Field not found.

TOWARDS A NEW APPLICATION OF PLASMA ACCELERATORS: THE EUAPS PROJECT GETS STARTED

2 March 2023

immagine news Kickoff EuAPS

The kick-off meeting of EuAPS (EuPRAXIA Advanced Photon Sources), one of the projects of national interest selected under the PNRR, was held on February 28 at the INFN headquarters, with INFN involved as lead partner through its Frascati National Laboratories. EuAPS will represent one of the milestones toward the achievement of the goals envisaged by EuPRAXIA, a European initiative for the realization of a research infrastructure dedicated to particle accelerators based on a new concept of plasma acceleration and laser technologies. CNR and the University of Rome Tor Vergata are participating in promoting the project, to which €22.3 million in funding will be allocated, in addition to INFN.

The EuAPS project involves the realization of a plasma source of X-ray betatron radiation, induced and driven by lasers, which will be put into operation at the SPARC_LAB laboratory of INFN’s Frascati National Laboratories. This technology will be able to provide radiation of a quality high enough to decrease the exposure time required by the experiments that will make use of it, employing a small source that will exploit the oscillations of electron beams within the plasma.

You might also be interested in

Research infrastructures shaping the future. A moment of the public event "Driving knowledge and innovation for tomorrow's communities" hosted by the Italy Pavilion at Expo2025 Osaka.

Major research infrastructures and Italy-Japan collaboration in fundamental physics at Expo2025 Osaka

Asimmetrie: The new issue is dedicated to the constants of physics

ALICE measures the conversion of lead into gold using Italian calorimeters

Laura Zani, INFN researcher at the Roma 3 Section and winner of the Young Experimental Physicist Prize 2025

Young Experimental Physicist Prize 2025 awarded to INFN researcher Laura Zani

Immagine: MEG II ©PSI

In search of new physics: MEG II updates its record

PADME experiment_Frascati National Laboratories_INFN

New results from the Padme experiment in the search for the X17 particle