ELI-NP Team, March 5, 2013

ELI-NP Team, November 29, 2013

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Extreme Light Infrastructure

2006 – ELI on ESFRI Roadmap

ELI-PP 2007-2010 (FP7)

ELI-Beamlines (Czech Republic) a new generation of secondary sources for interdisciplinary

applications in physics, medicine, biology and material sciences.

ELI-Attoseconds (Hungary) focused on physics of ultrashort optical pulses in attosecond order

ELI-Nuclear Physics (Romania) photonuclear physics

ELI-DC (Delivery Consortium): 2010, Legal entity: March 2013

ELI-NP: 293 M€, project approved by EC in September 2012

First phase (2012-2015) 180 M€ ( EC Structural funds: 149 M€)

Second Phase: 2015 - 2017

ELI-NP

NUCLEAR

Tandem acc.

Cyclotron

γ – Irradiator

Adv. Detectors

Life & Env.

Radioisotopes

Reactor

(decomm.)

Waste Proc.

ring rail/road

BUCHAREST

Lasers

Plasma

Optoelectronics

Material Physics

Theoretical Physics

Particle Physics

Bucharest-Magurele Physics Campus

National Physics Institutes

Total 691

R&D 464

Researchers 261

Res. Assistants 51

Eng. &Technicians 152

Personnel

221 PhD

75 PhD students

26 MSc students

22 PhD Advisors

Budget 2012: 129 Mil. Lei (~ 30 Meuro)

Scientific Output: over 600 ISI articles per year

• Theoretical Physics

• Atomic, Nuclear & Particle Physics

• Life & Environmental Physics

• Radioisotopes & Radiopharmaceuticals

• Technological Irradiations

• Radioactive Waste Treatment & Storage

• Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities

• Nuclear engineering

• Training in nuclear activities

R&D Activities

International cooperation

• Members: JINR Dubna, FAIR Darmstadt, CERN, ELI

• FP 7:15 projects

• Cooperation: IAEA, DOE

• International Organizations: NuPECC, EPS-NPB,

IUPAP.

• International Centers: ECT-Trento, ICTP-Trieste

• Agreements: IN2P3- France, CEA Saclay, INFN – Italy

• Universities & Research Centers: ~50.

“ ... întreaga mea avere va servi la facerea unui institut de fete românce, cărora li se va da o creștere și educație de bune mume de familie,

fără pretenție sau lux; prisosul, ce va rămânea după budgetul anului,

se va capitaliza spre a se da zestre acelor fete, care nu va fi nici mai mult

nici mai puțin decât două sute galbeni uneia.” Testamentul lui Ioan Otteteleșeanu, nouă-spre-zece Martie 1876

During March-April 1955 - USSR offers to deliver nuclear reactors and particle accelerators to Eastern bloc countries

VVR-S Research Reactor and U-120 Cyclotron (1957)

ION AGÂRBICEANU (1907 – 1971)

October 20, 1962 – the first Romanian (He-Ne) Laser was obtained by a team

headed by Prof. Ion Agârbiceanu at the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest

The achievement of this He-Ne laser, less than two years after that of Javan, Bennett and Herriott

was a direct consequence of the scientific background (advanced gas spectroscopy - theory and

experiments, vacuum deposition, Fabry-Pérot etalons and radiation detection) of the earlier

Laboratory “Optical Methods in Nuclear Physics” at the Institute of Atomic Physics.

Laurențiu Blănaru, Virgil Vasiliu and Anton Agafiței (from left to right)

Coutesy of Acad. Valentin.I. Vlad

- IFA undertook human resource development of its staff as well as of the possible users of radioactive materials in the country,

by conducting local nuclear training courses. Enhancing of nuclear knowledge particularly on nuclear engineering and

fields related to nuclear power was a major concern of the Institute.

- IFA became the national competent authority on nuclear matters and the national nuclear research institution, aquiring

slowly the status of a National Lab, disseminating IFA branches in the country (Cluj, Iasi a.o.)

- promoting and regulating the peaceful and safe use of radioactive materials, IFA has exercised regulatory control over

radioactive materials in the country (1961 - CICUN - "The Co issio for Guidi g a d Co trol of Nuclear U its“)

- Important accomplishments:

1956 - first electronic computer, designed at IFA (Victor Toma)

1961- first laser (He-NE) put in operation at IFA (Ion Agarbiceanu)

IFA developed and hosted the National Physics Library

Consequences of IFA activities

From IFA to ICEFIZ (Central Institute of Physics, 1977)

From IFA to ICEFIZ

In that time also the Magurele Platform has been constructed, socially integrating the students of the Faculty of Physics and researchers of different generations who chose not only to work but also to live here.

