News

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, the SPARC_LAB group presented a novel method for deflecting and guiding relativistic electron beams along curved paths using magnetic fields generated within plasma-discharge capillaries.

Great milestone achieved for the TEX facility: the high-power test of the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB prototype has been successfully completed!

LNF – Beam Test Facility (BTF) will be opened for external users’ beamtime in the date range: October 7, 2024 (week 41) up to December 1, 2024 (week 48) We thus invite all interested colleagues to submit beamtime requests by using the BTF call management software at https://booking.dsi.infn.it/

During its meeting on May 31st, the Board of Directors of INFN appointed Paola Gianotti as the Director of the LNF, a position that she will assume starting from August 1st, 2024.

The EuPRAXIA ESFRI Collaboration Board and the EuPRAXIA-PP Collaboration Board have approved the appointment of Dr Pierluigi Campana as new coordinator of the EuPRAXIA ESFRI and PP projects.

The LNF Summer Student Program provides 5 two-month fellowships for scientific and technological training activities for university students or recent graduates to be carried out at the Frascati National Laboratory of INFN, focusing on the following activity:

2024 is bringing big news to the SPARC_LAB research facility at LNF.

Within the scope of EU project EURIZON, the LNF Detector Development Group and INFN-Fe have successfully completed the construction of a novel detector: a pioneering low-mass modular Inner Tracker developed for low-momentum electron-positron colliders, exploiting the innovative Cylindrical µ-RWELL (C-RWELL) technology.

   On January 19, 2024, the Cryogenic Facility Service group at LNF completed the final operations, which lasted over a month, to cool down to 4 Kelvin and reignite a superconducting magnet with a diameter of three meters and a length of over two meters. The magnet had been previously used as part of the detector for the FINUDA experiment, which recorded electron-positron collisions in the early 2000s produced by the DAFNE accelerator.

During the week between December 11th and 17th, the SHERPA collaboration conducted a significant experiment in hall 2 of the BTF at LNF.