232 LLE Review, Volume 76 The near-field intensity modulation due to a diamond-turned KDP wedge is investigated through computer simulations within the framework of its application to LLE’s OMEGA laser system. KDP wedges will be installed on each OMEGA beamline and mounted 12 m away from the final focusing optics. The wedges will improve the direct-drive inertial confinement fusion uniformity b...

We introduce a general methodology for displaying the gross assumptions behind any carbon emissions trajectory, relative to a reference trajectory, and we apply this methodology to a limited number of IPCC SRES scenarios [1]. These scenarios have been used widely for climate change analysis. We examine four scenarios (A1B, A2, B1, B2) together with three paired “post-SRES” scenarios [2, 3] that...

[1] A compilation of the apatite and zircon fission track ages of the Alpine chain points to markedly different patterns of cooling and exhumation of the Eastern Alps compared to the central andWestern Alps. The site of exhumation and shortening in the Western Alps migrated outward, whereas it was more stationary in the Eastern Alps, where it created a narrower metamorphic belt. A correlation o...

We study a model Schrödinger operator with constant magnetic field on an infinite wedge with natural boundary conditions. This problem is related to the semiclassical magnetic Laplacian on 3d domains with edges. We show that the ground energy is lower than the one coming from the regular part of the wedge and is continuous with respect to the geometry. We provide an upper bound for the ground e...