The ALPHA-X (Advanced Laser-Plasma High-energy Accelerators towards X-rays) project develops laser-plasma accelerators and applies these to producing coherent short-wavelength radiation in conventional and plasma wiggler sources. Members of the ALPHA-X project gave talks at an open meeting on a range of experimental and theoretical topics including measurement of ultrashort electron bunch temporal profiles, properties of dispersive media in linear and rotational motion, a new kinetic theory of radiation reaction and the origin of the Schott term, challenges in beam collimation, tapered capilliary waveguides, LWFA beam line simulations, granularity effects in high brightness electron bunches and new techniques for investigating short-pulse propagation using ray tracing. The meeting was opened with an invited review talk about electron beam experimental methods and recent results from ALICE.
