Particle Physics Seminar: The Nuclear Photonics lab at Tel-Aviv University

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95195654990

Abstract:

For the past few decades, nuclear research has been exclusive to large accelerator and reactor facilities. The availability of tabletop particle sources based on high-intensity lasers opens venues for new research methods in nuclear physics, both at large facilities and at university-scale laboratories.

A new high-intensity laser laboratory has been set up at the school of physics at Tel-Aviv U.  It hosts a high-contrast, 20 Terawatt peak-power laser system.

I will review our research program which spans over the interfaces between material science, plasma and nuclear physics, and QED tests in the strong-field regime.

Seminar Organizers: Prof. Erez Etzion & Dr. Liron Barak