2025 Awarded FY26 LBS Projects
The 2025 Laboratory Basic Science (LBS) projects with experiments to be conducted at the Omega Laser Facility during fiscal year (FY) 2026 are listed below.
| Principal Investigator | Lead Laboratory | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Casey, Daniel | LLNL | Investigating the Hydrodynamics of Preimposed Asymmetry in Cone-in-Shell Implosions on OMEGA |
| Dwyer, Robert | LLE (UR-ME) | Measurements of the 5He Nuclear Wave Structure and Cross Section from D-T Gamma Ray Production Versus Temperature on OMEGA |
| Ceurvorst, Luke | LLE | Dual Dopant Spectroscopy for Spatial Resolution of Imploding Cores |
| Gao, Lan | PPPL | Study of Material Mixing in High-Energy-Density Plasmas |
| Glenzer, Siegfried | SLAC | Adiabat Measurements of Polymer Foam Capsules Implosions Using X-Ray Fluorescence and Thomson Scattering |
| Kabadi, Neel | LLE | Quantum States of Hydrogen: Toward a Superconducting Superfluid |
| Khan, Shahab | LLNL | Accelerated Hydrodynamic Instability Growth |
| Milder, Avi | LLE | A Study of Nonlocal Thermal Transport by Measuring Electron Distribution Functions Along a Temperature Gradient |
| Millot, Marius | LLNL | Measuring the Shock Equation of State of Wetted Foams |
| Moody, John | LLNL | Experimental Tests of Fundamental Laser–Plasma Interaction Theory in a Magnetized Laser-Produced Plasma |
| Nakajima, Miki | LLE (UR-EES) | Grüneisen Parameter of a Magma Ocean Analogue Material: Shock Experiments on Pyrolite |
| Rasmus, Alexander | LANL | Vortex Instability and Clumping on a Shocked High-Energy-Density Cylinder |
| Smith, Raymond | LLNL | Constraining the Viscosity of Bridgmanite at the Conditions of Planetary Interiors with Two Novel Techniques |
| Soderlind, Saransh | LLNL | Studies of Superheating/Supercooling in Shock-Compressed SiC |
| Tabak, Grigoriy | LLE | Refractive Index of Dense Neon |
| Tzeferacos, Petros | LLE (UR-PAS) | TDYNO: Suppression of Heat Transport in Strongly Magnetized Turbulence |