It was in the logic of this history that a third wave should follow, with features reflecting the new political and social context as well as the new statute of Romania in Europe.

2009-2013 - a major investment project “Infrastructure development for frontier research in nuclear physics and related fields” 2012 the implementation of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI-NP) project.

They were great, tragic, saints… Parents to our parents being.

Well, what about us? (Nichita Stanescu, Din nou, noi)

Investment waves that shaped the Magurele Platform as a National Lab

- the mid-fifties, when the Institute of Atomic Physics was founded,

with large-scale installations –a premiere for South-Eastern Europe:

the Nuclear Reactor, the Cyclotron, the Betatron and

the first electronic computer, CIFA-1,

- followed by the second wave, during the seventies, with

new and modern departments, among which one should mention

the Tandem Accelerator, the Center for Radioisotope Production

the Center for Nuclear Medicine,

the Radioactive Waste Processing Unit a.o.

To turn its strength to the best account, the institute concentrates resources on two directions: (a) steadily develop a sound in-house capability to get and stay in the forefront of nuclear science and technology; and (ii) substantively participate in the European collaborations centered on Large Scale Facilities such as GSI-Darmstadt (Germany), GANIL-Caen (France), CERN (Geneva), JINR (Dubna). This is a strategy meant to harmonize limited domestic resources with the tall orders of the contemporary, top-level nuclear physics research, and the imperative need for Continental co-operation and integration.

This is our answer!

New Research Infrastructures in 2013

“Extreme Light” • two 10 PW APOLLON-type lasers, output energy higher than 200 J, 20-30 fs,

intensity higher than 1023W/cm2

• the most brilliant γ beam, <19.5 MeV, BW:10-3 produced by Compton

scattering on a 700 MeV electron beam (warm LINAC)

ELI – RO Nuclear Physics

ELI – Nuclear Physics Research

• Nuclear Physics experiments to characterize laser – target interaction.

• Photonuclear reactions.

• Exotic Nuclear Physics and astrophysics – complementary to other NP large

facilities (FAIR, SPIRAL2).

• Nuclear methods and techniques based on high intensity

laser and very brilliant γ beams.

• Laser-produced charged particle beams may become an attractive alternative for

large scale conventional facilities (1015 more intense)

• High Resolution, high Intensity electron, positron, X-Ray and γ Beams

- Radioscopy and Tomography

- Materials research in high intensity radiation fields,

Radiation Hardening Testing

• Applications of Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence

- Management of sensitive nuclear materials

- New production techniques for radioisotopes

for medical use

Applied Research at ELI – NP

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www.eli-np.ro

Romania is ready for ELI!

• February-April 2010

Scientific case “White Book” (100 scientists, 30 institutions)

approved by ELI-NP International Scientific Advisory Board

• August 2010: Feasibility Study: 293 Meuro w/o VAT:

Buildings: 60 M€

Lasers: 60 M€

Gamma Beam: 60 M€

Beam Transport 20 M€

Exp. equipments: 30 M€

• August 2011 – March 2012: Technical Design

• January 2012: Submission of the application to the E.C.

• July 2012: Government Decision approving the construction

of ELI-NP

• September 2012: Approval of the application by the E.C.

(www.eli-np.ro)

ELI-NP “Start-up” Activities

ELI-NP Next Steps

• January 2013- November 2014:

Civil Construction

• June 2015 : Lasers and Gamma

Beam – Phase 1

• June 2017 : Lasers and Gamma

Beam - Phase 2

• 2012-2014: TDR for experiments

• 2014-2017: Experimental set-ups

• June 2017: Beginning of

operation

• August 2012: Tender Procedures

• September 18, 2012: The funding of the ELI-NP project from Structural

Funds was approved by the European Commission.

• December12, 2012: Signing of the ELI-NP Contract ELI - Delivery Consortium; April 11, 2013

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White Book (Scientific Case)

Feasibility Study

Preparation of the Application

E.C. Evaluation & Approval

Building - Preparation

Building - Construction

Major Eqp. - Tender

Major Eqp.– Constr, Install

Experimental set-ups

Recruitment

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Project implementation

2017

Foundation Stone Ceremony June 14th, 2013

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2x10PW Laser Contract

July 12th, 2013

Thales Optronique SAS ans S.C. Thales System Romania SRL

2013-2017

61.5 Meuro

November 24th, 2013 Magurele.

