Summary
I am a Research Fellow in the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies (CIFS), working in computational High Energy Density Physics. My research covers Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and Magneto-Inertial Fusion (MIF). For ICF, I model experiments carried out on the NIF laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the OMEGA laser at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. For MIF, I study experiments carried out on the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories.
Research topics that I am currently interested in include:
- How can we measure the temperature and density of burning plasmas in ICF experiments?
- How do magnetic fields affect thermonuclear burn?
- How can we make efficient, intense neutron sources in the laboratory?
- How can we use Quantum Computers in Plasma Physics?
Here I am talking with Varsha Krishnan about my life as a Physicist, and here is a blog post about some of my current research.
Publications
Journals
Crilly AJ, Schlossberg DJ, Appelbe BD, et al., 2024, Measurements of dense fuel hydrodynamics in the NIF burning plasma experiments using backscattered neutron spectroscopy, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:31, ISSN:1070-664X
Patel D, Shah RC, Betti R, et al., 2023, Measuring higher-order moments of neutron-time-of-flight data for cryogenic inertial confinement fusion implosions on OMEGA, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:30, ISSN:1070-664X
Sio H, Moody JD, Pollock BB, et al., 2023, Performance scaling with an applied magnetic field in indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:30, ISSN:1070-664X
Moore AS, Schlossberg DJ, Appelbe BD, et al., 2023, Neutron time of flight (nToF) detectors for inertial fusion experiments, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol:94, ISSN:0034-6748
Hartouni EP, Moore AS, Crilly AJ, et al., 2023, Evidence for suprathermal ion distribution in burning plasmas, Nature Physics, Vol:19, ISSN:1745-2473, Pages:72-+