EuPRAXIA-DN Camp II: Science

Session

Session 5: Laser-induced Plasma Science

15 Jul 2025, 14:00

Anfiteatro Abreu Faro (Instituto Superior Técnico)

10. Plasma-based particle acceleration

Raoul Trines (STFC)

15/07/2025, 14:00

15. Unlocking Atomic Motion: Dielectric THz-Driven Accelerators for Ultrafast Electron Microscopy and Diffraction

Andrés Leiva Genre

15/07/2025, 15:00

Contributed Talk

High-resolution electron microscopy (HREM) and ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) are crucial techniques in material science, biology, and chemistry. They enable researchers to visualize atomic structures and observe fastchanging processes, such as phase transitions, changes in molecular shapes, and chemical reactions, with high spatial and temporal accuracy. However, current electron...

16. Plasma-Based Acceleration of Decaying Particles

Chiara Badiali

15/07/2025, 15:15

Contributed Talk

Plasma-based accelerators achieve accelerating fields of 10-100 GV/m. While plasma wakefields naturally accelerate electrons due to their near-light-speed motion [1,2], heavier particles like muons [3] and pions, with lifetimes from microseconds to nanoseconds, struggle to be trapped due to velocity mismatch with the wake.

We use spatio-temporal spectral shaping [4,5,6] to control the group...

13. Relativistic beam-plasma instabilities

Pablo San Miguel (Ecole Polytechnique)

15/07/2025, 15:30

Contributed Talk

The interaction of relativistic particle beams with plasmas underpins a broad range of physical systems — from the dynamics of AGN jets and Gamma-Ray Bursts to next-generation plasma-based accelerators. In both astrophysical and laboratory scenarios, these beam-driven plasma instabilities play an important role on the interplay of kinetic and electromagnetic energy. Understanding the growth...