Antonino Di Piazza, Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester and distinguished scientist at LLE, is part of an international collaboration awarded a prestigious €14M European Research Council Synergy Grant. The multi-institutional team will use powerful lasers and plasma accelerators to test non-perturbative quantum electrodynamics (NP-QED) under intense electromagnetic fields, reaching regimes where the interaction between light and matter is expected to reveal entirely new physics.
Di Piazza plays a key theoretical role as a co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) on the proposed NSF OPAL facility, which aims to deliver two 25-petawatt laser beams and advance research at the frontiers of high-intensity laser science. Read the full article on URochester’s News Center.
To discover more about this transformative research and the NSF OPAL project, visit nsf-opal.rochester.edu.