S9 — Extreme Light Technologies, Science, and Applications

Seminar Co-Chairs

Stepan Bulanov

Stepan Bulanov

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, USA

SBulanov@lbl.gov

Christoph Keitel

Christoph Keitel

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

keitel@mpi-hd.mpg.de

Xiaofei Shen

Xiaofei Shen

Peking University, Beijing, China

xfshen@pku.edu.cn

Programme

Tuesday, 7 July 2026 · 13:30 – 15:30

Chairs: Dr. Xiaofei Shen , Dr. Stepan Bulanov

13:30 119 Recent Progress in Laser Ion Acceleration Thanks to Innovative Targets and New Interaction Regimes (invited talk)
E d'Humieres, C L C Lacoste, A Hirsch-Passicos, C Salu, K Aliane, W Yao, Ph Nicolaï, D Raffestin, V T Tikhonchuk, N Luchier, P Antici, F Souris, J Fuchs, and M Bardon
14:00 Towards Practical Applications with a Laser-Based Proton Beamline (invited talk)
J H Bin
14:30 Electron Accelerators with Lasers From mJ to kJ at ELI-Beamlines (invited talk)
C M Lazzarini, P Valenta, I Zymak, A Spadova, M Jech, S Lorenz, L V N Goncalves, F Vitha, J Sisma, M Nevrkla, G M Grittani, and S V Bulanov

Tuesday, 7 July 2026 · 16:00 – 17:30

Chairs: Dr. Stepan Bulanov , Dr. Xiaofei Shen

16:00 Optimizing Photon Collider Through Scattering Laser Wavelength Selection
S S Bulanov
16:30 QED Cascade in Multiple Radially Polarized Laser Pulse Collision (invited talk)
M Jirka, J Vabek, and S V Bulanov
17:00 Essential Nonlocality of Spin- and Polarization-Resolved Distributions in Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics (invited talk)
S Montefiori, A Di Piazza, T Podszus, C H Keitel, and M Tamburini

Wednesday, 8 July 2026 · 13:30 – 15:30

Chairs: Dr. Stepan Bulanov , Dr. Xiaofei Shen

13:30 Particle Acceleration and Polarization in the Strong-Field QED Regime
X F Shen
14:00 Laboratory Cosmology with Free Spinorial Wave Packets (invited talk)
A Campos, K Hatsagortsyan, and C Keitel
14:30 Processes in Strong Fields: The View from the Worldline (invited talk)
Ch Schubert

Wednesday, 8 July 2026 · 16:00 – 18:00

Chairs: Dr. Xiaofei Shen , Dr. Stepan Bulanov

16:00 Experiment 320: Probing Strong-Field QED by Colliding Short Laser Pulses with Ultra-Relativistic Electron Beams (invited talk)
T Smorodnikova (on behalf of the E-320 collaboration)
16:30 Extreme Timescale (Attosecond) and Extreme Photon Energy (Gamma Rays)
R Kienberger
17:00 Exploring Strong-Field QED with Doppler-Boosted Harmonic Beams: From Simulations to Experiments (invited talk)
L Fedeli, B Groussin, P Sikorski, P Bartoli, A Leblanc, and H Vincenti

Poster Presentations

State-of-the-Art Laser-Driven Electron Accelerators and Applications at ELI-ERIC

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