Application for beam time on the LULI laser facilities will soon be open for the period April 2011 - March 2012. The closing date will be the 15th of August, 2010.
Proposals, written in English, must be sent, by e-mail, to
access.luli@polytechnique.fr. They will be evaluated
at the end
of September and notification of the final decision will occur before the end of October 2010. Available access will be granted on
the basis of scientific merit and appropriateness to the targeted facility.
The chances of success will be increased if the experiment be carried out in close collaboration with internal research teams. The applicant is then
strongly encouraged to contact them (according to the investigated thematic) before writing the final version of the proposal. By doing so, he will
be able to determine whether the experiment can be efficiently carried out at the targeted facility. He will also be familiarized with operation
procedures and diagnostics provided if his proposal be selected.
Three experimental areas will be open and the corresponding allowed configurations are given below for ELFIE (left), LULI2000/nano2000 (center) and LULI2000/pico2000 (right).
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More information on the facilities can be found here.
Do not hesitate to contact access.luli@polytechnique.fr for any further information or research topics.
Instructions are given below. Please follow them in order to provide the selection panel with all the required information and elements of evaluation.
Furthermore, prior to this latter, the feasibility (in terms of laser parameters, experimental configuration & radio-safety) of your proposed experimental campaign will be checked; careful and detailed writing is then mandatory.
European transnational access: a few weeks on the LULI laser facilities will be funded in 2011 by the European Commission. To apply to these weeks, users must satisfy nationality criteria. If eligible, they will be allocated facility access free of charge; adequate scientific, technical & logistic support will be provided and travel & living expenses will be covered. Researchers from LASERLAB-Europe access providers will not be eligible. Proposal submission is, in that case, twice, first according to the standard access rules (described below) and second using the I3 LASERLAB-EUROPE Electronic Proposal Management System (please connect to www.laserlab-europe.net/transnational-access and follow instructions: complete the online form and attach your proposal according to step 2 below).
French pluri-annual access: LULI2000 is open to pluri-annual experimental campaigns proposed by French users. One new slot will be attributed this year, i.e. 2 weeks per year, for a period of 3 years (if positively evaluated each year by the program committee). Please clearly explain in your proposal the whole program, i.e. for the 3 consecutive years, including a detailed work programme.
HiPER access: in the context of the European project HiPER, high-energy laser facilities (LULI, CLF/VULCAN and PALS) have decided to allocate preferential access time to experimental projects, gathering European groups with complementary expertise and addressing the physics of the fast ignitor scheme for laser inertial fusion. The proposals should have been approved - prior to submission - by the HiPER WP10 work group, led by D. Batani. For any information concerning such a procedure, please contact him before the 23rd of June, 2010.
Please follow the guidelines to write your proposal.
A4 - page margins: top/bottom = 42pt (or 1.5cm), left/right=71pt (or 2.5cm) - font = Times New Roman 10pt - single-spaced text
chapter title: bold in block letters (1 line before and after) - paragraph titles underlined and sub-paragraph titles (if any) in italic (1 line before each of them)
It should contain the following chapters
SCIENTIFIC CASE: please detail the scientific objectives of the experiment, its international context and the expected added value of the results; indicate the experimental methods and the diagnostics that will be used to fulfill these objectives, provide a mandatory experimental set-up showing all the beams that will be displayed, including their incidence on target; give the laser characteristics for each beam (energy or intensity, duration and wavelength) ; if CPA beams will be used, provide any information required to assess the radiological risks (target material, ...) (6 pages max.)
SHOT PLAN (LULI2000 only - assuming no more then 5 shots per day at full energy)
EXPERTISE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL CONSORTIUM: please describe the group expertise and the role of each participant, including remote users involved in theory and/or simulations (1 page max.)
PREVIOUS ACCESS: mention previous experiments conducted since 2007 at the LULI facilities, including ensuing publications (1 page max.)
Fill in the attached LULI-call2011_heading.pdf form, print it and send the corresponding .pdf file to access.luli@polytechnique.fr with your proposal in .pdf or .doc format.
Do not hesitate to contact access.luli@polytechnique.fr for any further information or research topics.