present late breaking results.
Ongoing progress in short-pulse high power
lasers and low-emittance electron bunch compression opens
possibilities for various interesting applications, such as a new
generation of x-ray sources operating on the picosecond and
femtosecond time scale. Development of such sources promises new
avenues for multi-disciplinary exploration on the molecular and
atomic time scale. It may revolutionize the field of x-ray
research and add new capabilities to the Compton sources of x-ray
and gamma radiation.
Shedding light on the new development in
the technology and application of femtosecond x-ray sources, the
workshop will promote progress in this fast evolving field and
will help to develop better a scientific case for future FEL-based
coherent femtosecond x-ray sources. The symposium will be a forum
for discussion and planning ways to widen user's access to novel
opportunities in femtosecond research: can it be approached by
expansion or extending the existing light source facilities or by
giving a fresh start to next generation facilities.
Bringing together specialists in high
energy physics, laser science, nuclear physics, plasma physics,
and from the interdisciplinary light source user’s community,
the workshop will become a unique forum for exchange and
originating new ideas that will enrich the field.
The symposium will address the most recent
results and prospects in the following topics:
1. Generation of Femtosecond X-ray
2. Topics in high field science
3. Ultra-fast pump-probe
experiments
4. Ultra-fast x-ray microscopy
5. Non-linear effects in laser-Compton
scattering
6. High quality electron beams
7. High quality, high power laser
beams
8. Generation of polarized gamma-rays
and polarized positrons
9. Gamma-gamma colliders
10. Laser cooling of accelerator beams
11. Beam diagnosis
12. Laser acceleration
13. Laser induced radiation from electron beams: Coherent radiation, seeded FELs, harmonic generation...
14. Control, manipulation and microbunching of electron beams by lasers