Materials at Extreme Pressures and Temperatures
This is the Final report of the grant Materials at Extreme Pressures and Temperatures. The proposal for this grant defined efforts to understand the role of inner-shell ionization on the equation of state of light elements under conditions of extreme pressure and temperature. The conditions of high energy and high density are described by several theories, and this work was aimed at comparing theories with experimental results from Discovery Science experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.