Abstract
The new research facility Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) is under construction in Romania, on the Magurele Physics campus. Valued more than 300 Meuros the center will be operational in 2019. The research center will use a high brilliance Gamma Beam and a High-power Laser beam, with unprecedented characteristics worldwide, to investigate the interaction of very intense radiation with matter with specific focus on nuclear phenomena and their applications. The energetic particle beams and radiation produced by the 2x10 PW laser beam interacting with matter will be studied. The precisely tunable energy and excellent bandwidth of the gamma-ray beam will allow for new experimental approaches regarding nuclear astrophysics, nuclear resonance fluorescence, and applications. The experimental equipment is presented, together with the main directions of the research envisioned with special emphasizes on nuclear physics studies.
Highlights
The new research facility Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) is under construction in Romania, on the Magurele Physics campus
ELI became part of the 2006 Roadmap of ESFRI (36 European mega-projects of scientific research) [1], as a project aiming at the construction of a European and international research center at the highest level, focused on ultra high power lasers, laser-matter interaction and secondary sources of radiation
In 2012 European Commission approved the Romanian application to host the nuclear pillar of the ELI project and the implementation started in January 2013
Summary
Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Project was initiated in 2005, aiming to build the most powerful laser in history and to use it for generating applications unprecedented in science, as well as in industry and medicine. In 2012 European Commission approved the Romanian application to host the nuclear pillar of the ELI project and the implementation started in January 2013. - France, COMEB Srl -Italy, ScandiNova Systems – Sweden. The combination of these equipment will create a new European laboratory with a broad range of science covering frontier fundamental physics, new nuclear physics and astrophysics, as well as applications in various fields [3]
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