Plasma Accelerator Technologies
A special issue of Instruments (ISSN 2410-390X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2025) | Viewed by 664
Special Issue Editors
Interests: accelerator design and optimisation; novel beam diagnostics; applications of accelerators; high energy discovery machines; antimatter facilities; medical accelerators; accelerators-on-a-chip
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Interests: laser wake field acceleration; secondary x/gamma-ray sources; medical applications of laser-driven VHEE beams; ultrashort laser optics; high repetition rate lasers
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2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Roma P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: beam diagnostics; novel particle accelerators; Compton sources; high-brightness linacs; coupling impedances; RF measurements
Interests: advanced plasma accelerators; light sources; structured light
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting participants in the EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network Camp on technologies to submit conference proceedings to Instruments.
The main topics of this Special Issue will be the technologies underpinning plasma accelerators, including beam and laser diagnostics, novel sensors, and radiofrequency technologies.
Prof. Dr. Carsten Welsch
Dr. Luca Labate
Prof. Dr. Andrea Mostacci
Dr. Jorge Vieira
Dr. Christina Weiss
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plasma accelerators
- beam diagnostics
- laser diagnostics
- novel sensors
- radiofrequency technologies
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