Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)
ESFRI list (laser facility), FP7: ELI-PP (2007-2010)
4 Pillars (2009):
I. CZECH REPUBLIC: Secondary Sources 10PW
II. HUNGARY: Short Pulses 10PW
III. ROMANIA: Nuclear Physics 10PW
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IV. HIGH FIELD – 200PW (site choice after 2012)
Gheorghe CATA-DANIL
NuPECC, Bergen, 11-12june 2010
Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)
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ELI-NP “Start-up” Activities
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I. February 1-2, 2010, Bucharest-Magurele,
Workshop ‘Physics at ELI-NP’,
participation of the laser and nuclear physics communities,
4 working groups (laser, gamma beam, experiments, civil
engineering)
Executive Committee for ELI-NP
International Advisory Board for ELI-NP
II. April 12-13, 2010, Bucharest – Magurele,
Meeting of the Executive Committee for ELI – NP
participation: members of the ELI-PP, Executive Committee
and International Advisory Board of ELI-NP, experts from
Europe, USA and Japan
decisions on ELI-NP Facility
decisions on ELI- NP Scientific Programme
NuPECC, Bergen, 11-12june 2010
ELI Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)
National Project Coordinator : Dr. Nicolae Victor ZAMFIR
National Consortium
1.
IFIN-HH (Nuclear)
2.
INFLPR (Laser and Plasma)
3.
INCDFM (Materials Science)
4.
Univ. POLITEHNICA Bucharest
5.
Univ. Bucharest
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European level: A Consortium of the 3 host countries was formed and other
interested countries are expected to join. This Consortium will evolve in an
European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), a framework recently
adopted by EC
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ELI Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)
“Extreme Light”
10 PW lasers, output energy higher than 200 J,
20-30 fs, intensity higher than 1023W/cm2
the most brilliant γ beam, <19.5 MeV, BW:10-3
produced by Compton scattering on a 600 MeV electron beam
(in 2 stages: I. LINAC-X band , II. ERL)
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ELI-NP Gamma Source (I)
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PHASE-I (2011-2015)
similar withe the MEGa-ray source under development at LLNL but
extendedfrom 250 MeV to 600 MeV.
ELI-NP Gamma Source (II)
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PHASE-II (2015-2017)
Upgrade to 100-mA ERL can be made by adding
superconducting ERL cavities under development.
After upgrade to 100-mA ERL, the electron
accelerator can be operated with parameters:
80 pC, 130 MHz for the high-flux mode and
8 pC, 1.3 GHz for the high-brilliance mode.
The flux and brilliance will be enhanced by 2 orders
of magnitude. One can get a gamma flux of of
5x1015 ph/sec and a bandwidth of 4x10-5.
ELI Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)
ELI-NP: Gamma Source
From Ch. Barty (LLNL)
NuPECC, Bergen, 11-12june 2010
ELI – NP Research agenda
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At the ELI-NP pillar is approached a new frontier in
physics - the laser-nuclear physics frontier:
Nuclear Physics experiments to characterize
laser – target interaction.
Photonuclear reactions and astrophysical applications.
Exotic and frontier Nuclear Physics.
Nuclear methods and techniques based on high
intensity laser and γ beams.
