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SUMMARY:Commissioning of the STAR Compact Light Source Toward High-Brightn
 ess ICS X-Ray Generation
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luigi Faillace (INFN-Frascati)\nThe commissioning of
  the STAR Research Infrastructure (Southern Europe Thomson Back-scattering
  Source for Applied Research)\, located at the University of Calabria in s
 outhern Italy\, is currently in progress. STAR is a compact light source d
 esigned to generate monochromatic\, tunable\, and polarized hard X-ray bea
 ms with picosecond pulse duration through inverse Compton scattering (ICS)
 \, covering photon energies between 40 and 350 keV for a wide range of sci
 entific and applied research applications.\n\nThe STAR 2.0 upgrade project
  is being developed in collaboration with the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica
  Nucleare\, coordinated by the INFN National Laboratories of Frascati toge
 ther with the INFN Milan Unit and the LASA Laboratory. The facility will p
 rovide high-quality photon beams to two dedicated experimental stations fo
 r microtomography studies\, served by two independent beam lines.\n\nThis 
 work presents the first major milestones achieved during the early commiss
 ioning phase\, focused on the validation and characterization of the elect
 ron beam and high-power laser systems required for X-ray production. Durin
 g commissioning\, a laser-driven electron beam was successfully generated\
 , transported\, and characterized\, reaching energies up to 150 MeV with c
 harges above 200 pC and a pulse duration of about 5 ps (FWHM). In parallel
 \, a high-energy infrared laser pulse of approximately 500 mJ and 5 ps dur
 ation was transported to the interaction point and synchronized with the e
 lectron beam with sub-picosecond timing precision.\n\nThese achievements d
 emonstrate the successful integration and operation of the main STAR subsy
 stems and represent a key step toward full facility commissioning and the 
 production of high-brightness ICS X-ray beams.\n\nhttps://events.saip.org.
 za/event/274/contributions/10351/
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URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/274/contributions/10351/
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