Ultrafast Beams and Applications 04-07 July 2017, CANDLE, Armenia
International Workshop

Workshop Program

3 July Monday

Arrival

15:30 Institute of Ancient Manuscripts – Matenadaran
18:00 – 20:00 Registration and Reception (CANDLE SRI)

4 July Tuesday

9:00 – 9:20 Registration

Session 1: Facilities and New Projects (Chairman: V. Tsakanov)

9:20 – 9:30 Workshop Opening
9:30 – 9:55 Ultrafast Electron Beam Irradiation Effects on DNA Damage and Repair in Normal and Cancer Cells

Rouben Aroutiounian (Yerevan State University/NAS RA, Armenia)

9:55 – 10:20 REGAE – The Relativistic Electron Gun for Atomic Exploration

Klaus Floettmann (DESY, Germany)

10:20 – 10:45 Considerations of an Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Experiment at HZB

Georgios Kourkafas (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)

10:45 – 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:30 AREAL – Facility for Ultrafast Applications

Bagrat Grigoryan (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

11:30 – 11:50 Design of the Ultrashort Bunch Accelerator Complex

Mariya Maltseva (Budker Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Russia)

11:50 – 12:10 IPM Accelerator Projects

Hamed Shaker (IPM, Iran)

12:10 – 12:30 A Phase Matching Accelerator with Tapered Waveguides

Francois Lemery (DESY, Germany)

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch

Session 2: Photon Beams (Chairman: D. Nikiforov)

14:30 – 14:55 A New Scheme of High-Energy THz-Pulses Source Using Nonlinear Crystal with Attached Multistep Phase Mask

Yuri Avetisyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia)

14:55 – 15:15 Experimental Demonstration of Spectral Self-Compression of Super-Continuum Radiation Fraction

Hrach Toneyan (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

15:15 – 15:30 Similariton Based Technique for Determination of Femtosecond Pulse Duration

Karapet Manukyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia)

15:30 – 15:45 Phase Regularities of Spectron: Numerical Analysis

Narek Karapetyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia)

15:45 – 16:00 Numerical Study of Femtosecond Signal Spectral Self Compression

Minas Sukiasyan (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

16:00 Yerevan Cognac Factory ARARAT
 

5 July Wednesday

Session 3: Electron Beams (Chairman: H. Shaker)

9:00 – 9:25

SRF Gun Development for High Brightness, Short Pulse Applications

Thorsten Kamps (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)

 9:25 – 9:50 Linearization of the Longitudinal Phase Space Without Higher Harmonic Field

Benno Zeitler (University of Hamburg & CFEL, Germany)

9:50 – 10:15 SRF Implementation in BESSY VSR for Picosecond X-Ray Pulse Production

Andranik Tsakanian (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)

10:15 – 10:40 RF Photogun Based on a Parallel Coupling Accelerating Structure for High Charge and Low Emittance

Danila Nikiforov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russia)

10:40 – 11:05 Coffee Break
11:05 – 11:25 Synchrotron Radiation Reflection from Outer Wall of Vacuum Chamber

Suren Arutunian  (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia)

11:25 – 11:50 Wakefields and Impedances

Martin Dohlus (DESY, Germany)

11:50 – 12:15 The THz Radiation in Laminated Structures

Mickayel Ivanyan (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

12:15 – 12:30 THz Undulator Radiation in Waveguide

Armen Grigoryan (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

12:30 – 14:30

Lunch

 Session 4: Applications and Experimental Techniques (Chairman: B. Grigoryan)

14:30 – 14:50 Laser Driven Facility for Irradiation Experiments, Two-Photon Microscopy and Microfabrication

Arsham Yeremyan (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

14:50 – 15:10 The Study of Natural Anti-Aging Compounds at DELTA Two-Photon Microscopy Station

Gohar Tsakanova (Institute of Molecular Biology NAS RA, Armenia)

15:10 – 15:25

 

Peculiarities of Ultrafast Irradiation Effect on the Properties of Silicon Crystals

Hrant Yeritsyan (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia)

15:25 – 15:45 The Effects of Ultrafast Irradiation on Baxsr1-Xtio3 Ferroelectric Thin Films

Norayr Martirosyan (National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Armenia)

15:45 – 16:00

AREAL Ultrafast Beam Application for Modeling the Microorganisms Survival in Space

Garnik Khachatryan (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia)

16:00 – 16:15

Material Research under Extreme Conditions at AREAL Facility

Aram Sahakyan (Yerevan Physics Institute,  Armenia)

18:30 Concert
 

6 July Thursday

Session 5: Tour to AREAL and CANDLE-15 Years (Chairman: K. Floettmann) 

9:30 – 9:45

Low Emittance CANDLE Storage Ring

Artsrun Sargsyan (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

9:45 – 10:10 CANDLE-15 Years: Learning from the Past and Inventing the Future

Vasili Tsakanov (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

10:10 – 10:30 Official Event
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45 Tour to AREAL 
11:45 – 12:30 Refreshments
12:30 – 14:00 Hotel/Lunch
14:00 – 17:30 Tour to Garni and Geghard Monasteries
19:30 Workshop Dinner
 

7 July Friday

Session 6: Sources, Diagnostics and Control (Chairman: B. Zeitler)

9:00 – 9:20 Middle Infrared and THz Sources at AREAL

Vahe Sahakyan (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

9:20 – 9:40

Diagnostics at REGAE Facility

Hossein Delsim Hashemi (DESY, Germany)

9:40 – 10:00 Lego Radio Frequency Timer for KeV Energy Electrons

Simon Zhamkochyan (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia)

10:00 – 10:20 Faraday Cup Simulation for Electron Beam Measurements

Vaagn Gambaryan (Budker Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Russia)

10:20 – 10:40

Accelerating Structure Design for the AREAL THz –IR FEL

Ashot Vardanyan  (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:25 The Utca Based Control System Development for Advanced Accelerators

Ludwig Petrosyan (DESY, Germany)

11:25 – 11:40 An Overview of Beam Diagnostic and Control Systems for AREAL Linac

Gayane Amatuni (CANDLE SRI, Armenia)

11:40 – 12:00 Beam Diagnostics with THz Radiation

Francois Lemery (DESY, Germany)

12:00 – 12:30 Workshop Summary 
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
 

8-9 July Saturday – Sunday

Tour To:

  • Noravank (13th-century Armenian monastery)
  • Shaki Waterfall
  • Carahunge Ancient Stone Observatory (Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age)
  • Wings of Tatev Aerial Tramway (the longest cableway in the world (5752m),                                                                                 recorded in the Guinness Book of Records)
  • Tatev Monastery (9th-century Armenian Apostolic monastery), etc.