ZEUS: A National Science Foundation Mid-Scale User Facility for Laser-Driven Science in the QED Regime.

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Abstract

The Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS) is being developed at the University of Michigan as the National Science Foundation mid-scale user facility. The ZEUS facility will include a repetitive dual-beamline 3 PW laser system, a 100 J programmable shape multi-ns pulse driver, three radiation shielded experimental areas and will provide unique new capabilities to explore nonlinear quantum electrodynamics, relativistic plasmas, particles acceleration, extreme laboratory astrophysics, basic plasma physics and nuclear photonics. Once completed, the ZEUS laser system will be the highest-power laser system in the US and will become a user facility for the US scientists and wider international research community.

*This work is supported by the NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Program award No. 1935950.

Authors

  • Anatoly Maksimchuk

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    • University of Michigan, Gérard Mourou Center of Ultrafast Optical Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
    • University of Michigan
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • J Nees

    • University of Michigan, Gérard Mourou Center of Ultrafast Optical Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    • University of Michigan
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan

  • Galina Kalinchenko

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Bixue Hou

    • University of Michigan, Gérard Mourou Center of Ultrafast Optical Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Y Ma

    • University of Michigan
    • University of Michigan, Gérard Mourou Center of Ultrafast Optical Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    • Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan

  • Andrew McKelvey

    • University of Michigan
    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Tan Shi

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Igor Jovanovic

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • C.C. Kuranz

    • University of Michigan
    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    • U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • Nuclear Engineering \& Radiological Sciences Department, University of Michigan

  • A.G.R. Thomas

    • University of Michigan, Gérard Mourou Center of Ultrafast Optical Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    • Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • University of Michigan
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan

  • Louise Willingale

    • University of Michigan
    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Karl Krushelnick

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor