Gaining and maintaining a strong foothold in the European and global technology markets is high on the EU agenda. Helping meet this goal is the ELI (‘Extreme light infrastructure’) project, which clinched EUR 6 million under the Research Infrastructures budget line of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to build a laser of intensity sufficient to rip photons into electron-positron pairs.
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