Summaries of FY16 LANL experimental campaigns at the OMEGA and EP Laser Facilities

Technical Report · Tue Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1330181· OSTI ID:1330181

Loomis, Eric Nicholas ^[1]; Merritt, Elizabeth Catherine ^[1]; Montgomery, David ^[1]; Kim, Yong Ho ^[1]; Murphy, Thomas Joseph ^[1]; Johns, Heather Marie ^[1]; Kline, John L. ^[1]; Shah, Rahul C. ^[1]; Zylstra, Alex ^[1]; Herrmann, Hans W. ^[1]; Schmitt, Mark J. ^[1]; Flippo, Kirk Adler ^[1]; Rasmus, Alexander Martin ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

In FY16, Los Alamos National Laboratory carried out 22 shot days on the OMEGA and OMEGA- EP laser facilities in the areas of High Energy Density (HED) Science and Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). In HED our focus areas were on radiation flow, hydrodynamic turbulent mix and burn, warm dense matter equations of state, and coupled Kelvin-­Helmholtz (KH)/Richtmyer-­ Meshkov (RM) instability growth. For ICF our campaigns focused on the Priority Research Directions (PRD) of implosion phase mix and stagnation and burn, specifically as they pertain to Laser Direct Drive (LDD). We also had several focused shot days on transport properties in the kinetic regime. We continue to develop advanced diagnostics such as Neutron Imaging, Gamma Reaction History, and Gas Cherenkov Detectors. Below are a summary of our campaigns, their motivation, and main results from this year.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1330181
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-28129
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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