PACRI Annual meeting

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

Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Congress Center

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.
 

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Tue, March 24

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Satellite Meeting: EuPRAXIA-DN Steering Committee meeting

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Registration PACRI Annual Meeting

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:10 PM Welcome

Speaker: Lisbon University/ISTID TBD

2:10 PM → 2:15 PM Meeting Agenda

Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)

2:15 PM → 2:30 PM New PACRI P.O.

Speaker: Alessandro Zardini (European Union)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM WP1 Coordination and project management

Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM WP2 Scientific and industrial exploitation

Speaker: Carsten Welsch (ULIV)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM 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)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM 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)

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM 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: Brigitte Cros

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM The Road Towards the EuPRAXIA@ELI-ERIC Technical Design Report

Invited talk for Plasma

Speaker: Alexander Molodozhentsev (ELI-ERIC)

6:00 PM → 6:20 PM General discussion first day

Wed, March 25

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM WP6: Hi-Power X-band generator

Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM WP7: High repetition rate modulator

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

Speaker: Mikael Lindholm (Scandinova)

9:30 AM → 9:45 AM WP8: X-band RF Pulse Compressor (BOC)

Task 8.1: BOC design
Task 8.2: BOC prototype construction

Speaker: David Alesini (INFN)

9:45 AM → 10:00 AM 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)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Invited talk for RF (Canon)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM 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)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM 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)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM 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

Speaker: Jonathan Tyler Green (ELI - ERIC)

12:30 PM → 12:40 PM Group photo

12:40 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch (participants' choice)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM 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)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM 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)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Invited Talk for Laser

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM General discussion second day

4:20 PM → 4:50 PM Coffee Break

4:50 PM → 7:00 PM Lisbon Bus Tour

7:00 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Thu, March 26

9:00 AM → 11:00 AM PACRI General Assembly

Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM → 12:15 PM SAC Report

12:15 PM → 12:30 PM Meeting Conclusion

12:30 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch (participants' choice)

2:30 PM → 4:00 PM Visit: University of Lisbon, Labs... (TBD)

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Satellite Meetings: TBD