Commissioning and early experiments of the PHELIX facility

By V. Bagnoud, B. Aurand, A. Blažević, S. Borneis, C. Bruske, B. Ecker, U. Eisenbarth, J. Fils, A. Frank, Erhard Gaul and 23 more. 2010

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At the Helmholtz center GSI, PHELIX (Petawatt High Energy Laser for heavy Ion eXperiments) has been commissioned for operation in stand-alone mode and, in combination with ions accelerated up to an energy of 13 MeV/u by the heavy ion accelerator UNILAC. The combination of PHELIX with the heavy-ion beams available at GSI enables a large variety of unique experiments. Novel research opportunities are spanning from the study of ion–matter interaction, through challenging new experiments in atomic physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics, into the field of relativistic plasma physics.

Subfields: Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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