Session QO1: Plasma Astrophysics

Chair: Joseph Borovsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 10


Thursday, October 27, 2005
9:30AM - 9:42AM

QO1.00001: Effect of the Interstellar Magnetic Field on the Termination Shock: Explaining the Voyager 1 Results
Paulett Liewer , Merav Opher , E. C. Stone

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
9:42AM - 9:54AM

QO1.00002: WITHDRAWN--On the dynamics of transition to incompressibility from compressible MHD turbulence
Dastgeer Shaikh , Gary P. Zank

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
9:54AM - 10:06AM

QO1.00003: Global Hybrid Simulations of the Earth Magnetosphere: Nuts and Bolts
H. Karimabadi , H.X. Vu , D. Krauss-Varban , Y.A. Omelchenko , J. Raeder

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:06AM - 10:18AM

QO1.00004: Vlasov Simulations of the Lower Boundary of the Upward Current Region
Daniel Main , David Newman , Robert Ergun

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:18AM - 10:30AM

QO1.00005: Numerical Simulations of the MHD Plasma Equilibrium Using Block Adaptive Grids
Igor Sokolov , Tamas Gombosi , Ilia Roussev

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

QO1.00006: Microinstabilities and Electron Holes in Current Sheets
Martin V. Goldman , David L. Newman , James F. Drake

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

QO1.00007: Quasineutral Particle/Fluid Simulation Techiques for Whistlers
Martin Lampe , Glenn Joyce , Wallace Manheimer , Anatoly Streltsov , Guru Ganguli

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

QO1.00008: Whistlers in Inhomogeneous Plasmas
Anatoly Streltsov , Martin Lampe , Wallace Manheimer , Guru Ganguly , Glenn Joyce

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

QO1.00009: Non-local wave-particle interactions of kinetic Alfven waves on auroral field lines
Robert Lysak , Yan Song

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

QO1.00010: Formation of double layer in active space plasma and auroral particle acceleration
Yan Song , Robert Lysak

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:30AM - 11:42AM

QO1.00011: Temporal Evolution of Directly Driven Hydrodynamic Jets Relevant to Astrophysics
S. Sublett , J.P. Knauer , I.V. Igumenshchev , A. Frank , D.D. Meyerhofer

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:42AM - 11:54AM

QO1.00012: Effect of Ambient Medium Inhomogeneity on Jet Evolution
B.E. Blue , S.G. Glendinning , T.R. Dittrich

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:54AM - 12:06PM

QO1.00013: Supersonic jet experiments on Sandia National Laboratories' Z accelerator
G.R. Bennett , D.B. Sinars , M.E. Cuneo , D.K. Lobley (Ktech Corp.) , T.A. Mehlhorn , J.L. Porter , D.G. Schroen (Schafer Corp.) , R.A. Vesey , D.F. Wenger , B.H. Wilde , R.F. Coker , P.A. Rosen , J.M. Foster , T.S. Perry

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
12:06PM - 12:18PM

QO1.00014: Modeling of Supersonic Jet Experiments Performed on the Sandia National Laboratory Z Accelerator
B.H. Wilde , R.F. Coker , G.R. Bennett , D.B. Sinars , P.A. Rosen , J.M. Foster , T.S. Perry

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
12:18PM - 12:30PM

QO1.00015: Astrophysical Connections to Collapsing Radiative Shock Experiments
A.B. Reighard , R.P. Drake , J.F. Hansen , B. Blue , S. Bouquet , L. Boireau , M. Koenig , T. Vinci

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Session QO3: ICF Target Fabrication/Diagnostics

Chair: Craig Sangster, University of Rochester
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 15


Thursday, October 27, 2005
9:30AM - 9:42AM

QO3.00001: Measurements of absolute infrared absorption on condensed deuterium-tritide from 2400-3400 cm$^{-1}$
J.D. Sater , D.N. Bittner , J.W. Pipes

