Toward understanding of astrophysical Fast Radio Bursts from an accelerator and plasma experiment

Recently, the "Fast Radio Bursts" are getting much attention and being recognized as one of hottest topics in astrophysical observations. Although we understand some typical properties of the events, for instance, a class of brightest events ever observed and their sudden short emissions with milliseconds durations, many other details are unknown including their characteristic feature of emission mechanism due to the lack of observed information. To tackle this astrophysical mystery, we initiated an ambitious research project using our mature accelerator and plasma technologies at Nihon University. The advantage of this laboratory astrophysics project includes the availability of high-repetitive mimicking events so that we can understand the basic characteristic of the Fast Radio Bursts with additional information from the experiment. (author)