GOVERNMENT OF ROMANIA Structural Instruments2007-2013

Sectoral Operational Programme „Increase of Economic Competitiveness”

“Investments for Your Future”

Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)

Status and Perspectives

EUROPEAN UNION

Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund

Nicolae-Victor Zamfir

Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)

Gerard Mourou 1985: Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA)

Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA)

Primary radiations

Secondary radiations- electrons bremssstrahlung- gamma rays, neutrons

Secondary target

Electrons are expelled from the target due to the chock wave induced by the powerful laser Heavy ions are accelerated in the field created by the electrons

E~Ilaser1/2

S.C. Wilks et al., Phys. Plasmas 8, 542 (2001).

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Radiation Pressure Acceleration RPA

Electrons and ions acceleratedat solid state densities 1024e cm-3

(Classical beam densities 108e cm-3)on very short distance (μm-mm)

E~ I laser

Energy reached equal to a 400m up-to-date accelerator (reduction of scale of 109)

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Proton acceleration

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RPA simulations 10 23 W/cm2 ,15 fs

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2006 – ELI on ESFRI Roadmap

ELI-PP 2007-2010 (FP7) ELI-Beamlines (Czech Republic) ELI-Attoseconds (Hungary) ELI-Nuclear Physics (Romania)

ELI-DC (Delivery Consortium): 2010 Legal entity: April 2013 Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Germany, UK

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Extreme Light Infrastructure

ELI-NP

NUCLEARTandem accelerators

Cyclotronsγ – Irradiator

Advanced DetectorsBiophysics

Environmental PhysicsRadioisotopes

ring rail/road

BUCHAREST

Bucharest-MagureleNational Physics Institutes

LasersPlasma

OptoelectronicsMaterial Physics

Theoretical PhysicsParticle Physics

ELI-NP

ELI-NP Milestones

January 2012: Project submitted to the EC

July 2012: Romanian Government Decision

Construction of the New Research Infrastructure ELI-NP: 293 M€

September 2012: EC Project Approval

European Regional Development Fund

Financial Support (83%) of the First phase (2012-2015) 180 M€

December 2012: Contract with Romanian Managing Authority

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ELI-NP Infrastructure

Large equipment:

• High power laser system, 2 x 10PW maximum power

Thales Optronique SA and SC Thales System Romania (~65 M€)

• Gamma radiation beam, high intensity, tunable energy up to 20MeV, relative

bandwidth 10-3, produced by Compton scattering of a laser beam on a 700 MeV

electron beam produced by a warm LINAC

European Consortium EuroGammaS led by INFN Rome (~65 M€):

INFN (Italy), University “La Sapienza” Rome (Italy), CNRS (France), ALSYOM (France), ACP

Systems S.A.S.U. (France), COMEB Srl (Italy), ScandiNova Systems (Sweden)

Buildings – 33000sqm total – STRABAG (~65M€)

Experiments:

8 experimental areas, for gamma, laser, and gamma+laser 9

ELI–NP Gamma Beam System

• high intensity / small emittance

e– beam from a warm LINAC

• very brillant high rep./rate int.

laser

• small collision volume 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018

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ELI-Nuclear Physics

Scientific program: • Nuclear Physics experiments to characterize laser – target int.• Photonuclear reactions• Exotic Nuclear Physics and astrophysics • Applied Research

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White Book (Scientific Case)

Feasibility Study 293M€

Preparation of the Application

E.C. Evaluation & Approval

Building - Preparation

Building - Construction

Major Eqp.– Constr, Install

Experimental set-ups

Recruitment

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Project implementation

2018

August 23, 2013

July 14, 2014

ELI–NP Experiment Building

Experiments 8 experimental areas

HP Lasers

7000 m2

E1 10PW

E2,NRF

E7,2X10PW

E8,GammaNuclear reactions

E5 1PW @ 1 Hz

E4 0.1PW @ 10 Hz

E3 Positron

source

E7,QED High fieldgamma + electrons

E6 10PW

ELI-NP TDR Workgroups

• Workshops in June 2013, April 2014, February 2015;

Gamma WGs:

• NRF and applications

• Photo fission (production and physics)

• Gamma above Threshold

• Charged particle array

+ Positron source for materials science WG

+ Transversal WGs: Vacuum, Control Systems, Dosimetry

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Laser WGs:

• Ion driven nuclear physics: fission-fusion

• Strong fields QED

• Towards High field (Laser +Gamma) and

Plasma

• Applications

Nuclear Photonics Electromagnetic dipole response of nuclei

g

E1 strength distribution

NRF

Nuclear structure• Modes of excitation below the GDR

Impact on nucleosynthesis• Gamow window for photo–induced reactions in explosive stellar events

Understanding exotic nuclei• E1 strength will be shifted to lower energies in neutron rich system

Human Resources

Attracting the best

competencies:

• public announcements

• international recruitment

• Senior/junior researchers

• PhD students

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Project integration

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Phase A Phase B Phase C

Junior researchers (107)

Senior researchers (20)

PhD students (50)

Technical Staff –Higher education (18)

Technical Staff (18)

Phase D Phase E Phase F

Today

ELI-NP Industrial Forum

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Body promoting relationships, for mutual benefits, with local and foreign companies

• Consulting in elaborating the TDRs for experiments and auxiliary equipment • Promotion of contractual research, technology transfer, etc.• Consulting services provided by ELI-NP experts • Creation of a cluster of high-tech companies in Magurele

ELI-NP Academic Forum

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• to secure the fulfillment of ELI-NP needs in terms of PhD students, junior researchers, engineers, and technicians (training programs, specific MSc and PhD programs, etc.);

• to assure the education of engineers for the companies part of the high-tech cluster at Magurele;

• to support the ELI-NP Project in the achievement of its objectives in terms of scientific excellence;

ELI-NP Team, March 5, 2013

Thank you!