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Description
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is the world largest and most advanced high-power laser infrastructure. It is established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium since 2021. The Czech Republic, where the ELI Beamlines facility is located is a founding member of the Consortium of which the ELI Beamlines facility became integral part in 2023.
ELI Beamlines aims at the development of high-brightness sources of X-rays and the acceleration of proton, electron, and ion beams, to be used both for fundamental and applied research. The commissioning of the various lasers and beamlines started has been going on in the last few years. The radiation fields generated by laser differ from conventionally generated fields in some key characteristics, such as ultra-short pulse length and ultra-high dose rates, which raise some challenges for the reliable implementation of radioprotection systems.
This contribution presents an update on the current status of the facility, the preparatory radioprotection works, and presents some of the output from the first experimental tests.
| Scientific Topic 1 | Source terms, new accelerator facilities and related topics |
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| Scientific Topic 8 | Beam-plasma and laser-plasma interactions and acceleration |
