In this workshop we will discuss cutting-edge user research, as well as near and long-term needs for driving MEC science forward. Near term discussions will focus on the next few years during which the current MEC instrument will continue to run, identifying diagnostic and capability needs. The long term picture is that of the planned MEC-U facility, which passed CD-1 at the end of 2021 and is now in preliminary design. With 10x higher energy in the long pulse laser, an unprecedented 1.5 kW average power, 10 Hz Petawatt laser, and a greatly expanded experimental capability, this upgrade will be a step change in the range of plasma and dynamic material conditions accessible to MEC.
Organizers:
Gillis Dyer
Hae Ja Lee
Dimitri Khaghani
Time | Title of Talk | Speaker (First, Last Name) | Institution | |
8:00 AM | MEC overview | Gilliss Dyer | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | |
8:25 AM | MEC Instrument: shock drive platforms | Hae Ja Lee | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | |
8:50 AM | Chemistry of light element mixtures at planetary interior conditions | Dominik Kraus | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf | |
9:15 AM | X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging of Void Collapse in ICF Ablator Materials | Arianna Gleason | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | |
9:40 AM | BREAK | All | ||
9:50 AM | Ultrafast studies on non-equilibrium dynamics at ultrahigh pressures in silicate glasses | Roopali Kukreja | University of California, Davis | |
10:15 AM | Recent Experiments and New Ideas for MEC Experiments | Jon Eggert | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | |
10:40 AM | Effect of Iron on Silicate Melts at the Extreme Conditions of Deep Planetary Interiors | Sang-Heon Shim | Arizona State University | |
11:05 AM | MEC Instrument: short pulse platforms | Dimitri Khaghani | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | |
11:30 AM | Model Independent Ion Temperature, Debye Temperature and Bond Strength Measurements in WDM | Tom White | University of Nevada, Reno | |
11:55 AM | Lunch break |