Advanced QED methods for future accelerators

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Walton Room C (Cockcroft Institute)

Walton Room C

Cockcroft Institute

Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
Anthony Hartin (DESY), Ian Bailey (Cockcroft Institute/ University of Liverpool)
Description


An ICFA workshop

This is a joint IPPP Durham/Cockcroft Institute/ICFA workshop on advanced QED methods for future accelerators. The workshop emphasis is on bunch-bunch interactions and aspects of polarised beams, in the context of future high-energy e+e- colliders.

With the advent of high-luminosity electron-positron accelerators working at the TeV energy scale and with the resulting extreme environments expected during bunch-bunch collisions, urgent further attention must be given to the impact of quantum effects on the design of such machines.

In particular, formalisms for describing radiative processes and the methods of calculation in the future strong-field environments must be reviewed and the boundaries of validity of higher order perturbative calculations determined.

Thus the central aim of the workshop is to make progress on the development of exact theoretical methods for evaluating beam induced effects (beamstrahlung, bremsstrahlung, etc.) and spin dynamics for the beam conditions at TeV colliders.

Methods of calculation to be reviewed include, but are not limited to, inclusion of the fields at Lagrangian level, the "Operator'' method for ultra-relativistic particles and QED calculations using light-cone coordinates.

Reports on the status of the models implemented in existing simulation codes will be given, and discussions about ways to improve these models and estimate the remaining theoretical uncertainties are planned.

Papers arising from the workshop will be published in the Journal of Physics Conference Series.

  • Tuesday, 3 March
    • 10:00 11:00
      Registration and Tea and Coffee 1h Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
    • 11:00 13:00
      Introduction Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK

      Introduction and scope of workshop.

      • 11:00
        Workshop welcome and Overview 45m
        Speaker: Prof. John Dainton
      • 11:45
        Scope of the Workshop 30m
        Speaker: Dr Ian Bailey (Cockcroft Institute/ University of Liverpool)
        I. Bailey talk
      • 12:15
        The Furry Representation 45m
        Speaker: Gudrid Moortgat-Pick (Unknown)
        G. Moortgat-Pick talk
    • 13:00 14:30
      Lunch 1h 30m Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
    • 14:30 16:00
      Session 1: Intense Field QED (IFQED) methods Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
      • 14:30
        Recent development of operator quasiclassical method 1h
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Baier (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk)
        V. Baier talk
      • 15:30
        The method of Nikishov and Ritus 30m
        Speaker: Dr Anthony Hartin (DESY)
        T. Hartin talk
    • 16:00 16:20
      Tea and Coffee Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
    • 16:20 18:00
      Session 2: IFQED calculations Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
      • 16:20
        Vacuum polarization effects in intense laser fields 35m
        Speaker: Dr Antonino Di Piazza
        A. Di Piazza talk
      • 16:55
        Compton Scattering at High Intensities 35m
        Speaker: Dr Tom Heinzl
        T. Heinzl talk
    • 19:00 22:00
      Workshop Dinner Holiday Inn

      Holiday Inn

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
  • Wednesday, 4 March
    • 09:00 10:30
      Session 3: Simulation of IFQED processes in colliders Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
      • 09:00
        Guinea-Pig++ Update 30m
        Speaker: Dr Cecile Rimbault (LAL)
        C. Rimbault talk
      • 10:00
        IFQED processes in CAIN 30m
        Speaker: Anthony Hartin (DESY)
        T. Hartin talk
    • 10:30 11:00
      Tea and Coffee 30m Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
    • 11:00 13:00
      Session 4: IFQED Applications Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
      • 11:00
        Strong fields and recycled accelerator parts as a laboratory for fundamental physics 30m
        Speaker: Dr Joerg Jaeckel (IPPP Drurham)
        J. Jaeckel talk
      • 11:30
        Lepton pair creation in strong laser fields 30m
        Speaker: Dr Karen Hatsagortsyan
        K. Hatsagortsyan
      • 12:00
        Experiments on strong field QED in crystals 30m
        Speaker: Dr Ulrik Uggerhoej
        U.Uggerhoj talk
      • 12:30
        Geometric and Ultrarelativistic methods for accelerator physics 30m
        Speaker: Dr Jonathon Gratus
        J.Gratus talk
    • 13:00 14:30
      Lunch 1h 30m Walton Room C (Daresbury)

      Walton Room C

      Daresbury

    • 14:30 16:00
      Discussion and Summary Walton Room C

      Walton Room C

      Cockcroft Institute

      Daresbury Laboratory. Warrington Cheshire WA4 4AD UK
      • 15:30
        Workshop Summary 30m
        Speaker: Dr Stefan Hesselbach (IPPP, Durham University)
        S. Hesselbach talk