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EVENT

Fiscal 2019

16/3/2020-19/3/2020 Annual Meeting of Physical Society

The Physical Society of Japan, 2020 Anual(75th) Meeting was planed to be held at Nagoya University, was only on web, becase of the COVID-19, the conerence.   Program

Invited
Morace Alessio
     "Laser-ion acceleration for Fast Ignition research and applications"

Special symposium
Yasuhiro Kuramitsu (Oral)
Yoichi SAKAWA(Oral)
Yasuaki Kishimoto (Oral)
Masahiro Hoshino (Oral)
Yosuke Matsumoto (Oral)
Hideo Nagatmo (Oral)

General presentation
Masakatsu Murakami (Oral)
Taichi Morita (Oral)
Alessio Morace (Oral)
Natsumi Iwata (Oral)
Yasuhiko Sentoku (Oral)
Ryutaro Matsui (Oral)
Takayoshi Sano (Oral)
Kentaro Sakai (Oral)
Naoki Higashi (Oral)
Kaoru Sugimoto (Oral)
Hitoki Yoneda (Oral)
Shinsuke Fujioka (Oral)

03/02/2020-28/02/2020 Experiments ＠KPSI, QST

AsianCore mebers attended experiments, using the laser of "J-KAREN-P" at Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology for three following theames.

“Experiment on elucidation of quasi-monochromatic ion acceleration physics by collisionless shock wave”
                 Applied by Prof. Yoich SAKAWA（Osaka Univ.）
“Experiment aiming at realization of multi-GeV high-purity carbon beam acceleration using nano carbon target”
                 Applied by Prof. Yasuhiro KURAMITSU（Osaka Univ.）
“Experiment on interaction between high-intensity laser and rod assembly”
                 Applied by Prof. Yasuaki KISHIMOTO（Kyoto Univ.）

For the experimtens leaded by Dr. Fukuda (QST), an AsianCore meber, following memberes stayed up to 6 weeks for preparation and conducting experiments in KPSI.
Prof. Sakawa, Prof. Kuramitsu, Prof. Morace,
        Mr. Egashira, Mr. Ota, Mr. Izumi, Mr. Nakagawa, Mr. Minami, Mr. Sakai,
        Mr. Hihara (Osaka Univ.)
Prof. Kishimoto, Dr. Matsui, Mr. Ihara, Mr. Uehara (Kyoto Univ.)
Prof. Kanasaki, Mr. Asai (Kobe Univ.)
Prof. Jinno (Tokyo Univ.)

Besides the AsianCore members,
        Prof. Pikuz Tatiana, Mr. Takahiro Nishimoto, Mr. Kouki Takano (Osaka Univ.)
        Mr. Yuki Ihara, Mr. Hideaki Masui(Kyoto Univ.)
        Prof. M. A. Alkhimova(Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
        Mr. A. McIlvenny, Ms. O. McCusker(Queen's University Belfast, UK)
and many other researchers from inside and outside Japan attended.

20/01/2020-22/01/2020　Annual Meeting of Laser Society

Members joined The 40th Annual Meeting of Laser Society of Japan, held at Sendai.
    Program

• Yasuhiro Kuramitsu（Invited)
      "Magnetic reconnection driven by electron dynamics in magnetic field applied plasma"
• Yasuaki Kishimoto（Oral)
      "Simulation and experiment of interaction between high-intensity laser and rod assembly"

29/11/2019-2/12/2019 Plasma and Fusion Research

Dr. Sakawa, Dr. Kuramitu and Mr. Yamakawa attended to the 36th Annual Meeting of "Plasma and Fusion Research"     Program

• Youichi Sakawa（oral)
      "Collisionless electrostatick shock ion acceleration driven by high-intensity laser -effect of two-stream instability"
• Yasuhiro Kuramitsu（oral)
      "Nonthermal relativistic particle acceleration with turbulent wakefield"
• Yudai Yamakawa（poster)
      "Numerical analysis of inside of inductive electrodeless plasma thruster using loop coi"

27/11/2019-28/11-2019 "Young Researchers' Exchange Seminar

Dr. Mori and Ms. Takagi attended "Young Researchers' Exchange Seminar (the 32th seminar)" organized by Laser Society of Japan, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch、Kansai Branch Alliance

11/20/2019　Academic Exchange Seminar @ Osaka Univ.

