Publications (19)
Radioisotopes production using lasers: from basic science to applications
M. R. D. Rodrigues, A. Bonasera, M. Scisciò +37
Laser technologies improved after the understanding of the Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) which allows energetic laser beams to be compressed to tens of femtosecond (fs) pulse d…
Plasma density profile reconstruction of a gas cell for Ionization Induced Laser Wakefield Acceleration
F. Filippi, L. T. Dickson, M. Backhouse +15
Laser-driven plasma wakefields can provide hundreds of MeV electron beam in mm-range distances potentially shrinking the dimension of the actual particle accelerators. The plasma d…
Recent results at SPARC_LAB
R. Pompili, M. P. Anania, M. Bellaveglia +22
The current activity of the SPARC_LAB test-facility is focused on the realization of plasma-based acceleration experiments with the aim to provide accelerating field of the order o…
Conceptual design of electron beam diagnostics for high brightness plasma accelerator
A. Cianchi, D. Alesini, M. P. Anania +17
A design study of the diagnostics of a high brightness linac, based on X-band structures, and a plasma accelerator stage, has been delivered in the framework of the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_…
A new indirect measurement method of the electron temperature for the Protosphera's pinch plasma
D. Iannarelli, F. Napoli, F. Alladio +11
This article presents a new method for estimating the electron temperature of the Protosphera's screw pinch. The temperature radial profile is obtained by a self-consistent modelin…
EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB Design study towards a compact FEL facility at LNF
M. Ferrario, D. Alesini, M. P. Anania +117
On the wake of the results obtained so far at the SPARC\_LAB test-facility at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (Italy), we are currently investigating the possibility to design…
Mechanisms to control laser-plasma coupling in laser wakefield electron acceleration
L. T. Dickson, C. I. D. Underwood, F. Filippi +16
Experimental results, supported by precise modelling, demonstrate optimisation of a plasma-based injector with intermediate laser pulse energy ( J), corresponding to a normalis…
Overview of Plasma Lens Experiments and Recent Results at SPARC_LAB
E. Chiadroni, M. P. Anania, M. Bellaveglia +23
Beam injection and extraction from a plasma module is still one of the crucial aspects to solve in order to produce high quality electron beams with a plasma accelerator. Proper ma…
Longitudinal tapering in meter-scale gas jets for increased efficiency of laser plasma accelerators
R. Li, A. Picksley, C. Benedetti +10
Modern laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) often require plasma waveguides tens of cm long to propagate a high-intensity drive laser pulse. Tapering the longitudinal gas density profi…
Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer +588
Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release…
Gaia Data Release 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams
Gaia Collaboration, C. Babusiaux, F. van Leeuwen +450
We highlight the power of the Gaia DR2 in studying many fine structures of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD). Gaia allows us to present many different HRDs, depending in partic…
The FLAME laser at SPARC_LAB
F. G. Bisesto, M. P. Anania, M. Bellaveglia +13
FLAME is a high power laser system installed at the SPARC_LAB Test Facility in Frascati (Italy). The ultra-intense laser pulses are employed to study the interaction with matter fo…
Longitudinal phase-space manipulation with beam-driven plasma wakefields
V. Shpakov, M. P. Anania, M. Bellaveglia +26
The development of compact accelerator facilities providing high-brightness beams is one of the most challenging tasks in field of next-generation compact and cost affordable parti…
Wake fields effects in dielectric capillary
A. Biagioni, M. P. Anania, M. Bellaveglia +17
Plasma wake-field acceleration experiments are performed at the SPARC LAB test facility by using a gas-filled capillary plasma source composed of a dielectric capillary. The electr…
Laser initiated p-11B fusion reactions in petawatt high-repetition-rates laser facilities
M. Scisciò, G. Petringa, Z. Zhu +43
Driving the nuclear fusion reaction p+11B -> 3 alpha + 8.7 MeV in laboratory conditions, by interaction between high-power laser pulses and matter, has become a popular field of re…
Characterization of self-injected electron beams from LWFA experiments at SPARC_LAB
G. Costa, M. P. Anania, F. Bisesto +9
The plasma-based acceleration is an encouraging technique to overcome the limits of the accelerating gradient in the conventional RF acceleration. A plasma accelerator is able to p…
Plasma ramps caused by outflow in gas-filled capillaries
F. Filippi, M. P. Anania, A. Biagioni +6
Plasma confinement inside capillaries has been developed in the past years for plasma-based acceleration to ensure a stable and repeatable plasma density distribution during the in…
Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects
Gaia Collaboration, F. van Leeuwen, A. Vallenari +589
Context. The first Gaia Data Release contains the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). This is a subset of about 2 million stars for which, besides the position and photometry,…
Novel techniques of imaging interferometry analysis to study gas and plasma density for laser-plasma experiments
F. Filippi, M. Cipriani, S. Mastrostefano +2
Laser-plasma based experiments are always more demanding about the plasma features which need to be generated during the interaction. This is valid for laser-plasma acceleration as…