Issue 26 of the Laserlab Newsletter published

Issue 26 of the Laserlab Newsletter is now available.

In this issue:

FOCUS: LASERS FOR FUSION ENERGY

EUROfusion project Towards Inertial Fusion Energy
Hiper: building laser-driven fusion research in Europe
EUROfusion project on shock ignition
Laser plasma interaction experiments relevant for shock ignition at PALS
Relativistic electron beam collimation for electron fast ignition (LULI and CLPU)
Focused proton beams for fast ignition (CLF)
The Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) facility and its contribution to fusion energy
Simulating laser fusion (CLF)

NEWS

Laserlab-Europe AISBL inaugurated
Lasers in popular science outreach at European Researchers' Night in Latvia
Atomic jet – the first lens for extreme-ultraviolet light
Fast method for cancer diagnosis
AWAKE: breakthrough plasma-based acceleration

ERC GRANTS

ERC Starting Grants for Francesco Scotognella (POLIMI) and Benjamin Fingerhut (MBI), Consolidator Grant for Elias Kristensson (LLC)

NETWORKING

Laserlab-Europe Foresight Workshop: The future of laser-based X-ray science and technology

ACCESS HIGHLIGHT AT LASERLAB AMSTERDAM: Measuring the binding energy of molecular hydrogen to test fundamental physics

Seventy years after the development of quantum electrodynamic theory, the simple hydrogen molecule is still at the heart of the most stringent tests of our most successful physical models. A recent Laserlab-Europe transnational access collaboration between the groups of Wim Ubachs (LaserLaB Amsterdam) and Frédéric Merkt (ETH Zürich) led to the most accurate experimental determination so far (one part in a billion) of the binding energy of the hydrogen molecule. The results have been published in Physical Review Letters.

Editorial Team:

Tom Jeltes tomjeltes@gmail.com

Daniela Stozno, Julia Michel office@laserlab-europe.eu

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