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Thomas James Awe
Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories
Publications - 52
Citations - 1791
Thomas James Awe is an academic researcher from Sandia National Laboratories. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion & Inertial confinement fusion. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 44 publications receiving 1329 citations.
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Experimental Demonstration of Fusion-Relevant Conditions in Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion
Matthew R. Gomez,Stephen A. Slutz,Adam B Sefkow,Daniel Sinars,Kelly Hahn,Stephanie Hansen,Eric Harding,Patrick Knapp,Paul Schmit,Christopher Jennings,Thomas James Awe,M. Geissel,Dean C. Rovang,Gordon A. Chandler,Gary Wayne Cooper,Michael Edward Cuneo,A. J. Harvey-Thompson,Mark Herrmann,M. H. Hess,O. Johns,Derek C. Lamppa,Matthew Martin,Ryan D. McBride,Kyle Peterson,John L. Porter,G. K. Robertson,Gregory Rochau,Carlos L. Ruiz,Mark E. Savage,Ian C. Smith,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey +31 more
TL;DR: This Letter presents results from the first fully integrated experiments testing the magnetized liner inertial fusion concept, indicating significant fuel magnetization given that the estimated radial areal density of the plasma is only 2 mg = cm(2).
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Magnetically Driven Implosions for Inertial Confinement Fusion at Sandia National Laboratories
M. E. Cuneo,Mark Herrmann,Daniel Sinars,S. A. Slutz,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey,Adam B Sefkow,Gregory Rochau,Gordon A. Chandler,James E. Bailey,John L. Porter,Ryan D. McBride,Dean C. Rovang,Michael G. Mazarakis,Edmund Yu,Derek C. Lamppa,Kyle Peterson,Charles Nakhleh,Stephanie Hansen,A. J. Lopez,Mark E. Savage,Christopher Jennings,Matthew Martin,Raymond W. Lemke,Briggs W. Atherton,Ian C. Smith,P. K. Rambo,Michael Jones,M. R. Lopez,P. J. Christenson,M. A. Sweeney,Brent Manley Jones,L. A. McPherson,Eric Harding,Matthew R. Gomez,Patrick Knapp,Thomas James Awe,R. J. Leeper,Carlos L. Ruiz,Gary Wayne Cooper,Kelly Hahn,John Lee McKenney,Albert Carter Owen,G. R. McKee,G. T. Leifeste,D. J. Ampleford,Eduardo Waisman,A. J. Harvey-Thompson,R. J. Kaye,M. H. Hess,S. E. Rosenthal,M. K. Matzen +51 more
TL;DR: The magnetized liners inertial fusion (MagLIF) concept was introduced by Slutz and Vesey as mentioned in this paper, which is in the class of magneto-inertial fusion targets.
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Review of pulsed power-driven high energy density physics research on Z at Sandia
Daniel Sinars,M. A. Sweeney,C. S. Alexander,D. J. Ampleford,Tommy Ao,John P. Apruzese,C. Aragon,D. J. Armstrong,Kevin N. Austin,Thomas James Awe,Andrew Baczewski,James E. Bailey,Kevin Baker,C. R. Ball,H. T. Barclay,S. Beatty,Kris Beckwith,Kate Bell,J. F. Benage,Nichelle Bennett,Karen Blaha,David E. Bliss,J. J. Boerner,Christopher Jay Bourdon,B. A. Branch,Justin Brown,E.M. Campbell,R. B. Campbell,D. G. Chacon,Gordon A. Chandler,K. Chandler,P. J. Christenson,M. D. Christison,E. B. Christner,Raymond C. Clay,Kyle Robert Cochrane,Anthony P. Colombo,B. M. Cook,Christine Anne Coverdale,M. E. Cuneo,J. S. Custer,Arati Dasgupta,J.-P. Davis,Michael P. Desjarlais,Daniel H. Dolan,J. D. Douglass,G. S. Dunham,Sakun Duwal,Aaron Edens,M. J. Edwards,Evstati Evstatiev,Bernardo Farfan,J. R. Fein,Ella Suzanne Field,J. A. Fisher,Timothy McGuire Flanagan,Dawn G. Flicker,M. D. Furnish,Benjamin R. Galloway,P. Gard,T. A. Gardiner,Matthias Geissel,John Giuliani,Michael E. Glinsky,M. R. Gomez,T. Gomez,Gary Grim,Kelly Hahn,Thomas A. Haill,N. D. Hamlin,J. H. Hammer,Stephanie Hansen,H. L. Hanshaw,Eric Harding,A. J. Harvey-Thompson,D. Headley,Mark Herrmann,M. H. Hess,C. Highstrete,Omar Hurricane,Brian Hutsel,Christopher Jennings,O. Johns,Drew Johnson,Mark D. Johnston,Brent Manley Jones,M. C. Jones,P. A. Jones,P. Kalita,R. J. Kamm,J. W. Kellogg,Mark L. Kiefer,Mark Kimmel,Patrick Knapp,Marcus D. Knudson,A. Kreft,George