ELI will be the first facility in the world dedicated to laser-matter interaction at unprecedented intensity levels. It will explore ultrafast phenomena in the attosecond-zeptosecond domain and will be the gateway of a new regime in laser-matter interaction: the ultra relativistic regime that could reach into the Non Linear Quantum Electrodynamics field, where elementary particle from vacuum could be created. ELI’s scientific mission will be the investigation of matter from atoms to vacuum. At the same time, it will also promote new technologies such as Relativistic Microelectronic with the development of compact laser-accelerators delivering very high-energy particles and photon sources. ELI will have a large societal benefit offering in medicine new radiography and hadron therapy methods. It will also considerably contribute to material science with the possibility to unravel and slow down the aging process in nuclear reactor and in the environment by offering new ways to treat nuclear wastes.


Monday, October 4, 2010, 12:00. ICFO’s Auditorium