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Description
The EuPRAXIA project is a European initiative focused on developing groundbreaking, ultra-compact accelerator research infrastructures based on innovative plasma acceleration concepts. The EuPRAXIA@SPARC LAB facility, hosted by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Frascati National Laboratory, will be the first operating Free Electron Laser (FEL) facility within the EuPRAXIA framework. It will utilize an accelerator module driven by an electron bunch to generate ultra-short photon pulses in the soft X-ray region.
These photons will be delivered to the AQUA endstation, whose wavelength falls within the “water window”, making it ideally suited for coherent imaging and ion spectroscopy on biological samples at room temperature in a fully hydrated environment. This talk describes the AQUA endstation and demonstrates its potential for coherent diffraction imaging and Coulomb explosion imaging experiments on biological samples.
