M/W Beam Line Scientist

• Act as local contact to support all the external users with the opportunity for collaborative work at the frontiers of the fields
• Participate in the operation of the existing equipments in the experimental areas,
• Participate in to the sustained technical upgrading and development of the instrument which is essential to meet the high expectations of the user community, mainly for new experimental diagnostics
• Develop your own research programme exploiting APOLLON unique technical possibilities in close collaboration with the operting team knowing that beamtime will be set aside for in-house research
• Support Apollon management in organizing user's meeting and Scientific Advisory Committee

As a beamline scientist, you will play a major role in the operation and further development of the Apollon experimental area.

The LULI laboratory is a joint research unit (UMR 7605) under administrative supervision of CNRS, École Polytechnique, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives and Université Pierre & Marie Curie. Is it established on the campus of École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, on the Orme des Merisiers CEA site, Gif-sur-Yvette, and on the UPMC Jussieu campus, Paris.
As an academic research laboratory and a large-scale national infrastructure, LULI is carrying out three main missions for the benefit of the whole plasma physics community : (i) development and operation of large-scale laser facilities, including R&D on laser technology and diagnostics development, (ii) research on laser-generated plasmas and applications and (iii) training of scientists and engineers in plasma physics and laser technology.
This mission includes :
1. Operation of two HDE laser and experimental facilities at Ecole Polytechnique – LULI 2000 and HERA and of one UHI laser and experimental facility at Orme des Merisiers – APOLLON
2. Specific R&D activities which allow improving their performances and their reliability, maintaining their competitiveness within a rapidly evolving international scientific environment while keeping their hands-on nature, flexibility and versatility,
3. Prospective R&D activities for a new generation of lasers for scientific and industrial applications, possibly for instance as IFE drivers for future power plants.
APOLLON is a Research Infrastructure (RI) under the supervision of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the École polytechnique. Designed to reach an exceptional multipetawatt laser peak power, the infrastructure allows the production of particle beams and radiation with unique parameters. To achieve these results, APOLLON is fitted with two experimental rooms and instrumentation technologies on the cutting edge :
• With a f-number of f/2,5 and the quality of the beams, the short focal area allows to focus the beams on a target with a diameter small enough to reach intensity greater than 2.10²² W/cm², in scalable configurations. Only the 1PW beams is commissionned. The 10PW beam is still under construction.
• The « long focal area » is dedicated to laser acceleration of particles (especially elctrons), using long focal lenght focusing optics, in the order of several ten of meters (6-30 m). It includes two target chambers (interaction at 1 and 10 PW). As for the short focal area, only the 10W beam is commissionned while 10PW is still under construction.
The facility will be open to external users in november 2021.