Session BO1: Basic Plasma Physics I

Chair: Robert Merlino, University of Iowa
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon G


Monday, October 30, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

BO1.00001: Positron--Electron, Pair-Plasma Production on OMEGA EP
J. Myatt , A.V. Maximov , R.W. Short

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Monday, October 30, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

BO1.00002: Quasi-Linear and Nonlinear High-Harmonic Generation from Ultraintense Ultrafast Laser Plasmas
Robin Marjoribanks , Cedric Thaury , Fabien Quere , Jean-Paul Geindre , Patrick Audebert , Pascal Monot , Philippe Martin

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Monday, October 30, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

BO1.00003: Spectroscopic Analysis of Electron Beam Diodes for Flash X-ray Radiography at Sandia National Laboratories*
M.D. Johnston , B.V. Oliver , K. Hahn , D. Rovang , J.E. Maenchen , D. Droemer , D.R. Welch , Y. Maron

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

BO1.00004: Coherent X-Ray Emission from a Plasma Discharge-Driven Hydride Target
George H. Miley , Andrei Lipson , Heinz Hora

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:18AM - 10:30AM

BO1.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

BO1.00006: Structure of an Ionizing Shock Wave in a Guide Tube
Christopher Boswell

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

BO1.00007: Stationary electrostatic structures revisited
Martin V. Goldman , David L. Newman , Daniel Main , Andre Mangeney

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

BO1.00008: Observation of a devil's staircase behavior and experimental control of chaos in wave-particle interaction
Alessandro Macor , Fabrice Doveil , Yves Elskens

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

BO1.00009: Dominance of second growth rate peak in Alfv\'enic behavior and instability transition of relativistic electromagnetic ion cyclotron instabilities near threshold
Shih-Hao Lee , Kuan-Ren Chen , Hunag-Kui Chen

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

BO1.00010: Accelerate the transition of radioisotopes or unwanted weapons-grade $^{239}$Pu into stable nuclei with a system of high frequency modulation for a net energy gain
Eugene Pamfiloff

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

BO1.00011: A Phase Space Study of an Electron Beam Interacting with Lasers and Plasma Waves
A. Bowman , R. Williams

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

BO1.00012: Micro- and nano- second time scale, high power electrical wire explosions in water.
Alon Grinenko , Sergey Efimov , Arkadii Sayapin , Alexander Fedotov , Viktor Gurovich , Yakov Krasik

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

BO1.00013: Dipolar radiation from spinning dust grains coupled to an electromagnetic wave
A. Guerreiro , M. Eloy , J.T. Mendonca , R. Bingham

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Session BO2: Space and Astrophysical Plasmas

Sponsoring Units: GPAP
Chair: Yu Lin, Auburn University
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon H


Monday, October 30, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

BO2.00001: Solitons in the Auroral Upward Current Region
Daniel Main , David Newman , Robert Ergun , Martin Goldman

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Monday, October 30, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

BO2.00002: Simulations of Jetted Relativistic Blastwaves in Astrophysics
Jay Salmonson , P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Jeff Jauregui

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Monday, October 30, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

BO2.00003: Influence of Episodic Mass Ejection on Hydrodynamic Jet Evolution
S. Sublett , J.P. Knauer , D.D. Meyerhofer , I.V. Igumenshchev , T.J.B. Collins , A. Frank

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

BO2.00004: Production of Cumulative Jets Generated by Laser-Driven Collapsing Hollow Cones and Wedges
Sergei Nikitin , Jacob Grun , Charles Manka , Yefim Aglitskiy , Daniel Zabetakis , Alexander Velikovich , Christopher Miller , John M. Laming

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:18AM - 10:30AM

BO2.00005: Statistical Theory of a Magnetized Accretion Disk Corona
Dmitri Uzdensky , Jeremy Goodman

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

BO2.00006: 3-D MHD Simulation of the Accretion Disk Corona
A.Y. Pankin , Z. Mikic , V. Titov , J. Goodman , D.A. Uzdensky , D.D. Schnack

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

BO2.00007: Generation of secondary whistler emissions
Anatoly Streltsov , Gurudas Ganguli , Martin Lampe , Glenn Joyce , K. Dennis Papadopoulos , Wally Manheimer

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

BO2.00008: Nonlinear electron dynamics in large-amplitude whistlers
M. Lampe , A.V. Streltsov , G. Ganguli , W.M. Manheimer , G. Joyce , K. Papadopoulos

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

BO2.00009: Meteor Plasma Trails in E-Region Ionosphere: Diffusion, Electric Fields, and Disturbances
Y.S. Dimant , M.M. Oppenheim

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

BO2.00010: Generation and Evolution of Intense Ion-Cyclotron Turbulence by Artificial Plasma Cloud in the Magnetosphere
Gurudas Ganguli , Leonid Rudakov , Manish MIthaiwala , Dennis Papadopoulos

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

BO2.00011: Formation of a Heavy-Ion Induced ULF Cavity in the Earth's Magnetosphere
Manish Mithaiwala , Leonid Rudakov , Gurudas Ganguli , Dennis Papadopoulos

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

BO2.00012: Multiscale phenomena in the magnetosphere: Power-law and Weibull distributions
Veeramani Thangamani , Surja Sharma

