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Our colleague Riccardo Pompili, Scientific coordinator of the SPARC_LAB Facility and of the Plasma Working Area of the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB project, is the winner of the “Hogil Kim” Prize, for his many important contributions in the plasma accelerators developments, culminated in the first worldwide demonstration of FEL lasing driven by a Plasma Accelerator (Beam Driven) at SPARC_LAB.

The new EU-funded project PACRI (Plasma Accelerator systems for Compact Research Infrastructures) officially started with a kick-off meeting in Trieste from March 12 to 14, 2025.

In a seminar held today, April 15, at the INFN Frascati National Laboratory, the scientific collaboration of the PADME experiment presented the results of data analysis collected in 2022 during the third data-taking phase (run3).

The EuPRAXIA consortium has selected the ELI Beamlines facility in Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic, as the site for implementing the laser-driven acceleration pillar of the project.

An important contribution to new developments in infrared optics has come from the Frascati National Laboratory (LNF) of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), where the experimental characterization of an innovative metamaterial was conducted at the Dafne-Luce facility.

On November 15th, members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences of the Physics Class visited the Frascati National Laboratory, where they were welcomed by the Director, Paola Gianotti, and the President, Antonio Zoccoli.

A significant milestone in the search for dark matter has been achieved at the INFN Frascati. National Laboratory.

Over 40 years ago, the measurement of X-ray transitions to the fundamental level in kaonic deuterium—an exotic atom where an electron is replaced by a negatively charged kaon (a particle composed of a "strange" quark and an "up" anti-quark)—was identified as a crucial experiment in kaon physics at the low-energy frontier.

The 114th plenary meeting of the European Committee for Accelerators of the Future (ECFA) took place on 4-5 July at INFN Frascati National Laboratories. The event gathered over 60 representatives of the Committee, consisting of 29 member states and CERN, including Fabiola Gianotti, the Director General of the great European research centre.

An unknown version of the painting “Lo Spasimo di Palermo” by Raffaello Sanzio was hosted at the DAΦNE-Light laboratory of the National Laboratories of Frascati of INFN to carry out a diagnostic campaign aimed to reveal the mysteries held by the artwork.