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Emma McBride (Dawn Harmer/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Ryan's work explores a new nonlinear electron streaming instability that can play an important role in magnetic field amplification in both high-energy astrophysical scenarios (e.g. GRBs and blazar jets) and laboratory laser-driven HED plasmas.

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) announced the DOE Mission Science Allocation Awards for Year 2021 and the proposal led by Dr. Mianzhen Mo from the High Energy Density Science Division at SLAC was awarded 3,000,000 processor hours.

Illustration of Helium bubbles on tungsten material properties

Density with overlaid magnetic fields lines (white) for the initial conditions of the finite

Technicians in white suits work in a pit-like chamber

Supernova remnants like W49B (shown in X-ray, radio and infrared light) accelerate electrons and protons to high energies in shock waves.

The theory grant is led by Frederico Fiuza and is entitled: ACCELERATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF 3D PREDICTIVE MODELING FOR THE MEC PW UPGRADE. The second LDRD grant is led by Mianzhen Mo and will pursue ULTRAFAST ELECTERON-DIFRRACTION STUDIES OF RADIATION-DAMAGED MATERIALS. ACCELERATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF 3D PREDICTIVE MODELING FOR THE MEC PW UPGRADE

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DOE Early Career Awards Recipient: Emma McBride

HED student J. Ryan Peterson was awarded the Best Student Poster prize at the NIF and JLF Users Group Meeting 2021

DOE Fusion Panel Approves Long-Range Plan

HED - Stanford collaboration received DOE Mission Science award entitled: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Helium effects in Tungsten"

Nonthermal electron and ion acceleration by magnetic reconnection in large laser-driven plasmas

HED student Martin Lindsey was awarded a new NSF supplement grant: NSF 16-564 NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering

Laser fusion reactor approaches ‘burning plasma’ milestone

Giant lasers help re-create supernovas’ explosive, mysterious physics

HEDS Division has been awarded two new Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) grants for FY21