ELI-NP Academic Forum

• Long-term partnerships with academic institutions

• Implement initiatives enabling the ELI-NP project to secure the fulfilment of its needs in

terms of PhD students, junior researchers, engineers, and technicians (creation of training

programs, specific MSc and PhD programs, etc.).

• Partnerships will also facilitate the dissemination of the results of the ELI-NP Project to the

local academic community.

• A forum where academic institutions are encouraged to define, with the beneficiary and its

two Partners, the initiatives of various kinds that could support the ELI-NP Project in the

achievement of its objectives in terms of scientific excellence.

• initiatives that would be created within the framework of the Academic Consortium shall lead

to the signature of bilateral agreements between the beneficiary and the institution(s)

involved in each particular initiative.

1st Meeting: April 24th, 2012. Magurele – the next one on December 9, 2013

ELI-NP Industrial Forum

• Body promoting relationships with local and foreign companies.

• Objective of the ELI-NP team: focus on the development with the business and industrial

sector (promotion of contractual research, technology transfer and commercialisation of

results, etc.).

• Activities will focus on the local context, but some major companies from other countries will

also be interested

• Associating local companies with foreign companies is consequently an important objective

of the ELI-NP Industrial Forum.

• Members are encouraged to set up initiatives consistent with the objectives of the ELI-NP

project in terms of socio-economic impact (local development, creation of jobs, etc.).

• Further initiatives, such as consulting services provided by ELI-NP experts to companies, can

naturally be negotiated within the framework of the ELI-NP Industrial Forum.

1st Meeting: April 25th, 2012. Magurele – the next one on December 10, 2013

Măgurele High Tech Cluster (MHTC)

Committed to exploit the extraordinary opportunities that ELI-NP opens for high level research as well as to

applications having a high societal impact, concurent actions and approaches were performed :

a) setting up a dedicated center for tehnological transfer and marketing CTTM (http://www.nipne.ro/cttm/index.php)

b) acting towards the realization of an open association of research and for profit entitities: Măgurele High Tech Cluster

– 32 founding members initiated in June 2013 the MHTC, the association being under way to aquire legal status.

Obiectivul asociației este succint exprimat în Acordul de Parteneriat : Având în vedere condiţiile favorabile dezvoltării şi cooperării create de realizarea proiectului

ELI-NP, la iniţiativa IFIN-HH se propune crearea unui Cluster economic în jurul institutelor de cercetare ştiinţifică de pe Platforma de fizică din Oraşul Măgurele,

având ca scop facilitarea inovării, a transferului tehnologic între sistemul de cercetare-dezvoltare şi economic, precum şi crearea unui Parc Ştiinţific şi Tehnologic.

c) stimulating the establishment of “innovation culture”: HEPTech Forum (8-9 Octomber 2013) and Workshop

HEPTech On Open Innovation (10 Octomber 2013). (see http://www.nipne.ro/cttm/meetings.php ,

http://www.heptech.org/ and http://knowledgetransfer.web.cern.ch/networks ).

d) Funding aplication for the initiation of a innovative cluster (October 2013)

POS CCE 2007-2013, Axa Prioritară 1 „Un sistem de producţie inovativ şi ecoeficient”, Domeniul major de intervenţie D1.3 „Dezvoltarea durabilă a

antreprenoriatului” Operaţiunea „Sprijin pentru integrarea întreprinderilor în lanțurile de furnizori sau clustere”, intitulată “ELI – NP Inovativ Cluster” - ce

vizează explicit obținerea finanțării pentru un cluster emergent - finanțare absolut necesară pentru realizarea proiectului Măgurele High Tech Cluster, asociație

aflată în curs de constituire.

Conclusions: Expected Impact of ELI-NP

• World-class research infrastructure

(over 200 positions of researchers)

• Education – high-level training in science and

engineering – a worldclass institution for scientific

culture at par with top universities worldwide!

• Increasing employment opportunities

in research, decreasing brain drain

• Knowledge and technology transfer

as a primary objective, collaboration with

the local for-profit sector (contractual research);

significant expectations of International Patents

• Positive direct and indirect effects on

the local and regional economic environment

– opportunities for frontier research for companies,

stimulating effects on high-tech industries

Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present

T.S. Eliot: Burnt Norton (I), Four Quartets (1943)

European laboratory to consistently investigate a very broad range of science domains, from new fields of fundamental physics,

new nuclear physics and astrophysics topics, to applications in material science, life sciences and nuclear materials management.

“See you in Magurele!”