In Suita Campus, Osaka University, A semnir, "Academic Exchange Seminar between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Osaka University" was held.
As one of the 6 sessions of the "Academic Exchange Seminar between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Osaka University", Laser and Plasma related session was held at ILE.
From Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dr. Min Chen and Dr. Feng Liu attended.
From Osaka University, Dr. Kuramitsu, the organizer of the session, Dr. Kodama, Dr. Fujioka, Dr. Sakawa, Mr. Morita, and Mr. Chang Liu had talks.

※Program

• Shinsuke Fujioka
      "Magnetized Fast Isochoric Heating for Creation ofUltra-High-Energy-Density state"
• Youichi Sakawa
      "Small angel x-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements with sub-micron rodassembly
       target at SACL"
• Hiroki Morita
      "Electrical conductivity of Warm Dense Gold"
• Chang Liu
      "Laboratory spectroscopy for laboratory"

12/11/2019-18/11/2019　Experiments @ SACLA

Many members attended an experiment “Exploring Laser Astrophysics with coherent x-ray: Basic experiment for the realization of collisionless Weibel shock generation and particle acceleration (II)" using XFEL：SACLA and high-intensity laser at RIKEN
For the experimetns, Dr. Matsui, and Mr. Uehara came to prepare for the targets.

Experiment member
    Osaka University：　Sakawa, Morace, Ota, Egashira, Izumi, Nakagawa, Sakai
    Kyoto University：　Kishimoto, Matsui, Ueda
    QST：　Fukuda
    JASRI：　Yabuuchi

4/11/2019-5/11/2019　AAPPS-DPP2019 @ Hefei

Several members attended 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics(AAPPS-DPP2019), held in Hefei, China.

Japanese presentation         *All rogram*

• Yoichi Sakawa (Invited)
      "Ion acceleration by high-intensity laser-driven collisionless electrostatic shock"
• Ryosuke Kodama (Invited)
      "Exploration of high energy density science in various scales of structures with
        high power lasers semi-plenary"
• Yuji Fukuda (Invited)
      "Quasimonoenergetic proton bunch via interactions of micron-scale hydrogen
        cluster targets with PW-class laser pulses
• Takayoshi Sano (Invited)
      "Laser-plasma interaction in overdenseplasmas under strong magnetic fields"
• Taichi Morit (Invited)
      "Laser astrophysics experiments for studying collisionless shock and
        magnetic reconnection"
• Masakatsu Murakami (Invited)
      "Relativistic proton emission from ultrahigh-energy-density nanosphere generated
        by micro-bubble implosion"
• Hitoki Yoneda (Plenary)
      "Progress of inner-shell ionized hard x-ray laser pumped by intense XFEL pulses"
• Hideo Nagatomo (Invited)
      "An optimum design of a cone-inserted target implosion for reactor scale Fast Ignition "
• Yasuaki Kishimoto (Semi plenary)
      "Generation 　and application of self-organized high energy density plasma produced
         by the interaction between high intensity laser and structured medium"
• Shuichi Matsukiyo (Invited)
      "Kinetic radial structure of heliospheric boundary"

A lot of Chinese project members attended this conference, including, Dr. Yutong Li, the project coordinator of China, and having discussion with Dr. Amit Dattatraya Lad, and Dr. Sanjib Sarka form India,and Dr. Shogo Isayama, from Taiwan.

