PACRI Annual meeting

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.

    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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.)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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)
    • 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
    • 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

      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 5:00 PM
      Satellite Meeting (RF Pillar) 1h Room 2.03

      Room 2.03