Name: Workshop on Test Beam Opportunities at SLAC's LESA (Linac to End Station A) Facility
Start: 2025-09-04T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-05T17:00:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

Workshop on Test Beam Opportunities at SLAC's LESA (Linac to End Station A) Facility

from Thursday, 4 September 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 5 September 2025 (17:00)

Monday, 1 September 2025
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Thursday, 4 September 2025
08:30 LESA Facility: LESA Facility
LESA Facility
08:30 - 10:15
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

08:30 Welcome - Organizers

08:45 ESTB experience - Carsten Hast (SLAC)

09:15 LESA Facility Overview - Thomas Markiewicz (SLAC)

09:55 LESA Timing Capability - Matt Weaver (SLAC)
10:15 Coffee
Coffee
10:15 - 10:40
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
10:40 Lessons from Early Tests and Other Facilities
10:40 - 12:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

10:40 Experience with LDMX slice test at S30XL spring 2025 - Lauren Tompkins (STANFORD U., HEPL)

11:00 Electron Test Beams at DESY - Marcel Stanitzki (DESY)

11:30 Electron Test Beams at CERN - Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN)

12:00 FTBF Experience - Evan Niner (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
13:30 User Talks: Block A
Block A
13:30 - 14:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

13:30 Precise timing and position needs for AC-LGAD testing - Simone Mazza

13:45 Testing Wide Band Gap Devices for Fast Timing Applications - Carl Haber (LBNL)

14:00 4D Tracker Testbed - Timon Heim (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL))

14:15 5D calorimetry - Ariel Schwartzman (SLAC)
14:30 Discussion: Timing (with coffee)
Timing (with coffee)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
15:00 End Station A Tour - Carsten Hast (SLAC)
End Station A Tour
- Carsten Hast (SLAC)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D Meet at the Redwood Rooms; we will proceed as a group to End Station A
Friday, 5 September 2025
08:30 User Talks: Block B
Block B
08:30 - 10:45
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

08:30 Needs for photon science, fusion energy, and security - Christopher Kenney (SLAC)

08:45 High-Precision and High-Dynamic Range Tracking of Dose Deposition by GeV Beams - Emilio Nanni (SLAC)

09:00 Calorimeter R&D in Korea for FCC and EIC projects - Hwi Dong Yoo

09:45 mu2e upgrade detector - Yury Kolomensky

10:00 Test Beam needs for US HFCC detector R&D - Caterina Vernieri (SLAC)

10:15 Past and Future Test Beams for Experiments at Brookhaven - John Haggerty (Brookhaven National Lab)

10:30 Tests Beams for the DRD6 R&D Collaboration - Bob Hirosky (U. Virginia)
10:45 LESA Facility: Potential Future Directions
Potential Future Directions
10:45 - 11:05
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

10:45 Opportunities with plasma-accelerated electrons at LESA - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)
11:05 Discussion: Instrumentation; Beam Characteristics (e.g. charge, current, time structure, ...); Other Experiment Needs
Instrumentation; Beam Characteristics (e.g. charge, current, time structure, ...); Other Experiment Needs
11:05 - 12:15
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

12:15 Takeaways
Takeaways
12:15 - 12:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

12:30 Lunch and continuing informal discussions
Lunch and continuing informal discussions
12:30 - 12:50
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

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