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October 22, 2013, 3:00pm to 4:15pm
Colloquia
MBG Auditorium
Creating, Diagnosing and Controlling High-energy-density Matter with Lasers
Dr. Yuan Ping
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Abstract:
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Since their invention in 1960’s, lasers with power spanning from KiloWatt to PetaWatt have been widely used in almost every branch of science, leading to numerous discoveries and novel techniques. At present, lasers are capable of creating extreme states of matter in a laboratory, at conditions resembling those most extreme in the Universe: they heat matter up to the temperatures inside stars, they create electric field and magnetic fields orders of magnitude higher than the most powerful accelerators, they generate x-rays, gamma rays and ultra-relativistic particles, and they could be employed to achieve fusion energy. In this talk I will give a brief overview of high-energy-density physics, and introduce some aspects of the laser-matter interaction, particularly in the warm dense matter regime, a “malfunction junction” between solid, liquid, gas and plasma, where exotic behavior occurs, and where both theoretical and experimental studies remain challenging.Colloquium Committee:
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 2019-2020 Colloquium Committee is comprised of the following people. Please feel free to contact them by e-mail regarding any possible speakers or topics for future colloquia.
Carol Ann Austin, caustin@pppl.gov
Marc-Andre DeLooz, mdelooz@pppl.gov
Erik Gilson, egilson@pppl.gov
Jessica Ilagan, jilagan@pppl.gov
Igor Kaganovich, ikaganov@pppl.gov
- Carol Ann Austin 609-243-2484
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