PACRI Annual meeting
from
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 (8:00 AM)
to
Thursday, March 26, 2026 (5:30 PM)
Monday, March 23, 2026
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
9:00 AM
Satellite Meeting: EuPRAXIA-DN Steering Committee meeting
Satellite Meeting: EuPRAXIA-DN Steering Committee meeting
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room 02.3
12:00 PM
Registration PACRI Annual Meeting
Registration PACRI Annual Meeting
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room 02.1
12:30 PM
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
2:00 PM
Welcome
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Jorge Vieira
(
IST
)
Welcome
Jorge Vieira
(
IST
)
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Room 02.1
2:10 PM
Meeting Agenda
-
Gerardo D'Auria
(
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
)
Meeting Agenda
Gerardo D'Auria
(
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
)
2:10 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Room 02.1
2:15 PM
New PACRI P.O.
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Alessandro Zardini
(
European Union
)
New PACRI P.O.
Alessandro Zardini
(
European Union
)
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room 02.1
2:30 PM
WP1 Coordination and project management
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Gerardo D'Auria
(
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
)
WP1 Coordination and project management
Gerardo D'Auria
(
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
3:00 PM
WP2 Scientific and industrial exploitation
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Carsten Welsch
(
ULIV
)
WP2 Scientific and industrial exploitation
Carsten Welsch
(
ULIV
)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room 02.1
3:30 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
4:00 PM
WP3: Plasma accelerator theory and simulations
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Jorge Vieira
(
IST
)
WP3: Plasma accelerator theory and simulations
Jorge Vieira
(
IST
)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Room 02.1
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
4:30 PM
WP4: High repetition rate plasma structures
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Angelo Biagioni
(
INFN
)
WP4: High repetition rate plasma structures
Angelo Biagioni
(
INFN
)
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
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
5:00 PM
WP5: Plasma acceleration diagnostics and instrumentation
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Rasmus Ischebeck
(
PSI
)
Brigitte Cros
WP5: Plasma acceleration diagnostics and instrumentation
Rasmus Ischebeck
(
PSI
)
Brigitte Cros
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room 02.1
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
5:30 PM
The Road Towards the EuPRAXIA@ELI-ERIC Technical Design Report
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Alexander Molodozhentsev
(
ELI-ERIC
)
The Road Towards the EuPRAXIA@ELI-ERIC Technical Design Report
Alexander Molodozhentsev
(
ELI-ERIC
)
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
Invited talk for Plasma
6:00 PM
General discussion first day
General discussion first day
6:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Room 02.1
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
9:00 AM
WP6: Hi-Power X-band generator
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Gerardo D'Auria
WP6: Hi-Power X-band generator
Gerardo D'Auria
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Room 02.1
9:15 AM
WP7: High repetition rate modulator
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Fabio Cardelli
(
INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
)
Mikael Lindholm
(
Scandinova
)
WP7: High repetition rate modulator
Fabio Cardelli
(
INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
)
Mikael Lindholm
(
Scandinova
)
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Room 02.1
Task 7.1: High voltage modulator design Task 7.2: Prototype production
9:30 AM
WP8: X-band RF Pulse Compressor (BOC)
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Fabio Cardelli
(
INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
)
David Alesini
(
INFN
)
WP8: X-band RF Pulse Compressor (BOC)
Fabio Cardelli
(
INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
)
David Alesini
(
INFN
)
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Room 02.1
Task 8.1: BOC design Task 8.2: BOC prototype construction
9:45 AM
WP9: RF systems power tests and validation
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Steffen Doebert
(
CERN
)
WP9: RF systems power tests and validation
Steffen Doebert
(
CERN
)
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Room 02.1
10:00 AM
Development of X-Band LLRF and RF Infrastructure for Future Linear Accelerators
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Phani Deep Meruga
(
Instrumentation Technologies d.o.o.
)
Development of X-Band LLRF and RF Infrastructure for Future Linear Accelerators
Phani Deep Meruga
(
Instrumentation Technologies d.o.o.
)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room 02.1
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 02.1
11:00 AM
WP10: High repetition rate high power Ti:Sa amplifier module
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Maria Stefania De Vido
(
UKRI
)
WP10: High repetition rate high power Ti:Sa amplifier module
Maria Stefania De Vido
(
UKRI
)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Room 02.1
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
11:30 AM
WP11: Efficient kHz laser driver modules for plasma acceleration
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Leonida Antonio Gizzi
(
CNR
)
WP11: Efficient kHz laser driver modules for plasma acceleration
Leonida Antonio Gizzi
(
CNR
)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
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
12:00 PM
WP12: High-rep rate pump sources for laser drivers
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Jonathan Tyler Green
(
ELI - ERIC
)
WP12: High-rep rate pump sources for laser drivers
Jonathan Tyler Green
(
ELI - ERIC
)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room 02.1
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
12:30 PM
Group photo
Group photo
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: Room 02.1
12:40 PM
Lunch (participants' choice)
Lunch (participants' choice)
12:40 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
WP13: Prototype of high average power optical compressor
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Luca Labate
Adeline Kabacinski
WP13: Prototype of high average power optical compressor
Luca Labate
Adeline Kabacinski
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
3:00 PM
WP14: Mastering Gerchberg-Saxton Phase Retrieval: Toward Low-Latency Spatio-Spectral Metrology for High-Stability Lasers
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Slava Smartsev
WP14: Mastering Gerchberg-Saxton Phase Retrieval: Toward Low-Latency Spatio-Spectral Metrology for High-Stability Lasers
Slava Smartsev
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room 02.1
3:30 PM
Development of laser driver technologies for future laser-driven accelerators
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Maria Stefania De Vido
(
UKRI
)
Development of laser driver technologies for future laser-driven accelerators
Maria Stefania De Vido
(
UKRI
)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
4:00 PM
General discussion second day
General discussion second day
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Room 02.1
4:20 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
5:00 PM
Bus Pick-up and Transfer
Bus Pick-up and Transfer
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
5:45 PM
Lisbon Walking Tour
Lisbon Walking Tour
5:45 PM - 7:45 PM
7:45 PM
Dinner
Dinner
7:45 PM - 10:15 PM
Thursday, March 26, 2026
9:00 AM
PACRI General Assembly
-
Gerardo D'Auria
(
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
)
PACRI General Assembly
Gerardo D'Auria
(
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
)
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 02.1
11:00 AM
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Room 02.1
11:30 AM
SAC Report
SAC Report
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Room 02.1
12:15 PM
Meeting Conclusion
Meeting Conclusion
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room 02.1
12:30 PM
Lunch (participants' choice)
Lunch (participants' choice)
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM
Satellite Meeting (Laser Pillar)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room 02.3
2:30 PM
Visit: University of Lisbon, Labs... (TBD)
Visit: University of Lisbon, Labs... (TBD)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 02.1
4:00 PM
Satellite Meeting (RF Pillar)
Satellite Meeting (RF Pillar)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room 2.03