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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.

Two important international workshops took place in the Rome area in mid-November, focusing on the design of the future Future Circular Collider electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) at CERN.

We are glad to inform you that the LNF – Beam Test Facility (BTF) will be opened for external users’ beamtime in the date range: February 12, 2024 (week 7) up to June 2, 2024 (week 22) We thus invite all interested colleagues to submit beamtime requests. The submission period will be closed on January 12, 2024. please refer to https://btf.lnf.infn.it/btf-call-2024h1/ and to https://btf.lnf.infn.it/schedule-beam-request/request-beam-time/ for getting informed about call and proposal submission rules. LNF provides EUROLABS funding for users access.

The leadership of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has approved the appointment of Pierluigi Campana as the next Chair of ICFA, starting from January 1, 2024.

In the field of particle accelerators, the interest is growing in the development of compact accelerating structures capable of overcoming the current limitations of conventional ones based on RF pulses.