Abstract:

The Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade (MEC-U) Project, sponsored by the DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences and located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will be an open-access user facility that will enable world-leading High Energy Density Science (HEDS). Using a combination of high repetition rate, high peak power and high average power, and high energy lasers, coupled with the LCLS X-ray laser, MEC-U will be capable of tackling a wide range of grand challenges in fundamental plasma and materials research. It will have the ability to simultaneously excite and probe a broad range of material at extreme field strengths, densities, pressures, and temperatures relevant to HEDS and at a repetition rate that will enable the very highest productivity scientific output. This presentation will cover the conceptual engineering design of the facility including the laser and experimental systems.

Bio:

Corey Hardin is a mechanical engineering group leader at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the systems manager for experimental systems on the Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade (MEC-U) Project. Before working on this project, Corey was the lead engineer for the upgraded LCLS-II front end enclosure as well as the flat x-ray distribution mirror systems used at LCLS.

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