2–5 Oct 2023
Europe/Prague timezone

Tuesday - October 3, 2023

Theory and simulations (Chair: Fabio Belloni)

09:00 – 09:30 |               INVITED LECTURE | Hartmut Ruhl
An Ultra-Short Laser Pulse based Direct Drive Nuclear
 Fusion Concept

09:30 – 09:50 |               Thomas Carriere
Simulations of production of alpha particles sources through proton-boron nuclear reactions initiated by relativistic lasers

09:50 – 10:10 |               Gaurav Raj
Front side ion acceleration in a nano-structured target into the incoming femto-second laser pulse

10:10 – 10:30 |               Roberto Versaci
FLUKA capabilities for the simulation of nuclear reactions of p on B

10:30 – 10:50 |               Stavros Moustaizis
Towards p-11B fusion configurations with high Pfus/PBrems ratio

10:50 – 11:10 |               Coffee Break

Diagnostics (Chair: Dieter H.H. Hoffmann)

11:10 – 11:30 |               Jens Hartmann
Analysis of laser-driven plasma irradiated CR-39 for proton-boron fusion particle yields

11:30 – 11:50 |               Gordana Lastovicka-Medin
R&D on the Silicon Carbide Based Detectors and Instrumentation Characterisation techniques for Ultra-hight Dose rate Dosimetry and Nuclear Fusion

11:50 – 12:10 |               Fabrizio Consoli
Advanced Time-of-Flight detection methodologies for fast real-time ion diagnostics in laser-triggered proton-boron experiments

12:10 – 12:30 |               Giada Petringa
CR-39 track detector calibration with H and He beams for future applications in the p-11B fusion reaction

12:30 – 12:50 |               Christina Weiss
Diagnostics for fusion applications based on CVD diamond

12:50 – 14:00 |               Lunch Break

New results 1 (Chair: Lorenzo Giuffrida)

14:00 – 14:20 |               Massimiliano Sciscio`
Laser-Initiated 11B(p,α)2α fusion reactions in petawatt-scale, high-repetition-rate laser facilities

14:20 – 14:40 |               Marine Huault
Laser-driven proton-boron reaction for alpha particles production

14:40 – 15:00 |               Aldo Bonasera
Radioisotopes production using lasers: from basic science to applications

15:00 – 15:20 |               Katarzyna Batani
Generation of radioisotopes using high-repetition, high-intensity lasers

15:20 – 15:40 |               Coffee Break

15:40 - 17:30 | Poster Session

                                        You can see the abstracts of the poster presentations here:  List of posters
The winners will be announced during the closing session on Thursday.