Pleiades Experiments on the NIF: Phase II-C

Pleiadeswas a radiation transport campaign fielded at the National Ignition Facility(NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) between 2011 and 2014. The primary goals of the campaign were to develop and characterise a reproducible ~350eV x-ray drive and to constrain a number of material data properties required to successfully model the propagation of radiation through two low-density foam materials. A further goal involved the development and qualification of diagnostics for future radiation transport experiments at NIF. Pleiadeswas a collaborative campaign involving teams from both AWE and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).