New Acceleration Techniques at INFN with FLAME

INFN, in the frame of the Strategic Project PLASMONX, is developing New Acceleration Techniques based on Laser Produced Plasmas. The activity is carried out jointly with CNR and a few Italian Universities. The first results obtained in a collaborating small-scale laboratory (ILIL-CNR) aim to optimize the physical conditions and related diagnostics for the experiments will be soon performed in the main facility at LNF. The R&D will be open to some extent to external users, in particular for what concerns bio-medical oriented uses of sources for diagnose and therapy