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The PLASMONX Project for advanced beam physics experiments
The Project PLASMONX is well progressing into its
design phase and has entered as well its second phase of
procurements for main components. The project foresees
the installation at LNF of a Ti:Sa laser system (peak
power > 170 TW), synchronized to the high brightness
electron beam produced by the SPARC photo-injector.
The advancement of the procurement of such a laser
system is reported, as well as the construction plans of a
new building at LNF to host a dedicated laboratory for
high intensity photon beam experiments (High Intensity
Laser Laboratory). Several experiments are foreseen
using this complex facility, mainly in the high gradient
plasma acceleration field and in the field of mono-
chromatic ultra-fast X-ray pulse generation via Thomson
back-scattering. Detailed numerical simulations have
been carried out to study the generation of tightly focused
electron bunches to collide with laser pulses in the
Thomson source: results on the emitted spectra of X-rays
are presented
Hyperammoneic Encephalopathy, Valproic Acid, and Benzodiazepine Withdrawal: A Case Series
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Stress-related psychiatric disorders across the life spa
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A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study assessing the efficacy and tolerability of desvenlafaxine 10 and 50 mg/day in adult outpatients with major depressive disorder
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The project plasmonx for plasma acceleration experiments and a Thomson X-ray source at SPARC
We present the status of the project PLASMONX, recently approved by INFN. This project, based on a collaboration between INFN and CNR-IPCF, aims at a long term upgrade of the SPARC system with the goal to develop at LNF an integrated facility for advanced beamlaser-plasma research in the field of advanced acceleration techniques and ultra-bright X-ray radiation sources and related applications. The project, in its first phase, foresees the development at LNF of a High Intensity Laser Laboratory (HILL) whose main component is a 100 TW-class Ti:Sa laser system synchronized to the SPARC photo-injector. Experiments of self-injection and acceleration of electrons into laser driven plasma waves will be conducted at HILL-LNF, early in this first project phase. Eventually an additional beam line will be built in the SPARC bunker in order to transport the SPARC electron beam at an interaction point, where a final focus system will allow to conduct experiments either of laser-beam co-propagation in plasma waves for high gradient acceleration, or experiments of laser-beam head-on collisions to develop a Thomson source of bright ultra-short X-ray radiation pulses, with X-ray energies tunable in the range 20 to 1000 keV and pulse duration from 30 fs to 20 ps. Preliminary simulations of plasma acceleration with self-injection are illustrated, as well as external injection of the SPARC electron beam