Session CO3: Z-pinches, X-pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus

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Chair: Daniel Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 15


Monday, October 24, 2005
2:00PM - 2:12PM

CO3.00001: Jet formation in multi-wire X-pinch
Erik Shipton , David Haas , Greg Andreev , Kathy Wagschal , Zaid Karim , Farhat Beg

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Monday, October 24, 2005
2:12PM - 2:24PM

CO3.00002: Generation of electron and ion beams in X pinches.
Y.S. Dimant , T.A. Shelkovenko , S.A. Pikuz , D.A. Hammer

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Monday, October 24, 2005
2:24PM - 2:36PM

CO3.00003: Spectroscopy and implosion dynamics of combined W and Al X-pinches and their comparison with W wire arrays produced on the UNR 1 MA z-pinch generator
A. Safronova , V. Kantsyrev , D. Fedin , A. Esaulov , F. Yilmaz , N. Ouart , T. Hoppe , G. Osborne , V. Nalajala , S. Pokala , I. Shrestha , J.P. Apruzese

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Monday, October 24, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

CO3.00004: Time Gated Imaging of Cylindrical Wire Array Z-Pinches Using X-Pinch Backlighting
Jon Douglass , John Greenly , David Hammer , Ryan McBride , Sergei Pikuz , Tanya Shelkovenko

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Monday, October 24, 2005
2:48PM - 3:00PM

CO3.00005: Effect of material on precursor flow conditions and column formation in cylindrical wire arrays
S. Bott , S. Lebedev , S. Bland , J. Chittenden , M. Sherlock , M. Haines , D. Ampleford , G. Hall , C. Jennings , J. Rapley , J. Palmer

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Monday, October 24, 2005
3:00PM - 3:12PM

CO3.00006: Dependence of z-pinch mass ablation rate on wire size and inter-wire gap
Edmund Yu , Bryan Oliver , Pavel Sasorov , Dan Sinars , Mike Cuneo , Tom Mehlhorn

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Monday, October 24, 2005
3:12PM - 3:24PM

CO3.00007: WITHDRAWN - Dynamics of Precursor Coronal Plasmas and Wire Ablation in Wire Array Z-Pinches
B.V. Oliver , E.P. Yu , T.A. Mehlhorn , P. Sasorov

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Monday, October 24, 2005
3:24PM - 3:36PM

CO3.00008: Studies of Al and W wire array z-pinches, and the role of ``magnetic bubbles'' in energy deposition at 1 MA Cobra generator
V. Kantsyrev , A. Safronova , D. Fedin , A. Esaulov , V. Nalajala , N. Ouart , F. Yilmaz , T. Hoppe , G. Osborne , K. Williamson , J. Greenly , J. Douglass , R. McBride , L. Maxson , D. Hammer , A. Velikovich

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Monday, October 24, 2005
3:36PM - 3:48PM

CO3.00009: Wire Fixturing in High Wire-Number Z-Pinch Implosions Important for Reproducibility and High Power
T.W.L. Sanford , R.C. Mock , J.F. Seamen , M.R. Lopez , R.G. Watt , G.C. Idzorek , D.L. Peterson

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Monday, October 24, 2005
3:48PM - 4:00PM

CO3.00010: Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence model
James Hammer

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Monday, October 24, 2005
4:00PM - 4:12PM

CO3.00011: Time- and space-resolved Si emission measurements of the Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum
Gregory A. Rochau , J.E. Bailey , K.J. Peterson , G.S. Dunham , P.W. Lake , S.A. Slutz , J.J. MacFarlane , Y. Maron

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Monday, October 24, 2005
4:12PM - 4:24PM

CO3.00012: Using a Z-pinch precursor plasma to produce a cylindrical, hotspot ignition, ICF
Jeremy Chittenden , Peter Vincent , Christopher Jennings , Andrea Ciardi

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Monday, October 24, 2005
4:24PM - 4:36PM

CO3.00013: Thermonuclear and Beam-Target Fusion in Deuterium Gas-Puff Z-Pinch Implosions: Theory and Modeling
R.W. Clark , A.L. Velikovich , J. Davis , Y.K. Chong , C. Deeney , C.A. Coverdale , C. Ruiz , G. Cooper , J. Franklin , L.I. Rudakov

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Monday, October 24, 2005
4:36PM - 4:48PM

CO3.00014: Computational Study of Plasma Radiation in MITL Gap
Milena A. Angelova , Bruno S. Bauer , Volodymyr Makhin , Richard E. Siemon , Stephan Fuelling

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Monday, October 24, 2005
4:48PM - 5:00PM

CO3.00015: Shrapnel Formation in a Z-Pinch Power Plant
John De Groot , N. Gronbech-Jensen

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