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, Appelbe BD, Mannion OM, et al., 2022, Constraints on ion velocity distributions from fusion product spectroscopy, Nuclear Fusion, Vol:62, ISSN:0029-5515
Forrest CJ, Crilly A, Schwemmlein A, et al., 2022, Measurements of low-mode asymmetries in the areal density of laser-direct-drive deuterium-tritium cryogenic implosions on OMEGA using neutron spectroscopy, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol:93, ISSN:0034-6748, Pages:1-9
Meaney KD, Kim Y, Hoffman NM, et al., 2022, Design of multi neutron-to-gamma converter array for measuring time resolved ion temperature of inertial confinement fusion implosions., Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol:93, ISSN:0034-6748, Pages:1-5
Mannion OM, Crilly AJ, Forrest CJ, et al., 2022, Measurements of the temperature and velocity of the dense fuel layer in inertial confinement fusion experiments, Physical Review E, Vol:105, ISSN:2470-0045
Walsh CA, O'Neill S, Chittenden JP, et al., 2022, Magnetized ICF implosions: Scaling of temperature and yield enhancement, Physics of Plasmas, Vol:29, ISSN:1070-664X