
Practicum Experience(s)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (2022)
Annual Program Review Abstracts
Publications
First Author:
Reichelt, B. L., Petrasso, R. D., & Li, C. (2024). Effects of alpha-ion stopping on ignition and ignition criteria in inertial confinement fusion experiments. Physics of Plasmas, 31(1).
Reichelt, B., Kabadi, N., Pearcy, J., Gatu Johnson, M., Dannhoff, S., Lahmann, B., ... & Hartouni, E. (2023). Determining spectral response of the National Ignition Facility particle time of flight diagnostic to x rays. Review of Scientific Instruments, 94(3). [1 citation]
Reichelt, B. L., Kishimori, R., Lawrence, Y., Wink, C. W., Johnson, M. G., Johnson, T. M., ... & Li, C. K. (2025). Ultra-fast single-crystal CVD diamonds in the particle time-of-flight (PTOF) detector for low yield burn-history measurements on the NIF. Review of Scientific Instruments, 96(1).
First Author (In Review):
Reichelt, B. L., et al. (Submitted 2024). Observation of kinetic mix enhancement in thin-shell OMEGA implosions. Submitted to Physical Review Letters.
Benjamin Reichelt, Jacob Pearcy, Eduard Dewald, Otto Landen, Matthias Hohenberger, Sean Regan, Richard Petrasso, and Chikang Li. "Effects of Spontaneous Electromagnetic Fields on Hot Electron Transport in Laser-Driven Hohlraums." October 2021. Manuscript submitted to Physical Review Letters.
Coauthor (Published):
Kunimune, J. H., Heuer, P. V., Reichelt, B. L., Johnson, T. M., & Frenje, J. A. (2024). Quantification and visualization of uncertainties in reconstructed penumbral images of implosions at Omega. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(6).
Vanderloo, N., Cufari, M., Russell, L., Johnson, T. M., Vargas, J., Foo, B. C., ... & Li, C. K. (2024). Image plate multi-scan response to fusion protons in the range of 1–14 MeV. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(9). [1 citation]
Gatu Johnson, M., Schlossberg, D., Appelbe, B., Ball, J., Bitter, M., Casey, D. T., ... & Wink, C. (2024). Learning from each other: Cross-cutting diagnostic development activities between magnetic and inertial confinement fusion. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(9).
Johnson, T. M., Shan, J., Kishimori, R., Cufari, M. J., Adrian, P. J., Buschmann, B., ... & Li, C. K. (2024). Intrinsic fluence non-uniformity in D3He backlit proton radiography. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(9). [1 citation]
Cufari, M., Vanderloo, N., Buschmann, B. I., DeVault, A., Foo, B. C., Vargas, J., ... & Frenje, J. A. (2024). Characterization of the image plate multi-scan response to mono-energetic x-rays. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(9). [1 citation]
Foo, B. C., Buschmann, B. I., Cufari, M., Dannhoff, S. G., DeVault, A., Evans, T. E., ... & Frenje, J. A. (2024). Errors in the field reconstruction using CR-39 proton radiographs with high fluence variation. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(10).
Izumi, N., Higginson, D. P., Rosen, M. D., Riedel, W. M., Haines, B. M., Fittinghoff, D. N., ... & Hinkel, D. (2024). Neutron imaging of the deuterium–tritium tamping gas volume in an inertial confinement fusion hohlraum. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(10).
Russell, L., Johnson, T. M., Lawrence, Y., Reichelt, B., Vanderloo, N., Cufari, M., ... & Frenje, J. (2024). Quantifying the effects of neutron fluence on proton signal retention in CR-39. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(10).
Lawrence, Y., Reichelt, B. L., Wink, C. W., Rigon, G., Johnson, M. G., Li, C. K., & Frenje, J. A. (2024). Determination of the response for the National Ignition Facility particle time of flight (PTOF) detector using single particle counting. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(10). [1 citation]
Buschmann, B. I., Cufari, M., Vanderloo, N., Vargas, J., Foo, B. C., DeVault, A., ... & Frenje, J. A. (2024). Characterization of the response of radiochromic film to quasi-monoenergetic x rays through a cross-calibration with image plates. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(9).
Pearcy, J. A., Sutcliffe, G. D., Johnson, T. M., Reichelt, B. L., Dannhoff, S. G., Lawrence, Y., ... & Li, C. (2024). Hohlraum fields with monoenergetic proton radiography at OMEGA. Applied Optics, 63(10), A98-A105. [2 citations]
Abu-Shawareb, H., Acree, R., Adams, P., Adams, J., Addis, B., Aden, R., et al. (2024). Achievement of target gain larger than unity in an inertial fusion experiment. Physical Review Letters, 132(6), 065102. [132 citations]
Pearcy, J. A., Rosenberg, M. J., Johnson, T. M., Sutcliffe, G. D., Reichelt, B. L., Hare, J. D., ... & Li, C. K. (2024). Experimental Evidence of Plasmoids in High-Beta Magnetic Reconnection. Physical Review Letters, 132(3), 035101. [4 citations]
Sio, H., Moody, J. D., Pollock, B. B., Strozzi, D. J., Ho, D. M., Walsh, C. A., ... & Fraenkel, M. (2023). Performance scaling with an applied magnetic field in indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions. Physics of Plasmas, 30(7). [11 citations]
P. J. Adrian, J. Armstrong, A. Birkel, C. Chang, S. Dannhoff, T. Evans, M. Gatu Johnson, T. M. Johnson, N. Kabadi, J. Kunimune, C. K. Li, B. Reichelt, S. P. Regan, J. Pearcy, R. D. Petrasso, G. Pien, M. McCluskey, F. H. Seguin, G. D. Sutcliffe, and J. A. Frenje , "In situ calibration of charged particle spectrometers on the OMEGA Laser Facility using 241Am and 226Ra sources", Review of Scientific Instruments 93, 113534 (2022). [4 citations]
H. Abu-Shawareb et al. "Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment." Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 075001. Published 8 August 2022. [363 citations]
Pearcy, J., Kabadi, N., Birkel, A., Adrian, P., Lahmann, B., Reichelt, B., ... & Li, C. K. (2021). Characterizing x-ray transmission through filters used in high energy density physics diagnostics. Review of Scientific Instruments, 92(6). [1 citation]
Lahmann, B., Johnson, M. G., Frenje, J. A., Birkel, A. J., Adrian, P. J., Kabadi, N., ... & Petrasso, R. D. (2021). Extension of charged-particle spectrometer capabilities for diagnosing implosions on OMEGA, Z, and the NIF. Review of Scientific Instruments, 92(8). [9 citations]
Whitley, Von Howard; Stalsberg, Krista Lynn; Reichelt, Benjamin Lee; Shipley, Sarah Jayne. "Model Comparisons of the SURF reactive burn model in three ASC codes." Weapons Review Letters (44), pp 52-61 (2018). [2 citations]
Awards
UNM ECE Oustanding Junior/Senior award: 2017, 2018, 2019
UNM Physics Feynman award: 2018
UNM Physics Outstanding senior: 2019
UNM School of Engineering Breece Award: 2019
Livermore HEDS fellowship finalist 2025
LANL Metropolis Fellowship Recipient 2025