Quick Shot

A new “stopping-power” target design is being used to generate a warm-dense-matter plasma, where partially degenerate electrons are used to study the slowing down of energetic charged particles. The physics of particle slowing in this particular plasma regime has never before been studied experimentally. These experiments are being conducted by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including Alex Zylstra, Chikang Li, and Hong Sio through the National Laser Users’ Facility based at LLE.