8–10 Jun 2021
Europe/Rome timezone

Plasma-generated X-ray pulses: betatron radiation opportunities at EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB

10 Jun 2021, 14:20
20m
Contribution type Session

Speaker

Francesco Stellato (ROMA2)

Description

EuPRAXIA is the first European project that develops a dedicated particle accelerator research infrastructure based on novel plasma acceleration concepts and laser technology. It focuses on the development of electron accelerators and underlying technologies, their user communities, and the exploitation of existing accelerator infrastructures in Europe.
Within this framework, the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) will be equipped with a unique combination of a high brightness GeV-range electron beam generated in a state-of-the-art X-band RF linac, a 0.5 PW-class laser system and the first 5th generation Free Electron Laser (FEL) source driven by a plasma accelerator. Wiggler-like radiation emitted by electrons accelerated in laser-plasmas wakefields gives rise to brilliant, ultra-short X-ray pulses, called betatron radiation. Some experience in this field was already gained at the FLAME laser facility of the INFN Frascati National Laboratory were betatron radiation was measured and characterized [1-3].
In this talk, we will describe the main features of the EuPRAXIA betatron radiation and will highlight the opportunities offered by its brilliant femtosecond pulses for ultra-fast X-ray spectroscopy measurements, as X-ray pump pulses for FEL experiments and as an ancillary tool for designing and testing FEL instrumentation and experiments.

[1] A. Curcio et al. Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 20 (2017) 012801. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.012801
[2] A. Curcio, et al., Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. B 402 (2017) 388. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2017.03.106
[3] F.G. Bisesto, et al. Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. A (2017): 388. DOI:/10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.027

Primary authors

Prof. Alessandro Cianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata and INFN) Antonella Balerna (INFN-LNF) Augusto Marcelli (LNF) Francesco Stellato (ROMA2) Prof. Giancarlo Rossi (University of Roma Tor Vergata, INFN Roma2 and Centro Fermi) Marcello Coreno (LNF) Mario Galletti (LNF) Riccardo Pompili (LNF) Silvia Morante (ROMA2) Vladimir Shpakov (FIAN)

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