Rendering of the betatron source
The MUR has approved the support of the EuAPS (EuPRAXIA Advanced Photon Sources) project with 22 M€ from the NPRR funds dedicated to the “Rafforzamento e creazione di Infrastrutture di Ricerca”.
EuAPS, ranked first after evaluation by the technical scientific Panel, sees the participation of INFN (leading institution), CNR and Tor Vergata University.
The project stems from the European EuPRAXIA project, already in the ESFRI roadmap, which aims at the realization of a European distributed user facility of advanced radiation sources (FEL, betatron, positrons) driven by plasma accelerated electron beams. The LNF site was selected to host one of the two EuPRAXIA pillars.
EuAPS will fulfill some of the scientific goals defined in the EuPRAXIA CDR, by building and commissioning a distributed user facility providing users with advanced photon sources; these consist of a plasma based betatron source delivering partially coherent soft X-rays (LNF), a mid power, high repetition rate laser (CNR-INO) and a high power laser (LNS). UniToV, CNR-ISM RM and CNR-ISM Pz will provide diagnostics, manipulation devices and experimental user chambers for the X-rays source.
The INFN-Milan operative unit, composed by both INFN and Physics Department personnel, will perform theoretical and numerical studies in order to design and optimize the betatron source.