2023 Awarded FY24 LBS Projects
The 2023 selection of Laboratory Basic Science (LBS) projects with experiments to be conducted at the Omega Laser Facility during fiscal year (FY) 2024 is listed below.
| Principal Investigator | Lead Laboratory | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Bruulsema, Colin | LLNL | Laser-Induced Shock |
| Davies, Jonathan | LLE | Measurement of the Cross-Field Nernst Magnetic Dynamo Effect |
| Eggert, Jon | LLNL | Determination of Thermodynamic Compression Path in Au Slurry Targets |
| Forrest, Chad | LLE | Controlling the Energy Spectrum of TNSA Accelerated Ions Using Laser Prepulse Techniques |
| Froula, Dustin | LLE | A Study of Nonlocal Thermal Transport by Measuring Electron Distribution Functions Along a Temperature Gradient |
| Gleason, Arianna | SLAC | Particle Viscometry in High-Energy-Density Materials |
| Heuer, Peter | LLE | The Structure of Magnetized Shocks in Multiple Collisionality Regimes |
| Kabadi, Neel | LLE | Development of a Broadband Reflectivity Platform with Application to the Hydrogen–Insulator Metal Transition |
| Malko, Sophia | PPPL | Benchmarking the Nernst Effect Across Magnetization Regimes in High Energy Density Plasmas |
| Nakajima, Miki | LLE (UR) | Electrical Conductivity Measurements of (Mg,Fe)O Melt |
| Righi, Gaia | LLNL | Iron Strength on a Low-Adiabat Path |
| Smith, Ray | LLNL | Novel Experiments to Measure the Viscosity of MgO at the Conditions of Planetary Interiors |
| Suer, Terry-Ann | LLE | The Phase Diagram of Water–Hydrogen Mixtures at Giant Planet Interior Conditions |
| Tzeferacos, Petros | LLE (UR) | Heat Transport in Magnetized Plasma Turbulence |
| Walsh, Christopher | LLNL | Study of Magnetization Effects in Cylindrically Imploded Hot Dense Plasmas Using Dopant Spectroscopy Techniques |