Novel Light Sources: Theory and Experiment

Project Information

N-LIGHT

Grant agreement ID: 872196

DOI

10.3030/872196

Project closed

EC signature date 27 November 2019

Start date 1 April 2020

End date 30 November 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 639 400,00

EU contribution

€ 639 400,00

Coordinated by

MBN RESEARCH CENTER GGMBH
Germany

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - N-LIGHT (Novel Light Sources: Theory and Experiment)

Reporting period: 2020-04-01 to 2023-11-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The N-Light project suggests an interdisciplinary research programme that will provide the breakthrough needed in theory and experiment to design and deliver the practical realisation of novel gamma-ray Light Sources (LS) operating at photon energies from ~100 keV up to GeV range that can be constructed through exposure of oriented crystals (line-ar, bent and periodically bent) to the beams of ultrarelativistic charged particles. The N-Light research and technologi-cal programme will address the physics of the processes accompanying the oriented crystal exposure to irradiation by the beams at the atomistic level of detail needed for the realisation of the N-light goals.
A broad interdisciplinary, international collaboration has been created previously in the frame of FP7 PIRSES-CUTE and H2020 RISE PEARL projects, which performed initial experimental tests to demonstrate the crystalline undulator (CU) idea, production and characterisation of periodically bent crystals and the related theory. N-Light aims to build on these successful studies towards a practical realisation of the novel gamma-ray LSs such as CUs, crystalline synchro-tron radiation emitters, and many others. Additionally, a CU-based gamma-ray LS has a potential to generate coherent radiation (of the FEL type) with wavelengths orders of magnitudes less than 1 Ångstrøm, i.e. within the wavelength range that cannot be reached in existing LSs based on magnetic undulators. Such LSs will have many applications in the basic sciences including nuclear and solid-state physics and the life sciences. Theoretical, computational and experi-mental results obtained in the course of this project will be compared and validated and will pave a way for key techno-logical developments of the LSs. The N-Light international collaboration possesses all the necessary expertise to con-duct successfully the outlined programme.
The N-Light research programme is highly collaborative. It brings the necessary expertise to realise the outlined goals through a series of exchange visits, joint workshops and conferences exploiting the structure and modes of a Marie Curie Rise programme.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

N/A

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

N-light provides many opportunities for the consortium members to realise their potential through an extensive exchange programme. The seconded staff will receive new core scientific and complementary skills from the consortium partners and in exchange will share their own knowledge with other consortium members. The in-tensive exchange program will also ensure wider dissemination of the results, establish new scientific contacts, ensure partners gain complementary skills (e.g. entrepreneurial experience) especially via collaborative links with the MBN-RC an SME. Within N-Light there will be organised networking events which will include specialised sessions for training of ESRs as well as opportunity for scientific knowledge exchange and dissemination of pro-ject results to broader scientific and industrial communities. By targeting ESRs and providing them with skills training and networking opportunities we will help them to achieve leading positions in either academe or indus-try.
In order to enhance the complementarity and synergy between the consortium partners, we plan to hold a significant number of both the outgoing visits from European countries and incoming visits from the countries outside EU. The hosts of such visits will find suitable and affordable accommodation for their visitors. Each guest researcher will be assigned a personal tutor in the host organization who will be in charge of her/his installation, administrative and logistic details of the secondment and will be the reference person for all every-day questions. The seconded personal will receive their full salary and will fully benefit from social programs of the home country. The secondments will include opportunities for travelling staff to present seminars and tutorials which for the ESRs will be highly beneficial additions to their CVs. For the ERs involved it should be noted that those ERs in academic institutions there is strong encouragement to develop research ties with the non-academic SME partner and such links are supported through new funding schemes (both national and international).

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