Conveners
Beamlines and Facilities: 1
- Maria Pia Anania (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Beamlines and Facilities: 2
- Maria Pia Anania (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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...
After over thirty years of serving the international research community, the Elettra synchrotron light source is undergoing a major upgrade. Its successor, Elettra 2.0, will feature a cutting-edge, diffraction-limited storage ring, designed to significantly enhance spatial, energy, and temporal resolution across imaging, scattering, and spectroscopic applications. As part of the upgrade, a new...
X-ray dosimetry is a relevant topic in medicine, industry and research. With the purpose of providing a facility for the characterisation of devices to be used in these fields, a 40-110 kV C-Arm-type medical X-ray unit was adapted to produce X-ray fields with known dose rate and energy distribution, following the recommendations of ISO. It operates with constant kV and continuous or pulsed...
Betatron radiation is X-ray radiation generated by electrons oscillating within a plasma during the Laser WakeField Acceleration (LWFA) process. The relativistic laser-plasma interaction replicates the principle of wiggler emission on a millimeter scale.
Betatron sources stand between Free Electron Lasers (FELs) and synchrotron radiation sources. Due to the small transverse size of the...
BEaTriX, the Beam Expander Testing X-ray facility, is the X-ray calibration facility at INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory able to create a wide, monochromatic, and collimated X-ray beam in a compact laboratory (9 x 18 m2). This is possible thanks to an innovative optical design that includes a grazing-incidence paraboloidal mirror, in whose focus the micro-focus source is placed, for...
