EuPRAXIA_PP Final Meeting 2026 and EuPRAXIA_DN Conference

Session

Poster Session

23 Sept 2026, 18:30

Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy

41. Laser Wakefield Acceleration in Discharge-Generated Plasma Channels

Alex Johannes Whitehead

23/09/2026, 18:30

Plasma-based Accelerators and New Concepts

Poster

Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) have demonstrated the capability to produce high-energy, high-quality electron beams over compact distances. A key challenge is to maximise the coupling efficiency between the laser pulse and the accelerating plasma structure. One promising approach is to guide the laser pulse through a preformed plasma channel, maintaining the laser focus over extended...

47. Multi-cycle THz pulse generation and start-to-end simulations on dielectric THz-driven accelerators

Andrés Leiva Genre

23/09/2026, 18:30

Theory and Simulation

Poster

Compact terahertz (THz)-driven accelerators require intense, narrowband, multi-cycle THz pulses and structures that efficiently deliver these fields to electron beams. This work connects both requirements by investigating high-frequency THz-pulse generation through optical rectification in orientation-patterned GaAs and GaP and by applying multi-cycle THz fields to a dielectric...

46. Performance Evaluation of the Extraction System of Supersonic Gas Curtain Ionization Profile Monitor for FLASH Protons

Mrs Farhana Thesni Mada Parambil (University of Liverpool/ Cockcroft Institute), Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool)

23/09/2026, 18:30

Diagnostics and Instrumentation (incl machine learning)

Poster

FLASH radiotherapy demands beam monitoring systems capable of providing real-time, non-invasive measurements under ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) conditions without perturbing the therapeutic beam. This study investigates the extraction system of Supersonic Gas Curtain-based Ionization Profile Monitor (SGC-IPM) for transverse beam profile and position measurements in proton FLASH applications....

32. Plasma photocathodes: a pathway to high-brightness electron beams at ELI Beamlines

Dr Fahim Habib (ELI Beamlines | The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)

23/09/2026, 18:30

Poster

Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) have advanced from quasi-monoenergetic electron beams to beams of sufficient quality to drive free-electron lasers (FELs) [1], igniting a race towards shorter-wavelength, plasma-driven FELs. Reaching higher photon energies, however, is limited by electron-beam brightness and beam-parameter stability at GeV-level energies. Plasma photocathode injection promises...

21. Synchronized twin electron beams from bubble-centroid oscillation injection

Flanish D'Souza (Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden)

23/09/2026, 18:30

Plasma-based Accelerators and New Concepts

Poster

When laser wakefield acceleration is driven by a few-cycle laser pulse, the structure of the plasma wave is coupled to the waveform of the electric field. This results in the formation of an asymmetric plasma bubble that oscillates in the direction of the laser polarization. When a laser pulse propagates through the gas, it experiences a strong redshift which shortens the oscillation period,...

69. Towards a Plasma Undulator Experiment at SPARC_LAB

Carlos Buitrago (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

23/09/2026, 18:30

Theory and Simulation

Poster

Plasma-based undulators offer a promising route toward compact radiation sources by exploiting the betatron motion of relativistic electrons in an ion channel. A proof-of-principle experiment is being developed at SPARC_LAB, within the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB project, to investigate this concept under experimentally realistic conditions. Previous studies assessed ion-channel formation and the...