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

BO2.00013: Turbulent Alfven waves and fast magnetosonic waves in the solar corona
Benjamin Chandran

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Monday, October 30, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

BO2.00014: Inertial range physics of solar wind turbulence as revealed by 3 second plasma measurements
J.J. Podesta

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Monday, October 30, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

BO2.00015: 3D Magnetospheric Structure Prior to Substorm Onset and Onset Mechanism
C.Z. Cheng , Sorin Zaharia , Nikolai Gorelenkov

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Session BO3: Fast Ignition

Chair: Farhat Beg, University of California, San Diego
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon KL


Monday, October 30, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

BO3.00001: Isochoric Implosions for Fast Ignition
Daniel Clark , Max Tabak

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Monday, October 30, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

BO3.00002: Gain Curves for Fast-Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion
A.A. Solodov , R. Betti , J.A. Delettrez , C. Zhou

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Monday, October 30, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

BO3.00003: Fast-Ignition Fuel Assembly: Theory and Experiments
C. Zhou , R. Betti , W. Theobald , C. Stoeckl , V.A. Smalyuk

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

BO3.00004: High-Areal-Density, Fuel-Assembly Experiments for the Fast-Ignitor Concept
W. Theobald , C. Stoeckl , C. Zhou , R. Betti , S. Roberts , V.A. Smalyuk , V.Yu. Glebov , J.A. Delettrez , T.C. Sangster , D.D. Meyerhofer , C.K. Li , R.D. Petrasso

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:18AM - 10:30AM

BO3.00005: Present Status of FIREX Project for Ignition and Burn
Hiroshi Azechi

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

BO3.00006: Collimation of laser-induced high energy density electrons in imploded cylinder plasmas
Hirotaka Nakamura , Ryosuke Kodama , Yasuhiko Sentoku , Takeshi Matsuoka , Toshinori Yabuuchi , Kazuo Tanaka , Hiroyuki Shiraga , Peter Norreys

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

BO3.00007: Increased Hot Electron Production with Low-Density Gold Foams for Fast Ignition
Kazuo A. Tanaka , A.L. Lei , R. Kodama , R.G. Kumar , K. Nagai , T. Norimatsu , T. Yabu-uchi , K. Mima

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Monday, October 30, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

BO3.00008: 2-D Simulations of OMEGA Fast-Ignition Cone Targets
K.S. Anderson , R. Betti , P.W. McKenty , P.B. Radha , M.M. Marinak

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

BO3.00009: Hydrodynamic Simulations of Integrated Fast-Ignition Experiments Planned for OMEGA/OMEGA EP Laser Systems
J.A. Delettrez , J. Myatt , C. Stoeckl , D.D. Meyerhofer

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

BO3.00010: Proton Beam Source Suitable for Fast Ignition Targets
R.B. Stephens , M.P. Mauldin , K. Akli , P. Gu , D. Hey , J. King , N. Patel , B. Zhang , F. Beg , S. Chen , J. Pasley , M. Wei , D. Clark , R. Freeman , K. Highbarger , J. Hill , K. Krauter , L. Van Woerkom , R. Weber , J. Green , K. Lancaster , C. Murphy , P. Norreys , G. Gregori , S. Hatchett

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

BO3.00011: Proton acceleration with high intensity lasers interacting on micro-cone targets
Emmanuel d'Humieres , Tom Cowan , Sandrine Gaillard , Nathalie Le Galloudec , Jennifer Rassuchine , Yasuhiko Sentoku

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

BO3.00012: The LANL Research Program on Ion-Based Fast Ignition
Juan C. Fernandez , B.J. Albright , K.A. Flippo , C. Gautier , B.M. Hegelich , M.J. Schmitt , R.K. Schulze , L. Yin , E. Brambrink , M. Geissel , P. Antici , J. Fuchs

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Monday, October 30, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

BO3.00013: Above scaling short-pulse ion acceleration from flat foil and ``Pizza-top Cone'' targets at the Trident laser facility
Kirk Flippo , B. Manuel Hegelich , D. Cort Gautier , J. Randy Johnson , John L. Kline , Tsutomu Shimada , Juan C. Fern\'andez , Sandrine Gaillard , Jennifer Rassuchine , Nathalie Le Galloudec , Thomas E. Cowan , Steve Malekos , Grant Korgan

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Monday, October 30, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

BO3.00014: Laser-Driven Super-High Velocity Targets for Impact Fast Ignition
T. Sakaiya , H. Saito , H. Azechi , K. Otani , T. Watari , K. Takeda , D. Ichinose , H. Hosoda , M. Murakami , K. Shigemori , M. Nakai , H. Shiraga , S. Fujioka , H. Nagatomo , A. Sunahara , K. Mima , M. Karasik , J. Gardner , J. Bates , D. Colombant , J. Weber , S. Obenschain , Y. Aglitskiy

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Monday, October 30, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

BO3.00015: Neutron Generation in Colliding Foils for Impact Fast Ignition
T. Watari , T. Sakaiya , H. Azechi , M. Nakai , H. Shiraga , K. Shigemori , H. Hosoda , M. Murakami , K. Mima , M. Karasik , J. Gardner , J. Bates , D. Colombant , J. Weber , S. Obenschain , Y. Aglitskiy

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