IPFN at EPS on Plasma Physics 2025
Several researchers from IPFN joined the 51st European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, held from 7 to 11 July 2025 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Among the invited speakers were Róbert Babjak, Chiara Badiali and Diogo Carvalho, while Lucas Ansia, Óscar Amaro, Luís Gil and Pablo Bilbao gave contributed talks. Gareth Williams, Marija Vranic and Rafael Henriques presented posters on their work.
Chiara Badiali gave an invited talk presenting her recent work on the acceleration of heavier particles—such as muons, pions and kaons—in plasma wakefields. The presentation focused on a method that employs laser pulses with subluminal group velocities, together with tailored plasma density profiles, to enable the acceleration of non-relativistic particles—an area not typically accessible with standard plasma-based wakefield acceleration techniques.
Chiara mentioned the 'presentation was well received and led to several interesting discussions with other participants, reflecting a growing interest in extending plasma wakefield acceleration methods beyond electrons.” The work presented is part of a recently submitted study.
Luís Gil gave a talk entitled 'A high-confinement, no-ELM regime in JET: the EDA H-mode', Rafael Henriques had a poster with the title “Developing a machine learning based plasma control system for ISTTOK” and Vasco Guerra gave an oral presentation on “Plasmas for in-situ resource utilisation on Mars”.
The strong presence of IPFN researchers at this year’s EPS Conference reflects the group’s active contributions to a wide range of topics in plasma physics.
