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FY2023

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Research Category Project Type Project Status
Exploring Innovative High-Gain Ignition Concepts for Inertial Fusion Energy 23-ERD-023 Stephan Maclaren High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Exploration of Directly Driven Liquid Deuterium-Tritium Wetted Foam Designs for Burning Plasma and High Neutron Yield Applications 23-FS-018 Gregory Kemp High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
Addressing Key Physics Problems in High-Energy-Density Plasmas with a Novel Kinetic Simulation Capability 23-ERD-007 Justin Angus High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
High Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagrams and Free Energies from First Principles 23-ERD-042 Stanimir Bonev High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
High-Repetition-Rate Diagnostics with Integrated Active Control for a New Paradigm of High-Energy-Density Experiments 21-ERD-015 Matthew Hill High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Extending Equation-of-State Measurements to Gigabar Pressures 22-ERD-005 Michael Macdonald High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Optimal Uses of Magnetic Fields for Indirect-Drive Inertial Fusion 23-ERD-025 David Strozzi High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Bayesian Optimization of High-Intensity, Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Integrating Experiments and Simulations 23-FS-001 Kelly Swanson High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
A New Data-Driven Standard Solar Model 22-ERD-048 John Ruby High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
High-Order General Discrete Ordinates Method Enabling Efficient Deterministic Transport in Hydrodynamic Simulations 23-ERD-026 Milan Holec High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Advanced Time-Resolved Neutron Time-of-Flight Diagnostics for Burning Plasmas 23-FS-038 Justin Jeet High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
Towards a More Predictive Framework for Laser-Driven Particle Sources through Experimental Data-Informed Machine Learning Models 23-ERD-047 Raspberry Simpson High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Foam Fills for Laser-Plasma Instability Suppression 21-ERD-041 Peter Amendt High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Precision Polishing of Spheres via In-situ Process Monitoring and Machine-learning-based Optimization 23-ERD-014 Suhas Bhandarkar High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
A Kinetic Transport Model for Magnetized Radiation-Hydrodynamics 22-ERD-034 Mark Sherlock High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Interatomic Potentials: A Framework for Generating Quantum-Accurate Material Models 21-ERD-005 Amit Samanta High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Shock Ignition in Indirect Drive: A New Approach to High Fusion Gains 22-DR-010 Lindsay Perkins High-Energy-Density Science Disruptive Research Continuing
Dopants for High Density Carbon 21-ERD-048 Tom Braun High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Data-Driven Atomic Physics with High Repetition Rate Experiments 23-ERD-035 Derek Mariscal High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
High-Rate Carbide Growth by Evaporation 23-FS-011 Xavier Lepro Chavez High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final