Preface

Scientific Advisory and Organizing Committee

I. INVITED PAPERS

The Equation of Motion of an Electron

K-J. Kim

A. M. Sessler

Overview of Plasma Accelerators

T. Katsouleas

The Stimulated Dielectric Wake-Field Accelerator: A Structure with Novel Properties

T. C. Marshall

T-B. Zhang

J. L. Hirshfield

Coherent Transition Radiation-Based Diagnosis of Electron Beam Pulse Shape

I. B. Rosenzweig

A. Murokh

A. Tremaine

Laser-Induced Electron Trapping in Plasma-Based Accelerators

E. Esarey

W. P. Leemans

B. Hafizi

R. Hubbard

A. Ting

Ultimate Gradient in Solid-State Accelerators

D. H. Whittum

Terawatt Picosecond CO2 Laser Technology for High Energy Physics Applications

I. V. Pogorelsky

New Final Focus Concepts at 5 TeV and Beyond

F. Zirnmermann

The Laser Driven Particle Accelerator Project: Theory and Experiment

T. Plettner

I. E. Spencer

Y. C. Huang

R. L. Byer

R. H. Siemann

T. I. Smith

High Power Operation of the University of Maryland Coaxial Gyroklystron Experiment

W. Lawson

M. Arjona

M. Castle

B. Hogan

V. Granatstein

M. Reiser

Polarized RE Guns

J. E. Clendenin

A Nonlinear Particle Dynamics Map of Wakefield Acceleration in a Linear Collider

T. Tajima

S. Cheshkov

W. Horton

K. Yokoya

II. WORKING GROUP SUMMARIES

Beam Physics at High Energy Densities

S. Chattopadhyay

P. Chen

Plasma-Based Acceleration Concepts

W. P. Leemans

E. Esarcy

Novel Structure-Based Acceleration Concepts

J. L. Hirshfield

W. D. Kimura

Beam Monitoring, Conditioning, and Control at High Frequencies and Ultrafast Timescales

T. I. Smith

Particle Beam Sources

P. G. O'Shea

L. Spentzouris

Radiation Sources

M. V. Fazio

III. WORKING GROUP PAPERS

Working Group 1: Beam Physics at High Energy Densities

Transverse Cooling in the Muon Collider

R. C. Fernow

J. C. Gallardo

H. G. Kirk

R. B. Palmer

Dynamic Focusing for Linear Colliders Using a Stored Beam as the Lens

J. Irwin

Polarization and Luminosity Requirement for the First Muon Collider

Z. Parsa

Electron-Positron Pair Production in the Deep Quantum Regime

K. A. Thompson

P. Chen

Wake Fields in a mm-Wave Linac

F. Zimmermann

D. H. Whittum

C. K. Ng

M. E. Hill

A Compact High Brightness Laser Synchrotron Light Source for Medical Applications

K. Nakajima

Quantum Suppression of Beamstrahlung for Future e+e- Linear Colliders: An Evaluation of QED Backgrounds

M. Xie

Working Group 2: Plasma-Based Acceleration Concepts

Laser Wakefield Acceleration of Electrons at Ecole Polytechnique

F. Amiranoff

S. Baton

D. Bernard

B. Cros

D. Descamps

F. Dorchies

F. Jacquet

V. Malka

J. R. Marques

G. Matthieussent

P. Mine

A. Modena

P. Mora

J. Morillo

Z. Najmudin

Progress on Plasma Lens Experiment at the Final Focus Test Beam

S. Chattopadhyay

P. Chen

D. Cline

P. Colestock

W. Craddock

F.-I. Decker

J. Holt

R. Iverson

T. Katsoulcas

F. King

R. Kirby

P. Kwok

S. Masuda

D. D. Meyerhofer

K. Nakajima

J. Ng

R. Noble

A. Ogata

A. Sessler

D. Walz

A. Weidemann

Optimal Laser Pulse Shaping in Laser Wakefield Accelerators

P. Chen

A. Spitkovsky

Acceleration of Electrons in a Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield

S.-Y. Chen

M. Krishnan

A. Maksimchuk

D. Umstadter

Particle Dynamics and its Consequences in Wakefield Acceleration in a High. Energy Collider

