Beam Science with LaserNetUS & Other User Facilities

11:30 am – 1:54 pm, Wednesday March 19 // Session MAR-M45 //Anaheim Convention Center, 263A (Level 2)

Chair:: Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Sponsored by: DLS
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The Matter in Extreme Conditions LaserNetUS Facility Node at the Linac Coherent Light Source

12:06 pm – 12:18 pm

Presenter: Gilliss Dyer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Authors: Eric Galtier (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Hae Ja Lee (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Bob Nagler (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Dimitri Khaghani (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Nick Czapla (SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory), Eric Cunningham (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Chandra Breanne Curry (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Ariel Arnott (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Meriame Berboucha (Imperial College London), Nina Boiadjieva (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Philip Hart (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Peregrine McGehee (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Shao Xian Lee (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Gourab Chatterjee (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Arianna Gleason (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) is a node of LaserNetUS designed to study high energy density (HED) laboratory plasmas and dynamic compression physics by taking advantage of the exceptional diagnostic power of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), paired with high energy high power optical laser drivers. The unprecedented hard X-ray brightness, tunability, ultrashort pulse duration, high repetition rate, and spatial coherence of the hard X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) are ideally suited for extreme conditions science, which is important in areas such as astrophysics, national security, aerospace engineering, industrial materials, compact particle accelerators, and fusion energy. LaserNetUS supports MEC scientists in developing techniques and instruments for groundbreaking XFEL-enabled science in these areas and supporting user experiments at LCLS, which is an Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences user facility. Following recent guidance through the LaserNetUS initiative, support of user experiments in inertial fusion energy (IFE) fundamental research and development is a point of increased emphasis for MEC. This talk will cover recent developments and results at MEC, and how the node operates within LaserNetUS.

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