Trident
Playing in the X-Games
Los Alamos scientists are using powerful light pulses to study, in the laboratory, matter normally found inside the stars and to produce intense radiation for fusion research and possible medical applications.
Despina Milathianaki, a Ph.D. student from University of Texas at Austin, installs a cover plate on Trident's main experimental chamber. Through the Trident User program, she is studying the dynamic response of materials to laser-induced shock-loading.
