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

17 Nov 2025, 07:40 → 19 Nov 2025, 18:00 Europe/Rome

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

G.A. Pablo Cirrone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Sahar Arjmand (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

The 2nd INFN School and Workshop on “High Power Lasers for Fundamental Science and Applications” (HPLA2025) is organized with the goal of explaining the structure of the laser that will be installed at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics-National Laboratories of Southern Italy (INFN-LNS) in Catania, Italy, and its potential within the I-LUCE (INFN-Laser indUCEd Radiation Production) facility in terms of radiation production, fundamental physics, and high-energy physics.

The presentations will be designed to be highly educational to ensure participation from everyone (technicians, administrative staff, technologists, and anyone interested in the developments of I-LUCE), enabling all attendees to follow and contribute.

The scientific programme includes the following topical sessions: 

• Fundamental laser-plasma physics, 
• Laser-driven electron acceleration,
• Laser-driven ion/proton acceleration,
• Nuclear physics in plasma,
• Neutron and gamma production,
• Electromagnetic pulse and its mitigation,
• Secondary laser beams applications (industrial, medical, cultural heritage, etc.).

 

 

Monday 17 November

08:30 → 09:00 Registration Open

09:00 → 09:30 General Remarks and Greetings

09:30 → 11:00 Didactical session

09:30 High Power Laser Principles

Speaker: Dr Jose Juan Suarez Vargas (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:15 Diagnostic Techniques of Laser Driven Radiation

Speaker: Prof. Danilo Giulietti (Pisa University)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Didactical session

11:30 Electromagnetic Pulse Safety: Risks, Strategies & Best Practices

Speaker: Fabrizio Consoli (ENEA)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:15 Scientific Session

14:30 I-LUCE Facility Status

Speaker: Giuseppe Cirrone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:55 Perspectives for the physics of nuclear decays in laser-generated vs ECR plasmas

Speaker: David Mascali (INFN-LNS)

15:20 Neutron Production

Speaker: Luigi Cosentino (INFN-LNS)

15:45 Stopping power in plasma

Speaker: Salvatore Tudisco (INFN-LNS)

16:15 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 19:40 Scientific Session

16:35 Astrofisica Nucleare

Speaker: Dr Luca Guardo (INFN-LNS)

17:00 Frascati

17:25 Milano

17:50 Tadzio TBD

18:15 ELIMAIA-ELIMED

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Giufrida (ELI-Beamlines)

18:40 New laser technologies and architectures for reliable operation of the laser-plasma accelerators

Speaker: Federico Canova (ELI-ERIC)

Tuesday 18 November

09:00 → 11:00 Scientific Session

09:00 ELI-ERIC

Speaker: Dr Allen Weeks (The Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI ERIC)

09:20 ELI-Beamlines

Speaker: Dr Daniele Margarone (ELI-Beamlines)

09:40 Pulsed solenoid beam transport of ions and all related applications

Speaker: Florian Kroll (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

10:00 VHEE

Speaker: Luca Labate (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - INO)

10:20 ELI-NP activity

Speaker: Paolo Tomassini (ELI-NP and CNR-INO)

10:40 Detectors

Speaker: Dr Claudio Verona (Tor Vergata)

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 → 13:00 Scientific Session

11:20 Overview of PAL and ILE Activity

Speaker: Dr Alessio Morace (PALS)

11:40 LOA Facility

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Flacco (LOA/ENSTA)

12:00 EMP

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Consoli (ENEA)

12:20 GIST Facility

Speaker: Dr Hyung Taek KIM (GIST)

12:40 Application at CoReLes

Speaker: Dr Mohammad Mirzaie (IBS)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:10 Scientific Session

14:30 Coil Target

Speaker: Satyabrata Kar (Queen's University Belfast)

14:50 TBD at CNR

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Manic (CNR)

15:10 Radiobiology

Speaker: Dr Katalin Hideghéty (ELI-ALPS)

15:30 Laser-Plasma Experiments at the Centre for Advanced Laser Applications

Speaker: Dr Andreas Döpp

15:50 Electron Acceleration with gas jet

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Maria Grittani (ELI-Beamlines)

16:10 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:35 Sponsors

16:30 THALES

16:50 SourceLAB

17:10 LIOP-TEC

20:00 → 23:00 Social dinner

Wednesday 19 November

09:30 → 11:00 Scientific Session

09:30 CLPU

Speaker: Dr Luca Volpe (UPM)

09:50 TBD

Speaker: Marcin Rosinski

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Scientific Session

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:10 Laboratory Tour