Perspectives of Possible Applications

Until this rapid evolution of laser-triggered nuclear reactions, the only possibility was to use large accelerators for experimental tests. The recent results open to the possibility of performing experiments and a variety of applications in many fields of nuclear interest by exploiting tools that are now available in small-scale facilities and on day by day basis [97]. 

Authors are grateful to Philippe Martin and all the colleagues of the PHI group from CEA-Saclay to Danilo Giulietti, Leonida A. Gizzi, Luca Labate, and all the other colleagues of the ILIL team from CNR, INFN, and University of Pisa. 

Gibbon, Short Pulse Laser Interactions with Matter (Imperial College Press, London, 2005) 

Giulietti, M. Galimberti, A. Gamucci, et al., Laser Part. Beams 25, 513 

IAEA Photonuclear Data Library, online at http //www-nds.iaea.org/ photonuclear/ 

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