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Thomas Alan Mehlhorn
Researcher at United States Naval Research Laboratory
Publications - 244
Citations - 4331
Thomas Alan Mehlhorn is an academic researcher from United States Naval Research Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Z-pinch & Ion beam. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 240 publications receiving 4134 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Alan Mehlhorn include Sandia National Laboratories & University of Michigan.
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Pulsed-power-driven high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion research
M. Keith Matzen,M. A. Sweeney,R. G. Adams,James R. Asay,James E. Bailey,Guy R. Bennett,David E. Bliss,D.D. Bloomquist,Thomas A. Brunner,R. B. Campbell,Gordon A. Chandler,Christine Anne Coverdale,M. E. Cuneo,J.-P. Davis,C. Deeney,Michael P. Desjarlais,G. L. Donovan,Christopher Joseph Garasi,Thomas A. Haill,C.A. Hall,David Lester Hanson,M. J. Hurst,Brent Manley Jones,Marcus D. Knudson,R. J. Leeper,Raymond W. Lemke,Michael G. Mazarakis,Dillon H. McDaniel,Thomas Alan Mehlhorn,Thomas J. Nash,Craig L. Olson,John L. Porter,Patrick K. Rambo,S.E. Rosenthal,Gregory Rochau,L. E. Ruggles,Chimpén Ruiz,T. W. L. Sanford,J. F. Seamen,D.B. Sinars,S. A. Slutz,Ian C. Smith,Kenneth W. Struve,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey,E.A. Weinbrecht,David Franklin Wenger,Edmund Yu +47 more
TL;DR: The Z accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories delivers ∼20MA load currents to create high magnetic fields (>1000T) and high pressures (megabar to gigabar) in a z-pinch configuration, the magnetic pressure supersonically implodes a plasma created from a cylindrical wire array, which at stagnation typically generates a plasma with energy densities of about 10MJ∕cm3 and temperatures >1keV at 0.1% of solid density as mentioned in this paper.
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A finite material temperature model for ion energy deposition in ion‐driven inertial confinement fusion targets
TL;DR: In this paper, a model for use in ion-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) target design was developed to describe the deposition of energy by an arbitrary ion traversing a material of arbitrary composition, density, and temperature.
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The Integrated TIGER Series (ITS) of Coupled Electron/Photon Monte Carlo Transport Codes
TL;DR: ITS as discussed by the authors is a powerful and user-friendly software package permitting state-of-the-art Monte Carlo solution of linear time-integrated coupled electron/photon radiation transport problems.
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Integrated simulation of the generation and transport of proton beams from laser-target interaction
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid particle-in-cell (HPC) code is used to simulate the laser-plasmas interaction and its effect on the electron production and transport, as well as the distributed acceleration and spatial distribution.
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Characteristics and scaling of tungsten-wire-array z -pinch implosion dynamics at 20 MA.
M. E. Cuneo,Eduardo Waisman,Sergey Lebedev,J. P. Chittenden,William A. Stygar,Gordon A. Chandler,Roger Alan Vesey,Edmund Yu,Thomas J. Nash,David E. Bliss,G. S. Sarkisov,T. C. Wagoner,G. R. Bennett,Daniel Sinars,John L. Porter,Walter W. Simpson,L. E. Ruggles,David Franklin Wenger,Christopher Joseph Garasi,Bryan V. Oliver,R. A. Aragon,William E. Fowler,M C Hettrick,G. C. Idzorek,Duane D. Johnson,K. L. Keller,S. Lazier,J. S. McGurn,Thomas Alan Mehlhorn,T. C. Moore,D. S. Nielsen,J. Pyle,S. Speas,Kenneth W. Struve,Jose A. Torres +34 more
TL;DR: Cuneo et al. as discussed by the authors showed that very late acceleration is not a universal aspect of wire array implosions and varied the ablation period between 46% +/-2% and 71%+/-3% of the stagnation time.