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Session PO5: Pinch Physics

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Chair: Alexander Velikovich, Naval Research Laboratory
Room: Grand Ballroom B


Wednesday, November 10, 2010
2:00PM - 2:12PM

PO5.00001: Novel wire ablation configurations for basic physics studies
John Greenly , Charles Seyler

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
2:12PM - 2:24PM

PO5.00002: Instability studies in radial foil configurations on the COBRA generator
P.-A. Gourdain , J.B. Greenly , D.A. Hammer , P.F. Knapp , B.R. Kusse , S.A. Pikuz , P.C. Schrafel , T.C. Shelkovenko

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
2:24PM - 2:36PM

PO5.00003: Electrical Contact Resistance with Dissimilar Materials
Peng Zhang , Y.Y. Lau , Matthew Gomez , David French , R.M. Gilgenbach , Wilkin Tang

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
2:36PM - 2:48PM

PO5.00004: Absorption spectroscopy of wire-array plasma at the non-radiative stage
V.V. Ivanov , P. Hakel , R.C. Mancini , P. Wiewior , T. Durmaz , A. Anderson , A. Astanovitskiy , O. Chalyy , S.D. Altemara , D. Papp , E. McKee , J.P. Chittenden , N. Niasse , A.P. Shevelko

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
2:48PM - 3:00PM

PO5.00005: First Analysis of Radiative Properties of Moderate-atomic-number Planar Wire Arrays on Zebra at UNR at Higher Current of 1.7 MA*
A.S. Safronova , V.L. Kantsyrev , A.A. Esaulov , A. Astanovitskiy , B. LeGalloudec , R. Presura , I. Shrestha , K.M. Williamson , V. Shlyaptseva , M.E. Weller , N.D. Ouart , S.F. Keim , G.C. Osborne , A.S. Chuvatin , C.A. Coverdale

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
3:00PM - 3:12PM

PO5.00006: Innovative Approach for Enhancing Shaped X-ray Production in Z-pinches*
V.L. Kantsyrev , A.S. Safronova , A.A. Esaulov , J.M. Kindel , K.M. Williamson , I. Shrestha , G.C. Osborne , M.E. Weller , N.D. Ouart , V. Shlyaptseva , A.S. Chuvatin , L.I. Rudakov , A.L. Velikovich

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
3:12PM - 3:24PM

PO5.00007: Experimental investigation of the inverse wire array current switch
Adam Harvey-Thompson , Sergey Lebedev , Simon Bland , Guy Burdiak , Jeremy Chittenden , Gareth Hall , Essa Khoory , Louisa Pickworth , Fransisco Suzuki-Vidal , George Swadling , Philip de Grouchy , Hiang Kwek

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
3:24PM - 3:36PM

PO5.00008: Evolution of the 3D structure of the magneto Rayleigh-Taylor instability in imploding liner Z-pinch fusion schemes
Jeremy Chittenden , Simon Vickers , Daniel Sinars , Ryan McBride

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
3:36PM - 3:48PM

PO5.00009: Evaluation of Nested Wire Array Dynamics with Mixed Wire Array Z Pinches
C.A. Coverdale , C. Jennings , B. Jones , M.E. Cuneo , C. Deeney , P.D. LePell , Y. Maron

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
3:48PM - 4:00PM

PO5.00010: Total X-Ray Power Improvement on Recent Wire Array Experiments on the Z Machine
Michael Jones , Dave Ampleford , Mike Cuneo , Chris Jennings , Brent Jones , Mike Lopez , Greg Rochau , Mark Savage , John Porter

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
4:00PM - 4:12PM

PO5.00011: Beryllium liner z-pinch implosions for equation of state studies on Z
R.W. Lemke , R.D. McBride , M.R. Martin , M.D. Knudson , J.P. Davis

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
4:12PM - 4:24PM

PO5.00012: ALEGRA Modeling of Gas Puff Z-Pinch Experiments at the ZR Facility*
C.S. Kueny , C.A. Coverdale , D.G. Flicker , M. Krishnan , P.L. Coleman

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
4:24PM - 4:36PM

PO5.00013: Mbar pressure generation using converging strong shock waves
Alexander Fedotov-Gefen , Sergey Efimov , Leonid Gilburd , Victor Gurovich , Galina Bazalitski , Yakov Krasik

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
4:36PM - 4:48PM

PO5.00014: Neutron spectroscopy of D(d,n)3He Z-pinch experiments
Karel Rezac , Daniel Klir , Pavel Kubes , Jozef Kravarik

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
4:48PM - 5:00PM

PO5.00015: Multiple neutron peaks from D(d,n)$^{3}$He reactions in Z-pinches and plasma foci
Daniel Klir , Jakub Cikhardt , Jiri Kortanek , Jozef Kravarik , Pavel Kubes , Ekaterina Litseva , Karel Rezac

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