Session JO5: X-Pinches and Z-Pinches

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Chair: Michael Cuneo, Sandia National Laboratories
- Reunion C


Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

JO5.00001: Nested X Pinches on the COBRA Generator
David Hammer , Tatiana Shelkovenko , Sergei Pikuz , Ryan McBride , Patrick Knapp , Harold Wilhelm , Daniel Sinars

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

JO5.00002: Bright Spots in X-pinch Plasmas at 6 MA
D.B. Sinars , D.J. Ampleford , E.P. Yu , C.A. Jennings , M.E. Cuneo , D.F. Wenger , S.A. Pikuz , T.A. Shelkovenko , S.N. Bland , J.P. Chittenden

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

JO5.00003: Large scale parallel computing simulations of wire array Z-pinches
Jeremy Chittenden , Nicolas Niasse , Andrea Ciardi

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

JO5.00004: Fourier analysis of bubble dynamics in a wire-array Z pinch implosion
Edmund Yu , Michael Cuneo

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

JO5.00005: Development of the Axial Instability in Low Wire Number Wire Array Z-Pinches
P.F. Knapp , K.S. Bell , I.C. Blesener , D.A. Chalenski , J.B. Greenly , M.R. Martin , R.D. McBride , S.A. Pikuz , T.A. Shelkovenko , D.A. Hammer , B.R. Kusse

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

JO5.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

JO5.00007: Experiments Investigating the Interaction between Precursor Plasma from Wire Arrays and On-axis Foam Targets at 1 MA.
J. Palmer , S. Lebedev , J. Chittenden , S. Bland , F. Suzuki-Vidal , G. Hall , S. Bott , M. Sherlock , D. Ampleford

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

JO5.00008: Origin of the interaction pulse in Nested Wire Array Z-pinches
D.J. Ampleford , C.A. Jennings , M.E. Cuneo , M.C. Jones , D.B. Sinars , S.N. Bland , G.N. Hall , S.V. Lebedev , J.P. Chittenden , F. Suzuki-Vidal , S.C. Bott

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

JO5.00009: Radiated X-ray Power and Energy current scaling at 80ns implosion times
Michael Mazarakis , Michael Cuneo , William Stygar , Henry Harjes , Daniel Sinars , Brent Jones , Christopher Deeney , Eduardo Waisman , Thomas Nash , Kenneth Struve , Dillon McDaniel

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

JO5.00010: Dynamics and scaling of z-pinch K-shell x-ray sources
B. Jones , D.J. Ampleford , M.E. Cuneo , S.C. Jones , C.A. Coverdale , C. Deeney , E.M. Waisman , J.E. Bailey , G.A. Rochau , C.A. Jennings , J.W. Thornhill , J.P. Apruzese , R.W. Clark , K.G. Whitney , J. Davis , J.L. Giuliani , Y. Maron , V. Fisher , V. Bernshtam , A. Starobinets , J.P. Chittenden

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

JO5.00011: Progress report on new results of the study of multi-planar and compact cylindrical wire arrays at 0.8-1.3 MA current at UNR Zebra generator
V.L. Kantsyrev , A.S. Safronova , A.A. Esaulov , R. Presura , K.M. Williamson , I. Shrestha , N.D. Ouart , M.F. Yilmaz , P.G. Wilcox , G.C. Osborne , M.E. Weller , V. Shlyaptseva , L.I. Rudakov

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

JO5.00012: Analysis of x-ray bright spots from triple and single combined Cu and Al planar wire arrays on the 1MA pulsed power generator at UNR
A.S. Safronova , V.L. Kantsyrev , A.A. Esaulov , N.D. Ouart , M.F. Yilmaz , M.E. Weller , K.M. Williamson , V. Shlyaptseva , I. Shrestha , G.C. Osborne , C.A. Coverdale , C. Deeney

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:24PM - 4:36PM

JO5.00013: Implosion dynamics and x-ray generation in small-diameter wire-array z-pinches
V.V. Ivanov , V.I. Sotnikov , J.M. Kindel , A.L. Astanovitskiy , A. Haboub , S.D. Altemara , A.P. Shevelko , E.D. Kazakov , P.V. Sasorov

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:36PM - 4:48PM

JO5.00014: Nonlinear dynamics of flute mode structures in a plasma with inhomogeneous magnetic field
V.I. Sotnikov , O.G. Onishchenko , V.V. Ivanov , R. Presura , J. Kindel , J.N. Leboeuf , B.V. Oliver , T.A. Mehlhorn , C. Deeney

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