4–6 Dec 2023
ELI ALPS Facility
Europe/Budapest timezone

ELI User Meeting, 4-5 December

 
The aim of the User Meeting is to update the scientific community about current and future research opportunities at the ELI Facilities. 

There is an opportunity to join the meeting online by registering through Microsoft Teams on the following links:

User Meeting - DAY 1

User Meeting - DAY 2

Programme

Monday, 4 December 2023 

Registration from 8:00

09:15 - 09:30
Welcome
Allen Weeks, ELI ERIC 
Gábor Szabó, ELI ALPS

Session chair: Dimitris Charalambidis

09:30 - 9:50
ELI - today and tomorrow
Andrew Harrison, ELI ERIC

9:50 - 10:35
ELI ALPS:  Overview and Status
Katalin Varjú, ELI ALPS 


10:35 - 11:00 / Coffee Break


11:00 - 11:45
ELI Beamlines :  Overview and  Status
Daniele Margarone, ELI Beamlines

11:45 - 12:30
ELI NP: Overview and Status
Victor Malka, ELI NP

12:30 - 13:00
ELI User Access- procedures and outcomes
Andrew Harrison, ELI ERIC 


13:00 - 14:00 / Lunch Break


AMO, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, CHEMICAL PHYSICS SESSION I

Session chair: Subhendu Kahaly

14:00-14:35
Generation of highly non-classical light states using strongly laser driven semiconductors 
Paraskevas Tzallas, FORTH, Greece

14:35 - 15:10
Ultrafast dynamics of XUV-excited superfluid helium nanodroplets
Marcel Mudrich, University of Aarhus, Denmark

15:10 - 15:45
SYLOS Compact beamline: Nonlinear processes in XUV region
Arjun Nayak Puttur, ELI ALPS


15:45 - 16:15 / Coffee Break


SURFACE & MATERIALS SCIENCE SESSION I

Session chair: Péter Dombi

16:15 - 16:50
Time dependent NanoEsca studies
Benjamin Stadtmüller, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

16:50 - 17:25
Electron lifetimes in direct and indirect photoemission from highly oriented pyrolytic graphite
Alessandra Bellissimo, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

17:25 - 18:00
Laser driven shock experiments at the E3 plasma physics platform using the L4n kJ laser to study chemistry at planetary interior conditions
Michael Stevenson, University of Rostock, Germany

18:00 - 19:00 ELI ALPS facility tour

Networking dinner at the ELI ALPS Facility


Tuesday, 5 December 2023 

Registration from 8:00

Session chair: Christos Kamperidis

PARTICLE ACCELERATION SESSION

09:00 - 09:35
LPI studies for ICF Shock Ignition, including role of bandwidth
Emma Humme, CNR - National Institute of Optics

09:35 - 10:10
Laser-driven electron acceleration and photon emission in hollow channel targets
Mihail Cernaianu, ELI NP

10:10- 10:45
First laser-driven gamma imaging experiments at ELI-NP E4 (100TW beam)
Mihai Iovea, ACCENT PRO 2000 s. r. l.


10:45 - 11:15 / Coffee Break


Session chair: Gabriele Grittani

11:15 - 11:50
High energy proton bunches by helical coil targets at ELI Beamlines
Philip Martin, Queen's University Belfast, UK

11:50 - 12:25
Experimental study of electromagnetic discharge pulses driven by a short intense laser pulse at ELI-NP
Antonia Morabito, CLPU, Spain

12:25 - 13:00
Research on the fast timing detectors for the ERN experiments using a femtosecond laser at the ELI Beamlines, ELI ERIC
Gordana Laštovička-Medin, University of Montenegro


13:00 - 14:00 / Lunch Break


AMO, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, CHEMICAL PHYSICS SESSION II

Session chair: Jakob Andreasson

14:00 - 14:35
XUV Wavefront studies
Zsolt Divéki, ELI ALPS

14:35 - 15:10
From strong-field rescattering in nanosystems to high-harmonic generation in bulk at MIR beamline at ELI ALPS
Slawomir Skruszewicz, University of Jena, Germany

15:10 - 15:45
Two phase-matching regimes for high-flux HHG sources
Elisa Appi, Lund University, Sweeden


15:45 - 16:15 / Coffee Break


SURFACE & MATERIALS SCIENCE SESSION II

Session chair: József Fülöp

16:15 - 16:50
Irradiating semiconducting and dielectric targets with femtosecond Mid-IR laser pulses: From fundamental physics to laser-based patterning
George Tsibidis, FORTH, Greece

16:50 - 17:25
Polarisation control of plasmonic field enhancement
Péter Rácz, Wigner RCP, Hungary

17:25 - 18:00
Few-cycle surface plasmon polaritons
Thomas Jauk, Technical University of Graz, Austria

Gala dinner at Hotel Forrás