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In collaboration with LLE and several other institutions, recent Ph.D., Hong Sio, and Senior Scientist, Johan Frenje of MIT, each published an article in the January 2019 Physical Review Letters for work done under the NLUF program. Hong’s experiments conducted at the Omega Laser Facility, which included the development of the PXTD (particle-x-ray temporal diagnostic) with LLE colleagues, showed that different nuclear burn histories of a shock-driven implosion could only be explained by including multi-ion physics. Johan’s work, which also utilized PXTD, provided the first detailed measurements of ion stopping around the Bragg peak in HED Plasmas. The PXTD has been utilized in several other campaigns on OMEGA, and a new version, cryo PXTD, is now under development in a collaboration between MIT and LLE. MIT and LLE have been collaborating together for nearly three decades.