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HIGH field physics and QED experiments at ELI-NP
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- ELI-NP facility will enable for the first time the use of two 10 PW laser beams for quantum electrodynamics (QED) experiments. The first beam will accelerate electrons to relativistic energies. The second beam will subject relativistic electrons to the strong electromagnetic field generating QED processes: intense gamma ray radiation and electron-positron pair formation. The laser beams will be focused to intensities above 10(21) Wcm(-2) and reaching 10(22)-10(23) Wcm(-2) for the first time. We propose to use this capability to investigate new physical phenomena at the interfaces of plasma, nuclear and particle physics at ELI-NP. This High Power Laser System Technical Design Report (HPLS-TDR2) presents the experimental area E6 at ELI-NP for investigating high field physics and quantum electrodynamics and the production of electron-positron-pairs and of energetic gamma-rays. The scientific community submitted 12 commissioning runs for E6 interaction chamber with two 10 PW laser beams and one proposal for the CETAL interaction chamber with 1 PW laser. The proposals are representative of the international high field physics community being written by 48 authors from 14 European and US organizations. The proposals are classified according to the science area investigated into: Radiation Reaction Physics: Classical and Quantum; Compton and Thomson Scattering Physics: Linear and Non Linear Regimes; QED in Vacuum; Atoms in Extreme Fields. Two pump-probe colliding 10 PW laser beams are proposed for the E6 interaction chamber. The focused pump laser beam accelerates the electrons to relativistic energies. The accelerated electron bunches interact with the very high electro-magnetic field of the focused probe laser beam. We propose two main types of experiments with: (a) gas targets in which the pump laser-beam is focused by a long focal length mirror and drives a wakefield in which the electron bunch is accelerated to multi-GeV energies and then exposed to the EM field of th
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- Turcu, I. C. E. and Negoita, F. and Jaroszynski, D. A. and Mckenna, P. and Balascuta, S. and Ursescu, D. and Dancus, I. and Cernaianu, M. O. and Tataru, M. V. and Ghenuche, P. and Stutman, D. and Boianu, A. and Risca, M. and Toma, M. and Petcu, C. and Acbas, G. and Yoffe, S. R. and Noble, A. and Ersfeld, B. and Brunetti, E. and Capdessus, R. and Murphy, C. and Ridgers, C. P. and Neely, D. and Mangles, S. P. D. and Gray, R. J. and Thomas, A. G. R. and Kirk, J. G. and Ilderton, A. and Marklund, M. and Gordon, D. F. and Hafizi, B. and Kaganovich, D. and Palastro, J. P. and D'Humieres, E. and Zepf, M. and Sarri, G. and Gies, H. and Karbstein, F. and Schreiber, J. and Paulus, G. G. and Dromey, B. and Harvey, C. and Di Piazza, A. and Keitel, C. H. and Kaluza, M. C. and Gales, S. and Zamfir, N. V. (2016) HIGH field physics and QED experiments at ELI-NP. Romanian Reports in Physics, 68 (ELI-NP). S145-S231. ISSN 1221-1451
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1099168112
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource