Bruce A. Hammel

8.6k citations

179 papers · 7.6k · 2 hit papers · h-index 47

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Radiation top 5%
- Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 159
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 159
Geophysics 5
- High-pressure geophysics and materials 5

Co-authors: Steven W. Haan (29 shared papers)Otto L. Landen (47 shared papers)Daniel S. Clark (22 shared papers)JAY D. SALMONSON (16 shared papers)R.W. Lee (21 shared papers)R. John Wallace (24 shared papers)Joseph D. Kilkenny (16 shared papers)M. M. Marinak (10 shared papers)
Journals: Physics of Plasmas (49 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (19 papers)Physical Review Letters (18 papers)Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (7 papers)Nuclear Fusion (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom France

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Bruce A. Hammel

178 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Bruce A. Hammel's Hit Papers

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Design of inertial fusion implosions reaching the burning plasma regime 2022 · 164 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2022 Nature Physics
1997 Physics of Plasmas

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1	A study of picosecond laser–solid interactions up to 1019 W cm−2 Physics of Plasmas ·F. N. Beg, A. R. Bell, A. E. Dangor, Colin N. Danson, A. Peter Fews, Michael E. Glinsky, Bruce A. Hammel, Paul C. K. Lee Hit paper breakdown →	1997	582
2	Hot electron production and heating by hot electrons in fast ignitor research Physics of Plasmas ·Michael H. Key, Michael D. Cable, T. E. Cowan, Kent G. Estabrook, Bruce A. Hammel, Stephen P. Hatchett, E. A. Henry, Denise E. Hinkel	1998	348
3	Experimental Measurements of Hot Electrons Generated by Ultraintense ( >1019W/cm2 ) Laser-Plasma Interactions on Solid-Density Targets Physical Review Letters ·K. B. Wharton, Stephen P. Hatchett, Scott C. Wilks, Michael H. Key, J. D. Moody, Victor Yanovsky, A. A. Offenberger, Bruce A. Hammel	1998	247
4	Shock-Induced Transformation of Liquid Deuterium into a Metallic Fluid Physical Review Letters ·Peter M. Celliers, Gilbert Collins, L. B. Da Silva, David Gold, R. Cauble, R. John Wallace, M. E. Foord, Bruce A. Hammel	2000	200
5	A review of the ablative stabilization of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability in regimes relevant to inertial confinement fusion Physics of Plasmas ·Joseph D. Kilkenny, S. G. Glendinning, Steven W. Haan, Bruce A. Hammel, John D. Lindl, David H. Munro, Bruce A. Remington, Stephen V. Weber	1994	194
6	Three-dimensional simulations of low foot and high foot implosion experiments on the National Ignition Facility Physics of Plasmas ·Daniel S. Clark, Christopher R. Weber, Jose L. Milovich, JAY D. SALMONSON, A. L. Kritcher, Steven W. Haan, Bruce A. Hammel, Denise E. Hinkel	2016	183
7	High-mode Rayleigh-Taylor growth in NIF ignition capsules High Energy Density Physics ·Bruce A. Hammel, Steven W. Haan, Daniel S. Clark, M. J. Edwards, Steven H. Langer, M. M. Marinak, Mehul V. Patel, JAY D. SALMONSON	2009	173
8	Design of inertial fusion implosions reaching the burning plasma regime Nature Physics ·A. L. Kritcher, Christopher V. Young, Harry Robey, Christopher R. Weber, Alex B. Zylstra, Omar Hurricane, Debra A. Callahan, Joseph Ralph Hit paper breakdown →	2022	164
9	Radiation hydrodynamics modeling of the highest compression inertial confinement fusion ignition experiment from the National Ignition Campaign Physics of Plasmas ·Daniel S. Clark, M. M. Marinak, Christopher R. Weber, D. C. Eder, Steven W. Haan, Bruce A. Hammel, Denise E. Hinkel, Ogden S. Jones	2015	144
10	X-Ray Thomson-Scattering Measurements of Density and Temperature in Shock-Compressed Beryllium Physical Review Letters ·Heangwoo Lee, P. Neumayer, T. Döppner, R. W. Falcone, Carsten Fortmann-Grote, Bruce A. Hammel, A. L. Kritcher, Otto L. Landen	2009	142
