Ionuț Slabu - Real-time analysis software for laser driven electron acceleration;
Ioana Fidel - Assessment of the intrinsic radiosensitivity of glioma cells and monitoring of metabolite ratio changes after irradiation by 14.7-T highresolution 1H MRS, Zhang Z. et al, NMR in Biomedicine, 2014;
The course will have 7 lectures of 2 hours each. It will start in the week 26.02-01.03,
and will be every Tuesday, in the interval 15:00 - 17:00.
Short explanation of the three topics to be addressed:
First topic covers the questions: what does ELI-NP deliver to the users?
How do we describe the light? How can we model the light from ultrashort lasers?
The second topic provides the insight on The Machine: Which are the parts, how are they
connected and what light can It deliver? Trying to find out what does it happen to the
delivered light when The Machine goes wrong.
The third topic addresses the measurement and control of the delivered light from The Machine.
You need to keep an (artificial) eye on that laser light (and a hand...), but how does it
function the eye (and the hand)?
The course will last 9 lessons 2h each. It will start on 21st of February, from 14:30 to 16:30.
PREREQUISITES: Classical electrodynamics, basics of special relativity
LESSON 1: Introduction to basic plasma physics in the regime explored in LWFA.
LESSON 2: The laser field description through the fields and the vector potentials.
Understanding the ponderomotive force effect.
LESSON 3: The fluid description of the plasma and the plasma waves relevant in LWFA,
including their dispersion relations.
LESSON 4: The (magic) 1D model in detail (with online simulations) and the best
scenario for LWFA.
LESSON 5: 3D effects on and laser evolution (the challenging parts of LWFA)
LESSON 6: Particle In Cell methods and application on LWFA. Examples and
laboratory with PIC.
LESSON 7: How to increase the energy and quality of the accelerated beams.
LESSON 8: How to generate high charge beams for applications (VHEE, n, e+, muons...)
LESSON 9: Radiation sources with LWFA: Betatron and Thomson backscattering
high-brilliance sources.
The course will have 6 lectures of 2 hours each. It will start in the week 19-23.02, and will be every Thursday, in the interval 13:00 - 15:00.
Topic 1: Interaction of radiation with matter
Topic 2: Simulation of radiation transport
Topic 3: Radiation detection and measurement
Topic 4: Gamma-ray spectrometry
Topic 5: Neutron Detection
Topic 6: Dosimetric instruments
Practical work = Gamma-ray spectrometry