The Physical Sciences Directorate (PHY SCI) pursues projects in fundamental and applied science and technology that build on the Laboratory’s core strengths and take advantage of the unique research capabilities and facilities at Livermore. Many of our efforts entail collaborations with universities, industry, and/or other laboratories. Peer reviewed publications are one way we judge our success, and this page highlights some of these. It is impossible to do justice to the breadth and depth of our work with only a handful of references selected from the more than 500 we publish every year, but here is a selection:

Nuclear, Particle and Accelerator Physics
J. Pruet et al., Neutron and photon transport in seagoing cargo containers, J. Appl. Phys. 97 94908 (2005) 316388
C. Forssen et al., Large basis ab initio shell model investigation of Be-9 and Be-11, Phys. Rev. C 71 44312 (2005) 314171
K. Adcox et al., Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration, Nucl. Phys. A 757 184-283 (2005)

Condensed Matter and High Pressure Physics
F. Streitz, J. Glosli and M. Patel, Beyond finite-size scaling in solidification simulations, Phys. Rev. Letts. (2006) 320477
A. Correa et al., Carbon under extreme conditions: Phase boundaries and electronic properties from first-principles theory, P. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103 1204-1208 (2006)

Geo and Planetary Physics
J. Beaulieu et al, Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses through gravitational microlensing, Nature 439 437-440 (2006)
A. Rest et al., Light echoes from ancient supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Nature 438 1132-1134 (2005)
J. Bradley et al., An astronomical 2175 angstrom feature in interplanetary dust particles, Science 307 244-247 (2005) 309821

Fusion Energy
A. Friedman, Simulations of Intense beams for Heavy Ion Fusion, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 544 160-170 (2005)
H. McLean et al., Transport and fluctuations in high temperature spheromak plasmas, Physics of Plasmas 13, 056105 (2006)
T. Evans et al., Edge stability and transport control with resonant magnetic perturbations in collisionless tokamak plasmas, Nature Physics 2 419-423 (2006)

Optical Science and Technology
L. Poyneer et al., Experimental demonstration of phase correction with a 32 X 32 microelectromechanical systems mirror and a spatially filtered wavefront sensor, Opt. Lett. 31 293-295 (2006)
A. Lindenberg et al., Atomic-scale visualization of inertial dynamics, Science 308 392-395 (2005)

Medical and Bio-Physics
W. Small et al., Laser-activated shape memory polymer intravascular thrombectomy device, Opt. Express 13 8204-8213 (2005)312065
S. Russell et al., Achieving high detection sensitivity (14 zmol) of biomolecular ions in bioaerosol mass spectrometry, Anal. Chem. 77 4734-4741 (2005)
B. Hindson et al., Autonomous detection of aerosolized biological agents by multiplexed immunoassay with polymerase chain reaction confirmation, Anal. Chem. 77 284-289 (2005) 308199

High energy density physics
Y. Ping et al., Broadband dielectric function of non-equilibrium warm dense gold, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006) 333228
P. Beiersdorfer et al., Measurement of the two-loop lamb shift in lithium-like U89+, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 233003 (2005) 318556