The Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) project is one of the
most prestigious research infrastructures in the world due to its unique state-of-the-art equipment. Implemented by
the National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering Horia Hulubei (IFIN-HH),
ELI-NP has been designated by the Nuclear Physics Collaboration Committee of the European Science Foundation
(NuPECC) as a major facility in the
Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan.
The ELI-NP finalized successfully the commissioning of the High-Power Laser System (HPLS), the most powerful laser in the world.
The ELI-NP HPLS is now delivering the 2 x 10 PW @ 1 shot per minute, 2 x 1 PW @ 1 Hz and the 2 x 100 TW @ 10 Hz pulses and the first
commissioning experiments are under implementation. The success of the HPLS implementation is the result of an excellent collaboration between ELI-NP and Thales.
ELI-NP position regarding the application for ELI-ERIC - May 16th, 2020. [ Read more... ] [ Mass media article ]
Standpoint Regarding the Situation Created Around the Romanian Pillar ELI-NP Infrastructure
Standpoint Regarding the Situation Created Around the Romanian Pillar ELI-NP Infrastructure
The first experiments at the international research center Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP). [ Read more... ]
Phys. Rev. C 101, 055801(May 2020)
Photodisintegration of Li-7 measured by ELI-NP team
ELI-NP Research Departments
Strong local teams are developing state-of-the-art instrumentation for experiments in the emerging field of laser-driven
nuclear physics.
The two major systems are the Lasers System Department (LSD) and Gamma System Department (GSD), both with
specifications well beyond existing facilities.
The directions of research to be conducted at ELI-NP, mainly in the field of nuclear physics and its applications,
are grouped in three other Research Departments.
The five Research Departments emerged naturally, during debates within the scientific community, as a logical
division between Research & Development related to the experimental systems and the research pursued by employing them.
The Technical Division provides support for the implementation and maintenance of the big equipments and the experimental set-ups.
Testimonials
I had the opportunity to visit and see where the greatest scientific project in the region was prepared. I’m talking about the High-Power Laser and Nuclear Physics applications facility, a very ambitious project which will place Romania very high on the map of countries where fundamental research is carried out.
With ELI-NP, we are now standing on the threshold of a renaissance in Nuclear Physics field, in which photons may also be used to directly manipulate, excite and even transmute nuclear structure as well as provide new ways to sort out and treat nuclear waste, to secure our environment.
ELI-NP is open to the world; it is open science, open innovation when the science of things that matter to the people is applied. It will really be a torchbearer, the first to include three different countries, distinct funding procedures and to most it will be the best in the world, drawing people from around.
It is a symbol. France and Romania, due their researchers, can implement the most powerful laser in the world... We owe this to the trust and common goals that we share. The laser will mean cooperation between our researchers for many years to come. Research work is essential nowadays.
We have emphasized that Extreme Light Infrastructure is a game changer in the 21st Century science. This is first because ELI will change the way we conduct the fundamental scientific investigation we established in 20th Century with the fashion of the extrapolation of the current technology to ever larger sizes
What I have seen here impressed me very much. I congratulate you for what you have done. It is an example of collaboration in the EU for high-class research, leading to European development and investments. It is an enormous progress not only for Romania, but also for the EU, which has invested a lot of money in this place.
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