This report presents the conceptual design of a new European research infrastructure
EuPRAXIA. The concept has been established over the last four years in a unique …

Plasma-based accelerators that impart energy gain as high as several GeV to electrons or
positrons within a few centimeters have engendered a new class of diagnostic techniques …

Free-electron lasers generate high-brilliance coherent radiation at wavelengths spanning
from the infrared to the X-ray domains. The recent development of short-wavelength seeded …

Recent oncological studies identified beneficial properties of radiation applied at ultrahigh
dose rates, several orders of magnitude higher than the clinical standard of the order of Gy …

Laser plasma-based particle accelerators attract great interest in fields where conventional
accelerators reach limits based on size, cost or beam parameters. Despite the fact that …

Laser-plasma wakefield accelerators have seen tremendous progress, now capable of
producing quasi-monoenergetic electron beams in the GeV energy range with few …

We report on experimental investigations of proton acceleration from solid foils irradiated
with PW-class laser-pulses, where highest proton cut-off energies were achieved for …

Laser-driven ion sources are a rapidly developing technology producing high energy, high
peak current beams. Their suitability for applications, such as compact medical accelerators …

Plasma wakefield accelerators are capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-centimeter
accelerating fields, surpassing the electric breakdown threshold in state-of-the-art …

Compact electron accelerators are paramount to next-generation synchrotron light sources
and free-electron lasers, as well as for advanced accelerators at the TeV energy frontier …