Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) - Phase II

Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Competitiveness Operational Programme

“Investing in Sustainable Development”

Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics

ELI-NP

Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)

1024W~ 10% of Sun’s

total power on 1 cm2

1 PW ~ Highest Power

today

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

2006 – ELI on ESFRI Roadmap

ELI-PP 2007-2010 (FP7)

ELI-Beamlines (Czech Republic)

ELI-Attoseconds (Hungary)

ELI-Nuclear Physics (Romania)

Project Approved by the European

Competitiveness Council (December 2009)

ELI-DC (Delivery Consortium): April 2010

Extreme Light Infrastructure

Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania,

Italy, Germany, UK, France

ERIC: 2017

ELI-NP

NUCLEAR

Tandem acc.

Cyclotrons

γ – Irradiator

Adv. Detectors

Biophysics

Environmental Phys.

Radioisotopesring rail/road

BUCHAREST

Bucharest-Magurele

National Physics Institutes

Lasers

Plasma

Optoelectronics

Material Physics

Theoretical Physics

Particle Physics

ELI-NP

ELI-NP Project

310 M € 2013-2019

Large equipment:

• High power laser system, 2 x 10PW maximum power (2013-2018) (~62 M€)

• Laser Beam Transport System (2016-2018) (~18M€)

• High intensity gamma beam system (2014-2018) (~67 M€):

Experiments:

• 8 experimental areas, for gamma, laser, and gamma+laser (~33M€)

• Workshops and laboratories (~7M€)

Buildings (2013-2016) : 33000sqm total (~80M€)

ELI–NP High Power Laser System

Based on the principle of OPCPA

2 x 0.1 PW 10Hz

2 x 1 PW 1 Hz

2 x 10 PW 0.1 Hz

THALES – France

THALES - Romania

2013-2018

High Power Laser System

ELI–NP Gamma Beam System

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HIGSELI–NP

Bandwidth

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LNBL

PLEIADES

HIGS

T-REX

ELI–NP

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1015

1017

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1021

EuroGammas Consortium

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica

Nucleare, INFN Italy

Research Institutes and

HighTech Companies

from 8 Countries

Gamma Beam System

Land area: 10 ha, total built area: 33000 m2

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HPLS

GBS

Workshops and Laboratories

Experiments

Office Building

Guest House

Canteen

ELI-Nuclear Physics

Scientific program:

• Nuclear Physics experiments to characterize laser – target int.

• Photonuclear reactions

• Exotic Nuclear Physics and astrophysics

• QED and fundamental physics

• Applied Research

Nuclear Photonics Applications

from C. Barty (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Radioisotopes for medical use

• New approaches and methods for producing

radioisotopes urgently needed

• Mo-99 and other medical isotopes used globally

for diagnostic medical imaging and radiotherapy

• 195mPt: In chemotherapy of tumors it can be

used to exclude ”non responding” patients from

unnecessary chemotherapy and optimizing the

dose of all chemotherapy

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Materials Science and Engineering

• study of materials on the nano- and femto-scales

• novel experimental studies of material behavior – thanks to

extreme fields intensity provided by the laser and gamma-ray

beams

• polarized positron beam – new microscopy

Human Resources

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Technical Staff (18)

Eng. Staff (18)

PhD students (50)

Jr. researchers (107)

Senior researchers (20)

Head of Res. Activities (5)

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

ELI-NP Industrial Forum

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

“Măgurele High Tech Cluster”

Impact of ELI-NP

ELI-NP will produce an impact on each and every point where Romania must improve:

• World-class research infrastructure

• Collaboration with the local for-profit sector (contractual research)

• Knowledge and technology transfer as a primary objective

• Publications in high ISI-index journals

• Significant expectations in terms of International Patents

• +200 positions of researchers

Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Competitiveness Operational Programme

“Investing in Sustainable Development”

EUROPEAN UNION

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