What is HiPER?
HiPER stands for High Power laser Energy Research facility HiPER is a proposed international laser facility which is being designed to demonstrate the feasibility of laser driven fusion as a future energy source, and to enable the study of a wealth of fundamental scientific topics in the “physics of truly extreme conditions”. It will build from the upcoming “proof of principle” demonstration of laser fusion, anticipated on the National Ignition Facility (USA) at the turn of the decade. It will open up entirely new areas of scientific research, providing access to physics regimes which cannot be explored on any other facility. This will cover areas as diverse as laboratory astrophysics, extreme material science, turbulence, and fundamental atomic, nuclear and plasma physics.
