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Status of ELI-NP and opportunities for hyperfine research

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The status of the implementation of the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility is reported. The main instruments at ELI-NP will be two 10 PW synchronizable lasers and a high-brilliance gamma beam system. The ELI-NP gamma beams will be produced via Compton back-scattering of laser photons off accelerated electrons. The emerging day-one experimental program is discussed, together with the detector systems which are under construction for its realization. At ELI-NP an IGISOL facility is planned, where beams of exotic nuclei will be produced in photo-fission. This opens the avenue for studies of nuclear structure studies, such as mass measurements, nuclear moments and charge radii. The core of this project is a Cryogenic Stopping Cell (CSC) with an orthogonal extraction with respect to the gamma beam.

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This work was supported by Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) Phase II, a project co-financed by the Romanian Government and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund – the Competitiveness Operational Programme (1/07.07.2016, COP, ID 1334).

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  1. Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics, Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 30 Reactorului Str., 077125, Mǎgurele, Ilfov, Romania

    Dimiter L. Balabanski & Paul Constantin

  2. Department of Nuclear Physics, Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 30 Reactorului Str., 077125, Mǎgurele, Ilfov, Romania

    Adrian Rotaru & Alexandru State

  3. Doctoral School in Engineering and Applications of Lasers and Accelerators, University Polytechnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Adrian Rotaru & Alexandru State

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Balabanski, D.L., Constantin, P., Rotaru, A. et al. Status of ELI-NP and opportunities for hyperfine research. Hyperfine Interact 240, 49 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-019-1594-7

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