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An integrated approach to ultraintense laser sciences: The PLASMON-X project

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In this paper we discuss recent results in the design configuration and modelling of the PLASMON-X project aimed at the development of an innovative, high-gradient acceleration with super-intense and ultra-short laser pulses, and a tuneable, hard X/γ-ray source, based upon Thomson scattering of optical photons by energetic electrons. Both experiments require very high power, ultra-short laser pulses in combination with very bright and short electron bunches generated either by conventional acceleration (LINAC) or by laser-driven, self injection acceleration in plasmas. The main issues concerning the integrated use of unique laser and linear accelerator installations, and the complementary use of all-optical configurations will be briefly examined.

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  1. Istituto Processi Chimico-Fisici (CNR), Area della Ricerca, via G. Moruzzi 1, Pisa, Italy

    L. A. Gizzi, S. Betti, C. A. Cecchetti, A. Gamucci, A. Giulietti, D. Giulietti, P. Koester, L. Labate, T. Levato & P. Tomassini

  2. INFN Sezione di Pisa, L.go Bruno Pontecorvo 3, Pisa, Italy

    L. A. Gizzi, S. Betti, C. A. Cecchetti, A. Gamucci, A. Giulietti, D. Giulietti, P. Koester, L. Labate & T. Levato

  3. INFN-Milano, via Celoria 16, Milano, Italy

    A. Bacci, V. Petrillo, L. Serafini & P. Tomassini

  4. INFN-LNF, via E. Fermi 40, Frascati (Roma), Italy

    M. Ferrario & C. Vaccarezza

  5. Dip. Fisica Univ. Pisa, L.go Bruno Pontecorvo 3, Pisa, Italy

    D. Giulietti, P. Koester & T. Levato

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Gizzi, L., Bacci, A., Betti, S. et al. An integrated approach to ultraintense laser sciences: The PLASMON-X project. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 175, 3–10 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2009-01109-4

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