HEDS

Researchers at Livermore and an international team of collaborators have developed an experimental capability for measuring the basic properties of matter at the highest pressures thus far achieved in a controlled laboratory experiment.

Initial NIF experiments using a full-scale version of the Frustraum hohlraum have produced nearly round inertial confinement fusion implosions and more laser-induced energy absorption.

Livermore physicist Yuan Shi has earned the American Physical Society’s Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis award for his work in plasma physics.

Three scientists from Livermore are recipients of the 2020 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society.

The National Ignition Facility is highlighted in a recent assessment of the state and future of plasma science by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Researchers find principles underlying velocity scaling and dispersion in wave transmission through grainy particle arrangements.

Two Livermore scientists, Federica Coppari and Erin Nuccio, are recipients of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Program award.

A team of researchers including scientists from Livermore details the first quantitative measurements of the magnetic field structure of plasma filamentation.

A paper describing the design and performance of a workhorse NIF experimental platform known as TARDIS (target diffraction in situ) was a featured article in a recent edition of the journal Review of Scientific Instruments.

Lawrence Livermore scientists have discovered a new method to add an antireflective metasurface (ARMS) layer on laser optics glass that’s so durable, it can survive getting “smooshed.”