| Title: |
EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB Technical Design Report |
| Authors: |
Alesini, David; Anania, Maria Pia; Anelli, Federico; Angeletti, Paola; Angelucci, Marco; Armenti, Gustavo; Arpaia, Mauro; Assmann, Ralph; Avaldi, Lorenzo; Bacci, Alberto Luigi; Badiali, Chiara; Balerna, Antonella; Balossino, Ilaria; Bellaveglia, Marco; Biagioni, Angelo; Bleiner, Davide; Bolognesi, Paola; Bortolin, Claudio; Bossi, Fabio; Buonomo, Bruno; Cacciotti, Luciano; Campana, Pierluigi; Campolucci, Marco; Campri, Giovanni; Cantarella, Sergio; Capuano, Lucas Bernardo Donato; Cardelli, Fabio; Carillo, Martina; Carlini, Laura; Casamatta, Alberto; Catuscelli, Gaetano; Ceccarelli, Matteo; Ceccarelli, Riccardo; Ceccarelli, Vittorio; Cecchinelli, Alberto; Chiadroni, Enrica; Chiarelli, Federico; Chiarinelli, Jacopo; Chimenti, Paolo; Chiti, Daniele; Cianchi, Alessandro; Cianfrini, Marta; Cimino, Roberto; Cioeta, Fara; Cirrone, Giuseppe A. Pablo; Clementi, Renato; Crincoli, Lucio; Coreno, Marcello; Costa, Gemma; Curciarello, Francesca; Curcio, Alessandro; D'Auria, Gerardo; De Bernardis, Giulio; Del Dotto, Alessio; Del Franco, Mario; Del Giorno, Martina; Dell'Angela, Martina; Delzeri, Giorgio; Demitra, Romain; Demurtas, Francesco; De Nardis, Thomas; De Santis, Emiliano; De Simone, Monica; Di Giulio, Claudio; Di Mitri, Simone; Diomede, Marco; Di Pasquale, Enrico; Di Pirro, Giampiero; Di Raddo, Gianluca; Di Raddo, Roberto; Dompè, Valentina; Donghia, Raffaella; Ebrahimpour, Zeinab; Esposito, Adolfo; Faillace, Luigi; Falone, Antonio; Fang, Xianghe; Ferrario, Massimo; Franzini, Giovanni; Frazzitta, Andrea; Frisinelli, Francesca; Galdenzi, Federico; Galletti, Francesco; Galletti, Mario; Gallo, Alessandro; Gaobardi, Mattia; Ghigo, Andrea; Giannessi, Luca; Gianotti, Paola; Giribono, Anna; Laurenti, Giuliano; Gizzi, Leonida Antonio; Grilli, Giacomo; Grilli, Gianluca; Ianni, Maurizio; Incremona, Simona; Ioannucci, Luca; Iungo, Andrea; Iungo, Franco; Labate, Luca; Latini, Giulia; Lauciani, Stefano; Liedl, Andrea; Loffreda, Matteo; Lollo, Valerio; Lombardo, Gabriele; Luminati, Gianluca; Lupi, Stefano; Magnanimi, Riccardo; Marcelli, Augusto; Marchetti, Mauro; Martelli, Stefano; Martini, Marco; Mascio, Roberto; Mascioli, Alessandro; Mazzoni, Federico; Mencarelli, Claudio; Michelotti, Andrea; Migliorati, Mauro; Mostacci, Andrea; Napolitano, Tommaso; Nese, Bernardo; Nguyen, Federico; Opromolla, Michele; Parise, Gianmarco; Palumbo, Luigi; Pedio, Maddalena; Pellegrini, Donato; Pellegrino, Luigi; Pesce, Andrea; Petralia, Alberto; Petrarca, Massimo; Petrillo, Vittoria; Petrucciani, Luca; Piermarini, Graziano; Piersanti, Luca; Pioli, Stefano; Pompili, Riccardo; Principi, Emiliano; Quaglia, Sergio; Quaranta, Riccardo; Quartullo, Danilo; Ricci, Ruggero; Romano, Emanuele; Romeo, Stefano; Rossetti Conti, Marcello; Rossi, Andrea Renato; Rosenzweig, James B.; Rotundo, Ugo; Sabbatini, Lucia; Sardone, Mario Francesco; Scampati, Michele; Scarselletta, Giorgio; Serafini, Luca; Serenellini, Beatrice; Silvi, Gilles Jacopo; Spallino, Luisa; Spataro, Bruno; Stella, Angelo; Stellato, Francesco; Stecchi, Alessandro; Stocchi, Federica; Strabioli, Serena; Tocci, Simone; Tomassini, Paolo; Trigilio, Antonio; Tuscano, Paolo; Vaccarezza, Cristina; Vannozzi, Alessandro; Verra, Livio; Vescovi, Sandro; Villa, Fabio; Zaninni, Caroleo; Zarlenga, Raffaele; Zigler, Arie; Zottola, Marco |
| Publisher Information: |
oar.it |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN): Open Access Repository |
| Description: |
The purpose of the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB User Facility is to establish a research infrastructure that pioneers the use of Plasma Wake-Field Acceleration (PWFA) for driving a high-brightness Free-Electron Laser (FEL) user facility in the soft X-ray regime. As one of the two core pillars of the pan-European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications (EuPRAXIA) Research Infrastructure [1, 2], EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB will be hosted at the INFN Frascati National Laboratory (LNF) serving both as a cutting-edge scientific facility for users and as a technological demonstrator [3]. It will validate the integration of highgradient plasma acceleration and X-band RF technology within a compact FEL light source, laying the groundwork for future compact user facilities. This will improve their sustainability by significantly reducing the size, energy consumption, and operational costs typically associated with conventional accelerator-based FEL light sources, making advanced photon science more accessible and environmentally responsible in the long term (see Chapter 21). The user facility is expected to begin operations in 2031. Its first user beamline, AQUA, will deliver ultrashort femtosecond soft X-ray pulses within the biologically relevant “water window” spectrum, enabling real-time imaging, advanced materials development, and investigation of chemical processes with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. By transitioning plasma-based accelerators from proof-of-concept to operational systems and validating them under real user facility conditions, EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB closes a critical gap in the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) chain (from the current TRL ≈ 5 to the final TRL > 7). This will position Europe at the forefront of global innovation in compact accelerators and strengthen its capacity to lead future high-energy physics, photon science, and interdisciplinary research programs. The inclusion in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap since 2021 [4] marks the ... |
| Document Type: |
report |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://www.openaccessrepository.it/communities/infn; https://doi.org/10.15161/oar.it/aye3c-2cx65 |
| DOI: |
10.15161/oar.it/7g01p-38s41 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.15161/oar.it/7g01p-38s41 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.906A6BDE |
| Database: |
BASE |