PACRI kick-off meeting

Mar 12, 2025, 12:00 PM → Mar 14, 2025, 5:00 PM Europe/Rome

Trieste, Hotel NH

The kick-off meeting of the PACRI project (Plasma Accelerator systems for Compact Research Infrastructures) will be held on 12-14 March 2025 at the NH Hotel, Trieste, Italy.

Recently approved under the EU Horizon Work Programme 2023-2024, INFRA-2024-TECH-01-01, PACRI is a collaborative effort involving 26 partners (19 international research laboratories/universities and 7 EU industries) to develop highly relevant and breakthrough plasma accelerator technologies for Europe's future Research Infrastructures (RI).

The official start of the project has been set for 1 March 2025 and the kick-off meeting will bring together all PACRI partners for three days to review the main challenges of the project and discuss the work plan and objectives.
 

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Wednesday, March 12

12:00 PM Registration

1 Lunch (NH Hotel)

2 Welcome

Speaker: Claudio Masciovecchio (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

PACRI_Welcome_CMasciovecchio.pptx

3 EU guidance and recommendations

Speaker: Sotirios Kakarantzas (European Union)

EC_REA_HE_KoM - final - actual costs.pptx

4 WP1 Coordination and project management

Speakers: Cecilia Blasetti (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.), Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste), Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR), Massimo Ferrario (INFN)

WP1_PACRI-kick-off meeting_13_11-03-25_uploaded2.pptx

5 WP2 Scientific and industrial exploitation

Speaker: Carsten Welsch (ULIV)

PACRI KO Meeting ULIV - WP2.pptx

3:45 PM Coffee Break

6 WP3: Plasma accelerator theory and simulations

Task 3.1: Development of a toolkit for magnetohydrodynamic simulations
Task 3.2: Plasma Source Design in the High-Repetition Rate Regime
Task 3.3: Develop of comp, models for coherent radiation emission in a plasma module
Task 3.4: Development of a toolkit for simulating acceleration in finite temperature plasma
WP3 Comments and questions

Speaker: Jorge Vieira (IST)

PACRI-kick-off meeting_WP-3_JVieira.pptx

7 WP4: High repetition rate plasma structures

Task 4.1: High-repetition rate gas jet target development
TasK 4.2: Development of a high-repetition rate gas cell structured target
Task 4.3: Development of high-repetition rate plasma capillaries
Task 4.4: Development of high-repetition rate advanced plasma sources
WP4 Comments and questions

Speaker: Angelo Biagioni (INFN)

WP4 work plan presentation.pptx

8 WP5: Plasma acceleration diagnostics and instrumentation

Task 5.1: Transverse diagnostics for high repetition rate for plasma accelerators
Task 5.2: Longitudinal diagnostics for high repetition rate for plasma acceleration.
Task 5.3: Longitudinal diagnostics for high repetition rate for plasma acceleration.
WP5 Comments and questions

Speaker: Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)

PACRI-kick-off meeting WP 5.pptx

Thursday, March 13

9 WP6: High efficiency RF generator

Task 6.1: High efficiency X-band klystron design
Task 6.2: Klystron prototype production

Speaker: Armel Beunas (THALES AVS)

PACRI_KOM_WP6_ABeunas_1.pptx

10 WP7: High repetition rate modulator

Task 7.1: High voltage modulator design
Task 7.2: Prototype production

Speakers: Kevin Pipitone (Scandinova), Mikael Lindholm (Scandinova)

WP7_ScandiNova_HighRepetitionRateModulator.pptx

11 WP8: X-band RF Pulse Compressor (BOC)

Task 8.1: BOC design
Task 8.2: BOC prototype construction

Speaker: David Alesini (INFN)

PACRI-kick-off meeting_Alesini.pptx

12 WP6, WP7 & WP8 Comments and questions

13 WP9: RF systems power tests and validation

Task 9.1: Set up of the RF test area
Task 9.2: RF systems power tests and validation

Speaker: Nuria Catalan Lasheras (CERN)

PACRI-kick-off meeting_ncl_WP9.pptx

14 WP9 Comments and questions

PACRI-kick-off meeting_ncl_WP9.pptx

10:20 AM Coffee Break

15 WP10: High repetition rate high power Ti:Sa amplifier module

Task 10.1: Operat. and characterizat. of a 20-100 Hz Yb:YAG pump laser for a Ti:Sa amplif.
Task 10.2: Develop. and characterizat. of a 100Hz Nd:YAG pump laser for a Ti:Sa amplif.
10.3: Developing a conceptual design of a Ti:Sapphire amplifier at 20Hz and beyond
WP10 Comments and questions

Speaker: Maria Stefania De Vido (UKRI)

PACRI-kick-off meeting_WP10_overview.pptx

16 WP11: Efficient kHz laser driver modules for plasma acceleration

11.1: kHz Thin disk drive pulse for P-MOPA
11.2: Post compression of kHz ps pulses
11.3: Broadband amplification in Thulium doped gain media
11.4: kHz pulsed diode laser pump demonstrator
WP11 Comments and questions

Speaker: Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR)

PACRI-kick-off meeting_WP11_2.pptx

17 WP12: High-rep rate pump sources for laser drivers

12.1: Implement improvements to DUHA pump laser for increased average power operat.
12.2: Evaluation of optical coatings in high average power, high energy systems
12.3: Investigate an OPCPA amplifier at 100 Hz
12.4: Diode laser pump unit design for 20…100 Hz implementation
WP12 Comments and questions

Speakers: Jonathan Tyler Green (ELI - ERIC), Maria Stefania De Vido (UKRI), Neysha Lobo Ploch (FBH)

WP12 tasks_final.pptx

12:20 PM Lunch (participants' choice)

2:20 PM Group photo

18 WP13: Prototype of high average power optical compressor

13.1: Modelling of ther. load impact on grating under vac. and valid. with existing syst.
13.2: Exper. charact. of dielectr. grat. samples with dens. power comp. with kW beamline
13.3: Compressor design based on dielectric grating technology for kW beamline
WP13 Comments and questions

Speaker: Olivier Chalus (THALES LAS)

PACRI-kick-off meeting_WP13.pptx

19 WP14: Laser Driver System Architecture, transport and engineering

14.1: System engineering
14.2: Systems required for operation
14.3: Focal spot stabilization
WP14 Comments and questions

Speaker: Kevin Cassou (CNRS)

PACRI-kick-off_WP14_v2-LULI.pptx

3:30 PM Coffee Break

20 Plenary discussion

7:30 PM Dinner at Yacht Club Adriaco

Friday, March 14

21 PACRI General Assembly

Speakers: Cecilia Blasetti (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.), Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)

GA_1_PACRI_20250314.pptx

11:00 AM Coffee break

22 WPs satellite meetings

12:30 PM Lunch (participants' choice)

23 Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste visit