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The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (ELI ERIC) is an ESFRI Landmark consisting of two world-class, high-power, high-repetition-rate laser facilities: the ELI Beamlines facility in the Czech Republic (https://www.eli-beams.eu/) and the ELI-ALPS facility in Hungary (https://www.eli-alps.hu/). The Romanian facility, ELI-NP (https://www.eli-np.ro/), offers its experimental capacity through joint calls and will be integrated at a later stage. This international laser user infrastructure develops and operates some of the most intense lasers in the world, generating ultrashort pulses of high-energy photons, electrons, protons, and neutrons.
In terms of science, ELI’s lasers enable a broad range of research, from fundamental studies of strong-field physics to highly practical investigations of materials and engineering problems. The techniques deployed at ELI enable pulse durations down to the attosecond timescale and peak powers in the tens of petawatts. They are opening new horizons for “big science” in key disciplines, including physics, biology, and materials science, through a uniquely cost-effective approach.
The operation of this pan-European research infrastructure is carried out by ELIERIC (https://www.eli-laser.eu/). Τhe European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) is a legal framework established by the European Union to facilitate the operation of research infrastructures of pan-European interest.
In this talk, I will introduce ELI ERIC and present selected research highlights and experimental opportunities.