Session CO1: Basic Plasma: Non-neutral, Strongly Coupled and Other

Chair: Bob Bingham, Rutherfor Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 10


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

CO1.00001: Overview of first results from the Columbia Non-neutral Torus
T. Sunn Pedersen , J.P. Kremer , R. Lefrancois , Q. Marksteiner , A.H. Boozer , J. Berkery , X. Sarasola , H. Mynick , N. Pomphrey

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

CO1.00002: The Equilibrium of Pure Electron Plasmas Confined on Magnetic Surfaces
Remi G. Lefrancois , Thomas Sunn Pedersen , Allen H. Boozer , Jason P. Kremer , Quinn R. Marksteiner

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

CO1.00003: Antihydrogen from merged plasmas - not cold enough to trap?
Niels Madsen

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

CO1.00004: Viscosity of strongly-coupled dusty plasmas in a liquid state
J. Goree , Z. Donk\'o , P. Hartmann , K. Kutasi

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

CO1.00005: Phase Transitions in 2-D Dusty Plasmas
Christopher Jones , Michael Murillo

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

CO1.00006: Void Structure in Complex Plasmas
Truell Hyde , Jie Kong , Lorin Matthews , Jerry Reay , Mike Cook , Jimmy Schmoke

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

CO1.00007: Dynamics in Saturn's F Ring: Orbits of Charged Grains
Lorin Matthews , Meihong Sun , Ginger Bryngelson , Truell Hyde

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

CO1.00008: Propagation and maintenance of plasma in a grounded slot and peripheral chamber connected to a capacitive discharge
Allan Lichtenberg , Sungjin Kim , Michael Lieberman

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

CO1.00009: Temperature Oscillations in Ultracold Plasmas
Michael S. Murillo

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

CO1.00010: Axial Modeling of an Electric Discharge in Air
Harold Ladouceur , Andrew Baronavski , Tzvetelina Petrova

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

CO1.00011: Electronic Structure and Equation of State of Warm Dense Gold
Vanina Recoules , Patrick Renaudin , Pierre Noiret , Jean Clerouin

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

CO1.00012: Trapping of Intense Electromagnetic Waves in Relativistic Electron Holes
Bengt Eliasson , Padma Kant Shukla

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

CO1.00013: Self-similar expansion of finite-size non-quasi-neutral plasmas
Masakatsu Murakami , Mikhail Basko

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Session CO2: High Intensity Laser Matter Interacting; Intense Coherent X-rays; Beams

Chair: Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 11


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

CO2.00001: Short-Pulse Heavy Ion Production via Target Laser-Ablation-Cleaning and Proton Acceleration Suppression
Kirk Flippo , B.M. Hegelich , M.J. Schmitt , E. Dodd , J.A. Cobble , D.C. Gautheir , R. Gibson , R. Johnson , S. Letzering , J.C. Fern\'{a}ndez , T. Lin , A. Maksimchuk , M. Rever* , D. Umstadter*

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

CO2.00002: Target Optimization Stategies for Control Laser Driven Ion Acceleration
Bjoern Manuel Hegelich , K.A. Flippo , Brian J. Albright , Lin Yin , J. Cobble , Cort Gautier , Samuel Letzring , Mark Paffet , Roland Schulze , Juan C. Fernandez

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

CO2.00003: Hot Electron and Positron Energy Distributions from Ultra-Intense Laser Solid Interactions
Hui Chen , Scott Wilks , W. Kruer , S. Moon , N. Patel , P. Patel , R. Shepherd , R. Snavely

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

CO2.00004: Numerical Calculations of Laser-Generated MeV Electrons and Characteristic X-Ray Production in Copper Foil Targets
J. Myatt , J.A. Delettrez , W. Theobald , C. Stoeckl , M. Storm , A.V. Maximov , R.W. Short , R.P.J. Town , L.A. Cottrill

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

CO2.00005: Stochastic Heating in High Intensity Laser-Plasma Interaction: Theory and PIC Code Simulations
Alain Bourdier , David Patin , Erik Lefebvre

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

CO2.00006: Relativistic Oscillating Gyromagnetic Effects in Ultra-intense Laser-Matter Interaction
Robin Marjoribanks , Jean-Paul Geindre , Patrick Audebert

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

CO2.00007: Dielectric Response of a Laser-Exploded Cluster to a Perturbing Field
J.P. Palastro , T.M. Antonsen , A. Gupta

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

CO2.00008: Intense Laser-Cluster Interaction: Effect of hot electrons on propagation and studies with longer pulse widths
A. Gupta , T. Antonsen , T. Taguchi , J. Palastro , H. Milchberg

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

CO2.00009: Energetic Ion Generation in Intense Femtosecond Laser Interaction with Clusters
Katsunobu Nishihara , Vasilii Zhakhovskii , Toshiyuki Hirao , H. Amitani , Serugei Bulanov , Timur Esirkepov

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

CO2.00010: High repetition rate tabletop soft x-ray lasers at wavelengths down to 11.9 nm in Nickel-like ions
Bradley M. Luther , Yong Wang , Miguel A. Larotonda , David Alessi , Mark Berrill , Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev , Jorge J. Rocca

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

CO2.00011: Demonstration of a desk-top size high repetition rate soft x-ray laser based on a fast capillary discharge
Scott Heinbuch , Michael Grisham , Dale Martz , Fong Deng , Elliot Bernstein , Jorge Rocca

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

CO2.00012: Multiply Ionized Plasmas with index of refraction greater than one
Jorge Filevich , Jonathan Grava , Mike Purvis , Mario C. Marconi , Jorge Rocca , James Dunn , Joe Nilsen , Jim Scofield , Stephen S. Moon , Raymond F. Smith , Roisin Keenan , Jim R. Hunter , V.N. Shlyaptsev

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

CO2.00013: Dynamic Study of an Intense Relativistic Electron Beam Transported in an Over-Dense Plasma
Alain Piquemal

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

CO2.00014: Equilibrium and stability of a high-intensity periodically twisted ellipse-shaped charged-particle beam
Jing Zhou , Ronak Bhatt , Chiping Chen

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

CO2.00015: Priming effects in a relativistic magnetron with a transparent cathode
H.L. Bosman , S. Prasad , M.I. Fuks , E. Schamiloglu

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Monday, October 24, 2005
5:00PM - 5:12PM

CO2.00016: Development of the Indiana Rf Photocathode Source Simulator
Mark Hess , Chong Shik Park , Daniel Bolton

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

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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