Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2005 47th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics

Monday–Friday, October 24–28, 2005; Denver, Colorado

Session Index

Session CO3: Z-pinches, X-pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus	Show Abstracts
Chair: Daniel Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories Room: Adam's Mark Hotel Governor's Square 15

Monday, October 24, 2005 2:00PM - 2:12PM		CO3.00001: Jet formation in multi-wire X-pinch Erik Shipton, David Haas, Greg Andreev, Kathy Wagschal, Zaid Karim, Farhat Beg Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:12PM - 2:24PM		CO3.00002: Generation of electron and ion beams in X pinches. Y.S. Dimant, T.A. Shelkovenko, S.A. Pikuz, D.A. Hammer Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:24PM - 2:36PM		CO3.00003: Spectroscopy and implosion dynamics of combined W and Al X-pinches and their comparison with W wire arrays produced on the UNR 1 MA z-pinch generator A. Safronova, V. Kantsyrev, D. Fedin, A. Esaulov, F. Yilmaz, N. Ouart, T. Hoppe, G. Osborne, V. Nalajala, S. Pokala, I. Shrestha, J.P. Apruzese Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:36PM - 2:48PM		CO3.00004: Time Gated Imaging of Cylindrical Wire Array Z-Pinches Using X-Pinch Backlighting Jon Douglass, John Greenly, David Hammer, Ryan McBride, Sergei Pikuz, Tanya Shelkovenko Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:48PM - 3:00PM		CO3.00005: Effect of material on precursor flow conditions and column formation in cylindrical wire arrays S. Bott, S. Lebedev, S. Bland, J. Chittenden, M. Sherlock, M. Haines, D. Ampleford, G. Hall, C. Jennings, J. Rapley, J. Palmer Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:00PM - 3:12PM		CO3.00006: Dependence of z-pinch mass ablation rate on wire size and inter-wire gap Edmund Yu, Bryan Oliver, Pavel Sasorov, Dan Sinars, Mike Cuneo, Tom Mehlhorn Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:12PM - 3:24PM		CO3.00007: WITHDRAWN - Dynamics of Precursor Coronal Plasmas and Wire Ablation in Wire Array Z-Pinches B.V. Oliver, E.P. Yu, T.A. Mehlhorn, P. Sasorov Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:24PM - 3:36PM		CO3.00008: Studies of Al and W wire array z-pinches, and the role of ``magnetic bubbles'' in energy deposition at 1 MA Cobra generator V. Kantsyrev, A. Safronova, D. Fedin, A. Esaulov, V. Nalajala, N. Ouart, F. Yilmaz, T. Hoppe, G. Osborne, K. Williamson, J. Greenly, J. Douglass, R. McBride, L. Maxson, D. Hammer, A. Velikovich Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:36PM - 3:48PM		CO3.00009: Wire Fixturing in High Wire-Number Z-Pinch Implosions Important for Reproducibility and High Power T.W.L. Sanford, R.C. Mock, J.F. Seamen, M.R. Lopez, R.G. Watt, G.C. Idzorek, D.L. Peterson Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:48PM - 4:00PM		CO3.00010: Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence model James Hammer Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:00PM - 4:12PM		CO3.00011: Time- and space-resolved Si emission measurements of the Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum Gregory A. Rochau, J.E. Bailey, K.J. Peterson, G.S. Dunham, P.W. Lake, S.A. Slutz, J.J. MacFarlane, Y. Maron Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:12PM - 4:24PM		CO3.00012: Using a Z-pinch precursor plasma to produce a cylindrical, hotspot ignition, ICF Jeremy Chittenden, Peter Vincent, Christopher Jennings, Andrea Ciardi Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:24PM - 4:36PM		CO3.00013: Thermonuclear and Beam-Target Fusion in Deuterium Gas-Puff Z-Pinch Implosions: Theory and Modeling R.W. Clark, A.L. Velikovich, J. Davis, Y.K. Chong, C. Deeney, C.A. Coverdale, C. Ruiz, G. Cooper, J. Franklin, L.I. Rudakov Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:36PM - 4:48PM		CO3.00014: Computational Study of Plasma Radiation in MITL Gap Milena A. Angelova, Bruno S. Bauer, Volodymyr Makhin, Richard E. Siemon, Stephan Fuelling Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:48PM - 5:00PM		CO3.00015: Shrapnel Formation in a Z-Pinch Power Plant John De Groot, N. Gronbech-Jensen Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2005 47th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics

Monday–Friday, October 24–28, 2005; Denver, Colorado

Session Index

Session CO3: Z-pinches, X-pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus

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