A review on ab initio studies of static, transport, and optical properties of polystyrene under extreme conditions for inertial confinement fusion applications

SX Hu, LA Collins, TR Boehly, YH Ding, PB Radha… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Polystyrene (CH), commonly known as “plastic,” has been one of the widely used ablator
materials for capsule designs in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Knowing its precise …

A line-binned treatment of opacities for the spectra and light curves from neutron star mergers

CJ Fontes, CL Fryer, AL Hungerford… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The electromagnetic observations of GW170817 were able to dramatically increase our
understanding of neutron star mergers beyond what we learned from gravitational waves …

Actinide opacities for modelling the spectra and light curves of kilonovae

CJ Fontes, CL Fryer, RT Wollaeger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We extend previous ab initio calculations of lanthanide opacities to include a complete set of
actinide opacities for use in the modelling of kilonova (KN) light curves and spectra …

Review of the 1st EUV Light Sources Code Comparison Workshop

J Sheil, O Versolato, V Bakshi, H Scott - Atoms, 2023 - mdpi.com
We review the results of the 1 st Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Light Sources Code Comparison
Workshop. The goal of this workshop was to provide a platform for specialists in EUV light …

The new Los Alamos opacity code ATOMIC

P Hakel, ME Sherrill, S Mazevet, J Abdallah Jr… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2006 - Elsevier
In this work we report on developments of ATOMIC, a Los Alamos code designed to
compute opacities under both LTE and non-LTE conditions for a large range of elements …

Review of the 4th NLTE code comparison workshop

JG Rubiano, R Florido, C Bowen, RW Lee… - High Energy Density …, 2007 - Elsevier
We review the critical results of the 4th Non-LTE Code Comparison Workshop held in
December 2005. To test the NLTE population kinetics codes, both steady-state and time …

Radiative losses of solar coronal plasmas

J Colgan, J Abdallah Jr, ME Sherrill… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
A comprehensive set of calculations of the radiative losses of solar coronal plasmas is
presented. The Los Alamos suite of atomic structure and collision codes is used to generate …

Elemental fractionation in aerosol laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy with nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation

KS Latty, KC Hartig - Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 2023 - Elsevier
For the purpose of realizing atmospheric radiation plume tracking, laser-induced breakdown
spectroscopy (LIBS) was performed to characterize Cs atomic emissions from airborne …

Global 3D radiation hydrodynamic simulations of proto-Jupiter's convective envelope

Z Zhu, YF Jiang, H Baehr, AN Youdin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The core accretion model of giant planet formation has been challenged by the discovery of
recycling flows between the planetary envelope and the disc that can slow or stall envelope …

Multiply-excited states and their contribution to opacity in CO2 laser-driven tin-plasma conditions

J Sheil, OO Versolato, AJ Neukirch… - Journal of Physics B …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A recent study (2020 Nat. Commun. 11 2334) has found that transitions between multiply-
excited configurations in open 4d-subshell tin ions are the dominant contributors to intense …