Nuclear and Particle Physics with Ultra-Intense Lasers
Abstract
With the maturity of high-power laser technology, we can realize an extremely high intensity of photons in a tiny space. About 10 kJ of 1eV photons (1022photons) can be squeezed in a space of several micro-meter during 10 fs (10-14s). This means the density of photons of nphoton=1034/cm3. Photon is boson and can be squeezed to a tiny space. We expect that we can design unique experiments of the collective effects of elementary particles and such lasers can also be used for a new type of experiments. The physics will be more wider with the combination of the conventional accelerators. In the present paper, I briefly describe what we have carried out as academic research related to so-called laser nuclear physics.
- Publication:
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Hadron and Nuclear Physics 09
- Pub Date:
- September 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814313933_0050
- Bibcode:
- 2010hnp9.conf..388T