Brian Albright (0000-0002-7789-6525)

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Education: B.S. mathematics + physics (double major), Drake University; M.S., Ph.D. physics, UCLA

Worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1999 as Postdoc and then R&D Scientist. Presently an R&D scientist, project leader, program coordinator in the Primary Physics Group of the X Theoretical Design Division.

plasma physics, high energy density physics, weapons science, lasers

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Los Alamos National Laboratory: Los Alamos, New Mexico, US

1999-09-04 to present | R&D Scientist, Project Leader, Laboratory Fellow (XTD-PRI: XTD PRIMARY PHYSICS)

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Los Alamos National Laboratory: Los Alamos, New Mexico, US

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A Simple Model of Hohlraum Power Balance and Mitigation of SRS

Finite grid instability and spectral fidelity of the electrostatic Particle-In-Cell algorithm

Kinetic studies of ICF implosions

Linear dependence of surface expansion speed on initial plasma temperature in warm dense matter

Low Fuel Convergence Path to Direct-Drive Fusion Ignition

Multi-dimensional dynamics of stimulated Brillouin scattering in a laser speckle ion acoustic wave bowing, breakup, and laser-seeded two-ion-wave decay

Approximate models for the ion-kinetic regime in inertial-confinement-fusion capsule implosions

Erratum use of external magnetic fields in hohlraum plasmas to improve laser-coupling (Physics of Plasmas(2015) 22 (010703))

On the analysis of inhomogeneous magnetic field spectrometer for laser-driven ion acceleration

On the numerical dispersion of electromagnetic particle-in-cell code Finite grid instability

Scaling of ion energies in the relativistic-induced transparency regime

Uniform heating of materials into the warm dense matter regime with laser-driven quasimonoenergetic ion beams

Use of external magnetic fields in hohlraum plasmas to improve laser-coupling

Visualization of expanding warm dense gold and diamond heated rapidly by laser-generated ion beams

Characterization of deuterium clusters mixed with helium gas for an application in beam-target-fusion experiments

Control of Stimulated Raman Scattering in the Strongly Nonlinear and Kinetic Regime Using Spike Trains of Uneven Duration and Delay

Fast ignition with laser-driven proton and ion beams

Stimulated scattering in laser driven fusion and high energy density physics experiments

Beam profiles of proton and carbon ions in the relativistic transparency regime

Challenges and progress of laser-driven ion acceleration beyond 100 MeV/amu

Efficient carbon ion beam generation from laser-driven volume acceleration

Fast ignition with laser-driven ion beams Progress on ignitor beam development based on a new relativistic laser-plasma regime

Laser-driven 1 GeV carbon ions from preheated diamond targets in the break-out afterburner regime

Laser-driven ion acceleration from relativistically transparent nanotargets

PPPS-2013 generation, detection and control of ultrafast nonlinear optical processes in high energy density plasmas using spike trains of uneven duration and delay

Revised Knudsen-layer reduction of fusion reactivity

Self-organized coherent bursts of stimulated Raman scattering and speckle interaction in multi-speckled laser beams

Dynamics of relativistic transparency and optical shuttering in expanding overdense plasmas

Knudsen Layer Reduction of Fusion Reactivity

Self-Organized Bursts of Coherent Stimulated Raman Scattering and Hot Electron Transport in Speckled Laser Plasma Media

Trapping induced nonlinear behavior of backward stimulated Raman scattering in multi-speckled laser beams

A double-foil target for improving beam quality in laser ion acceleration with thin foils

A novel high resolution ion wide angle spectrometer

Break-out afterburner ion acceleration in the longer laser pulse length regime

Development of a high resolution and high dispersion Thomson parabola

Experimental demonstration of particle energy, conversion efficiency and spectral shape required for ion-based fast ignition

Improving beam spectral and spatial quality by double-foil target in laser ion acceleration

Influence of binary Coulomb collisions on nonlinear stimulated Raman backscatter in the kinetic regime

Mono-energetic ion beam acceleration in solitary waves during relativistic transparency using high-contrast circularly polarized short-pulse laser and nanoscale targets

Monoenergetic Ion Beam Generation by Driving Ion Solitary Waves with Circularly Polarized Laser Light

Multi-beam effects on backscatter and its saturation in experiments with conditions relevant to ignition

Observation of amplification of light by Langmuir waves and its saturation on the electron kinetic timescale

Particle energization in 3D magnetic reconnection of relativistic pair plasmas

Role of electron physics in the development of turbulent magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas

Secondary Island Formation in Collisional and Collisionless Kinetic Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection

Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Breakout Afterburner Ion Acceleration Using High-Contrast Short-Pulse Laser and Nanoscale Targets

Driven magnetic reconnection near the Dreicer limit

Ultraintense laser interaction with nanoscale targets A simple model for layer expansion and ion acceleration

Advances in petascale kinetic plasma simulation with VPIC and Roadrunner

Enhanced Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration in the Relativistic Transparency Regime

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)