Il giorno venerdì 9 novembre, alle ore 11.00, in aula 1G09 il dott. Daniele Margarone, ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics (Academy of Science), Prague, Czech Republic,

terrà un seminario dal titolo:

"Laser-driven Ion Acceleration and Societal Applications at the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)"

Abstract

Acceleration of high energy ion beams by ultrahigh intensity laser-matter interaction is an emerging field of interest both for fundamental and applied science. Laser-driven ion acceleration occurs inside a high temperature, high density plasma, which transfers unique characteristics to the accelerated particle beam, e.g. ultrahigh dose rate (~109 Gy/s) and short bunch duration (~ps). Furthermore, typical accelerating fields sustainable in laser-generated plasmas (~10 MeV/m) allow designing very compact beamlines compared to conventional accelerator facilities.

Recently the ELIMAIA (ELI Multidisciplinary Applications of laser-Ion Acceleration) beamline has  been installed at ELI-Beamlines in the Czech Republic. The main goal of ELIMAIA is to offer short ion bunches accelerated by lasers with high repetition rate to users from different fields (physics, biology, material science, medicine, chemistry, archaeology) and, at the same time, to demonstrate that this source can be delivered through innovative and compact approaches. In fact, ELIMAIA will provide stable, fully characterized and tunable particle beams accelerated by PW-class lasers and will offer them to a broad community of users for multidisciplinary applied research, as well as fundamental science investigations. An international scientific network, called ELIMED (ELI MEDical applications), particularly interested in future applications of laser-driven ions for hadrontherapy, has already been established. In such a perspective ELIMAIA will enable to use laser-driven proton/ion beams for medical research thanks to the reliability and accuracy of its particle beam transport and dose monitoring devices.

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