2026 Awarded FY27 LBS Projects
The 2026 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 |