11	Capsule implosion optimization during the indirect-drive National Ignition Campaign Physics of Plasmas ·Otto L. Landen, Steven W. Haan, Harry Robey, Jose L. Milovich, B. K. Spears, Stephen V. Weber, Daniel S. Clark, John D. Lindl	2011	139
12	Absorption measurements demonstrating the importance of Δn=0 transitions in the opacity of iron Physical Review Letters ·L. B. Da Silva, Brian J. MacGowan, Don R. Kania, Bruce A. Hammel, Christina A. Back, Edmund J. Hsieh, R.J. Doyas, Carlos A. Iglesias	1992	138
13	X-ray spectroscopic measurements of high densities and temperatures from indirectly driven inertial confinement fusion capsules Physical Review Letters ·Bruce A. Hammel, C. J. Keane, Michael D. Cable, Don R. Kania, Joseph D. Kilkenny, R.W. Lee, R. Pasha	1993	115
14	Measurement of a Dispersion Curve for Linear-Regime Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Rates in Laser-Driven Planar Targets Physical Review Letters ·S. G. Glendinning, Sham N. Dixit, Bruce A. Hammel, Daniel H. Kalantar, Michael H. Key, Joseph D. Kilkenny, James P. Knauer, Deanna M. Pennington	1997	109
15	Hot-spot mix in ignition-scale implosions on the NIF Physics of Plasmas ·S. P. Regan, Reuben Epstein, Bruce A. Hammel, Larry J. Suter, J. Ralph, Howard A. Scott, Maria Alejandra Barrios, David Bradley	2012	109
16	An in-flight radiography platform to measure hydrodynamic instability growth in inertial confinement fusion capsules at the National Ignition Facility Physics of Plasmas ·Kumar S. Raman, Vladimir A. Smalyuk, Daniel Casey, Steven W. Haan, Denise E. Hoover, Omar Hurricane, Jeremy J. Kroll, Abbas Nikroo	2014	109
17	Demonstration of Ignition Radiation Temperatures in Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Hohlraums Physical Review Letters ·Siegfried Heinz Glenzer, Brian J. MacGowan, N. B. Meezan, P. A. Adams, J. B. Alfonso, E T Alger, Z. Alherz, S. S. Alvarez	2011	105
18	Cryogenic thermonuclear fuel implosions on the National Ignition Facility Physics of Plasmas ·Siegfried Heinz Glenzer, Debra A. Callahan, Alexander J. Mackinnon, John L. Kline, Gary P. Grim, E T Alger, Richard L. Berger, L. A. Bernstein	2012	96
19	Three-dimensional modeling and hydrodynamic scaling of National Ignition Facility implosions Physics of Plasmas ·Daniel S. Clark, Christopher R. Weber, Jose L. Milovich, Arthur E. Pak, Daniel Casey, Bruce A. Hammel, Darwin D.-M. Ho, Ogden S. Jones	2019	96
20	Tent-induced perturbations on areal density of implosions at the National Ignition Facilitya) Physics of Plasmas ·Riccardo Tommasini, J. E. Field, Bruce A. Hammel, Otto L. Landen, Steven W. Haan, Chantel M. Aracne-Ruddle, Laura Robin Benedetti, David Bradley	2015	95

About Bruce A. Hammel

Bruce A. Hammel is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, having authored 179 papers that have together received 7.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (159 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (5 papers), Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates (2 papers), Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena (1 paper), Pulsed Power Technology Applications (1 paper) and Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (5.7k citations), Radiation (132 citations), Geophysics (196 citations), Computational Mechanics (244 citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (183 citations). Bruce A. Hammel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include Steven W. Haan, Otto L. Landen, Daniel S. Clark, JAY D. SALMONSON, R.W. Lee, R. John Wallace, Joseph D. Kilkenny, M. M. Marinak, David H. Munro and M. J. Edwards. Their work appears in journals such as Physics of Plasmas, Review of Scientific Instruments, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer and Nuclear Fusion.

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