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

Session

Nuclear Physics

19 Nov 2025, 09:30

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

Conveners

Nuclear Physics

• Salvatore Tudisco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

237. Fusion energy research with high power lasers in Europe: from ELI to HiPER+

Leonida Gizzi (CNR-INO and INFN)

19/11/2025, 09:30

Oral

High‑power laser driven inertial fusion energy (IFE) is entering a pivotal phase in Europe, building upon flagship initiatives such as the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Mission‑Based Access Programme and the HiPER+ roadmap. The recent ELI call for coordinated experimental access directly supports the study of laser–plasma interactions and high‑energy‑density (HED) physics for direct‑drive...

250. Perspectives for the physics of nuclear decays in laser-generated vs ECR plasmas

David Mascali (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

19/11/2025, 09:50

Oral

This contribution focuses on nuclear beta decays occurring in highly ionized matter. Since the 1950s, several studies have investigated whether beta decay rates depend on the physical properties of the surrounding environment. While early experiments in high-pressure and high-temperature matter revealed only small variations—on the order of 3%—a dramatic change was later observed in the 1990s...

240. Nuclear AstroPhysics via Coulomb Explosion Mechanism

Giovanni Luca Guardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

19/11/2025, 10:10

Oral

On behalf of the Asfin collaboration

The study of nuclear reactions in laboratory has always been hindered by the very low cross-sections values at energies of astrophysical interest (1-100keV). This leads nuclear astrophysicists either to build huge and expensive underground laboratories where to perform long experiments with low and controlled background (e.g. LUNA, JUNA), or to exploit...

239. Possible Nuclear Physics applications of Laser-driven srouces

Vincent Lelasseux (ELI-NP, IFIN-HH)

19/11/2025, 10:30

Oral

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...