30/10/2020-1/11/2020　
         International Workshop on Laboratory astrophysics at Shanghai, China

Dr. Sakawa and Dr. Murakami attended International Workshop on Laboratory astrophysics. The workshop was organized by Dr. Zhengming Sheng, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
From China, Dr. Jie Zhang and Dr. Liming Chen, (SJTU)、Dr. Baifei Shen (Shanghai Normal Univ.), Dr. Jiayong Zhong (Beijing Normal Univ.) and other members attended. Dr. Amit D. Lad (TIFR) joined from India as well.

Japanese presentations         *All program*

• Yoichi Sakawa (Invited)
      "Power-laser driven collisionles shock generation and particle acceleration"
• Masakatsu Murakami (Invited)
      "Generation of ultrahigh fields by micro-bubble implosion"

From left of 1st line, Dr. Liming Chen (SJTU), and Dr. Sakawa. Dr. Murakami in the 2nd line

25/09/2019　Kick off meeting @ Osaka

The Kick off meeting was held at OSAKA CITY CENTRAL PUBLIC HALL.
We planed some talks and discussion though Skype and there was a concern about the trouble until just before, but it was successfully hel and finished safely, with a hope to get together at "Summer School" in China or Taiwan, next year. Program

　13:30 - 13:50:　Asian Core-to-Core program,
　                             Dr. Y. Sakawa (ILE, Japan)
　13:50 - 14:20:　Collisionless shocks in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas,
　                             Dr. R. Yamazaki: Skype (Aoyamagakuin U, Japan)
　14:20 - 14:50:　Activities at the IOP,
　                             Dr. Y. Li (IOP, CAS, China)
　14:50 - 15:10:　High-power Laser experiments for studying magnetic reconnection
　                             Dr. T. Morita (Kyushu U., Japan)
　15:10 - 15:30:　------ Coffee break and Photo ------
　15:30 - 16:00:　Activities at TIFR,
　                             Dr. R. Kumar: Skype (TIFR, India)
　16:00 -16:30:　Introduction to NCU 100-TW Laser Facility: Specifications,
　                             Update and Experiments,
　                             Dr. Y. Liu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
　16:30 - 16:50:　Model experiment of cosmic-ray acceleration using intense laser systems,
　                             Dr. Y. Kuramitsu (Osaka U, Japan)
　16:50 - 17:10:　Induced Compton scattering in pulsar magnetospheres
　                             and up-to-date laser facilities,
　                             Dr. S. Tanaka : Skype (Aoyamagakuin U, Japan)
　17:10 - 17:30:　Discussion


Opening by Dr. Sakawa

Gethering photo
Dr. Yutong LI(Chinese Academy, China)  The third from the left, in the front row　
Dr. Yao-Li LIU (National Central University, Taiwan)  The third from the left, in the middle row

9/22-27　IFSA2019 @ Osaka

Some project members attended to Eleventh International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications.
The kick off meeting of "Laser Astrophysics" was held during this big events, which More than 400 scientist got gether from all over the world.

Many other presentations related to this project were seen.

• Yoichi Sakawa (Oral)
      "Proton Acceleration by High-intensity Laser-Driven Electrostatic Collisionless Shock"
• Takayoshi Sano (Oral)
      "Whistler Wave Interaction with Overdense Plasmas in Strong Magnetic Fields"
• Yu -Tzu Liao (Oral)
      "Large-area Suspended Graphene (LSG) as Target for Laser Ion Acceleration (LIA)"
• Yasuhiro Kuramitsu (Oral)
      "Monoenergetic Ion Acceleration with a Nanolayered Ultrathin Target Using Large-Area
        Suspended Graphene"
• Yasuaki Kishimoto(Oral)
      "“Confinement”of High Energy Density Plasma Based on Structured Medium and
        initial Experiments Using SACLA X-Rays
        - A New Platform Studying MCF Plasmas Using Laser-"
• Liming Chen(Oral)
      "Ultra-High Charge Electron Acceleration from Solid Target"
• Shinsuke Fujioka(Oral)
      Laser-Driven Kilo-tesla Magnetic Field for Inertial Fusion Energy and
        Laboratory Astrophysics"
• Masakatsu Murakami(Oral)
      "Generation of Ultrahigh Fields by Micro-Bubble Implosion"
• Yuji Fukuda(Oral)
      "Generation of Quasimonoenergetic Proton Bunch via Interaction of
        Micron-Scale Hydrogen Cluster Targets with PW-Class Laser Pulses"
• Yutong Li (Poster)
      "Diagnostic of forward Fast Electrons in Targets Using Terahertz Radiation"
• Yao-Li Liu (Poster)
      "Ion Acceleration via the Interaction of an Intense Short Pulse Laser and a Large-Area
        Suspended Graphene"
• Yasuhiko Sentoku (Poster)
      "Theoretical Study of Fast Isochoric Heating of Imploded Dense Plasma to Achieve Kev
        Temperature"
• Taichi Morita (Poster)
      "Magnetic Reconnection in Self-Generated and Externally Applied Magnetic Fields in
        Laser-Produced Plasmas"

