Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics

JJ Santos, M Bailly-Grandvaux, M Ehret… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Powerful nanosecond laser-plasma processes are explored to generate discharge currents
of a few 100 kA in coil targets, yielding magnetostatic fields (B-fields) in excess of 0.5 kT. The …

Exploring extreme magnetization phenomena in directly driven imploding cylindrical targets

CA Walsh, R Florido, M Bailly-Grandvaux… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper uses extended-magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations to explore an
extreme magnetized plasma regime realizable by cylindrical implosions on the OMEGA …

Cylindrical implosion platform for the study of highly magnetized plasmas at Laser MegaJoule

G Pérez-Callejo, C Vlachos, CA Walsh, R Florido… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Investigating the potential benefits of the use of magnetic fields in inertial confinement fusion
experiments has given rise to experimental platforms like the Magnetized Liner Inertial …

Review of the 10th Non-LTE code comparison workshop

SB Hansen, HK Chung, CJ Fontes, Y Ralchenko… - High Energy Density …, 2020 - Elsevier
We report on the results of the 10th Non-LTE code comparison workshop, which was held at
the University of San Diego campus November 28 through December 1, 2017. Non …

Bow shock fragmentation driven by a thermal instability in laboratory astrophysics experiments

F Suzuki-Vidal, SV Lebedev, A Ciardi… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The role of radiative cooling during the evolution of a bow shock was studied in laboratory-
astrophysics experiments that are scalable to bow shocks present in jets from young stellar …

Impact of strong magnetization in cylindrical plasma implosions with applied B-field measured via x-ray emission spectroscopy

M Bailly-Grandvaux, R Florido, CA Walsh… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Magnetization is a key strategy for enhancing inertial fusion performance, though accurate
characterization of magnetized dense plasmas is needed for a better comprehension of the …

Model uncertainties of local-thermodynamic-equilibrium K-shell spectroscopy

T Nagayama, JE Bailey, RC Mancini… - High Energy Density …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Local-thermodynamic-equilibrium (LTE) K-shell spectroscopy is a common tool to
diagnose electron density, ne, and electron temperature, T e, of high-energy-density (HED) …

[HTML][HTML] First observations from the Kr multi-monochromatic x-ray imager for time and spatially resolved diagnosis of hot implosion cores

E Gallardo-Diaz, RC Mancini, J Clapp, P Adrian… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents initial findings from the recently deployed Kr multi-monochromatic x-ray
imager (Kr MMI) at the Omega laser facility. The experiment focuses on exploring implosion …

Control and diagnosis of temperature, density, and uniformity in x-ray heated iron/magnesium samples for opacity measurements

T Nagayama, JE Bailey, G Loisel, SB Hansen… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Experimental tests are in progress to evaluate the accuracy of the modeled iron opacity at
solar interior conditions, in particular to better constrain the solar abundance problem [S …

Direct asymmetry measurement of temperature and density spatial distributions in inertial confinement fusion plasmas from pinhole space-resolved spectra

T Nagayama, RC Mancini, R Florido, D Mayes… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Two-dimensional space-resolved temperature and density images of an inertial confinement
fusion (ICF) implosion core have been diagnosed for the first time. Argon-doped, direct-drive …