S. Cheshkov

T. Tajima

W. Horton

K. Yokoya

Resonant Excitation of Plasma Wakefields Using Multiple Electron Bunches

M. E. Conde

W. Gai

High Energy Electrons and Nuclear Phenomena in Petawatt Laser-Solid Experiments

T. E. Cowan

B. Dong

T. Ditmire

W. Fountain

S. Hatchett

A. W. Hunt

J. Johnson

T. Kuehl

T. Parnell

D. M. Pennington

M. D. Perry

T. W. Phillips

Y. Takahashi

S. C. Wilks

P. E. Young

Recent Developments for the 2nd Generation LWFA Experiments

H. Dewa

T. Hosokai

M. Kando

S. Kondo

H. Kotaki

F. Sakai

K. Nakajima

H. Nakanjima

A. Ogata

H. Harano

T. Ueda

M. Uesaka

T. Watanabe

K. Yoshii

Y. Kotaka

K. Niwa

Efficient Excitation and Measurement of Plasma Channels

E. W. Gaul

S. P. Le Blanc

M. C. Downer

Experimental Observation of Return Current Effects in Passive Plasma Lenses

R. Govil

W. P. Leemans

Intense Laser Pulse Propagation in Capillary Discharge Plasma Channels

R. F. Hubbard

Y. Ehrlich

D. Kaganovich

C. Cohen

C. I. Moore

P. Sprangle

A. Ting

A. Zigler

Cold Relativistic Wavebreaking Threshold of Two-Dimensional Plasma Waves

J. K. Kim

D. Umstadter

Excitation and Measurement of Laser Induced Wakefields

S. P. Le Blanc

E. W. Gaul

M. C. Downer

Simulations of the SLAC Plasma Lens Experiment

S. Masuda

P. Chen

High Efficiency Coupling and Guiding of Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Preformed Plasma Channels in an Elongated Gas Jet

S. P. Nikitin

I. Alexeev

J. Fan

H. M. Milchberg

Practical Approach to Monochromatic LWFA

I. V. Pogorelsky

N. E. Andreev

S. V. Kuznetsov

Multimode Analysis of the Hollow Plasma Channel Accelerator

C. B. Schroeder

I. S. Wurtele

D. H. Whittum

Generation of Ultrashort Electron Bunches by Colliding Laser Pulses

C. B. Schroeder

P. B. Lee

J. S. Wurtele

E. Esarey

W. P. Leemans

Electromagnetically Induced Guiding and Superradiant Amplification of Counter-Propagating Lasers in Plasma

G. Shvets

N. J. Fisch

A. Pukhov

Laser-Driven Undulator Radiation

C. Shvets

N. I. Fisch

A. Pukhov

Collisionless Damping of Laser Wakes in Plasma Channels

G. Shvets

X. Li

Test Results of the Plasma Source for Underdense Plasma Lens Experiments at the UCLA Neptune Lab

H. Suk

C. E. Clayton

R. Narang

P. Muggli

J. Rosenzweig

C. Pellegrini

C. Joshi

Guiding of High Intensity Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Plasma Channels Produced with the Dual Laser Pulse Ignitor-Heater Technique

