A proposal for building a Free Electron Laser, EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB, at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, is at present under consideration. This FEL facility will provide a unique combination of a high brightness GeV-range electron beam generated in a X-band RF linac, a 0.5 PW-class laser system and the first FEL source driven by a plasma accelerator. The FEL will produce ultra-bright pulses, with up to 1012 photons/pulse, femtosecond timescale and wavelength down to 3 nm, which lies in the so called "water window". The experimental activity will be focused on the realization of a plasma driven short wavelength FEL able to provide high-quality photons for a user beamline. In this paper, we describe the main classes of experiments that will be performed at the facility, including coherent diffraction imaging, soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering and photofragmentation measurements. These techniques will allow studying a variety of samples, both biological and inorganic, providing information about their structure and dynamical behavior. In this context, the possibility of inducing changes in samples via pump pulses leading to the stimulation of chemical reactions or the generation of coherent excitations would tremendously benefit from pulses in the soft X-ray region. High power synchronized optical lasers and a TeraHertz radiation source will indeed be made available for THz and pump-probe experiments and a split-and-delay station will allow performing XUV-XUV pump-probe experiments.

Balerna, A., Bartocci, S., Batignani, G., Cianchi, A., Chiadroni, E., Coreno, M., et al. (2019). The Potential of EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB for radiation based techniques. CONDENSED MATTER, 4(1), 30 [10.3390/condmat4010030].

The Potential of EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB for radiation based techniques

Cianchi, Alessandro;Macis, Salvatore;Morante, Silvia;Perfetto, Enrico;Rossi, Giancarlo;Stefanucci, Gianluca;Stellato, Francesco;
2019-01-01

Abstract

A proposal for building a Free Electron Laser, EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB, at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, is at present under consideration. This FEL facility will provide a unique combination of a high brightness GeV-range electron beam generated in a X-band RF linac, a 0.5 PW-class laser system and the first FEL source driven by a plasma accelerator. The FEL will produce ultra-bright pulses, with up to 1012 photons/pulse, femtosecond timescale and wavelength down to 3 nm, which lies in the so called "water window". The experimental activity will be focused on the realization of a plasma driven short wavelength FEL able to provide high-quality photons for a user beamline. In this paper, we describe the main classes of experiments that will be performed at the facility, including coherent diffraction imaging, soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering and photofragmentation measurements. These techniques will allow studying a variety of samples, both biological and inorganic, providing information about their structure and dynamical behavior. In this context, the possibility of inducing changes in samples via pump pulses leading to the stimulation of chemical reactions or the generation of coherent excitations would tremendously benefit from pulses in the soft X-ray region. High power synchronized optical lasers and a TeraHertz radiation source will indeed be made available for THz and pump-probe experiments and a split-and-delay station will allow performing XUV-XUV pump-probe experiments.
2019
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Rilevanza internazionale
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Esperti anonimi
Settore FIS/07 - FISICA APPLICATA (A BENI CULTURALI, AMBIENTALI, BIOLOGIA E MEDICINA)
English
free electron lasers; coherent imaging; X-ray Raman; X-ray absorption; THz radiation
Balerna, A., Bartocci, S., Batignani, G., Cianchi, A., Chiadroni, E., Coreno, M., et al. (2019). The Potential of EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB for radiation based techniques. CONDENSED MATTER, 4(1), 30 [10.3390/condmat4010030].
Balerna, A; Bartocci, S; Batignani, G; Cianchi, A; Chiadroni, E; Coreno, M; Cricenti, A; Dabagov, S; Di Cicco, A; Faiferri, M; Ferrante, C; Ferrario, ...espandi
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