Research project Extrime Light Infrastructure will work with the super-powered lasers
European international project Extrime Light Infrastructure (ELI) is the subject of intense scrutiny of the entire European community. Despite a series of temporary difficulties, the project has successfully moved on to the second phase of its implementation, and in 2017, the year should move to the third stage, which involves the operation of the infrastructure in its entirety. As part of the project in a few years will create super-powerful lasers, more than 6 times greater than the power that exist today. The main objective of the project is to address fundamental and applied problems in the field of laser physics of high energy and, in particular, to study the behavior of matter under extreme light fields.
The practical application of such lasers is truly boundless: neutralization of nuclear waste to the effects on cancer cells. ELI project is unique in its kind, as represents the scientific infrastructure created by the collaboration of 13 European countries. Infrastructure facilities are located in 3 countries of Eastern Europe: Romania, Czech Republic and Hungary. Today, ELI is under construction. It is important to note that the scientific institutions of Romania, the Czech Republic and Hungary, at this stage of work on the project independently, but under the control of a single coordination system. Each research institute has its own problems, a practical solution which each country chooses on the basis of available capacity and the individual characteristics of the structural development.
For example, in Hungary, specifically for this project was formed a new non-profit society, and in the Czech Republic and Romania, the project is integrated in the existing institutions. Each unit infrastructure involves solving specific scientific problems. Attosecond center that will conduct research using the latest laser technology, created in Hungary. Target Center - obtaining ultrashort attosecond light pulses (1 attosecond - one billionth of a billionth of a second) in order to study the physical, chemical and biological processes at the molecular level. The results of the research will be focused on the development of innovation in materials science and biology. in the Czech Republic is working on a new laser center. It is expected to generate a record of the laser power. Research will focus on the creation of a compact laser particle accelerator and secondary sources of electromagnetic radiation of high brightness (sources of X-and gamma-radiation). Besides practical importance, these studies will cover are quite exotic physics. New technology will allow, for example, to study the behavior of matter in extreme conditions under the influence of Super Intensive radiation exposure.
These conditions have never before been achieved in the laboratory. The resulting data will help scientists to confirm or refute the predictions of fundamental physics. Centre for Nuclear Physics, based in Romania. The research work of the center will focus on research in fundamental nuclear physics and astrophysics. In particular, special attention will be paid to the photo-nuclear physics processes, as well as a variety of applications, including control of nuclear materials. climax of the whole project should be the ELI center of ultra-high intensity of energy up to 200 PW (petawatt 200, one petawatt is a quadrillion watts), in other words - the laser, the power of which even now still beyond fiction. One of the challenges of creating such a powerful laser - a split vacuum matter and see what it consists of. The scale of the experiment is on a par with the Large Hadron Collider. In which country will be until center is still in question. almost scientific benefit ELI infrastructure can be assessed in 5 years, when the project will move to the stage of the operation. Many scientists from different countries will be able to conduct their investigations in three new centers under the control of a unique ELI coordination system.
In addition, the concept of such a scientific infrastructure may in the future receive extensive development as a universal framework for international science projects. IAP in Russia also developed an interesting project in the field of High Energy Laser - "International Research Center of extreme light fields" or XCELS ( eXawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies), which is based in Nizhny Novgorod. The project is based on the idea of creating Superlaser the same power (PW 200), as in the framework of the European ELI. Schematic diagram of the Nizhny Novgorod superlaser is based on the development of Russian scientists. The project is still at the stage of seeking funding, but now the company is actively negotiating with international counterparts on possible ways of cooperation in the future.
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