Session NO3: Short-Pulse Lasers and Fast Ignition

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Chair: Todd Ditmire, University of Texas at Austin
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon KL


Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

NO3.00001: Status of the OMEGA EP High-Energy Petawatt Laser Facility
C. Stoeckl , J. Bromage , J.H. Kelly , T.J. Kessler , B.E. Kruschwitz , S.J. Loucks , R.L. McCrory , D.D. Meyerhofer , S.F.B. Morse , A.L. Rigatti , T.C. Sangster , W. Theobald , L.J. Waxer , J.D. Zuegel

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

NO3.00002: High-resolution 15-100 keV K-alpha radiography for high-energy density experiments
Hye-Sook Park , R. Tommasini , M. Key , A. MacKinnon , P. Patel , B. Remington , M. Tabak , R. Towm , C. A. Back , E. Giraldez , C. Stoeckl , W. Theobald

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

NO3.00003: Characterization of Fast-Electron Beam Propagation Through Solid-Density Matter by Optical Transition Radiation
M. Storm , J. Myatt , C. Stoeckl

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

NO3.00004: Anomalous Transmission through Thin Al Foils Driven by High Contrast Ultra-intense Laser
T. Matsuoka , T. Lin , S. Reed , A. Maksimchuk , A.A. Batishcheva , J. Fox , O.V. Batishchev , V.Yu. Bychenkov

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:18AM - 10:30AM

NO3.00005: Integrated 1D PIC Simulation of Fast Ignition
Brian Chrisman , Yasuhiko Sentoku , A. Kemp , T. Cowan

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

NO3.00006: The Channeling Effect in the Underdense Plasma
G. Li , C. Ren , V.N. Goncharov , W.B. Mori

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

NO3.00007: Beam-plasma interaction analyzed by a hybrid simulation code
Toshihiro Taguchi , Kunioki Mima

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

NO3.00008: Relativistic electron transport in wire and foil targets driven by intense short pulse lasers
R.J. Mason , R.B. Stephens , M. Wei , R.R. Freeman , J. Hill , L.D. Van Woerkom

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

NO3.00009: Energy transport experiments using the Vulcan petawatt laser facility
Peter Norreys

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

NO3.00010: Collisional Relaxation of Super Thermal Electrons Generated by Relativistic Laser Pulses in Thin Solid Targets
Andreas Kemp , Emmanuel d'Humieres , Yasuhiko Sentoku , Hui Chen , Hyun Chung , Stephanie Hansen , Ronnie Shepherd , Scott Wilks

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

NO3.00011: Three-dimensional fast electron transport for ignition-scale inertial fusion targets
Javier Honrubia , Juergen Meyer-ter-Vehn

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

NO3.00012: Instabilities of Relativistic Electron Beams in Plasmas: Spatial Growth and Absolute Instability
R.W. Short , J. Myatt

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

NO3.00013: K-alpha X-rays, Hot Electrons and Electron Jets from Sub-millijoule Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Cristina Serbanescu , Dmitri Romanov , Clarence Capjack , Valery Bychenkov , Wojciech Rozmus , Robert Fedosejevs

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

NO3.00014: Spatial evolution of femtosecond-laser-induced aluminum plasma observed by picosecond time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Yasuaki Okano , Katsuya Oguri , Takeshi Kai , Ryou Fujii , Hiroaki Nishimura , Tadashi Nishikawa , Hidetoshi Nakano

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

NO3.00015: Single-shot time resolved measurement of molecular alignment in laser-irradiated gases: application to `self-channeled' plasma columns
Sanjay Varma , Yu-hsin Chen , Ilya Alexeev , Raphael Moon , Howard Milchberg

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