Plasma-based technology promises a tremendous reduction in size of accelerators used for
research, medical, and industrial applications, making it possible to develop tabletop …

The development of compact accelerator facilities providing high-brightness beams is one of
the most challenging tasks in the field of next-generation compact and cost affordable …

Plasma wakefield acceleration revolutionized the field of particle accelerators by generating
gigavolt-per-centimeter fields. To compete with conventional radio-frequency (RF) …

Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron beams to GeV energies
within centimeter distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, is indeed able to sustain …

The development of compact accelerator machines is leading towards the use of plasma-
based devices that are able to sustain large acceleration gradients up to several tens of GV …

We report on the experimental characterization of the effect that a passive plasma lens in the
overdense regime has on high-brightness bunch quality by means of 6D phase-space …

The generation of ultra-short electron bunches with ultra-low timing-jitter relative to the photo-
cathode (PC) laser has been experimentally proved for the first time at the SPARC_LAB test …

Beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration based on external injection has the potential to
significantly reduce the size of future accelerators. Stability and quality of the acceleration …

Plasma wakefield acceleration, either driven by ultra-short laser pulses or electron bunches,
represents one of the most promising techniques able to overcome the limits of conventional …

In modern particle accelerators involving short (few hundreds of fs or less) photon and
particle beams, a crucial requirement is the arrival timing jitter and its modeling, taking into …