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List of works by Richard Petrasso

A Particle X-ray Temporal Diagnostic (PXTD) for studies of kinetic, multi-ion effects, and ion-electron equilibration rates in Inertial Confinement Fusion plasmas at OMEGA (invited).

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A broadband proton backlighting platform to probe shock propagation in low-density systems

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A compact neutron spectrometer for characterizing inertial confinement fusion implosions at OMEGA and the NIF.

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A compact proton spectrometer for measurement of the absolute DD proton spectrum from which yield and ρR are determined in thin-shell inertial-confinement-fusion implosions

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A laboratory study of asymmetric magnetic reconnection in strongly driven plasmas

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

A magnetic particle time-of-flight (MagPTOF) diagnostic for measurements of shock- and compression-bang time at the NIF (invited).

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A method for in situ absolute DD yield calibration of neutron time-of-flight detectors on OMEGA using CR-39-based proton detectors.

scientific article published on May 2015

A neutron recoil-spectrometer for measuring yield and determining liner areal densities at the Z facility

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

A novel method to recover DD fusion proton CR-39 data corrupted by fast ablator ions at OMEGA and the National Ignition Facility.

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A novel particle time of flight diagnostic for measurements of shock- and compression-bang times in D3He and DT implosions at the NIF

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

A technique for extending by ∼10(3) the dynamic range of compact proton spectrometers for diagnosing ICF implosions on the National Ignition Facility and OMEGA

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Advances in compact proton spectrometers for inertial-confinement fusion and plasma nuclear science.

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An accelerator based fusion-product source for development of inertial confinement fusion nuclear diagnostics

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Application of the coincidence counting technique to DD neutron spectrometry data at the NIF, OMEGA, and Z.

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Assembly of High-Areal-Density Deuterium-Tritium Fuel from Indirectly Driven Cryogenic Implosions

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CR-39 nuclear track detector response to inertial confinement fusion relevant ions

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Changes in CR-39 proton sensitivity due to prolonged exposure to high vacuums relevant to the National Ignition Facility and OMEGA

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Characterization of single and colliding laser-produced plasma bubbles using Thomson scattering and proton radiography.

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Charged-particle probing of x-ray-driven inertial-fusion implosions.

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Charged-particle spectroscopy for diagnosing shock ρR and strength in NIF implosions

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Charged-particle stopping powers in inertial confinement fusion plasmas

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Collisionless Shocks Driven by Supersonic Plasma Flows with Self-Generated Magnetic Fields

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Collisionless shock experiments with lasers and observation of Weibel instabilitiesa)

Comment on "Cluster-impact fusion"

scientific article published on 01 March 1992

Copper activation deuterium-tritium neutron yield measurements at the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Demonstration of Fuel Hot-Spot Pressure in Excess of 50 Gbar for Direct-Drive, Layered Deuterium-Tritium Implosions on OMEGA

scientific article published on 07 July 2016

Demonstration of the highest deuterium-tritium areal density using multiple-picket cryogenic designs on OMEGA

scientific article published on 20 April 2010

Dependence of shell mix on feedthrough in direct drive inertial confinement fusion

scientific article published on 5 May 2004

Effects of energy loss on interaction dynamics of energetic electrons with plasmas

scientific article published on 12 October 2009

Effects of fuel-shell mix upon direct-drive, spherical implosions on OMEGA

scientific article published on 26 September 2002

Effects of nonuniform illumination on implosion asymmetry in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion

scientific article published on 19 May 2004

Electron-ion thermal equilibration after spherical shock collapse

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Empirical assessment of the detection efficiency of CR-39 at high proton fluence and a compact, proton detector for high-fluence applications

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Evidence for stratification of deuterium-tritium fuel in inertial confinement fusion implosions

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

Experimental Evidence of a Variant Neutron Spectrum from the T(t,2n)α Reaction at Center-of-Mass Energies in the Range of 16-50 keV

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Experimental Validation of Low-Z Ion-Stopping Formalisms around the Bragg Peak in High-Energy-Density Plasmas

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Experimental demonstration of X-ray drive enhancement with rugby-shaped hohlraums.

scientific article published on 22 January 2010

Exploration of the transition from the hydrodynamiclike to the strongly kinetic regime in shock-driven implosions

scientific article published on 05 May 2014

First measurements of Rayleigh-Taylor-induced magnetic fields in laser-produced plasmas

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

First measurements of the absolute neutron spectrum using the magnetic recoil spectrometer at OMEGA (invited)

