3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010 LI 2 FE Laboratorio Integrato Interdisciplinare con Fotoni ed Elettroni Luca Serafini - INFN/MI on behalf of LI 2 FE Collaboration Board LI 2 FE comprises: SPARC Photo-injector and beam lines, FLAME laser and beam lines, SPARC undulator, associated advanced instrumentation, THE PEOPLE EXPERTISE LI 2 FE constitutes: a multi-disciplinary integrated research infrastructure based on a twin system of fs-class synchronized high brightness e - beams and high intensity laser beams

High Brightness Electron Beams (ps to fs bunch length) High Intensity Laser Beams ( fs pulses) SPARC (Sorgente Pulsata e Amplificata di Radiazione Coerente) and PLASMONX (PLasma Sparc & MONochromatic X-rays) Unique worldwide at these level of combined beam performance Synchronized to fs level 3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010

Development of a wide inter-disciplinary research program, combining high brightness high rapidity electron beams (drive plasmas at cm -3 => TV/m) with high intensity ultra-short laser pulses ( cm -3 => 250 GV/m), leading in turns to production of a variety of advanced beams of FEL/THz radiation, advanced beams of X/  rays (thanks to a photon- electron collider at cm -2 s -1 luminosity), protons/light ions, and potentials for polarized positrons and neutrons of unique characteristics. LI 2 FE: the Scientific Program Common Denominator: High Phase Space Density

3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010 The combined availability of these Beam Sources and related instrumentation, together with advanced expertise in the accelerator/laser/plasma physics and technologies, will lead to unprecedented potentials of research and discoveries at INFN- LNF (multi-institutional effort, INFN, ENEA, CNR, many Univ.) User experiments: application oriented (investigation of matter at functional level) Developer experiments: technique oriented (toward the high energy frontier, propedeutical to investigation of matter at fundamental level) LI 2 FE: the Scientific Program

3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010 FEL physics and applications Advanced beam physics Laser/Plasma based ion sources Advanced radiation sources and applications Laser/Plasma physics Ultra-high gradient acceleration (plasma, vacuum, IFEL) LI 2 FE: main Research Areas

3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010 LI 2 FE: Collaboration Board Dimitri Batani - Università Milano Bicocca Maurizio Benfatto - Lab. Naz. Frascati INFN Massimo Carpinelli - Univ. di Sassari Giuseppe Dattoli - ENEA Frascati Giampiero Dipirro - Lab. Naz. Frascati INFN Massimo Ferrario - Lab. Naz. Frascati INFN Santo Gammino - Lab. Naz. del Sud INFN Luca Giannessi - ENEA Frascati Danilo Giulietti - Università di Pisa Leonida Gizzi - ILIL-IPCF, CNR, Pisa Stefano Lupi - Univ. Roma La Sapienza Carlo Mariani - Univ. Roma La Sapienza Luigi Palumbo - Univ. Roma La Sapienza Valerio Rossi Albertini - ISM, CNR, Roma Luca Serafini, chair - INFN Sez. di Milano More Details in:

3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010 LI 2 FE: Progetti ed Esperimenti INFN SPARC - Progetto Speciale INFN (cofinanziato da MIUR, CNR, ENEA) PLASMONX - Sottoprogetto NTA (Nuove Tecniche Accelerazione) SPARX - MIUR, Reg. Lazio, ENEA, CNR, Univ. Tor Vergata BEATS - Commissione Scientifica Naz. V LILIA - Commissione Scientifica Naz. V TERASPARC - Commissione Scientifica Naz. V

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 n [  m] I [kA] AOFEL SPARX SPARC X-ray 1 pC The Brightness Chart [A/(m. rad) 2 ] Self-Inj Ext-Inj 3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010

Injected Bunch: 13pC, 150MeV, 0.6 mm.mrad,  x 3.0  m rms,  z 2.4  m rms [1KA peak current] Laser: 7J in 35fs, w 0 =32.5  m, w 0_inj =135  m, guided over 30 Z R. Plasma: Density profile increasing from 0.6e17 cm - 3 up to 0.8e17 cm -3, “tapered channel” for pulse guiding. Acceleration length about 15cm. Numerics: Window mobile at v=c, grid sampling at 46points/  p e 26 points/w. Bunch described by macro-particles LI 2 FE: the Plasma Accelerator (exploitation of velocity bunching and synchronization) 3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010

EXPERIMENTS UNDER PROPOSAL/DESIGN -IFEL (high gradient acceleration in vacuum via inverse free electron laser of SPARC electron bunches driven by FLAME laser into an ad-hoc tapered undulator) -PLASMA ACCELERATOR (external injection of ultra-short SPARC electron bunches into plasma waves driven by FLAME) -FRESH-BUNCH technique investigation in seeding and harmonic cascade FEL mode LI 2 FE: Scientific Program up to the horizon

3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010 LI 2 FE beyond the horizon ( an acceleratorist’s vision ) PWFA (particle wakefield acceleration) using hyper-short SPARC electron bunches (1pC, sub-fs) to drive plasma waves up to TV/m accelerating fields (beating the high energy frontier)

3rd LI2FE Meeting, INFN-LNF, 11/3/2010 Unprecedented results in Application Experiments due to unique beams available needless to say… we need the correct Spirit of sharing Expertise and Instrumentation LI 2 FE Window of Opportunity (5 year span) Crucial Role in advancing new technologies for the High Energy Frontier