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MRE Best Paper Award Winners

  • May 5, 2022

Matter and Radiation at Extremes (MRE) selected three winning articles for their first Best Paper Award. The winning articles were evaluated by an editorial committee and selected from among 120 papers published in the journal between 2018 and 2020. MRE, a peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by AIP Publishing on behalf of the China Academy of Engineering Physics, is committed to the publication of original research and comprehensive and in-depth review papers in all areas of experimental and theoretical physics on matter and radiation at extremes.

Members of the evaluation committee share why they selected these articles for the MRE Best Paper Award:

Current status and highlights of the ELI-NP research program 

(authors: K. A. Tanaka, K. M. Spohr, D. L. Balabanski, S. Balascuta, L. Capponi, M. O. Cernaianu, M. Cuciuc, A. Cucoanes, I. Dancus, A. Dhal, B. Diaconescu, D. Doria, P. Ghenuche, D. G. Ghita, S. Kisyov, V. Nastasa, J. F. Ong, F. Rotaru, D. Sangwan, P.-A. Söderström, D. Stutman, G. Suliman, O. Tesileanu, L. Tudor, N. Tsoneva, C. A. Ur, D. Ursescu, N. V. Zamfir)

“This standout review paper provides both a comprehensive summary of the most important scientific infrastructures built in the European Union as well as the physics to be studied and instrumentation which makes it possible. This article won the MRE Best Paper Award because it is a perfect introduction for young scientists entering this specific field and a perfect reference for the potential user community which will soon perform unique experiments in this installation.”

– Stefan Weber, Associate Editor of MRE

 

Understanding the effects of radiative preheat and self-emission from shock heating on equation of state measurement at 100s of Mbar using spherically converging shock waves in a NIF hohlraum

(authors: Joseph Nilsen, Andrea L. Kritcher, Madison E. Martin, Robert E. Tipton, Heather D. Whitley, Damian C. Swift, Tilo Döppner, Benjamin L. Bachmann, Amy E. Lazicki, Natalie B. Kostinski, Brian R. Maddox, Gilbert W. Collins, Siegfried H. Glenzer, Roger W. Falcone)

“Extremely high pressure hugoniots (above 400 Mbar) were previously rarely achieved unless using nuclear explosions. Here it is the first time using NIF that such matter at extreme has been reached opening a new domain of EOS exploration. In this paper radiation issues are discussed both coming from hard x-rays generated on the cavity walls or by the shock itself as its temperature becomes extremely important. This paper won the MRE Best Paper Award because it is one of the first showing the convergence to atomic pressures that might revolutionize our understanding of the extreme pressure domain.”

– Michel Koenig, Co Editor-in-Chief of MRE

 

Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory

(authors: Viktor Struzhkin, Bing Li, Cheng Ji, Xiao-Jia Chen, Vitali Prakapenka, Eran Greenberg, Ivan Troyan, Alexander Gavriliuk, Ho-kwang Mao)

“This excellent review addresses the on-going pursuit of room-temperature superconductivity, with a focus on pressurizing metal hydrides. It covers the latest theoretical discussions and experimental studies, including those proposed superhydrides “doped” with metallic hydrogen. This review won the MRE Best Paper Award for it’s comprehensiveness as well as its focus on enlightening the debate on the newly emerging hot topics of the field and how these may challenge and grow studies of high-temperature superconductivity in the future.”

– Bin Chen, Guest Editor of MRE

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