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+====== PlasmonX ======
+The aim of the PLASMONX project is to provide the LNF (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati) with a world-class, high-power laser facility suitable for the development of an innovative, high-gradient acceleration technique based upon super-intense and ultra-short laser pulses, and X/gamma-ray tunable sources using Thomson scattering of optical photons by energetic electrons. The facility makes use of a new generation laser, [[http://ilil.ipcf.cnr.it/flame|FLAME]], will be built in close interaction with the [[http://www.lnf.infn.it/acceleratori/sparc/|SPARC]] project presently in progress at LNF.
+The main purpose of the facility will consist in R&D activity aimed at the following objectives:
+  * demonstration of high-gradient acceleration of electrons injected into electron plasma waves excited by ultra-short, high-power laser pulses;
+  * development of a monochromatic and tuneable X-ray source in the 20-1000 keV range, based upon Thomson scattering of laser pulses by relativistic electrons.
+Both lines require very bright and short electron bursts together with very high power laser pulses of sub-100 fs duration. Studies at the forefront of research in this field consistently indicate that the power level and the focused intensity for a laser system appropriate for these studies are >10TW and >1019 W/cm2 respectively.
+The activity will be carried jointly by three INFN units and one CNR unit.
+The R&D activity carried out at this facility will be open to some extent to external users, in particular for what concerns bio-medical oriented uses of the available sources for diagnose and therapy.
+This page is a **test draft**, the official site still being [[http://www.lnf.infn.it/acceleratori/plasmonx/|here]]
+The project is divided into two main streams:
+  * [[Thomson]]
+  * [[LPA| Laser Plasma Acceleration]]
+===== Collaboration Issues =====
+[[http://agenda.infn.it/categoryDisplay.py?categId=339|Material of Meetings on Indico]]