HED Science Community Lauds Career of NIF’s Warren Hsing

When NIF’s Warren Hsing rode off into retirement, friends and colleagues came together virtually to celebrate his successful career as an international leader of the high energy density science community.

LLNL Joins New Research on Atom-Changing Pressures

HED scientists from LLNL helped launch the Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures to better understand the physical and astrophysical properties of matter under pressures strong enough to change the structure of individual atoms.

ICF Implosions Shown to Have Significant 3D Asymmetries

Data correlating two factors that lead to implosion asymmetries have brought LLNL scientists a step closer to understanding the gap between simulations and performance of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).

NIF’s Richard Leach Elected Senior Member of SPIE

LLNL research engineer Richard Leach, whose work includes automating the alignment of NIF’s lasers, was recently elected a senior member of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Icarus Camera Soars Close to NIF’s Sun—and Thrives!

Unlike its ill-fated namesake from Greek mythology, the Icarus camera system is flying high at NIF and other research laboratories, with no end to its usefulness in sight. Icarus is an ultrafast multi-frame digital x-ray camera system developed at Sandia National Laboratories.

APS Honors Scientists for Plasma Physics Research at NIF

The American Physical Society (APS) has honored three Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists with an award that recognizes nearly a decade of frontier laboratory astrophysics research at the National Ignition Facility and other top high-energy laser facilities.

Record EOS Measurement Pressures Shed Light on Stellar Evolution

Using the power of the National Ignition Facility, the world’s highest-energy laser system, researchers at LLNL and an international team of collaborators have developed an experimental capability for measuring the basic properties of matter, such as the equation of state (EOS), at the highest pressures thus far achieved in a controlled laboratory experiment.

Scientists Encouraged by Initial Frustraum Experiments at NIF

Initial NIF experiments using a full-scale version of the Frustraum hohlraum have produced nearly round ICF implosions and greater energy absorption.