Upgrades to Shock Wave Laboratory for Research in High-Pressure Earth Science

加州理工学院冲击波实验室是美国唯一一个致力于研究冲击波的地球深部地球物理问题的大学实验室。这项建议是为了维护加州理工学院冲击波实验室安全运行所需的设备。 这些数据被应用于物理学、材料科学和行星科学等广泛学科的问题。 该实验室培养了许多研究生和本科生，以及在世界各地建立实验物理学项目的游客。外展活动包括在实验室拍摄许多地球科学和天文学相关的电视节目。激波装置用于获得地球下地幔压力和温度下模型熔体的状态方程行为。最终的目标是开发精确的相平衡模型和简化的地幔和核心组成的物理性质，可以比较地球物理观测值或插入到动态模型的现象，如岩浆演化，羽上升，发电机代，和内核的增长。

The Caltech shock-wave laboratory is the only US university-based laboratory dedicated to studying deep Earth geophysical problems with shock waves. This proposal is to maintain equipment for safe operation of the shock-wave laboratory at Caltech. The data are applied to problems across a wide range of disciplines in geophysics, materials science and planetary science. The laboratory has trained numerous graduate and undergraduate students, and visitors who have gone on to establish experimental geophysics programs around the world. Outreach activities include hosting numerous Earth science and astronomy-related television programs filming in the lab. The shock-wave facility is used to obtain equation-of-state behavior of model melts at pressures and temperatures of the lower mantle of the Earth. The ultimate goal is development of accurate models of phase equilibria and physical properties of simplified mantle and core compositions that can be compared to geophysical observables or inserted into dynamic models of phenomena like magma evolution, plume ascent, dynamo generation, and inner core growth.