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07/16/2025 - 07/16/2025 | Schenefeld

Planning for an Inertial Fusion Research Instrument at European XFEL

The German government has recently initiated the ambitious funding programme “Fusion 2040”. It includes the goal to establish German hubs for IFE research and development as soon as possible. The High Energy Density – Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HED-HIBEF) activities at European XFEL would be a natural basis for such a hub, e.g. by installing a new dedicated IFE-Research Instrument (IFE-RI) at the facility and building on its international community.

In a response to recent German, European and international funding initiatives related to Fusion Energy Research, the European XFEL was identified as a research laboratory in Europe well-prepared to tackle open scientific questions on the path to clean energy production.

In a workshop in June 2024 it was established that European XFEL offers the possibility to image - in a time- and space-resolved fashion - the dynamics of sub-micrometer structures and to monitor ionization states when fusion-relevant matter is compressed and heated by state-of-the-art high energy/power lasers.

Based on the workshop’s outcome, the European XFEL came up with a concept for a three-phase scientific program, which we would like to present to the international community at this half-day virtual workshop. In particular, we will present the initial thoughts for a new, dedicated research instrument for Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) research and seek the ideas of the community for specific [types of] experiments to be performed. This information will guide the technical planning for this instrument.

Agenda:
https://indico.desy.de/event/49431/attachments/97874/134945/IFE_Agenda_Website_2...

Outline of experiment(s) to be performed at IFE instrument and the
requirements for such experiments:
https://indico.desy.de/event/49431/attachments/97874/135122/260620_IFE_Instructi...

Information on participating / attending:
Online Workshop via Zoom

Registration needed:
https://indico.desy.de/event/49431/registrations/7042/

Date:

07/16/2025 14:00 - 07/16/2025 18:15

Registration deadline:

07/14/2025

Event venue:

Online Workshop via Zoom
22869 Schenefeld
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars, Students

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Economics / business administration, Energy, Materials sciences, Physics / astronomy

Types of events:

Seminar / workshop / discussion

Entry:

07/10/2025

Sender/author:

Gerhard Samulat

Department:

Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event79651


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