P. Volfbeyn

W. P. Leemans

Wakefield Accelerators in the Blowout Regime with Mobile Ions

S. Lee

T. Katsouleas

Meter Long, Homogeneous Plasma Source for Advanced Accelerator Applications

P. Muggli

K. A. Marsh

S. Wang

C. E. Clayton

T. C. Katsouleas

C. Joshi

Photon Acceleration-Based Radiation Sources

J. R. Hoffman

P. Muggli

T. C. Katsouleas

W. B. Mod

C. Joshi

Proton Acceleration in Plasma Waves Produced by Backward

Raman Scattering

A. Ogata

T. Katsouleas

Working Group 3: Novel Structure-Based Acceleration Concepts

STELLA Experiment: Design and Model Predictions

W. D. Kimura

M. Babzien

I. Ben-Zvi

L. P. Campbell

D. B. Cline

R. B. Fiorito

J. C. Gallardo

S. C. Gottschalk

P. He

K. P. Kusche

Y. Liu

R. H. Pantell

I. V. Pogorelsky

D. C. Quimby

K. E. Robinson

D. W. Rule

J. Sandweiss

J. Skaritka

A. van Steenbergen

L. C. Steinhauer

V. Yakimenko

STELLA Experiment: Hardware Issues

K P Kusche

M. Babzien

I. Ben-Zvi

L. P. Campbell

D. B. Cline

R B. Fiorito

J. C. Gallardo

S. C. Gottschalk

P. He

W. D. Kimura

Y. Liu

R. H. Pantell

I. V. Pogorelsky

D. C. Quimby

K. E. Robinson

D. W. Rule

J. Sandweiss

J. Skaritka

A. van Steenbergen

L. C. Steinhauer

V. Yakimenko

The Proposed Interferometric-type Laser-Driven Particle Accelerators

Y. C. Huang

Y. W. Lee

T. Plettner

R. L. Byer

Laser Acceleration in Vacuum Using a Donut-Shaped Beam

Y. Liu

D. Cline

P. He

Space Charge Compensation in Laser Particle Accelerators

L. C. Steinhauer

W. D. Kimura

Intensification of Harmonic Spontaneous Radiation with a Novel Undulator

T. C. Marshall

Y. Shao

Z. Parsa

Laser Linear Collider Design

A. A. Mikhailichenko

RF Power Generation and Coupling Measurements for the Dielectric Wakefield Step-Up Transformer

M. E. Conde

W. Cai

R. Konecny

J. Power

P. Schoessow

P. Zou

Status of the Microwave Inverse EEL Experiment

R. B. Yoder

T. C. Marshall

M. Wang

J. L. Hirshfield

Phase Focusing for Finite Emittance Beams

C. Wang

B. Hafizi

I. L. Hirshfield

A Field Symmetrized Dual Feed 2 MeV RE Gun for a 17 GHz Electron Linear Accelerator

J. Haimson

B. Mecklenburg

G. Stowell

Transverse Fields in Dielectric Wake Field Accelerators

J. L. Hirshfield

S. Y. Park

T.-B. Zhang

Diamond Coating in Accelerator Structure

X.E. Lin

Coherent Multimoded Dielectric Wakefield Accelerators

J. Power

W. Gal

P. Schoessow

An Optimized Slab-Symmetric Dielectric-Based Laser Accelerator Structure

J. B. Rosenzweig

P. V. Schoessow

Laser Acceleration in Vacuum, Gases, and Plasmas with Capillary Waveguide

M. Xie

Working Group 4: Beam Monitoring, Conditioning, and Control at High Frequency and Ultrafast Timescales

Precision Beam to Structure Alignment in Linear Accelerators

M. Seidel

C. Adolphsen

Noninvasive Beam Position, Size, Divergence and Energy Diagnostics Using Diffraction Radiation

R. B. Fiorito

D. W. Rule

W. D. Kimura

Sub-picosecond Electron Bunch Profile Measurement Using Magnetic Longitudinal Dispersion and Off-Phase RE Acceleration

K. N. Ricci

T. I. Smith

E. R. Crosson

The Effect of Detector Bandwidth on Microbunch Length Measurements Made with Coherent Transition Radiation

D. W. Rule

R. B. Fiorito

W. D. Kimura

STELLA Experiment-Microbunch Diagnostic

P. He

Y. Liu

D. B. Cline

M. Babzien

J. C. Gallardo

K. P. Kusche

I. V. Pogorelsky

J. Skaritka

A. van Steenbergen

V. Yakimenko

W. D. Kimura

Microbunch Temporal Diagnostic by Compton Scattering in Interfering Laser Beams

A. T. Amatuni

I. V. Pogorelsky

Bunch-Length and Beam-Timing Monitors in the SLC Final Focus

F. Zimmermann

G. Yocky

D. H. Whittum

M. Seidel

C. K. Ng

D. McCormick

K. L. F. Bane

Coherent Smith-Purcell Radiation for Use in Electron Beam Diagnostics

M. C. Lampel

Synchronization of Sub-picosecond Electron and Laser Pulses

J. B. Rosenzweig

G. P. LeSage

Electron Bunchlength Measurement from Analysis of Fluctuations in Spontaneous Emission

