2nd INFN School and Workshop on “High Power Lasers for Fundamental Science and Applications” (HPLA2025)

Possible Nuclear Physics applications of Laser-driven srouces

19 Nov 2025, 10:30

20m

Aula "Migneco" (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare )

Oral Nuclear Physics

Speaker

Vincent Lelasseux (ELI-NP, IFIN-HH)

Description

Due to the high intensity achieved in nowadays experiments, laser-matter interactions allow to accelerate particles to energies relevant to nuclear physics. However, those particles of interest come within a mixture of various particles and energies, and during a timeframe ranging from 10s of fs to ns. Such an environment is drastically different from the accelerator's ones usually used for nuclear physics studies. This major differences induce difficulties but also opportunities to tackle problems that would be harder to investigate otherwise. We will present here a range of experiments and projects that aim to do so.