Creating stars, supernovae, and the big bang in the laboratory: Nuclear Astrophysics with the National Ignition Facility
This talk has been prepared for the Symposium on Novel Approaches to Nuclear Astrophysics hosted by the ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology for the San Diego ACS meeting. This talk indeed describes a truly novel approach. It discusses a proposal for the construction of the National Ignition Facility which could provide the most powerful concentration of laser energy yet attempted. The energy from such a facility could be concentrated in such a way as to reproduce, for the first time in a terrestrial laboratory, an environment which nearly duplicates that which occurs within stars and during the first few moments of cosmic creation during the big bang. These miniature versions of cosmic explosions may allow us to understand better the tumultuous astrophysical environments which have profoundly influenced the origin and evolution of the universe.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 10142728
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-115692; CONF-940301-25; ON: DE94010053; TRN: 94:007614
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 207. spring national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS),San Diego, CA (United States),13-18 Mar 1994; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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