Speaker
Dr
G. A. Pablo Cirrone
(INFN-LNS)
Description
A new high-power laser facility will be realised in Italy at the INFN-LNS laboratories with the main goal of producing radiation (protons, electrons, neutrons, gamma) for applications and basic science studies. The facility will also possess a distinctive feature (almost unique in the world) allowing for the concurrent utilization of accelerated ion beams (4 - 70 AMeV in energy) from conventional accelerators and highly energetic plasmas generated by lasers. In this talk, the status of the laser-driven proton/electron acceleration will be presented and the future I-LUCE (INFN Laser indUCEd radiation production) facility will be described together with some examples of future physics cases that could be investigated.
