Development Considerations for High-Repetition-Rate HEDP

A new generation of high-repetition-rate lasers is being proposed and developed for use in the field of High Energy Density Physics (HEDP). While the highest-energy facilities may continue to operate at low shot-rates, higher-repetition-rate facilities with lower energies but comparable intensities can now complement them. Experiments designed to take advantage of a shot rate of $>$1/minute have the opportunity to expand HEDP into a computationally-intensive and rich landscape of real-time feedback and "big data" statistical analysis. However, success in this area will require more than lasers and scientific questions: high-repetition-rate operation requires a broad range of technical development and a significant shift in experimentalist thinking. We discuss experimental techniques and considerations associated with the transition from operation at several-shots-per-day towards operation at $>$1/minute, and we apply these to recent particle-acceleration datasets taken at high shot-rate. We focus on the digitization of HEDP particle detectors, the automation of data acquisition/analysis, and approaches to experimentation unique to high repetition-rate.