Session GO1: Short-Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions

Chair: Warren Mori, University of California, Los Angeles
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 10


Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:00PM - 2:12PM

GO1.00001: OMEGA EP: Status and Use Planning
D.D. Meyerhofer , T.C. Sangster , C. Stoeckl , S.F.B. Morse , J.H. Kelly , S.J. Loucks , R.L. McCrory

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:12PM - 2:24PM

GO1.00002: Hydrodynamic Simulations of Integrated Experiments Planned for OMEGA/OMEGA EP Laser Systems
J.A. Delettrez , J. Myatt , P.B. Radha , C. Stoeckl , D.D. Meyerhofer

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:24PM - 2:36PM

GO1.00003: Measurements of Plasma Filling Inside a Fast-Ignitor Cone Target Using Streaked Optical Pyrometry
C. Stoeckl , T.R. Boehly , J.A. Delettrez , J. Myatt , J.E. Miller , W. Theobald , T.C. Sangster , R.B. Stephens

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

GO1.00004: 2D ANTHEM simulation of electron transport with B-fields in compressed cone-guided fast-ignition targets
R.J. Mason

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:48PM - 3:00PM

GO1.00005: Energy Deposition, Penetration, Blooming of Energetic Electrons in Fast Ignition and Preheat Scenarios
R.D. Petrasso , C.K. Li

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:00PM - 3:12PM

GO1.00006: Relativistic Electron Beam Microinstabilities in the Fast-Ignition Regime
R.W. Short , J. Myatt

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:12PM - 3:24PM

GO1.00007: High-Density and High-\textit{$\rho $R} Fuel Assembly for Fast-Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion
R. Betti , C. Zhou

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:24PM - 3:36PM

GO1.00008: Shock Fast Ignition of Thermonuclear Fuel with High Areal Density
C. Zhou , R. Betti

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:36PM - 3:48PM

GO1.00009: Reduced Mass Targets Heated by Ultra-Intense Lasers as a Means of Creating Kilovolt Plasmas at Solid Densities
Scott C. Wilks , R.I. Klein , A. Mackinnon , S.J. Moon , P.K. Patel , B.A. Remington , D. Ryutov , R. Shepherd , H. Chung , K. Fournier , G. Gregori , S. Glenzer , S. Hansen , R. Snavely , R. Town , J.M. Hill

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:48PM - 4:00PM

GO1.00010: WITHDRAWN--Kilo-Volt Heating in Very High Energy Density Experiments with Short-Pulse Laser Irradiation of Solids
Richard Snavely

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:00PM - 4:12PM

GO1.00011: Numerical modeling of laser isochoric heating of hot dense matter
Yasuhiko Sentoku , Andreas Kemp , Mike Bakeman , Radu Presura , Thomas Cowan

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:12PM - 4:24PM

GO1.00012: Probing the disassembly of ultrafast laser heated gold using frequency domain interferometry.
Tommy Ao , Yuan Ping , Klaus Widmann , Dwight Price , Al Ellis , Andrew Ng , Edward Lee

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:24PM - 4:36PM

GO1.00013: Preplasma Expansion Measurements by Observing Prepulse-Induced Proton Energy Distribution in Ultrahigh-Intensity-Laser and Solid-Target Interactions
Teh Lin , Takeshi Matsuoka , Anatoly Maksimchuk , Donald Umstadter

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:36PM - 4:48PM

GO1.00014: Anomalous Transmission of High Contrast Relativistically Intense Short Laser Pulses through Thin Metal Foils
T. Matsuoka , A. Maksimchuk , T. Lin , O.V. Batishchev , A.A Batishcheva , V. Yu. Bychenkov

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:48PM - 5:00PM

GO1.00015: Influences of target size on hot electron number and emission image
Toshinori Yabuuchi , Ryosuke Kodama , Ken Adumi , Motonobu Tampo , Shinya Awano , Hideaki Habara , Kiminori Kondo , Kazuo Tanaka , Kunioki Mima

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Session GO3: NSTX and General Spherical Torus

Chair: Jef Ongena, LPP/ERM-KMS Brussels
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 15


Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:00PM - 2:12PM

GO3.00001: Progress toward fully non-inductive operation in NSTX
Jonathan Menard

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:12PM - 2:24PM

GO3.00002: Development of Reversed Shear and Monotonic q-profiles in NSTX
Fred Levinton , Howard Yuh

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:24PM - 2:36PM

GO3.00003: Energy Confinement Scaling in the Low Aspect Ratio National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)
S.M. Kaye , M.G. Bell , R.E. Bell , E.D. Fredrickson , B.P. LeBlanc , K.C. Lee , S. Lynch , S.A. Sabbagh

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

GO3.00004: Resonant Field Amplification and Resistive Wall Mode Stability in NSTX
S.A. Sabbagh , A.C. Sontag , W. Zhu , J. Bialek , R.E. Bell , M.G. Bell , D.A. Gates , B.P. LeBlanc , J.E. Menard , D.J. Battaglia

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:48PM - 3:00PM

GO3.00005: Physics and Control of Toroidal Rotation Damping in NSTX
W. Zhu , S.A. Sabbagh , A.G. Sontag , J. Bialek , R.E. Bell , J.E. Menard , D.A. Gates , B.P. LeBlanc , C.C. Hegna , K.C. Shaing , D. Battaglia

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:00PM - 3:12PM

GO3.00006: Toward High I$_{N}$ Operation in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
E.A. Unterberg

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:12PM - 3:24PM

GO3.00007: Final results from the CDX-U lithium program
R. Majeski , T. Gray , R. Kaita , H. Kugel , D. Mansfield , J. Spaleta , J. Timberlake , L. Zakharov , R. Maingi , V. Soukhanovskii

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:24PM - 3:36PM

GO3.00008: Recycling Measurements Following Repeated Lithium Pellet Injection
H.W. Kugel , M. Bell , T. Gray , D. Mueller , B. Leblanc , R. Kaita , T. Stevenson , C.H. Skinner , A.L. Roquemore , C. Bush , R. Maingi , V. Soukhanovskii , R. Raman

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:36PM - 3:48PM

GO3.00009: Dissipative divertor experiments in NSTX
V.A. Soukhanovskii , R. Maingi , C.J. Lasnier , C.E. Bush , R. Raman , S. Sabbagh , R.E. Bell , R. Kaita , H.W. Kugel , B.P. Leblanc , J.E. Menard , D. Mueller , S.F. Paul , A.L. Roquemore

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:48PM - 4:00PM

GO3.00010: Time resolved measurements of deposition and dust in NSTX
C.H. Skinner , H.K. Kugel , A.L. Roquemore , W. Davis , T.M. Biewer , N. Nishino , C.V. Parker

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:00PM - 4:12PM

GO3.00011: Transient CHI Solenoid-free Plasma Startup in NSTX
R. Raman , T.R. Jarboe , B.A. Nelson , M. Bell , D. Mueller

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:12PM - 4:24PM

GO3.00012: CHI during ohmic discharges in spherical tori
D. Mueller , M.G. Bell , W.T. Hamp , B.A. Nelson , R.J. Redd , S.A. Sabbagh

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:24PM - 4:36PM

GO3.00013: Experiments with HHFW on NSTX
J.R. Wilson , R. Bell , S. Bernabei , J.C. Hosea , C. Kessel , B. LeBlanc , J. Menard , C.K. Phillips , P.M. Ryan , D.W. Swain , J. Wilgen

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:36PM - 4:48PM

GO3.00014: Electron Bernstein Wave Physics in NSTX
G. Taylor , S. Diem , P.C. Efthimion , R.A. Ellis , E. Fredd , J. Hosea , J.R. Wilson , T.S. Bigelow , M.D. Carter , J.B. Caughman , F. Jaeger , D.A. Rasmussen , J.B. Wilgen , R.W. Harvey , A.P. Smirnov , N.M. Ershov , J. Urban , J. Preinhaelter , A. Bers , J. Decker , A.K. Ram

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:48PM - 5:00PM

GO3.00015: High-resolution measurements in the EUV on NSTX
P. Beiersdorfer , M. Bitter , L. Roquemore , J.K. Lepson , M.-F. Gu , S.M. Kahn

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