Laity,P. W. Lake,Derek C. Lamppa,W. L. Langston,J. S. Lash,K. R. LeChien,K. R. LeChien,Joshua J. Leckbee,R. J. Leeper,G. T. Leifeste,Raymond W. Lemke,William Lewis,S. A. Lewis,G. Loisel,Quinn Looker,A. J. Lopez,D. J. Lucero,Steve MacLaren,Rudolph J. Magyar,Michael A. Mangan,Matthew Martin,Thomas R. Mattsson,Maurice Keith Matzen,A. J. Maurer,Michael G. Mazarakis,Ryan D. McBride,Harry McLean,C. A. McCoy,G. R. McKee,John Lee McKenney,A. R. Miles,J. A. Mills,M. D. Mitchell,Nathan W. Moore,Clayton E. Myers,Taisuke Nagayama,G. Natoni,A. C. Owen,S. G. Patel,Kyle Peterson,Timothy D. Pointon,John L. Porter,Andrew Porwitzky,S. Radovich,Kumar Raman,Patrick K. Rambo,William D. Reinhart,G. K. Robertson,Gregory Rochau,Seth Root,D. V. Rose,Dean C. Rovang,Carlos L. Ruiz,Daniel Ruiz,D. Sandoval,Mark E. Savage,M. E. Sceiford,M. A. Schaeuble,Paul Schmit,Marius Schollmeier,Jens Schwarz,Christopher T Seagle,Adam B Sefkow,David B. Seidel,G. A. Shipley,Jonathon Shores,Luke Shulenburger,Sean Simpson,S. A. Slutz,Ian C. Smith,C. S. Speas,P. E. Specht,M. J. Speir,D. Spencer,P. T. Springer,A. M. Steiner,Brian Stoltzfus,William A. Stygar,J. Ward Thornhill,Jose A. Torres,Joshua P. Townsend,C. Tyler,Roger Alan Vesey,P. E. Wakeland,Timothy J. Webb,E. A. Weinbrecht,M. R. Weis,Dale Welch,Jack LeRoy Wise,M. Wu,David Yager-Elorriaga,A. Yu,Edmund Yu +188 more
TL;DR: The 80-TW "Z" pulsed power facility at Sandia National Laboratories as discussed by the authors is the largest pulsed-power device in the world today, and it can discharge up to 22'MJ of energy stored in its capacitor banks into a current pulse that rises in 100'ns and peaks at a current as high as 30 MA in low-inductance cylindrical targets.
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Understanding fuel magnetization and mix using secondary nuclear reactions in magneto-inertial fusion.
Paul Schmit,Patrick Knapp,Stephanie Hansen,Matthew R. Gomez,Kelly Hahn,Daniel Sinars,Kyle Peterson,S. A. Slutz,Adam B Sefkow,Thomas James Awe,Eric Harding,Christopher Jennings,Gordon A. Chandler,Gary Wayne Cooper,M. E. Cuneo,M. Geissel,A. J. Harvey-Thompson,Mark Herrmann,M. H. Hess,O. Johns,Derek C. Lamppa,Matthew Martin,Ryan D. McBride,John L. Porter,G. K. Robertson,Gregory Rochau,Dean C. Rovang,Carlos L. Ruiz,Mark E. Savage,Ian C. Smith,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey +31 more
TL;DR: A method to diagnose fuel magnetization using the ratio of overall deuterium-tritium to deuterum-deuterium neutron yields is developed and is applied to recent MIF experiments, indicating that significant magnetic confinement of charged burn products was achieved and suggesting a relatively low-mix environment.
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Conceptual designs of two petawatt-class pulsed-power accelerators for high-energy-density-physics experiments
William A. Stygar,Thomas James Awe,James E. Bailey,Nichelle Bennett,E. W. Breden,E. M. Campbell,E. M. Campbell,R. E. Clark,R. A. Cooper,M. E. Cuneo,J. B. Ennis,D. L. Fehl,T. C. Genoni,Matthew R. Gomez,G. W. Greiser,F. R. Gruner,Mark Herrmann,Brian Hutsel,Christopher Jennings,D. O. Jobe,Brent Manley Jones,M. C. Jones,P. A. Jones,Patrick Knapp,J. S. Lash,K. R. LeChien,Joshua J. Leckbee,R. J. Leeper,S. A. Lewis,F. W. Long,D. J. Lucero,E. A. Madrid,Matthew Martin,Maurice Keith Matzen,Michael G. Mazarakis,Ryan D. McBride,G. R. McKee,C. L. Miller,J. K. Moore,C. B. Mostrom,T. D. Mulville,Kyle Peterson,John L. Porter,David Reisman,Gregory Rochau,G. E. Rochau,D. V. Rose,Dean C. Rovang,Mark E. Savage,M. E. Sceiford,Paul Schmit,R. F. Schneider,Jens Schwarz,Adam B Sefkow,D.B. Sinars,S. A. Slutz,R. B. Spielman,Brian Stoltzfus,Carsten Thoma,Roger Alan Vesey,P. E. Wakeland,Dale Welch,M. L. Wisher,J. R. Woodworth +63 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed conceptual designs of two petawatt-class pulsed-power accelerators: Z 300 and Z 800, which are based on an accelerator architecture that is founded on two concepts: single-stage electrical-pulse compression and impedance matching.