Introduction of the EuPRAXIA Project

EuPRAXIA is an acronym meaning “European Plasma Research Accelerator with Excellence in Applications” which almost completely explains the goals and purposes of the project. EuPRAXIA aims at planning and constructing two state-of-the-art accelerator facilities based on current plasma accelerator technologies. Plasma-based accelerators make it possible to radically reduce the facility size and overall costs compared to current radio-frequency (RF) accelerators. The two planned facilities — the first is beam-driven and the second is laser-driven — are envisioned to provide electron beams in the energy range of 1–5 GeV, and with beam parameters and quality comparable to the existing RF machines. In the following, we give a short overview of the status of the project in February 2025. Finally, we give a short overview of the possible Hungarian contributions to the EuPRAXIA project. Abstract Published by the Jagiellonian University 2025 authors