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Jackson White

Headshot of Jackson White
Program Year:
2
University:
University of Texas at Austin
Field of Study:
Plasma Spectral Line Shapes
Advisor:
Don Winget
Degree(s):
B.S. Astrophysics, and B.A. Classical Studies, Rice University, 2021

Practicum Experience(s)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
Paul
Grabowski
Practicum Title:
The Pseudospectral Rotated Coordinate Method: ​A Proof of Concept with H Bound-Free Opacity

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Resonant Molecular Opacity in Stellar Atmospheres (2024)

Publications

1) Jackson White, William Johns, Christopher Fontes, Nathanael Gill, Nathaniel Shaffer, Charles Starrett, "Charge State Distributions in Dense Plasmas", Phys. Plasmas 29, 043301 (2022)

2) Jackson White, Christopher Fontes, Mark Zammit, Thomas Gomez, Charles Starrett, "Pseudoatom Molecular Dynamics Plasma Microfields", High Energy Density Physics, 54, 101173 (2025)

3) Jackson White, Thomas Gomez, Mark Zammit, Michael Montgomery, Bart Dunlap, Don Winget, "A New Approach to Resonant Molecular Spectral Lines", (In Prep)

4) Thomas Gomez, Mark Zammit, Christopher Fontes, and Jackson White, "A Quantum-mechanical Treatment of Electron Broadening in Strong Magnetic Fields", ApJ 951 143 (2023)

5) Thomas Gomez, Mark Zammit, Igor Bray, Christopher Fontes, Jackson White "A Quantum Mechanical Treatment of Electron Broadening in Strong Magnetic Fields. II. Large Enhancements due to Exchange Interactions", ApJ, 963, 62 (2024)

6) Thomas Gomez, Evgeny Stambulchik, and Jackson White, "The Impact of Penetrating Collisions of Plasma Ions on Spectral Line Shapes", Phys Rev A, 109, 052804 (2024)

7) Thomas Gomez, Mark Zammit, Christopher Fontes, Igor Bray, Jackson White, "Motional Stark effect on bound-free spectra", Phys Rev A, 110, 032808 (2024)

8) Charles Starrett, Christopher Fontes, Hoang Bao Tran Tan, Joe Kasper, Jackson White, "Dense Plasma Opacity from Excited States Method", Phys. Rev E. 110, 045208 (2024)

9) Thomas Gomez, Mark Zammit, Igor Bray, Christopher Fontes, Jackson White, and Harold Johnson, "Modeling Competing Line-broadening Mechanisms in Neutron Star Atmospheres: Interference between Motional Stark and Ion Broadening", ApJ 977, 75 (2024)