Friday 23rd of January, GoLP hosted a mini-workshop on Plasma Accelerators. Here follows the program and some photos from the event.

Mini workshop on plasma accelerators

The increasing size and cost of conventional accelerators motivates the development of more compact accelerators. Because plasmas can sustain very high electric fields, plasma-based accelerators are a promising concept to miniaturize the size and cost of accelerators. Thanks to recent advances, plasma-based accelerators have been included in the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics as a high priority research initiative. This mini-workshop will provide an overview of plasma-based accelerators for lepton and ion bunches, including recent advances in theory, simulation and experiments, and its connections to laboratory astrophysics.

Location: Anfiteatro Abreu Faro

Program:

14:00 – Coffee and cookies

14:30 – Plasma for particle acceleration, Alexander Pukhov, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
15:00 – New developments on laboratory astrophysics, Robert Bingham, University of Strathclyde and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
15:30 – Simulations of a plasma wakefield accelerator for pions and muons, Chiara Badiali, IST, Portugal