TL;DR: In this article, a planar HED experiment at the OMEGA and NIF laser facilities was designed specifically to study the feedthrough of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in a thin layer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations to calculate the momentum distribution of the homogeneous electron gas at finite temperature and demonstrated how the restricted PIMC method can be extended to incorporate open paths in order to allow for simulations in fermionic systems where a sign problem is present.

TL;DR: In this paper, the wakefield acceleration of electron by Bessel-Gaussian laser pulse in a homogeneous plasma in the presence of an external magnetic field is investigated and compared with results of electron acceleration by Gaussian pulse.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental design, intended to investigate the evolution of the single mode Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in the late time regime is proposed and theoretically analyzed, and the authors assess the degree to which, using 10-kJ-class lasers, one can expect to observe the predicted re-acceleration of the height of structures produced by RT, which occurs in low-A simulations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied nuclear emulsions to identify laser-accelerated protons by suppressing the background noise signals through the use of desensitized development conditions, i.e., a developer solution with a pH of 7.3 and a development time of 25min.

TL;DR: In this article, a radiative burn-through experiment is proposed to observe if a radiation wave transit through a Fe2O3 sample is consistent with the factor of 2-4 change in the iron opacity seen in the Sandia National Laboratory Z experiments.

TL;DR: Theoretically predicted red shifts of the Cu Kα emission from partly populated M-shell ionic states have been studied in experiments performed at the LULI2000 kJ-ns laser facility as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the opacities of iron, aluminum, and bromine plasmas were calculated using the Starrett and Saumon average-atom model allowing for ion correlations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative importance of ionic structure on the opacity of dense plasmas was assessed by using the potential of mean force as a scattering potential within the Kubo-Greenwood formalism.

TL;DR: In this article, a new technique for optimizing the conversion efficiency of laser light to hard x rays at moderate Iλ2 (mid 1013 W/cm2) was proposed, assuming that the two plasmon decay plasma instability is the predominant acceleration mechanism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an experiment performed in 2016 at the LULI2000 laser facility in which X-ray and XUV absorption structures of nickel hot plasmas were measured simultaneously.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ion density of HED cylindrical plasmas used in dot spectroscopy experiments is derived from the aspect ratio (height-to-radius) of the cylinder and the optical depth of the Heα-y line.

TL;DR: In this article, the implication of the Biermann battery on turbulent magnetic field amplification in colliding plasma jets produced by high-power lasers is studied by using the FLASH code.

TL;DR: In this paper, detailed ionic structures and transport properties of warm dense nitrogen have been investigated in the density and temperature ranges of 1.5-3.0 cm−3 and 1000-50,000 K, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, nonlinear motion of vortex sheets with non-uniform current is investigated taking the magnetohydrodynamic Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (MHD RMI) and the magnet-hydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (mHD KHI) as the examples.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple analytical expression for the expectation value for the level shifts in the framework of Rosmej's formalism was provided, based on a particular case of a formula published by Shertzer.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experiment on ion acceleration in near-critical density plasma is conducted using a high-intensity 1053 nm linearly polarized laser pulse with a laser intensity of 3.5'×'1018W/cm2.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework for calculating two-photon absorption specific to the experiments performed at the Sandia National Laboratory is developed, and preliminary calculations suggest that the radiant flux attenuation by two photon absorption does not account for the higher than predicted experimentally inferred opacities.

TL;DR: In this article, a scheme of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has been used in CTS measurements for the first time, which shortens the probe pulse, which increases the scattered power, and thus collected scattered signal of CTS.

TL;DR: In this article, different techniques are explored to reduce wall loss in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) hohlraums, and quantitatively estimates the reduction in wall loss for both elements and cocktails on reducing their initial densities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an experiment recently performed on the LULI 2000 laser facility mostly devoted to measurements of the absorption in the 60 − 180 eV spectral region in a copper plasma at a temperature of 10 to 30 eV and a density of few mg/cm3.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the nonthermal acceleration of relativistic electrons due to the laser-induced wakefield acceleration with a static external magnetic field using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the thermodynamic properties of molybdenum at condensed state (with densities ρ ≥ ρ 0 = 10.22 ǫg/cm 3 ) in the wide range of temperatures (T = 1 −10 4 ÃǫeV).

TL;DR: In this paper, a 2D relativistic fluid model is presented in which the interaction of an ultrashort laser pulse with air, leading to the electromagnetic pulse generation, is investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a feasibility study for a laboratory experiment of a non-resonant streaming instability at the Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ).

TL;DR: In this article, the general properties of ultra-short electromagnetic pulse (USP) interactions with highly charge ions in dense and high temperature plasmas are considered, based on the possibility of USP penetration into optically dense media due to their broad spectral distribution.

TL;DR: In this paper, a laboratory measurement of the Zeeman effect in the soft X-ray range can be realized using a laser-produced strong magnetic field and laser-driven magnetic field compression.

TL;DR: In this article, a new method of time resolved temperature diagnostics in dynamic hohlraum experiments has been developed via a one-dimensional imaging system consisting of a streak camera, with the help of the axial radiation power profile measured by an X-ray power measurement system using the same type of scintillator as in the 1-D imaging system.

TL;DR: In this article, density functional theory (DFT) was used to calculate the optical properties of Al2O3 for photon energies from 0 to 90 eV in conditions ranging from crystalline to warm dense matter conditions, at solid densities.