Conveners
ELI-NP (10 PW): Capabilities and Research
- Mohammad Ahmed (North Carolina Central University)
Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI–NP) [1] is the nuclear physics pillar of the pan–European Extreme Light Infrastructure project [2]. ELI–NP was implemented on the Măgurele National Physics Platform by the National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering "Horia Hulubei". Two state–of–the–art sources of extreme light stay at the core of the project: a 2 x 10 PW...
The 10 PW High Power Laser System (HPLS) at Extreme Light Infrastructure—Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) is a dual arm laser system capable to deliver peak power laser pulses of 10 PW at 1 shot/minute repetition rate, 1 PW at 1 Hz repetition rate or 100 TW at 10 Hz repetition rate. The pulses from both arms are distributed to dedicated experimental areas: E4 for 2 x 100 TW, E5 for 2 x 1 PW and E1-E6...
The commissioning of the ELI-NP experimental areas [1,2] devoted to the laser-driven experiments started in mid-2020 with the 100 TW laser arms, and continued with the 1 PW arms until last year. Eventually, this year the first shot in the world at 10 PW [3,4] was fired on April 13. The experimental campaign started at the end of last year when the 10 PW laser beam was delivered to the...