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

First observations of nonhydrodynamic mix at the fuel-shell interface in shock-driven inertial confinement implosions

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

Fokker-Planck equation for moderately coupled plasmas.

scientific article published in May 1993

Fusion yield enhancement in magnetized laser-driven implosions

scientific article published on 15 July 2011

High-areal-density fuel assembly in direct-drive cryogenic implosions

scientific article published on 08 May 2008

High-resolution measurements of the DT neutron spectrum using new CD foils in the Magnetic Recoil neutron Spectrometer (MRS) on the National Ignition Facility.

scientific article published on November 2016

High-rhoR implosions for fast-ignition fuel assembly

scientific article published on 11 January 2007

Hot-core characterization of direct-drive spherical cryogenic D2 target implosion

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Hydrodynamic growth of shell modulations in the deceleration phase of spherical direct-drive implosions

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Impact of x-ray dose on the response of CR-39 to 1-5.5 MeV alphas

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Impact of x-ray dose on track formation and data analysis for CR-39-based proton diagnostics

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Impeding hohlraum plasma stagnation in inertial-confinement fusion

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Implementation of the foil-on-hohlraum technique for the magnetic recoil spectrometer for time-resolved neutron measurements at the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Implosion experiments using glass ablators for direct-drive inertial confinement fusion

scientific article published on 21 April 2010

Increasing the energy dynamic range of solid-state nuclear track detectors using multiple surfaces

scientific article published on 01 August 2011

Indications of flow near maximum compression in layered deuterium-tritium implosions at the National Ignition Facility

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Interpretation of proton radiography experiments of hohlraums with three-dimensional simulations

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Ion thermal decoupling and species separation in shock-driven implosions

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Ion-kinetic simulations of D-3He gas-filled inertial confinement fusion target implosions with moderate to large Knudsen number

Kinetic effects on neutron generation in moderately collisional interpenetrating plasma flows

Kinetic studies of ICF implosions

Laboratory astrophysical collisionless shock experiments on Omega and NIF

Laboratory evidence of dynamo amplification of magnetic fields in a turbulent plasma.

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Laser irradiance scaling in polar direct drive implosions on the National Ignition Facility

Laser-driven magnetic-flux compression in high-energy-density plasmas

scientific article published on 18 November 2009

Lorentz mapping of magnetic fields in hot dense plasmas

scientific article published on 17 August 2009

Measurement of apparent ion temperature using the magnetic recoil spectrometer at the OMEGA laser facility

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Measurement of charged-particle stopping in warm dense plasma.

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Measurement of γrays from cold fusion

Measurements of Ion Stopping Around the Bragg Peak in High-Energy-Density Plasmas

scientific article published on 09 November 2015

Measurements of an ablator-gas atomic mix in indirectly driven implosions at the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Measurements of fuel and ablator ρR in Symmetry-Capsule implosions with the Magnetic Recoil neutron Spectrometer (MRS) on the National Ignition Facility

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Measurements of the T(t,2n)4He neutron spectrum at low reactant energies from inertial confinement implosions

scientific article published on 10 July 2012

Measurements of the differential cross sections for the elastic n-3H and n-2H scattering at 14.1 MeV by using an inertial confinement fusion facility

scientific article published on 15 September 2011

Measuring E and B fields in laser-produced plasmas with monoenergetic proton radiography

scientific article published on 28 September 2006

Measuring Implosion Symmetry and Core Conditions on the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

Measuring implosion dynamics through rhoR evolution in inertial-confinement fusion experiments.

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Measuring the absolute deuterium–tritium neutron yield using the magnetic recoil spectrometer at OMEGA and the NIF

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Monoenergetic-proton-radiography measurements of implosion dynamics in direct-drive inertial-confinement fusion

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Neutron spectrometry--an essential tool for diagnosing implosions at the National Ignition Facility (invited).

scientific article published in October 2012

Note: A monoenergetic proton backlighter for the National Ignition Facility.

scientific article published in November 2015

Nuclear Diagnostics at the National Ignition Facility, 2013-2015

Nuclear imaging of the fuel assembly in ignition experiments

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Numerical modeling of laser-driven experiments aiming to demonstrate magnetic field amplification via turbulent dynamo

