Mini-Symposium: New Opportunities for Nuclear Physics in Plasmas & Fusion

Presentations

• An Overview of Nuclear Physics in Plasmas

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 1:15 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:51 PM

  Presenters

  • Brian Appelbe

    • Imperial College London

  Authors

  • Brian Appelbe

    • Imperial College London

  • Maria Gatu Johnson

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Jutta Escher

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Chad Forrest

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

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• Opportunities to study astrophysically-relevant nuclear reactions in plasmas using the inertial confinement fusion platform

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:51 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:03 PM

  Publication: M. Gatu Johnson et al., "The inertial confinement fusion experimental platform for studies of nuclear reactions relevant to nuclear astrophysics", submitted to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (2025).
  M. Gatu Johnson, G. Hale, M. Paris, M. Wiescher and A. Zylstra, "Editorial: Using high energy density plasmas for nuclear experiments relevant to nuclear astrophysics", Front. Phys. 11:1180821 (2023).

  Presenters

  • Maria Gatu-Johnson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Maria Gatu-Johnson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Brian Appelbe

    • Imperial College London

  • John Despotopulos

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Chad Forrest

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Justin Jeet

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Shaun Kerr

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Yongho Kim

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Kelly Kmak

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Kevin Meaney

    • P-4: THERMONUCLEAR PLASMA PHYSICS

  • Zaarah Mohamed

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • David Schlossberg

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Developing a high-energy density plasma platform for studying nuclear reactions relevant to the CNO cycle

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 2:03 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:15 PM

  Presenters

  • Shahina Shahina

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Shahina Shahina

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Andrew Lanzrath

    • Massachusetts Insitute of Technology

  • Tucker Evans

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Justin Jeet

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Mark Paris

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Carl Brune

    • Ohio University

  • Johan Frenje

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Maria Gatu Johnson

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Daniel Casey

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Nuclear Reaction Studies at NIF: Establishing the Method and Recent Results

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 2:15 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:27 PM

  Presenters

  • Daniel Pitman-Weymouth

    • Atomic Weapons Establishment

  Authors

  • Daniel Pitman-Weymouth

    • Atomic Weapons Establishment

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