Tammy Ma

13.4k citations

266 papers · 10.1k · 1 hit paper · h-index 58

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

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 240
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 232
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 7
- Particle Detector Development and Performance 1
Radiation 7
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies 5
- Nuclear Physics and Applications 2

Co-authors: T. Döppner (21 shared papers)Arthur E. Pak (27 shared papers)Otto L. Landen (23 shared papers)S. Le Pape (20 shared papers)Pravesh K. Patel (21 shared papers)Nobuhiko IZUMI (22 shared papers)Siegfried Heinz Glenzer (13 shared papers)Omar Hurricane (9 shared papers)
Journals: Physics of Plasmas (82 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (38 papers)Physical Review Letters (35 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (12 papers)Physical review. E (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

Tammy Ma

257 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Tammy Ma's Hit Papers

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Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion implosion 2014 · 758 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.

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1	Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion implosion Nature ·Omar Hurricane, Debra A. Callahan, Daniel Casey, Peter M. Celliers, C. Cerjan, Eduard Dewald, Thomas R. Dittrich, T. Döppner Hit paper breakdown →	2014	758
2	Progress towards ignition on the National Ignition Facility Physics of Plasmas ·M. J. Edwards, Pravesh K. Patel, John D. Lindl, L. J. Atherton, Siegfried Heinz Glenzer, Steven W. Haan, J. D. Kilkenny, Otto L. Landen	2013	267
3	Ultrabright X-ray laser scattering for dynamic warm dense matter physics Nature Photonics ·L. B. Fletcher, Hae Ja Lee, T. Döppner, Eric Ch. Galtier, Bob Nagler, Philip Heimann, Carsten Fortmann-Grote, S. Le Pape	2015	230
4	Fusion Energy Output Greater than the Kinetic Energy of an Imploding Shell at the National Ignition Facility Physical Review Letters ·S. Le Pape, Laura Berzak Hopkins, L. Divol, Arthur E. Pak, Eduard Dewald, Suhas D. Bhandarkar, L R Benedetti, Thomas L. Bunn	2018	230
5	Onset of Hydrodynamic Mix in High-Velocity, Highly Compressed Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions Physical Review Letters ·Tammy Ma, Pravesh K. Patel, Nobuhiko IZUMI, Paul T. Springer, M. H. Key, L. J. Atherton, Laura Robin Benedetti, David Bradley	2013	227
6	High-Adiabat High-Foot Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosion Experiments on the National Ignition Facility Physical Review Letters ·H.‐S. Park, Omar Hurricane, Debra A. Callahan, Daniel Casey, Eduard Dewald, Thomas R. Dittrich, T. Döppner, Denise E. Hinkel	2014	205
7	Design of a High-Foot High-Adiabat ICF Capsule for the National Ignition Facility Physical Review Letters ·Thomas R. Dittrich, Omar Hurricane, Debra A. Callahan, Eduard Dewald, T. Döppner, Denise E. Hinkel, Laura Berzak Hopkins, S. Le Pape	2014	188
8	Effect of Laser Intensity on Fast-Electron-Beam Divergence in Solid-Density Plasmas Physical Review Letters ·J.S. Green, V. M. Ovchinńikov, K. U. Akli, H. Azechi, F. N. Beg, C. Bellei, Richard R. Freeman, H. Habara	2008	183
9	2D X-Ray Radiography of Imploding Capsules at the National Ignition Facility Physical Review Letters ·James R. Rygg, Ogden S. Jones, Maria Alejandra Barrios, Laura Robin Benedetti, Gilbert Collins, David C. Eder, M. J. Edwards, John L. Kline	2014	171
10	Inertially confined fusion plasmas dominated by alpha-particle self-heating Nature Physics ·Omar Hurricane, Debra A. Callahan, Daniel Casey, Eduard Dewald, Thomas R. Dittrich, T. Döppner, Steven W. Haan, Denise E. Hinkel	2016	165
11	The high-foot implosion campaign on the National Ignition Facility Physics of Plasmas ·Omar Hurricane, Debra A. Callahan, Daniel Casey, Eduard Dewald, Thomas R. Dittrich, T. Döppner, Denise E. Hinkel, Laura Berzak Hopkins	2014	161
12	Hot-Spot Mix in Ignition-Scale Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets Physical Review Letters ·S. P. Regan, Reuben Epstein, B. A. Hammel, L J Suter, H. A. Scott, Maria Alejandra Barrios, D. K. Bradley, Debra A. Callahan	2013	135
13	High-density carbon ablator experiments on the National Ignition Facility Physics of Plasmas ·Alexander J. Mackinnon, N. B. Meezan, J. S. Ross, S. Le Pape, Laura Berzak Hopkins, L. Divol, Darwin D.-M. Ho, Jose L. Milovich	2014	130
14	Implosion dynamics measurements at the National Ignition Facility Physics of Plasmas ·Damien G. Hicks, N. B. Meezan, Eduard Dewald, Alexander J. Mackinnon, Richard E. Olson, Debra A. Callahan, T. Döppner, Laura Robin Benedetti	2012	129
15	First High-Convergence Cryogenic Implosion in a Near-Vacuum Hohlraum Physical Review Letters ·Laura Berzak Hopkins, N. B. Meezan, S. Le Pape, L. Divol, Alexander J. Mackinnon, Darwin D.-M. Ho, M. Hohenberger, Ogden S. Jones	2015	128
16	Neutron spectrometry—An essential tool for diagnosing implosions at the National Ignition Facility (invited) Review of Scientific Instruments ·Maria Gatu Johnson, Johan A. Frenje, Daniel Casey, C. K. Li, Fredrick Hampton Seguin, Richard D. Petrasso, R. Ashabranner, R. M. Bionta	2012	125
17	Symmetry control of an indirectly driven high-density-carbon implosion at high convergence and high velocity Physics of Plasmas ·L. Divol, Arthur E. Pak, Laura Berzak Hopkins, S. Le Pape, N. B. Meezan, Eduard Dewald, Darwin D.-M. Ho, Shahab F Khan	2017	122
18	Observations of Continuum Depression in Warm Dense Matter with X-Ray Thomson Scattering Physical Review Letters ·L. B. Fletcher, A. L. Kritcher, Arthur E. Pak, Tammy Ma, T. Döppner, Carsten Fortmann-Grote, L. Divol, Ogden S. Jones	2014	115
19	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
20	Demonstration of High Performance in Layered Deuterium-Tritium Capsule Implosions in Uranium Hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility Physical Review Letters ·T. Döppner, Debra A. Callahan, Omar Hurricane, Denise E. Hinkel, Tammy Ma, H.‐S. Park, Laura Berzak Hopkins, Daniel Casey	2015	106

About Tammy Ma

Tammy Ma is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics, having authored 266 papers that have together received 10.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (232 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (7 papers), Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (5 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (2 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (2 papers), Model Reduction and Neural Networks (1 paper), Particle Detector Development and Performance (1 paper) and Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (8.0k citations), Radiation (162 citations), Computational Mechanics (246 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (240 citations) and Geophysics (107 citations). Tammy Ma has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include T. Döppner, Arthur E. Pak, Otto L. Landen, S. Le Pape, Pravesh K. Patel, Nobuhiko IZUMI, Siegfried Heinz Glenzer, Omar Hurricane, Laura Robin Benedetti and Laura Berzak Hopkins. Their work appears in journals such as Physics of Plasmas, Review of Scientific Instruments, Physical Review Letters, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Physical review. E.

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