TCHILS Mission

The Mission is as follows:

• Conduct research in laser driven HED science and shocked materials science and attract new students into these areas
• Train US citizen graduate students in these two areas
• Train students in how to plan and execute experiments on large scale HED facilities
• Develop novel and “high risk” HED diagnostics that could ultimately be fielded on the large HED facilities (NIF, Z and Omega)
• Collaborate on many experiments with National Laboratory scientists to remain coupled to the labs and to expose students to the activities of the labs
• Partner with some of the DP labs on technical projects and some facilities development
• Existing large efforts in high intensity laser
      Ditmire, Downer and Keto groups
        operating numerous high peak power lasers including two multi-terawatt lasers:
        THOR laser: 0.7 J in 35 fs @ 10 Hz
        5 TW laser: 0.3 J in 60 fs @ 10 Hz
         ~25 students working on projects related to high power lasers and applications