Summary
Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) is the Romanian pillar of the pan-European distributed research facility based on ultra-short-pulse lasers. Due to the unprecedented intensity regimes the 10 PW lasers at ELI-NP can reach, and also to the combination of beams that can be synchronized and made available at the same time, new experiments relevant for the extreme conditions of astrophysics can be imagined. High repetition rate laser outputs at 1 PW and 100 TW are also available. The new facility is in the implementation phase – the laser beams are to be commissioned at full power in the experimental areas towards the end of 2019, when the vacuum systems in these areas will also be installed. Moreover, ELI-NP will feature a high-intensity, tunable, narrow bandwidth gamma beam system, that can be used for studies of nuclear astrophysics and can also be used in experiments synchronized with the high power laser beams. Since ELI-NP will be a user-facility, a long-term Astrophysics programme is under development by the forming international user community.
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Work has been supported by the Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) Phase II, a project co-financed by the Romanian Government and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund and the Competitiveness Operational Programme (1/07.07.2016, COP, ID 1334).
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Tesileanu, O., for the ELI-NP team. (2019). Laboratory Astrophysics at Extreme Light Infrastructure: Nuclear Physics. In: Sauty, C. (eds) JET Simulations, Experiments, and Theory. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14128-8_18
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