9/2-9/6　IPELS2019 @ Tokyo

The PI, Dr. Sakawa attended to 13th symposium of the Hinode mission with 15th symposium of Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory and in Space (IPELS2019) .

• Yoichi Sakawa (Invited)
      "Effect of electrostatic ion two-stream instability on the laser-driven collisionless
        shock ion acceleration in multi-ion species plasma

25/8/2019-02/09/2019　Joint experiments at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Morita (Kyushu Univ.) and Mr. Egashira(Osaka Univ.) attended to the joint experiments at Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Astronomical Observatory of China, Beijing Normal University, using a laser of "ShenGuang-�U Laser Facility (SG-�U).

29/07/2019-02/08/2019　ESW9 @ Nagoya

Dr. Kuramitsu attended 9th East-Asia School and workshop on Laboratory, space, and Astrophysical Plasmas .

• Yasuhiro Kuramitsu (Invited)
      "Energetic Ion Acceleration by Irradiating a Large-Area Suspended Graphene
      with Intense Lasers"

25/05/2019-03/06-2019　International conference in China

Dr. Masakatsu Murakami, Osaka University, attended two international conferences in China.
The First International Conference on Innovative Fusion Approaches (ICIFA) （Xian, China）

• Masakatsu Murakami (Invited)
      "Micro-buble Implosion "

4th International Conference on Matter and Radiation at Extremes (ICIFA) （Xian, China）

• Masakatsu Murakami (Invited)
       "Novel approach to the Schwinger limit: Micro-bubble implosion as a plasma-optical       device"

Dr. Murakami shaking hands with a farmer who disocovered the tomb of first Qin Emperor, and Chinese violin played at banquet

25/06/2019-29/06-2019 LaB2019 @ China

Dr. Kuramitsu, Dr. Fujioka, Mr. Law (Osaka Univ.), Dr. Kishimoto(Kyoto Univ.), Dr. Hoshino(Univ. Tokyo), and Dr. Fukuda(QST) attended to The 6th Workshop on Magnetic Field in Laboratory High Energy Density Physics .

• Masahiro Hoshino (Invitecd)
      "Ion and electron heating and their energy partition during magnetic reconnection"
• Yasuhiro Kuramitsu (Invitecd)
      "Electron outflows in laser driven magnetic reconnections"
• Yasuaki Kishimoto
      "“Confinement” of high energy density plasma based on structured medium"
• Shinsuke Fujioka
      "Magnetic Guiding of Relativistic Electron Beam Produced by High Intensity Laser"
• King Fai Farley Law (Invitecd)
      "Semirelativistic magnetic reconnection experiment by intense laser for studying emission       mechanism in coronae of accreting black holes"

Photso of Excursion Dr. Kishimoto and Dr. Fukuda going to Cave exploration.
Dr. Hoshino likes enjoying Mochi pounding, and Yarn spinning. Weaving by Dr. Fukuda