2026 Awarded FY27 LBS Projects
The 2026 selection of Laboratory Basic Science (LBS) projects with experiments to be conducted at the Omega Laser Facility during fiscal year (FY) 2027 are listed below.
| Principal Investigator | Lead Institution | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Nora, Ryan | LLNL | X‑ray Mass Ablation Rate Measurements of Amorphous Boron Carbide Ablators at the Omega Laser Facility |
| Nakajima, Miki | LLE (UR-EES) | Grüneisen Parameter of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 Glass |
| Smith, Raymond | LLNL | Novel Cyclic Loading Technique to Constrain Rheological Properties of Planetary Materials |
| Soderlind, Saransh | LLNL | High Pressure and Temperature Phase Stability of a Key Planetary Mineral: MgSiO3 |
| Poole, Hannah | LLE (UR-PAS) | 2PPFoam: Experiments to Validate Modeling of Collapsing Two-Photon Polymerization Foams for Inertial Fusion Energy |
| Tzeferacos, Petros | LLE (UR-PAS) | TDYNO: Experimental Demonstration of Anisotropic Alfvénic Turbulence in a Strong Guide Field |
| Forrest, Chad | LLE | Testing Neutron Moderation Schemes for Inertial Confinement Fusion with Applications in Tritium Breeding and Nuclear Astrophysics |
| Millot, Marius | LLNL | Measuring the Shock Equation of State of Wetted Foams |
| Jeet, Justin | LLNL | Measurement Of the D3He Gamma-to-Proton Branching Ratio as a Step Toward Laboratory Measurements of Plasma Electron Screening |
| Ceurvorst, Luke | LLE | Dual-Dopant Spectroscopy of Magnetized Spherical Exploding-Pusher Cores |
| Valenzeula-Villaseca, Vicente | LLNL | Development of a Fast High-Energy Density Centrifuge for Fundamental Plasma Physics Research |
| Tubman, Eleanor | LBNL | Electromagnetic Fields Generated within LEH Regions |
| Trail, Dustin | LLE (UR-EES) | Chemical Behavior of Iron in High-Pressure Silicates: Implications for Super-Earth Habitability |
| Rodman, John | LLE (UR-PAS) | Experimental Study of the Impact of Density Imbalance on the Formation of Quasiparallel Collisionless Shocks |
| McGuire, Chris | LLNL | A Test of the Sakharhov Method to Infer Viscosity in shock compressed, rippled SiO2 using a new technique |
| Davies, Jonathan | LLE | Measurement of the Thermal Dynamo Effect |
| Righi, Gaia | LLNL | Viscosity Measurements in Polymers at HED Conditions |