Physics Colloquium: Nuclear Photonics

Dr. Ishay Pomerantz, TAU

26 March 2023, 14:00 
Shenkar Building, Melamed Hall 006 
Physics Colloquium

 

Abstract: 

High power lasers have been promoted for decades for research aiming at two important applications: The compression and heating of nuclear fusion fuel, and the realization of compact particle accelerators.

 

The pursuit for realizing these applications has brought high power lasers to university-scale laboratories, and led to  discoveries about the nature of light-matter interaction in an intensity regime never reached before.

 

I will overview this field of research, now known as Nuclear Photonics, and specifically tell on the interaction of relativistic light with wavelength-scale objects, on the role of the atomic number in coupling relativistic laser pulses to MeV particles, and on tests of QED in the non-linear regime.
 

 

 

Event Organizer: Prof. Amiel Sternberg

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