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20142025
most citedEuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB Design study towards a compact FEL facility at LNF

72 citations · 250 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.acc-ph2025★ 3 cited

Recovery of hydrogen plasma at the sub-nanosecond timescale in a plasma-wakefield accelerator

R. Pompili, M. P. Anania, A. Biagioni +21

Plasma wakefield acceleration revolutionized the field of particle accelerators by generating gigavolt-per-centimeter fields. To compete with conventional radio-frequency (RF) acce…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 3 cited

Design, optimization and experimental characterization of RF injectors for high brightness electron beams and plasma acceleration

V. Shpakov, D. Alesini, M. P. Anania +30

In this article, we share our experience related to the new photo-injector commissioning at the SPARC\_LAB test facility. The new photo-injector was installed into an existing mach…

physics.acc-ph2022

Free electron laser seeded by betatron radiation

A. Ghigo, M. Galletti, V. Shpakov +2

In this paper the use of betatron radiation as a seed for the Free Electron Laser (FEL) is presented. The scheme shown can be adopted from all FEL driven by plasma accelerated elec…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 11 cited

First emittance measurement of the beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerated electron beam

V. Shpakov, M. P. Anania, M. Behtouei +26

Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron beams to GeV energies within centimetre distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, is indeed able to sustain huge…

physics.acc-ph2020★ 52 cited

Energy spread minimization in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator

R. Pompili, M. P. Anania, M. Behtouei +26

Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron bunches to gigaelectronvolt energies within centimetre distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, generates large…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 53 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 3 cited

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_…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 2 cited

Energy Measurements by Means of Transition Radiation in novel Linacs

M. Marongiu, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni +8

Advanced linear accelerator design may use Optical Transition Radiation (OTR) screens to measure beam spot size; for instance, such screens are foreseen in plasma based accelerator…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 2 cited

Recent studies on single-shot diagnostics for plasma accelerators at SPARC_LAB

F. G. Bisesto, M. P. Anania, M. Botton +11

Plasma wakefield acceleration is the most promising acceleration technique for compact and cheap accelerators, thanks to the high accelerating gradients achievable. Nevertheless, t…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 1 cited

Plasma acceleration limitations due to betatron radiation

V. Shpakov, E. Chiadroni, A. Curcio +7

High energy spread caused by the longitudinal size of the beam is well known in wake-field acceleration. Usually this issue can be solved with beam loading effect that allows to ke…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 26 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 72 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 5 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 17 cited

Nano-machining, surface analysis and emittance measurements of a copper photocathode at SPARC_LAB

J. Scifo, D. Alesini, M. P. Anania +25

R\&D activity on Cu photocathodes is under development at the SPARC\_LAB test facility to fully characterize each stage of the photocathode "life" and to have a complete overview o…

physics.acc-ph2014

Diffraction Radiation of Electron Bunches for One- and Two Slit Systems

V. Shpakov, S. Dabagov

New research in acceleration physics leads to growing up the power of charged particles bunches. Existed methods based on interaction of detection devices with bunches do not satis…