Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics

The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is an ESFRI-listed distributed facility that entered the implementation phase. The Romanian pillar will focus on the field of nuclear physics research, performed with the help of an ultra-short-pulse, multi-petawatt scale laser system and a brilliant, tuneable and highly collimated gamma beam system. ELI-Nuclear Physics, an open-access facility, shall become operational and receive the first visiting research teams in 2017. We report herein on the status of the implementation and some of the research topics proposed for ELI-NP.