High-Energy Density Physics and Inertial Confinement at Los Alamos National Laboratory Elizabeth Merritt (she/her), Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory Abstract: High-energy-density (HED) science is the study of ionized material under extreme pressures (> 1 Mbar), which can alter the very chemical and atomic properties of matter. Many astrophysical systems are HED, from the interiors of...