Summary
I am a Research Associate 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!
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