IPAC'26 - the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Session

Award Session

21 May 2026, 14:00

Auditorium Michel d’Ornano (C.I.D)

686. Plasma Discharge Undulator: a novel concept for plasma-based radiation sources (THZM301)

Andrea Frazzitta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

21/05/2026, 14:13

MC3.A15: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: New Acceleration Concepts and Techniques

Special (Award) Presentation

Plasma discharge devices have recently demonstrated their potential for compact particle beam manipulation. Building upon the Active Plasma Lens and its extension to curved geometries (Active Plasma Bending), new studies have revealed that chicane-like configurations can support sub-betatron oscillations of the beam. Motivated by this observation, the novel concept of the Plasma Discharge...

3080. Lasing of a Cavity Based X-ray FEL (THZM202)

Patrick Rauer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

21/05/2026, 14:25

MC2.A06: Free Electron Lasers (FELs)

Special (Award) Presentation

Cavity-based X-ray Free Electron Lasers(CBXFELs) promise to transform the field of hard X-ray science by delivering radiation with exceptional brilliance, stability,and full three-dimensional coherence. At the European XFEL, we have recently achieved lasing with multi-pass gain in a proof-of-concept CBXFEL featuring a 132.8m round-trip hard X-ray cavity using diamond crystals in Bragg...

3079. Compact Laser wakefield accelerator and Free-electron lasing (THZM303)

Wentao Wang (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics)

21/05/2026, 14:45

MC3.A15: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: New Acceleration Concepts and Techniques

Special (Award) Presentation

Laser wakefield acceleration can sustain accelerating gradients three orders of magnitude higher than conventional radio-frequency accelerators, making it a crucial piece of the puzzle for realizing compact particle accelerators and radiation sources. Many international teams have been devoting themselves to this promising yet highly challenging frontier. This talk presents a decade-long...

3070. RF systems and longitudinal beam dynamics for enhanced performance of CERN accelerators (THZM404)

Elena Shaposhnikova (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

21/05/2026, 15:05

MC4.A17: Hadron accelerators: High Intensity Accelerators

Special (Award) Presentation

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN was designed in 1971 and has been accelerating protons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, and various types of ions since 1976. Since 2010, the SPS has also served as an injector for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this talk, I will describe how, over the past 30 years, numerous proton beam intensity limitations were identified and subsequently...