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2026 FACET-II PAC Meeting

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53/1-1350-A/B - Trinity-A/B (SLAC)

53/1-1350-A/B - Trinity-A/B

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2575 Sand Hill Rd Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Brendan O'Shea (SLAC)
Description

 

FACET-II is a National User Facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory that provides the Department of Energy with unique capabilities to develop advanced acceleration and coherent radiation techniques with high-energy high-intensity electron beams.

This instance of the FACET-II Program Advisory Committee (PAC) November 3-5, 2026. The PAC is chaired by Edda Gschwendtner (CERN) and is asked to:

  1. Evaluate the merit and the feasibility of new and updated proposals
  2. Evaluate the progress made by experiments that received beam time in FY25/FY26
  3. Assess plans and priorities for the upcoming experimental operations in FY27

 

Guidelines for new and updated proposals:

To receive full consideration, we ask that new and updated proposals be submitted by Monday, October 19, 2026. As you develop your proposal, we encourage you to coordinate with us to ensure the best match between your requests and current or future capabilities at FACET-II. Recommendations from the PAC will be used to guide priorities for run time scheduling, as well as for developing and introducing facility improvement plans.

Details of the proposal process including a proposal template may be found here: 

https://facet-ii.slac.stanford.edu/proposals

We are looking forward to working with you on this important and exciting science program. Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues you feel may be interested.

Principal Investigators for already reviewed experiments may be asked to present at the PAC. In this case, the PI will be contacted directly, and guidance for the presentation will be given.

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  • Tuesday 3 November
    • Executive Sessions: Day 1
    • 1
      Facility Status and Expectations for FY27
      Speaker: Brendan O'Shea (SLAC)
    • 2
      FACET-II User Facilities
      Speaker: Ivan Rajkovic (SLAC)
    • 10:00
      Coffee
    • 3
      E-300 - Energy Doubling of Narrow Energy Spread Witness Bunch while Preserving Emittance with a High Pump-to-Witness Energy Transfer Efficiency in a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
      Speaker: Doug Storey (SLAC)
    • 4
      E-301 - Tailored Plasma Source for Emittance Preservation in Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and High-Brightness Plasma-Injected Beams
      Speaker: Michael Litos (University of Colorado Boulder)
    • 5
      E-308 - Extreme Focusing in Vacuum with a Passive Plasma Lens
      Speaker: Michael Litos (University of Colorado Boulder)
    • 12:15
      Lunch
    • 6
      E-340 - Control and observation of trajectory mixing and wakeless regime in plasma accelerators
      Speaker: Sebastien Corde (LOA)
    • 7
      E-305 and E-336 - Beam filamentation and bright gamma-ray bursts
      Speaker: Sebastien Corde (LOA)
    • 8
      E-304 - Downramp Trapping in PWFA for generating low emittance beams
      Speaker: Chaojie Zhang (UCLA)
    • 15:00
      Coffee
    • 9
      E-324 - Optical visualization of beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators
      Speaker: Michael Downer (UT Austin)
    • 10
      E-339 - PetaVolts per meter plasmonics using engineered materials
      Speaker: Prof. Aakash Sahai (Aakash)
    • Executive Sessions: Day 1 Evening Session
  • Wednesday 4 November
    • Executive Sessions: Day 2 Morning
    • Q&A: Day 1 Q&A
    • 10:00
      Coffee
    • 11
      E-310 - Trojan Horse-II
      Speaker: Bernhard Hidding (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf / University of Strathclyde / The Cockcroft Institute)
    • 12
      E-320 - Probing Strong-field QED at FACET-II
      Speaker: Sebastian Meuren (LULI, CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France)
    • 11:45
      Lunch
    • 13
      E-338 - Attosecond XUV/X-ray source driven by a plasma accelerator
      Speaker: Claudio Emma (SLAC)
    • 14
      E-331 - Neural network based tuning to exploit machine-wide sensitivities in pursuit of high beam quality
      Speaker: Auralee Edelen (SLAC)
    • 15
      E-341 - Development of 6-dimensional phase space reconstruction of FACET-II beams
      Speaker: Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Aguilera (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
    • 16
      E-345 - FCC-ee preinjector complex studies at FACET-II
      Speaker: Brendan O'Shea (SLAC)
    • 15:00
      Coffee
    • 17
      E-344 - Laser control and collimation of particle beams for Higgs factories
      Speaker: Spencer Gessner (SLAC)
    • 18
      E-342 - Frequency upshifting in a beam driven quasilinear plasma wake
      Speaker: Alec Thomas (University of Michigan)
    • Executive Sessions: Day 2 Evening Session
  • Thursday 5 November
    • Executive Sessions: Day 3 Morning
    • Q&A: Day 3 Q&A
    • 10:30
      Coffee
    • Executive Sessions: Report Writing
    • 12:30
      Working Lunch
    • 19
      Report Closeout
    • Adjorn