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
9:42AM - 9:54AM

QO3.00002: Demonstration Of DT Fuel Fill, Layer Formation And Thermal Shimming In A Cryogenic NIF Hohlraum Target.$^{1}$
J.J. Sanchez , B. Kozioziemski , J.D. Moody , J. Sater , D. Bittner

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
9:54AM - 10:06AM

QO3.00003: Deuterium-tritium solid layer formation and characterization in a beryllium shell
Bernard Kozioziemski , David Montgomery , Cort Gautier , James Sater , John Moody , Jorge Sanchez

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:06AM - 10:18AM

QO3.00004: Temperature control and sensitivity of low ice modes in a NIF scale hohlraum
J.D. Moody , J.J. Sanchez , B.J. Kozioziemski , R.A. London , J.D. Sater

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:18AM - 10:30AM

QO3.00005: Heating of Cryogenic Indirect Drive ICF Targets Upon Shroud Removal
Richard London , John Moody , Jorge Sanchez , James Sater , Donald Bittner

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

QO3.00006: Status of the Development of Beryllium-Copper Alloy Ignition Capsules by Precision Machining
Arthur Nobile , Jason Cooley , David Alexander , Robert Hackenberg , Robert Field , Robert Day , Gerald Rivera , Ann Kelly , Pallas Papin

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

QO3.00007: A Compact, Multiangle Electron Spectrometer for Ultra-Intense Laser--Plasma Interaction Experiments
O.V. Gotchev , D.D. Meyerhofer , C. Stoeckl

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

QO3.00008: Proton radiography of electromagnetic fields generated by laser-driven plastic foils
C.K. Li , F.H. Seguin , J.R. Rygg , J.A. Frenje , R.D. Petrasso , T.C. Sangster , V.A. Smalyuk , J.A. Delettrez , J.P. Knauer , S.P. Regan , J. Soures , F.J. Marshall , P.W. McKenty , D.D. Meyerhofer , C. Stoeckl , R.P. Town , P. Patel , A.J. Mackinnon , P. Amendt , N. Izumi , O. Landen

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

QO3.00009: Neutron Detection with Bubble Chambers
M.C. Ghilea , D.D. Meyerhofer , T.C. Sangster , R.A. Lerche , L. Disdier

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

QO3.00010: A magnetic recoil spectrometer (MRS) for $\rho $R, yield and T$_{i}$ measurements of implosions at OMEGA and the NIF
J.A. Frenje , D.T. Casey , C.K. Li , J.R. Rygg , F.H. Seguin , S. Volkmer , R.D. Petrasso , V.Yu. Glebov , D.D. Meyerhofer , T.C. Sangster , C. Stoeckl , S. Haan , S. Hatchett , P. Amendt , D. Eder , N. Izumi , O. Landen , D. Lerche , D.C. Wilson , G. Kyrala , R. Leeper , R. Olson

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:30AM - 11:42AM

QO3.00011: Three-Dimensional Density Measurement by Time-Gated Neutron Imaging of Imploded ICF Capsules
Michael Moran , Jeffrey Koch , Carlos Barrera , Edward Morse

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:42AM - 11:54AM

QO3.00012: WITHDRAWN--Core Temperature and Density Maps of Direct Drive Implosions using Multispectral X-ray Imaging
R. Tommasini , J.A. Koch , L.A. Welser , R.C. Mancini , J. Delettrez , S.P. Regan , V. Smalyuk

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
11:54AM - 12:06PM

QO3.00013: Analysis methods for slit-imaged line spectra from argon-doped implosion cores at Z
R. Mancini , J. Bailey , G. Rochau , G. Dunham , G. Chandler , D. Sinars , P. Lake , K. Peterson , S. Slutz , T. Mehlhorn , T. Burris-Mog , I. Golovkin , J. MacFarlane

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Thursday, October 27, 2005
12:06PM - 12:18PM

QO3.00014: Update on the Rochester Optical Streak System
P.A. Jaanimagi , R. Boni , D.D. Meyerhofer

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