Quick Shot

Rapid turnaround of data is essential in conducting experiments at LLE and is made possible by the use of a new “film.” Although the Omega Laser Facility conducts a one hour shot cycle, the configuration of the next shot is sometimes delayed until film processing is complete. A new approach using radiographic film provides critical feedback to experimentalists within minutes. Shown with a batch of processed radiographic film is principal investigator Channing Huntington (LLNL), along with scientists Hye-Sook Park (LLNL), Damiano Caprioli and Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University), Gennady Fiksel (LLE), and Dmitri Ryutov (LLNL). They are examining data from an OMEGA EP shot as part of their study of astrophysical collisionless shocks.