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ELI – NP Scientific Case (1)
White Book
Draft#1– (june/10/2010)
http://www.eli-np.ro/documents/Scientific_Case.pdf
contributions:
~ 90 authors
from 29 institutions (4 from Romania)
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ELI – NP Scientific Case (2)
Contents
1 Foreword 4
2 Executive Summary 5
2.1 Basic Objectives . . 5
2.2 The Scientific Case of ELI-Nuclear Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3 Introduction to Envisioned Experiments at ELI Nuclear Physics Facility
4 Stand-alone APOLLON Experiments 11
4.1 A Laser-Accelerated Th Beam is used to produce Neutron-Rich Nuclei
around the N = 126 Waiting Point of the r-Process
via the Fission-Fusion Reaction Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2 From Radiation Pressure Acceleration (RPA) and Laser-Driven Ion Pistons
to Direct Laser Acceleration of Protons at Intensities up to 1024W/cm2 . . . . . . . . 13
4.3 Deceleration of Very Dense Electron and Ion Beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4 The development and application of ultra-short duration high brilliance
gamma rays probes for nuclear physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.5 A Relativistic Ultra-thin Electron Sheet used as a Relativistic Mirror
for the Production of Brilliant, Intense Coherent °-Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.6 Nuclear Techniques for Characterization of Laser-Induced Radiations . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.7 Modelling of High-Intensity Laser Interaction with Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.8 Studies of enhanced decay of 26Al in hot plasma environments
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5 APOLLON Laser + gamm/e− Beam 29
5.1 Probing the Pair Creation from the Vacuum in the Focus of
Strong Electrical Fields with a High Energy ° Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.2 The Real Part of the Index of Refraction of the Vacuum
in High Fields: Vacuum Birefringence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5.3 Cascades of e+e− Pairs and °-Rays triggered by
a Single Slow Electron in Strong Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.4 Compton Scattering and Radiation Reaction
of a Single Electron at High Intensities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.5 Nuclear Lifetime Measurements by Streaking Conversion
Electrons with a Laser Field. . .
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6 Standalone gamma/e experiments for nuclear spectroscopy
6.1 Measuring Narrow Doorway States, embedded in Regions of High Level Density
in the First Nuclear Minimum, which are identified by specific
(°, f), (°, ®), (°, p), (°, n) Reactions and allow to map out the
Nuclear Potential Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.2 Precision Tests of Fluctuating Quantities in Nuclear Physics of Highly Excited
Nuclear Levels in Comparison to Random-Matrix-Theory and Quantum Chaos . . . . 51
6.3 Precision measurement of the dipole polarizability αD of 208Pb
with high intensity, monoenergetic MeV γ-radiation for the evaluation
of neutron skin and the enhancement of UNEDF theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6.4 High Resolution Inelastic Electron Scattering (e,e’) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.5 Nuclear Transitions and Parity-violating Meson-Nucleon Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6.6 Study of pygmy and giant dipole resonances in lead isotopes by direct γ excitation 58
6.7 Gamma scattering on nuclei
The Pygmy Dipole Resonance (PDR) of deformed nuclei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
6.8 Fine-structure of Photo-response above the Particle Threshold:
the (γ ,α), (γ,p) and (γ ,n) Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
6.9 Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence on Rare Isotopes and Isomers
6.10 Multiple Nuclear Excitons . .
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7 Stand-alone gamma/e− Facility for Astrophysics 71
7.1 Neutron Capture Cross Section of s-Process Branching Nuclei with Inverse Reactions 71
7.2 Measurements of (γ, p) and (γ, α) Reaction Cross Sections for p-Process Nucleosynthesis 73
8 Applications and Industry Relevant Developments at ELI-NP 75
8.1 Industrial Applications for the Management of Nuclear Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
8.2 Radioscopy and Tomography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
8.3 High Resolution, high Intensity X-Ray Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
8.4 Producing of medical isotopes via the (°, n) reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
8.5 Extremely BRIlliant Neutron-Source produced via the (°, n) Reaction
without Moderation (BRIN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
8.6 Neutron diffraction techniques for materials science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
8.7 Dual-range Instrumentation for Wide Applicability Neutron Techniques . . . . . . . . 90
8.8 Intense BRIlliant Positron-Source produced via the (γ, e+e−) Reaction (BRIP) . . . 92
8.9 Intense BRIlliant Positron-Source: Positrons in Applied Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
8.10 Positron-excited Auger Electron Spectroscopy (PAES) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
8.11 Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy (PAS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.12 AGPAS technique with high energy gamma beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
8.13 Testing of radiation effects on commercial optical fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
8.14 Materials research in high intensity radiation fields
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ELI-NP Timeline estimate
2010 to August : Feasibility Study
(ongoing, funded)
Government decision on funding (~280 MEur)
2010 to December: EC Project
(DG-Regions)
Construction: 2011-2015 (Phase I)
2015-2017 (Phase II)
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ELI-NP
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Thank You !