Presentations for Download

The following are the presentations from the NIF & JLF User Groups Meeting that are available for download.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Time Presentation
8:05 am NIF User Office Director, Opening Remarks (No Presentation)
Kevin Fournier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:15 am Vice Chair, NIF User Group (No Presentation)
Maria Gatu-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8:20 am Chair, JLF User Group
Tom White, University of Nevada, Reno
8:25 am Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director (No Presentation)
Kim Budil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:35 am National Ignition Facility & Photon Science, Principal Associate Director (No Presentation)
Jeff Wisoff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Physical and Life Sciences, Physics Division Leader (No Presentation)
Will Evans, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:50 am Jupiter Laser Facility Director (No Presentation)
Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:55 am The New National IFE Ecosystem
Tammy Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:10 am

Present understanding of ignition and Gain using indirect-drive inertial
confinement fusion target designs on the U.S. National Ignition Facility

Omar Hurricane, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

9:45 am Status of the NIF
Gordon Brunton, NIF Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:05 am NIF User Office: What's New for Users at the NIF
Kevin Fournier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:45 am Spontaneous and Pre-Imposed Magnetic Fields in Laboratory Plasmas on the NIF (No Presentation)
Chris Walsh, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:15 am Quantifying Magnetic Field Effects in Strongly Magnetized Cylindrical
Implosions

Mathieu Bailly-Grandvaux, University of California San Diego
11:45 am Calming (or not) Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability with Pre-Imposed B-Field
Alexis Casner, Commissariat Energie Atomique
2:45 pm Questions in Nuclear Astrophysics
Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University
3:15 pm Neutron-Induced Reactions in the High-Density NIF Plasma and Their
Nuclear-Astrophysics Nexus

Michael Paul, Hebrew University, Racah Institute of Physics
3:40 pm Towards the First Plasma-Electron Screening Experiment at the
National Ignition Facility

Daniel Casey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
4:05 pm Constraining the 3He+3He Gamow Energy Probed in High
Energy Density Plasmas at the National Ignition Facility

Patrick Adrian, Los Alamos National Laboratory
4:30 pm Probing Nuclear-Plasma Interactions at NIF (Virtual) (No Presentation)
Andrew Ratkiewicz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

 

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Time Presentations
8:00 am Opening Remarks (No Presentation)
Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tom White, University of Neveda Reno
8:10 am Single-Shot, All-Optical, 2D Time-Resolved Measurements of
Laser-Produced Underdense Plasmas at The COMET Laser
(No Presentation)
Elizabeth Grace, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:30 am Laser-Plasma Doping as A Tool for Material Research: From
Quantum Emitters to Superconducting Diamond

Arun Persaud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
8:50 am Single Line-Of-Sight Multimodal Radiography with The Titan Laser
Matthew Selwood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:10 am Investigating the Electrical Conductivity and Dielectric Properties of
Compressed Hydrocarbons Using Ultrafast Terahertz Radiation

Eric Sung, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
9:30 am Tensile Strength of High Entropy Alloys by Pulsed Lasers On Janus
Sheron Tavares, University of California San Diego
9:50 am Mode Conversion of The COMET Laser And Probing Intense Magnetic
Fields in Underdense Plasmas
(No Presentation)
Andrew Longman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:30 am JLF Updates and Overview
Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Brent Stuart, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:30 am Community Feedback and Discussion
Tom White, University of Neveda Reno
3:00 pm Enhanced Proton Acceleration Efficiency Through Electron
Confinement

Derek Mariscal (on behalf of Natsumi Iwata), Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
3:30 pm Ion Coupling in Dense Matter Using Nuclear Reactions for
Applications to Ion Fast Ignition and HED Science

Drew Higginson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
3:50 pm The Effects of HED Plasma Environments of Nuclear Fission
Ellie Tubman (on behalf of Lee Bernstein), University of California,
Berkley
4:10 pm Exploring the High-Pressure Phase Diagram of Carbon Via Hydrocarbon
Chemistry

Armin Bergermann, University of Rostock
4:30 pm Oxygen opacity experiments for stellar interiors at NIF (No Presentation)
Daniel Mayes, University of Texas Austin

 

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Time Presentations
8:00 am NIF User Group Meeting and Discussion
Maria Gatu-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Vice-Chair,
NIF User Group)
8:30 am Hydrogen Shock Experiments and The Structure of Stars
Ryan Rygg, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
9:00 am Low-Temperature Compression of Crystalline Hydrogen (No Presentation)
Raymond Jeanloz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9:30 am The Ionization of Dense Carbon Plasmas Measured With X-Ray
Thomson Scattering At The National Ignition Facility

Luke Fletcher, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
10:00 am Uncovering The Novel Post-Diamond Phase Of Carbon Through NIF
Experiments and Billion-Atom MD Simulations
(No Presentation)
Ivan Oleynik, University of South Florida
10:45 am General Sustainment ARC
Brianna Arth, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:05 am Amplifier Refurbishment
Matthew Jones, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:25 am Laser Performance Refreshes
Larry Pelz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory