"Stopping Power and Transport in Warm and Hot Dense Plasmas"

 

 

 

Stopping power is not only of direct relevance to the heating of fusion-burning plasmas and inertial confinement fusion, but also serves as a velocity-resolved probe of the many-body response of a plasma and atomic physics. Therefore, the accuracy of a model for a given set of plasma conditions and projectile energy and charge serves as a detailed test of collision operators and their predicted transport coefficients. I will compare many models with both high-performance-computing molecular dynamics simulation and high-precision (~3%) experiments performed at Omega. I will discuss the many roles density functional theory can play in transport calculations and the power of the local density approximation in transport. I will connect transport to atomic physics and outline future lines of research.

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