FY24–FY25 NLUF projects
The 2023 selection of National Laser Users’ Facility (NLUF) projects with experiments to be conducted at the Omega Laser Facility during fiscal year (FY) 2024 and FY25 is listed below.
| Principal Investigator (PI) / Co-PI |
Lead institution | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Bailly-Grandvaux, Mathieus | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | Energy Deposition of a Focused Proton Beam in a Compressed Spherical Capsule |
| Dan Shim, Sang-Heon | Arizona State University | Dynamic Compression of Iron–Sulfur Alloys at the Conditions of the Cores of Earth and Super-Earths |
| Duffy, Thomas | Princeton University | Mineralogy of Deep Exoplanetary Interiors |
| Evans, Tucker / Frenje, Johan | MIT | Advanced Studies of Kinetic and Multi-Ion-Fluid Physics, and Ion–Electron Energy Transfer in High-Energy-Density (HED) Plasmas Generated by Shock-Driven and Ablatively Driven Implosions |
| Frenje, Johan | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Studies of Magnetized Plasmas in Asymmetric and Symmetric Shock-Driven Inertial-Confinement-Fusion Implosions |
| Gatu Johnson, Maria | MIT | Study of Prevalence and Impact of Non-Maxwellian Ion Velocity Distributions and Kinetic Mix as a Source of These Distributions in Inertial Confinement Fusion Relevant Conditions |
| Griff-McMahon, Jesse / Fox, Will |
Princeton University | Tomographic Proton Radiography of Magnetic Reconnection and Biermann-battery Fields |
| Krushelnick, Karl | University of Michigan | Control of magnetic field dynamic and reconnection in high power laser plasma interactions |
| Kuranz, Carolyn | University of Michigan | Photoionization Fronts at the Omega Laser Facility |
| Leung, Chung Hei / Bose, Arijit |
University of Delaware | HED Hydrodynamics and Magnetized HED Plasma Physics |
| Mancini, Roberto | University of Nevada, Reno | Laboratory Observations of Iron Line Emission and Absorption Spectra at Accreting Disk Conditions |
| Manuel, Mario | General Atomics | Characterization of Early-Stage, Quasi-Parallel Shock Formation in Asymmetric Flows |
| Mariscal, Christine Krauland | General Atomics | Stable K-Alpha X-Ray Source Platform Development with Nanosecond Laser Pulse Lengths |
| Rigon, Gabriel / Li, Chikang | MIT | Studies of Magnetohydrodynamic Shocks in the Presence of Radiative Effects and Their Interaction with Dense Medium |
| Schaeffer, Derek | UC Los Angeles | Characterization of Laser-Driven Pistons for the Generation of Quasi-Parallel Magnetized Collisionless Shocks |
| Sutcliffe, Graeme / Li, Chikang |
MIT | Investigating Magnetic-Field Generation and Saturation Mechanisms in HED Plasmas |
| Tracy, Sally | Carnegie Institution for Science | Melting and Crystal Structure of High-Pressure Polymorphs of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 in Super-Earth Mantles |
| Valdivia, Maria Pia | UC San Diego | Differential X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging of Shocked 3-D Printed Foams to Study Target Structure Impact on Transport Properties and Plasma Dynamics |
| Valenzuela-Villaseca, Vincente | Princeton University | Magnetic Ω-Effect in Differentially Rotating Plasma Flows |
| Wadas, Michael / Johnsen, Eric |
University of Michigan | Formation Dynamics of Isolated Vortex Rings Ejected from Shocked Interface |
| White, Thomas | University of Nevada, Reno | The Thermal Conductivity of Warm Dense Planetary Interiors |
| Wicks, June | Johns Hopkins University | Thermal Conductivity, Crystal Structure and Melting of FeSi Alloys |
| Willingale, Louise | University of Michigan | Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons for Bright, Directional Radiation Sources |