Summer school on matter at extremes
Hélène Ginestet, our first PhD student on the HotCores project, is attending the summer school on matter at extremes organized in Banyuls sur Mer, France, 4-8 september 2023.
Warm dense matter generally defines states of matter with temperatures of T ~ 0.1 – 100 eV, densities ρ ~ 0.1 – 10 times the solid density, and pressures ≥ Mbar. The macroscopic and microscopic study of this matter concerns a very broad field of physics, ranging from fundamental physics to inertial confinement fusion, as well as planetology and geophysics.
The HotCores project does include laser-driven compression experiments on Earth core alloys, coupled with X-ray diffraction characterization on X-ray free electron lasers. To this aim, Hélène Ginestet is attending the summer school on matter at extremes organized in Banyuls sur Mer, France, 4-8 september 2023. She will be learning about laser driven compression experiments, their diagnostics, modeling, and applications.