Updates on the construction and commissioning of the ZEUS facility

POSTER

Abstract

Construction of the Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS) is currently near completion at the University of Michigan, where it is being established as the National Science Foundation mid-scale user facility. ZEUS comprises a repetitive dual-beamline 3 PW laser system, a programmable shape multi-ns pulse driver capable of delivering 100 J of energy, three experimental areas with radiation shielding, and offers unique capabilities for studying various fields such as nonlinear quantum electrodynamics, relativistic plasmas, particle acceleration, extreme laboratory astrophysics, and nuclear photonics. This presentation will provide the update on the progress of the ZEUS facility's construction, which includes building renovation, laser, vacuum beam lines and switch yards installation, experimental chambers setup, radiation shielding implementation, as well as the results of the initial commissioning experiment on the laser wakefield electron acceleration and betatron radiation generation at a 200 TW level.

*This work is supported by the NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Program award No. 1935950 and ZEUS Multi-Petawatt Laser Facility: Operations award No. 2126181, the AFOSR grant No. FA9550-22-1-0118 and the University of Michigan.

Presenters

  • Anatoly M Maksimchuk

    • University of Michigan

Authors

  • Anatoly M Maksimchuk

    • University of Michigan

  • John Nees

    • University of Michigan
    • UM

  • Bixue Hou

    • University of Michigan
    • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

  • Franko Bayer

    • University of Michigan

  • Milos Burger

    • University of Michigan

  • Paul T Campbell

    • University of Michigan

  • Galina Kalinchenko

    • University of Michigan
    • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

  • Sallee R Klein

    • University of Michigan

  • Yong Ma

    • University of Michigan

  • Andrew McKelvey

    • University of Michigan

  • Elizabeth Oxford

    • University of Michigan

  • Richard Van Camp

    • University of Michigan
    • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

  • Lauren Weinberg

    • University of Michigan
    • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

  • Qing Zhang

    • University of Michigan

  • Andre Antoine

    • University of Michigan

  • Junwoo Bae

    • University of Michigan

  • Mario Balcazar

    • University of Michigan

  • Jason A Cardarelli

    • University of Michigan

  • Veronica Contreras

    • University of Michigan

  • Nicholas Ernst

    • University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    • University of Michigan

  • Rebecca Fitzgarrald

    • University of Michigan
    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

  • Joshua Latham

    • University of Michigan

  • William Likes

    • University of Michigan

  • Qian Qian

    • University of Michigan

  • Igor Jovanovic

    • University of Michigan

  • Carolyn C Kuranz

    • University of Michigan

  • Alexander G Thomas

    • University of Michigan

  • Louise Willingale

    • University of Michigan

  • Karl Krushelnick

    • University of Michigan