2024 Awarded FY25 LBS Projects
The 2024 selection of Laboratory Basic Science (LBS) projects with experiments to be conducted at the Omega Laser Facility during fiscal year (FY) 2025 is listed below.
| Principal Investigator | Lead Institution | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Millot, Marius | LLNL | Measuring the Shock Equation of State of Wetted Foams |
| Milder, Avi | LLE | A Study of Nonlocal Thermal Transport by Measuring Electron Distribution Functions along a Temperature Gradient |
| Simpson, Raspberry | LLNL | Study of Ion Coupling in Dense Matter using Nuclear Reactions for Applications to Ion Fast Ignition |
| Schwemmlein, Arnold | LLE | Quantum States of Hydrogen: Towards a Superconducting Superfluid |
| Ji, Hantao | PPPL | Thomson Scattering Measurement of Current-Driven Instabilities and Non-Maxwellian Electrons during Low-β Magnetically Driven Reconnection |
| Keiter, Paul | LANL | Radiating Shocks in Astrophysical Transients |
| Nakajima, Miki | LLE (UR-EES) | Magma Ocean Dynamo: Shock Experiments on (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 |
| Tabak, Grigoriy | LLE | Electronic Structure of Helium in Planetary and Stellar Interiors |
| Heuer, Peter | LLE | Measuring the Dependence of the Nernst Coefficient on Ion Charge |
| Smith, Raymond | LLNL | Two Novel Techniques to Measure the Viscosity of MgO Conditions of Planetary Interiors |
| Tzeferacos, Petros | LLE (UR-PAS) | TDYNO: Small- and Large-Scale Fluctuation Dynamo in Helical Turbulence |
| Schwemmlein, Arnold | LLE | Measuring Total Reaction Cross Sections on OMEGA |
| Ceurvorst, Luke | LLE | Advection of Strongly Imposed Magnetic Fields in Directly Driven Foils |
| Kabadi, Neel | LLE | Development of a Broadband Reflectivity Platform on OMEGA-60 with Application to the Hydrogen Insulator-Metal Transition |
| Shang, Jessica | LLE (UR-ME) | Particle Viscometry in HED Materials |
| Glenzer, Siegfried | SLAC | Equation of State of Shock-Compressed Polymer Foam Capsules using X-ray Thomson Scattering and Fluorescence |
| Bhutwala, Krish | PPPL | Advancing Proton Beam Focusing and Heating using a Modular Target Approach |
| Mohamed, Zaarah | LANL | Heterogeneous Ablative Mix (HAM) Experiment |