Observation of a reflected shock in an indirectly driven spherical implosion at the national ignition facility

scientific article published on 04 June 2014

Observation of megagauss-field topology changes due to magnetic reconnection in laser-produced plasmas

scientific article published on 02 August 2007

Observation of the decay dynamics and instabilities of megagauss field structures in laser-produced plasmas

scientific article published on 02 July 2007

Observations of Multiple Nuclear Reaction Histories and Fuel-Ion Species Dynamics in Shock-Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Observations of centrally peaked impurity profiles following pellet injection in the Alcator-C tokamak

scientific article published on 01 August 1986

Observations of electromagnetic fields and plasma flow in hohlraums with proton radiography

scientific article published on 18 May 2009

One dimensional imager of neutrons on the Z machine

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Performance of high-convergence, layered DT implosions with extended-duration pulses at the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 19 November 2013

Plasma Barodiffusion in Inertial-Confinement-Fusion Implosions: Application to Observed Yield Anomalies in Thermonuclear Fuel Mixtures

scientific article published on September 10, 2010

Plasma-density determination from x-ray radiography of laser-driven spherical implosions

scientific article published on 08 May 2009

Plasmas everywhere

scientific article published in Nature

Pressure-driven, resistive magnetohydrodynamic interchange instabilities in laser-produced high-energy-density plasmas

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Problems with the γ-ray spectrum in the Fleischmann et al. experiments

scientific article published in Nature

Proton Spectra from ^{3}He+T and ^{3}He+^{3}He Fusion at Low Center-of-Mass Energy, with Potential Implications for Solar Fusion Cross Sections

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Proton pinhole imaging on the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published in November 2016

Proton radiography of inertial fusion implosions

scientific article published in Science

Rayleigh-Taylor growth stabilization in direct-drive plastic targets at laser intensities of approximately 1 x 10(15) W/cm2

scientific article published on 08 July 2008

Role of hot-electron preheating in the compression of direct-drive imploding targets with cryogenic D2 ablators

scientific article published on 08 May 2008

Scaled laboratory experiments explain the kink behaviour of the Crab Nebula jet

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Sensitivity of chemical vapor deposition diamonds to DD and DT neutrons at OMEGA and the National Ignition Facility

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Shell mix in the compressed core of spherical implosions

scientific article published on 02 August 2002

Signal and background considerations for the MRSt on the National Ignition Facility (NIF).

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Simulations of indirectly driven gas-filled capsules at the National Ignition Facility

Slowing of Magnetic Reconnection Concurrent with Weakening Plasma Inflows and Increasing Collisionality in Strongly Driven Laser-Plasma Experiments

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Solar conundrums

scientific article published in Nature

Source characterization and modeling development for monoenergetic-proton radiography experiments on OMEGA.

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Stopping of directed energetic electrons in high-temperature hydrogenic plasmas

scientific article published on 10 December 2004

Stopping, straggling, and blooming of directed energetic electrons in hydrogenic and arbitrary-Z plasmas

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Structure and dynamics of colliding plasma jets.

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

The coincidence counting technique for orders of magnitude background reduction in data obtained with the magnetic recoil spectrometer at OMEGA and the NIF.

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The conceptual design of 1-ps time resolution neutron detector for fusion reaction history measurement at OMEGA and the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

The magnetic recoil spectrometer (MRSt) for time-resolved measurements of the neutron spectrum at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).

scientific article published on November 2016

The magnetic recoil spectrometer for measurements of the absolute neutron spectrum at OMEGA and the NIF.

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The moment of truth nears

scientific article published in Nature

The response of CR-39 nuclear track detector to 1-9 MeV protons

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Time-Resolved Areal-Density Measurements with Proton Spectroscopy in Spherical Implosions

scientific article published on 02 April 2003

Time-dependent nuclear measurements of mix in inertial confinement fusion

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Transition from Collisional to Collisionless Regimes in Interpenetrating Plasma Flows on the National Ignition Facility.

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Tripled yield in direct-drive laser fusion through statistical modelling

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Upgrade of the MIT Linear Electrostatic Ion Accelerator (LEIA) for nuclear diagnostics development for Omega, Z and the NIF

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

Use of d-3He proton spectroscopy as a diagnostic of shell rho r in capsule implosion experiments with approximately 0.2 NIF scale high temperature Hohlraums at Omega.

scientific article published on October 2008

Using Inertial Fusion Implosions to Measure the T+^{3}He Fusion Cross Section at Nucleosynthesis-Relevant Energies

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

Using high-intensity laser-generated energetic protons to radiograph directly driven implosions.

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Using multiple secondary fusion products to evaluate fuel ρR, electron temperature, and mix in deuterium-filled implosions at the NIF

article by H. G. Rinderknecht et al published August 2015 in Physics of Plasmas

Will the alphas abscond?

scientific article published in Nature