Extreme light infrastructure nuclear physics (ELI-NP)

Abstract

ELI - Extreme Light Infrastructure, a project to build an international research infrastructure “dedicated to the investigation and applications of laser matter interaction at the highest intensity level” is one of the 35 projects in the first Roadmap, in 2006, of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) [1]. “ELI will comprise three branches: ultra high field science that will explore laser matter interaction up to the nonlinear QED limit including the investigation of pair creation and vacuum structure; attosecond laser science designed to conduct temporal investigation at the attosecond scale of electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, plasmas, and solids; lastly, the highenergy beam facility devoted to the development of dedicated beam lines of ultra short pulses of high energy radiation and particles up to 100GeV for users.”