Extreme Light Infrastructure Involvement of the Italian Scientific Community Luigi Palumbo
ELI: Scientific Case Grand Challenges Attosecond Laser Science: temporal investigation of electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, plasmas and solids at attosecond scale High Energy Beam Science: development and usage of dedicated beam lines with ultra short pulses of high energy radiation and particles reaching almost the speed of light Laser-Induced Photonuclear Physics: nuclear physics methods to study laser-target interactions, new nuclear spectroscopy, new photonuclear physics, etc. Ultra High Field Science: investigation of lasermatter interaction in an energy range where relativistic laws could stop to be valid
ELI: Preparatory Phase Community building 40 research and academic institutions from 13 EU countries Italy: INFN and CNR Scientific case reflecting the diversity of the research opportunities foreseen within ELI Political and financial support (structural funds) Decision on ELI implementation as a distributed research infrastructure in three new member states: Czech Republic (Prague) Hungary (Szeged) Romania (Magurele) 800 M Investment!!
ELI: Governance Evolution ELI - Preparatory Phase (ELI- PP) ELI - Delivery Consor8um (ELI- DC) ELI - European Research Infrastructure Consor8um (ELI- ERIC)
ELI-DC: Current Status A letter of intent to ELI-DC was sent by INFN and CNR Presidents (June 2011)
ELI: Implementation Phase Three Pillars ELI High Energy Beam-Line Facility (ELI- Beamlines) (Czech Republic): highly competitive source of extremely short pulse X- rays, accelerated electrons, or protons for applications (also biomedical). ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI- ALPS) (Szeged, Hungary): ultrafast light sources (coherent XUV and X-ray radiation) including single attosecond pulses, to investigate electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, plasmas and solids. ELI Nuclear Physics Facility (ELI-NP) (Magurele, Romania): laser and gamma beams (low bandwidth, energies in the 15 MeV range) with unique characteristics perform frontier laser, nuclear and fundamental research.
Italian Research Institutions Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) ü Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) ü Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (Catania) ü Sezioni di Milano/Roma1/Firenze/Ferrara/Catania Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) ü Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN Milano-Padova) ü Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO Firenze- Pisa) Sincrotrone Trieste (ST) Universities ü Politecnico di Milano ü Università Roma La Sapienza
INFN: Current Expertise INFN has allocated funding for construction: X-ray Thomson sources laser-plasma electron acceleration Laser/plasma proton sources Ion sources 180-250 MeV S/C-band Linac Laser Plasma Accel. X-ray Source PLASMONX Experiment Collaboration with CNR, Universities, etc. 200 TW shortpulse laser SPARC LAB @ LNF
INFN: Potential Implications Conventional accelerators (Frascati/Roma/Milano/Legnaro/Catania) High spectral-brillance X- ray sources Laser-plasma electrons acceleration Protons and light ions laser/plasma sources Medical applications (ELI-MED) Beamlines and accelerator physics (Laser-driven beamlines) Radioprotection and safety issues Dosimetry and Radiobiological studies Photonuclear physics and applications
ELI-NP: Machine Proposal INFN has set up a European Collaboration for the proposal of the gamma-ray source: ü Italy: INFN, Sapienza ü France: IN2P3, Paris Sud ü UK: ASTeC ~100 collaborators elaborating the CDR/TDR Covering ü Underlying physics & Best machine layout ü Technical realization ü Infrastructure concern ü Management structure ü Costs & Timing and Scheduling ü Training and education ü Implementation
ELI-NP: Machine Proposal
Lasers X-ray Sources Driven by Ultrashort Laser Pulses Particle Acceleration by Lasers Applications in Molecular, Biomedical, Material Sciences Plasma and High Energy Density Physics Exotic Physics and Theory
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