2nd INFN School and Workshop on “High Power Lasers for Fundamental Science and Applications” (HPLA2025)

Session

Poster Session

18 Nov 2025, 16:40

Aula "Migneco" (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare )

198. Advanced Laser-Based Applications in Security, Forensics, and Cultural Heritage

Dr Simone Santoro (Enea–Centro Ricerche Frascati, via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati, Italy)

Poster

Modern laser-based spectroscopic technologies are playing a transformative role across multiple strategic fields, from security and forensic science to cultural heritage conservation. In the EDA STYX project, ENEA contributes to the development of advanced stand-off Raman systems for the remote detection of explosive threats and chemical agents. This Detector integrates high-sensitivity Raman...

183. AI Tools for Plasma Diagnostics by X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy in the PANDORA Project Frame

Bianca Peri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

Poster

PANDORA (Plasmas for Astrophysics, Nuclear decay Observation and Radiation for Archaeometry) is a multidisciplinary project investigating β decays in stellar-like Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) plasmas, offering a breakthrough perspective for fundamental studies on weak interactions in astrophysical contexts [1,4]. Magnetized plasmas in compact traps become novel platforms for basic...

167. Development and characterization of a SiC-based detector system for real-time dosimetry of laser-driven proton beams: the PRAGUE project

Mariacristina Guarrera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

Poster

Laser–driven ion acceleration represents one of the most promising frontiers in high-power laser physics, offering compact sources of high-energy protons and ions with ultrashort duration and extreme instantaneous dose rates. The precise and time-resolved measurement of the depth–dose distribution of such beams is essential for their optimization and for future multidisciplinary applications,...

175. Feasibility study of nuclear isomers population mechanisms in laser-generated plasmas

Angelo Pidatella (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

Poster

Nuclear isomers – long-lived excited nuclear states – can decouple from thermal equilibrium in stellar plasmas, altering nucleosynthesis flows. Isomers which play a key role in nuclear astrophysics are thereby termed astromers [1], and yet the in-plasma transition and decay rates governing them are poorly constrained in the laboratory. We propose a compact experimental survey, using...

170. Ion beams through Laser-Produced Plasmas (LPPs): the challenge of Stopping Power (SP) investigation

Giulia Maria Falciglia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

Poster

Stopping Power (SP) refers to the dissipative force acting on a charged particle while it moves through a medium, resulting in a deposition of kinetic energy by the incident ion because of the interaction with the surrounding material. Numerous processes simultaneously produce such an energy loss, whose relative incidence depends on the nature and properties of both projectile and target....

172. Laser produced plasmas (LPP): probing the physics of transient plasmas

Giorgio Lo Presti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

Poster

Defined as a quasi-neutral ionized gas, plasma is a state of aggregation exhibiting emergent collective behavior. Although it is often treated as a whole component of ordinary matter, of which it represents more than 99% [1], a large variety of plasma exists, distinguished through density, temperature, species concentrations (or charge state), and dimensions.
Moreover, plasmas behave as...

173. Laser-driven p($^{11}$B,α)2α reaction in pitcher-catcher configuration: CR39 and activation measurement supported by Monte Carlo simulation

Nicolò Macaluso (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

Poster

The proton boron-11 fusion reaction is gaining interest as aneutronic alternative to conventional fusion approaches, due to its characteristic to produce three alpha particles without neutron emission. This feature makes it attractive for clean energy production with reduced radiological impact.
In this context, an experimental campaign was conduced at the PALS facility in 2024 to investigate...

197. LWFA RONIN: Rapid Optimization with Neural Ivertible Networks

Alberto Sciuto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

Poster

Laser–plasma wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) are promising sources of high-energy electron beams, but optimizing their performance in terms of beam quality is a challenging task. We propose a novel reverse beam engineering approach using two modular neural network surrogates that can operate independently or in tandem. The first network is a surrogate model of a capillary discharge plasma...

190. Monte Carlo simulations for user experiments at ELI-Beamlines Laser Electron Accelerators

Leonardo Goncalves (ELI-ERIC)

Poster

At ELI Beamlines facility there are two LWFA beamlines open for user access: ELBA and ALFA. ELBA [1] is a laser-electron accelerator, based on Ti:Sa L3-HAPLS laser, designed to deliver up to 30 J, 30 fs pulses at a 10 Hz repetition rate. ELBA receives the L3-HAPLS laser pulses after more than 100 meters propagation inside a vacuum laser beam line. ELBA is designed to collide 2 GeV electron...

166. Overview of Nuclear Photonics Activities at Tel Aviv University

Dr Assaf Levanon (Tel Aviv University)

Poster

The experimental platform at Tel Aviv University is centered around a state-of-the-art high-power laser system that underpins a broad spectrum of nuclear photonics investigations. This system delivers 20 TW laser pulses with exceptional temporal profile. The system begins with an Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) front-end, followed by Ti:Sapphire CPA Chain generating 25...

174. Production and post-mortem characterization of double layer targets for laser-driven ion acceleration

Matteo Iaccarino (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Energy)

Poster

In recent years, the continuous emergence of numerous facilities capable of generating highly intense, short-duration (~fs) laser pulses with an high grade of precision and reproducibility has driven a significant increase in interest in laser-plasma applications. One of the most promising and extensively studied possibilities is the acceleration of protons and ions to energies of several MeV...

137. Pulsed laser ablation for nanoparticles production and various applications

Cristiano Lo Pò (University of Catania)

Poster

Pulsed laser ablation in liquid is a very powerful technique that allows to synthesize colloidal solutions of nanoparticles, starting from a target and a solvent, without waste. In this simple process, a high power pulsed laser (with pulses in the order of nanosecond or below) is focused trough a lens onto a solid target immersed in a liquid medium. Once the laser pulse hits the target, a...

188. Validation of Plasma Stopping Power Models for p-$^{11}$B Fusion Alpha Particles within Geant4

Ali Hassan (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT)), Giuseppe Antonio Pablo Cirrone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

Poster

The accurate modeling of charged-particle transport and energy loss, or stopping power, in hot, dense matter is a foundational challenge in high-energy-density physics and aneutronic nuclear fusion research, particularly for the proton-boron (p-$^{11}$B) reaction. Standard Monte Carlo simulation tools, such as Geant4, are optimized for cold-matter interactions and fail to account for the...