P. Catravas

W. P. Leemans

J. S. Wurtele

M. S. Zolotorev

M. Babzien

I. Ben-Zvi

Z. Segalov

X. Wang

V. Yakimenko

Working Group 5: Particle Beam Sources

Advances in DC Photocathode Electron Guns

B. M. Dunham

P. Hartmann

R. Kazimi

H. Liu

B. M. Poelker

J. S. Price

P. M. Rutt

W. J. Schneider

C. K. Sinclair

Theoretical Study of a Diode with Dielectric-Gridded Cathode

L. Schachter

D. Flechtner

C. Golkowski

J. D. Ivers

J. A. Nation

Dark Current Measurements at Field Gradients Above 1 GV/m

T. Srinivasan-Rao

J. Smedley

J. Schill

K. Batchelor

J. P. Farrell

Optimization of Gun Parameters for a Pulsed Power Electron Gun

T. Srinivasan-Rao

J. Smedley

K. Batchelor

J. P. Farrell

G. Dudnikova

Design, Analysis and Cold Test of a 17 GHz RE Gun

M. A. Shapiro

W. J. Brown

K. E. Kreischer

R. J. Temkin

Experimental Results of the MIT 17 GHz RE Gun

W. J. Brown

S. Trotz

K. E. Kreischer

M. Pedrozzi

M. A. Shapiro

R. I. Temkin

Self-Bunching Electron Guns

F. Mako

L. K. Len

W. Peter

Electron Injection by Dephasing Electrons with Laser Fields

E. Dodd

J. K. Kim

D. Umstadter

Injector for a Laser Linear Collider

A. A. Mikhailichenko

Design of a High Charge (10-100 nC) and Short Pulse (2-5ps) RE Photocathode Gun for Wakefield Acceleration

W. Gai

X. Li

M. Conde

J. Power

P. Schoessow

Femtosecond Electron Beam Generation by S-Band Laser Photocathode RE Gun and Linac

M. Uesaka

K. Kinoshita

T. Watanabe

T. Ueda

K. Yoshii

H. Harano

J. Sugahara

K. Nakajima

A. Ogata

F. Sakai

H. Dewa

M. Kando

H. Kotaki

S. Kondo

Electron Beam Generation Using a Ferroelectric Cathode

J. D. Ivers

D. Flechtner

C. Golkowskj

G. Liu

J. A. Nation

L. Schachter

Working Group 6: Radiation Sources

Recent Progress on 7 GHz Pulsed Magnicon Amplifier

E. V. Kozyrev

O. A. Nezhevenko

A. A. Nikiforov

G. N. Ostreiko

B. Z. Persov

G. V. Serdobintsev

S. V. Schelkunoff

V. V. Tarnetsky

V. P. Yakovlev

I. A. Zapryagaev

Double Resonance in Relativistic Gyrodevices

C. S. Nusinovich

J. Zhao

Requirements of a High-power TWT Operating at 35 GHz

L. Schachter

S. Bana

J. A. Nation

The Design and Analysis of Multi-Megawatt Distributed single Pole Double Throw (SPDT) Microwave Switches

S. G. Tantawi

A Multi-Moded RF Delay Line Distribution System for the Next Linear Collider

S. G. Tantawi

G. Bowden

Z. D. Farkas

J. Irwin

K. Ko

N. Kroll

T. Lavinc

Z. Li

R. Loewen

R. Miller

C. Nantista

R. D. Ruth

J. Rifkin

A. E. Vlieks

P. B. Wilson

C. Adolphsen

J. Wang

Active Microwave Pulse Compressors Employing Oversized Resonators and Distributed Plasma Switches

A. L. Vikharev

A. M. Gorbachev

O. A. Ivanov

V. A. Isaev

S. V. Kuzikov

A. L. Kolysko

A. G. Litvak

M. I. Petelin

J. L. Hirshfield

Progress on the Relativistic Klystron Two-Beam Accelerator Prototype

G. A. Westenskow

D. E. Anderson

S. Eylon

E. Henestroza

T. L. Houck

S. M. Lidia

D. L. Vanecek

S. S. Yu

New Concept Input and Output Systems for High Power Gyroklystron

X. Xu

W. Lawson

C. Liu

J. Cheng

J. Anderson

B. Hogan

V. L. Granatstein

M. Reiser

A Linear Accelerator Power Amplification System for High Gradient Structure Research

J. Haimson

B. Mecklenburg

Design of a 17.14 GHz Quasi-Optical Pulse Compressor

M. I. Petelin

S. V. Kuzikov

Y. Y. Danilov

V. L. Granatstein

G. S. Nusinovich

Stimulated Emission of Coherent Radiation from a Relativistic Ion Beam

S. A. Bogacz

List of Participants

Author Index