2022-01-20 - Science Team Meeting Notes

Existing planned workshops

• "High repetition rate experiments at kJ laser energies" - Glenzer
  • Hydrogen isotope mixing in droplet jets
  • High repetition rate diagnostics
• LaserNetUS - SPC of Lasernet
• Multi-institution: led by Peter Huer 
  • Accelerating the science, technology, and workforce base for IFE
  • High repetition rate machine learning within IFE research facilities
  • Worth mentioning MEC-U project (Tammy) small scale compression with NNSA upgrade
• MEC-U Science
  • Repetition rate: highest average power short and long pulse laser systems in LLNL system
  • Stopping power experiments / transport properties / fast ignition
    • Mixing in warm and hot dense matter
  • Imaging
    • Void collapse reference
  • Workforce
  • Laser-plasma interaction
    • Energy coupling – (precision plasma measurements)
    • Second harmonic 
  • Diagnostic development 
  • Comparison NIF - best shots have everything working together (target, laser, diagnostic function) 
    • Optimization with feedback based on the plasma parameters
    • Ablator physics in general - systematic studies; hydro instabilities (at least with seeded instabilities)
  • Thomson scattering - understanding temperature and density conditions

Ways to outline

High level introduction (describe / explain the platform)

Dynamics – spatio/temporal high repetition rate ;; continual improvements to source. Diagnostics continually being developed 

  Alluding to workforce development through the description of the open user facility with high throughput of experiments. Connects to Lasernet

Diagnostics, target physics, technology

Experimental platforms as a way

Show a configuration – how the platform would look. 

Leaning in with extra advantages of LCLS  — Focus in on areas where the alternative wouldn't work at all.