The current activity of the SPARC_LAB test-facility is focused on the realization of plasma-based acceleration experiments with the aim to provide accelerating field of the order of several GV/m while maintaining the overall quality (in terms of energy spread and emittance) of the accelerated electron bunch. In the following, the current status of such an activity is presented. We also show results related to the usability of plasmas as focusing lenses in view of a complete plasma-based focusing and accelerating system.
@article{arxiv.1801.05990,
title = {Recent results at SPARC_LAB},
author = {R. Pompili and M. P. Anania and M. Bellaveglia and A. Biagioni and S. Bini and F. Bisesto and E. Chiadroni and A. Cianchi and G. Costa and D. Di Giovenale and M. Ferrario and F. Filippi and A. Gallo and A. Giribono and V. Lollo and A. Marocchino and V. Martinelli and A. Mostacci and G. Di Pirro and S. Romeo and J. Scifo and V. Shpakov and C. Vaccarezza and F. Villa and A. Zigler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05990},
year = {2018}
}