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EuPRAXIA is the first European project devoted to create a particle accelerator research infrastructure based on plasma acceleration and laser and linac technology.
The project aims at developing plasma-based particle accelerator facilities, exploiting the intrinsic high gradient of up to 100 GV/m to improve the sustainability of particle accelerators. Furthermore, EuPRAXIA foresees to employ plasma-based acceleration to enable frontier science in new regions and parametric regimes, including future linear colliders and short wavelength FELs. The EuPRAXIA infrastructure is distributed all over Europe and includes two main sites for the construction of two FEL user facilities based on beam-driven and laser-driven plasma accelerators. The first site consists in the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB project, a new multi-disciplinary user-facility currently under development at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF-INFN). The EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB accelerating facility will provide GeV-range electron beams, accelerated by means of an X-band normal conducting linac and a plasma module for Plasma WakeField Acceleration (PWFA). Downstream, the accelerated beams will drive two FEL beamlines, respectively named ARIA and AQUA, for experiments in the VUV and in the XUV soft x-rays spectral region. Furthermore, an ancillary beamline based on a betatron radiation source in the x-ray region, driven by laser-plasma interaction, is under construction at LNF within the framework of the EuPRAXIA Advanced Photon Sources (EuAPS) project.
