High-Energy-Density Science

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FY2023

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Project Type Project Status
Finite Temperature Structure Prediction 22-FS-014 Stanimir Bonev Feasibility Study Final
Bayesian Optimization of High-Intensity, Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Integrating Experiments and Simulations 23-FS-001 Kelly Swanson Feasibility Study Final
High-Rate Carbide Growth by Evaporation 23-FS-011 Xavier Lepro Chavez Feasibility Study Final
Exploration of Directly Driven Liquid Deuterium-Tritium Wetted Foam Designs for Burning Plasma and High Neutron Yield Applications 23-FS-018 Gregory Kemp Feasibility Study Final
Advanced Time-Resolved Neutron Time-of-Flight Diagnostics for Burning Plasmas 23-FS-038 Justin Jeet Feasibility Study Final
A New Data-Driven Standard Solar Model 22-ERD-048 John Ruby Exploratory Research Final
Addressing Key Physics Problems in High-Energy-Density Plasmas with a Novel Kinetic Simulation Capability 23-ERD-007 Justin Angus Exploratory Research Continuing
Precision Polishing of Spheres via In-situ Process Monitoring and Machine-learning-based Optimization 23-ERD-014 Suhas Bhandarkar Exploratory Research Continuing
Exploring Innovative High-Gain Ignition Concepts for Inertial Fusion Energy 23-ERD-023 Stephan Maclaren Exploratory Research Final
Plasma Transport at the Nexus of Measurement and Modeling 20-ERD-035 Robert Rudd Exploratory Research Final
Optimal Uses of Magnetic Fields for Indirect-Drive Inertial Fusion 23-ERD-025 David Strozzi Exploratory Research Continuing
Interatomic Potentials: A Framework for Generating Quantum-Accurate Material Models 21-ERD-005 Amit Samanta Exploratory Research Final
High-Order General Discrete Ordinates Method Enabling Efficient Deterministic Transport in Hydrodynamic Simulations 23-ERD-026 Milan Holec Exploratory Research Continuing
Exploring a Novel Way to Mitigate Surface Damage in Tokamaks 21-ERD-009 Michael Campanell Exploratory Research Final
Data-Driven Atomic Physics with High Repetition Rate Experiments 23-ERD-035 Derek Mariscal 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 Exploratory Research Final
Pulsed-Plasma Deposition of Ultrathick Diamond-like Carbon Films on Nonplanar Surfaces 23-ERD-040 Alison Engwall Exploratory Research Continuing
Driving Design with Cognitive Simulation 21-ERD-028 Jayson Peterson Exploratory Research Final
High Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagrams and Free Energies from First Principles 23-ERD-042 Stanimir Bonev Exploratory Research Continuing
Measurement of Mutual Diffusion in Warm Dense Matter 21-ERD-029 Tilo Doeppner Exploratory Research Final