Types of experiments:
generally involving high energy density plasmas (>105 atm)
Can achieve multi-GPa
pressures, 103 g cm-3 densities, multi-million K temperatures
in 10 cm3 volume
Sophisticated diagnostics are
available at these facilities (time resolved imaging and
spectroscopy, neutron and other particle detectors, fast
radiography, etc.)
-Plasma instability studies (instability growth
rate, including applications to supernova explosions)
- EOS studies (e.g. of hydrogen under very high pressure,
applications to giant planet interiors)
- Radiation and thermal energy transport
- Atomic physics and opacities
- Shock physics