Recent progress and future prospects for high energy density experimental physics

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Oct 2001

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American Physical Society, 43rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics October 29 - November 2, 2001 Long Beach, C

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High energy density (HED) facilities are unique in accessing extreme conditions of temperature and pressure in the laboratory, allowing replication of conditions relevant to astrophysics, planetary interiors, and stellar physics, for example. In recent years, experiments have significantly matured, and are now routinely providing high quality data in the areas of hydrodynamics and implosions, radiation transport and opacity, hugoniot and isentropic equation-of-state at high pressure, and material dynamics. Current facilities include high energy lasers, such as the 60 beam Omega laser at the Laboratory of Laser Energetics at Rochester and other kJ class lasers worldwide, as well as pulsed power machines, such as the Z facility at Sandia National Laboratories. These facilities routinely conduct experiments at radiation temperatures of 200 eV and pressures up to 40 MBar. New facilities, such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) will potentially reach regimes of 10 keV material temperature and GB pressure in the laboratory, allowing study of exciting new areas of physics, such as burning plasmas and pycnonuclear reactions, for example. We will review capabilities of these facilities, highlight examples of recent results in these areas, and discuss new regimes achievable on NIF and next generation pulsed power facilities. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48.

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