Diagnostics for plasma acceleration and secondary radiation sources for EuAPS project at FLAME laser facility

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The Laser WakeField Acceleration (LWFA) process in a gas target requires laser and plasma diagnostics to monitor the interaction, such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer for plasma density analysis. In addition, other diagnostics are used to characterize the accelerated particle beams and the secondary X-ray radiation produced, such as an energy spectrometer and a CCD-X camera. This X-ray radiation has distinctive features that open up the possibility of significant applications in fields such as materials science, biological research, medicine and industry. In the next few years, these radiation sources will become a good alternative to conventional ones due to the reduction in cost and the smaller dimension of such facilities. In this contribution, we present the diagnostics and the experimental results of several experimental campaigns carried out to characterize the LWFA process at the Frascati Laser for Acceleration and Multidisciplinary Experiments (FLAME) facility at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-INFN in the framework of the EuPRAXIA Advanced Photon Sources (EuAPS) project.