PACRI Annual meeting

Name: PACRI Annual meeting
Start: 2026-03-24T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-26T17:30:00+00:00
Location: Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center

Mar 24, 2026, 8:00 AM → Mar 26, 2026, 5:30 PM Europe/Lisbon

Room 02.1 (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center)

Room 02.1

Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center

Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon

Description

The Annual meeting of the PACRI project (Plasma Accelerator systems for Compact Research Infrastructures) will be held on 24- 26 March 2026 at the Congress Center of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.

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 project started on March 2025 and the Annual meeting will bring together all PACRI partners to review the progress, address challenges and plan upcoming activities.

_{PACRI – European Union Grant Agreement n. 101188004. The participation of PSI is funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.}

Contact

pacri.coordinator@elettra.eu

susana.muinos@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Tue, March 24
- 9:00 AM → 12:00 PM
  
  Satellite Meeting: EuPRAXIA-DN Steering Committee meeting 3h Room 02.3 (IST Campus)
  
  Room 02.3
  
  IST Campus
- 12:00 PM → 12:30 PM
  
  Registration PACRI Annual Meeting 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 12:30 PM → 2:00 PM
  
  Lunch 1h 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 2:00 PM → 2:10 PM
  
  Welcome 10m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Jorge Vieira (IST)
- 2:10 PM → 2:15 PM
  
  Meeting Agenda 5m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)
  
  GdA_Welcome_20260324.pptx
- 2:15 PM → 2:30 PM
  
  New PACRI P.O. 15m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Alessandro Zardini (European Union)
- 2:30 PM → 3:00 PM
  
  WP1 Coordination and project management 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)
  
  GdA_WP1_20260324.pptx
- 3:00 PM → 3:30 PM
  
  WP2 Scientific and industrial exploitation 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Carsten Welsch (ULIV)
  
  WP2.pptx
- 3:30 PM → 4:00 PM
  
  Coffee Break 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 4:00 PM → 4:30 PM
  
  WP3: Plasma accelerator theory and simulations 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  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-WP3_v3.pdf
  
  PACRI-WP3_v3.pptx
- 4:30 PM → 5:00 PM
  
  WP4: High repetition rate plasma structures 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  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)
  
  PACRI_WP4_Lisbona2026.pptx
- 5:00 PM → 5:30 PM
  
  WP5: Plasma acceleration diagnostics and instrumentation 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  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
  
  Speakers: Brigitte Cros, Rasmus Ischebeck (PSI)
  
  260324_PACRI_WP5_Cros_Ischebeck_final.pptx
  
  PACRI_PSI_March2026_WP5_part2.pptx
- 5:30 PM → 6:00 PM
  
  The Road Towards the EuPRAXIA@ELI-ERIC Technical Design Report 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Invited talk for Plasma
  
  Speaker: Alexander Molodozhentsev (ELI-ERIC)
  
  PACRI-0324-ELI-TDR.pdf
- 6:00 PM → 6:20 PM
  
  General discussion first day 20m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
Wed, March 25
- 9:00 AM → 9:15 AM
  
  WP6: Hi-Power X-band generator 15m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria
  
  GdA_WP6_20260325.pptx
- 9:15 AM → 9:30 AM
  
  WP7: High repetition rate modulator 15m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Task 7.1: High voltage modulator design
  Task 7.2: Prototype production
  
  Speakers: Mikael Lindholm (Scandinova), Fabio Cardelli (INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
  
  PACRI_annual_WP08_Cardelli.pptx
  
  WP6 and WP7_Lindholm.pptx
- 9:30 AM → 9:45 AM
  
  WP8: X-band RF Pulse Compressor (BOC) 15m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Task 8.1: BOC design
  Task 8.2: BOC prototype construction
  
  Speakers: Fabio Cardelli (INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), David Alesini (INFN)
  
  PACRI_annual_WP08_Cardelli.pptx
- 9:45 AM → 10:00 AM
  
  WP9: RF systems power tests and validation 15m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Steffen Doebert (CERN)
  
  PACRI_annualMeeting_WP9.pptx
- 10:00 AM → 10:30 AM
  
  Development of X-Band LLRF and RF Infrastructure for Future Linear Accelerators 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Phani Deep Meruga (Instrumentation Technologies d.o.o.)
  
  Invited-talk-PACRI'26_AM_Libera_P.D.Meruga.pptx
- 10:30 AM → 11:00 AM
  
  Coffee Break 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 11:00 AM → 11:30 AM
  
  WP10: High repetition rate high power Ti:Sa amplifier module 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  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_WP10_Update_presentation_PACRI_workshop_Lisbon_2026.pptx
- 11:30 AM → 12:00 PM
  
  WP11: Efficient kHz laser driver modules for plasma acceleration 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  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_WP11_LAG.pptx
- 12:00 PM → 12:30 PM
  
  WP12: High-rep rate pump sources for laser drivers 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  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
  
  Speaker: Jonathan Tyler Green (ELI - ERIC)
  
  WP12-Lisbon.pptx
- 12:30 PM → 12:40 PM
  
  Group photo 10m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 12:40 PM → 2:30 PM
  
  Lunch (participants' choice) 1h 50m
- 2:30 PM → 3:00 PM
  
  WP13: Prototype of high average power optical compressor 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speakers: Adeline Kabacinski, Luca Labate
  
  WP13-Lisbonne-3.pptx
- 3:00 PM → 3:30 PM
  
  WP14: Mastering Gerchberg-Saxton Phase Retrieval: Toward Low-Latency Spatio-Spectral Metrology for High-Stability Lasers 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Slava Smartsev
  
  WP14.pptx
- 3:30 PM → 4:00 PM
  
  Development of laser driver technologies for future laser-driven accelerators 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Maria Stefania De Vido (UKRI)
  
  PACRI-Laser_Development_Talk_M_De_Vido.pptx
- 4:00 PM → 4:20 PM
  
  General discussion second day 20m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 4:20 PM → 5:00 PM
  
  Coffee Break 40m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 5:00 PM → 5:45 PM
  
  Bus Pick-up and Transfer 45m IST
  
  IST
- 5:45 PM → 7:45 PM
  
  Lisbon Walking Tour 2h Praça dos Restauradores nº 24 (near the Hotel VIP Executive Eden)
  
  Praça dos Restauradores nº 24 (near the Hotel VIP Executive Eden)
- 7:45 PM → 10:15 PM
  
  Dinner 2h 30m Cantinho do Avillez
  
  Cantinho do Avillez
  
  Rua dos Duques de Bragança, 7, Lisboa
Thu, March 26
- 9:00 AM → 11:00 AM
  
  PACRI General Assembly 2h Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
  
  Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)
- 11:00 AM → 11:30 AM
  
  Coffee break 30m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 11:30 AM → 12:15 PM
  
  SAC Report 45m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 12:15 PM → 12:30 PM
  
  Meeting Conclusion 15m Room 02.1
  
  Room 02.1
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 12:30 PM → 2:30 PM
  
  Lunch (participants' choice) 2h
- 1:30 PM → 2:30 PM
  
  Satellite Meeting (Laser Pillar) Room 02.3
  
  Room 02.3
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 2:30 PM → 4:00 PM
  
  Visit: University of Lisbon, Labs... (TBD) 1h 30m Room 02.1
  
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  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center
  
  Instituto Superior Técnico, Civil Engineering Building, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon
- 4:00 PM → 5:00 PM
  
  Satellite Meeting (RF Pillar) 1h Room 2.03
  
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