SPARTA workshop 2026

Name: SPARTA workshop 2026
Start: 2026-06-11T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-12T21:00:00+02:00
Location: University of Oslo

11 Jun 2026, 09:00 → 12 Jun 2026, 21:00 Europe/Zurich

Seminar room 233, Helga Engs Hus (University of Oslo)

Seminar room 233, Helga Engs Hus

University of Oslo

Zoom link: https://uio.zoom.us/j/67665321770

Carl A. Lindstrøm (University of Oslo (NO))

Description

Designing the world's first high-energy, multistage plasma accelerator!

Participants

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Thursday 11 June
- Thu 11 Jun
- Fri 12 Jun
- 09:00 → 12:30
  Plenary talks
  
  Convener: Dr Carl A. Lindstrøm (University of Oslo (NO))
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome and overview 45m
    
    Speaker: Dr Carl A. Lindstrøm (University of Oslo (NO))
    
    Introduction and overview (Lindstrøm, SPARTA Workshop, 11 June 2026).pdf
  - 09:45
    
    Invited talk: Compression stability and ramped bunch profiles 45m
    
    Speaker: Jonas Björklund Svensson (Lund University, Sweden)
    
    Arc_like_BCs.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break 15m
  - 10:45
    
    Progress report: nonlinear plasma lenses 35m
    
    Speaker: Pierre Bony Henri Drobniak (University of Oslo)
    
    SPARTAWorkshop2026_PierreDrobniak_Progress report nonlinear plasma lenses _short.pdf
  - 11:20
    
    Progress report: Driver-delay chicanes 35m
    
    Speaker: Daniel Kalvik
    
    SPARTA_workshop.key
  - 11:55
    
    Progress report: LMU plasma lensing 35m
    
    Speaker: Felipe Peña Asmus (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Oslo)
    
    talk.pdf
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 17:00
  Discussions (Day 1)
  - 13:30
    
    Defining the vision, incl. applications 30m
  - 14:00
    
    Global parameters, incl. drivers and geometry 30m
  - 14:30
    
    Plasma stages 30m
  - 15:00
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 15:30
    
    Interstages 30m
  - 16:00
    
    Driver distribution system 30m
  - 16:30
    
    Main-beam injector and delivery 30m
- 17:30 → 19:00
  
  Social activity 1h 30m
- 19:00 → 21:00
  
  Dinner 2h
Friday 12 June
- Thu 11 Jun
- Fri 12 Jun
- 08:00 → 11:30
  Discussions (Day 2)
  - 09:00
    
    RF linac 45m
  - 09:45
    
    Misc: Beam dumps, diagnostics, radiation safety, etc. 30m
  - 10:15
    
    Coffee break 15m
  - 10:30
    
    Mid-term demonstrations 30m
  - 11:00
    
    Phased approach: what are the phases? 30m
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 16:30
  Future planning
  - 13:30
    
    General discussion 40m
  - 14:10
    
    Re-cap of work and task delegation 50m
  - 15:00
    
    Building a wider SPARTA collaboration (and funding) 1h
- 18:30 → 20:30
  
  Dinner 2h