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

加州理工大学的冲击波实验室是美国唯一一个致力于用冲击波研究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大学冲击波实验室安全运行的设备。这些数据应用于地球物理、材料科学和行星科学等多个学科的问题。该实验室培养了许多研究生和本科生，以及后来在世界各地建立实验地球物理项目的访问者。外展活动包括主持许多与地球科学和天文学有关的电视节目，在实验室拍摄。冲击波装置用于获得模型熔体在地球下地幔压力和温度下的状态方程行为。最终目标是开发简化的地幔和内核成分的相平衡和物理性质的准确模型，这些模型可以与地球物理观测数据进行比较，或者插入岩浆演化、羽流上升、发电机生成和内核增长等现象的动态模型中。

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.