Almost 30 years since the last UK nuclear test, it remains necessary regularly to underwrite
the safety and effectiveness of the National Nuclear Deterrent. To do so has been possible …

A study of a nanosecond laser irradiation on the titanium-layer-buried gold planar target is
presented. The time-resolved x-ray emission spectra of titanium tracer are measured by a …

The synthetic emission spectra and opacity of high-density, high-temperature germanium
(Z= 32) plasma from super-transition-array (STA) calculations are presented. The viability of …

Short pulse laser heated buried layers experiments have been performed on the Orion laser
facility to study the time-resolved emission characteristics of plasmas with mass densities≥ …

The Orion high-resolution x-ray (OHREX) spectrometer has been a successful tool for
measuring the shapes of density-broadened spectral lines produced in short-pulse heated …

Accurate transport properties—such as opacity, and electrical & thermal conductivities—
provide crucial input for the intricate physics models necessary to describe the dynamics of …

Laser pulses have the shortest duration, smallest spatial extent, highest power, longest
range and highest electric field of any known physical probe. In just 5 decades, the laser has …

Advanced experimental and theoretical techniques have been applied to outstanding
challenges in high energy density science. By careful selection of laser parameters, target …