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 CO1: Basic Plasma: Non-neutral, Strongly Coupled and Other

Chair: Bob Bingham, Rutherfor Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
Room: Adam's Mark Hotel Governor's Square 10

Monday, October 24, 2005 2:00PM - 2:12PM		CO1.00001: Overview of first results from the Columbia Non-neutral Torus T. Sunn Pedersen, J.P. Kremer, R. Lefrancois, Q. Marksteiner, A.H. Boozer, J. Berkery, X. Sarasola, H. Mynick, N. Pomphrey Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:12PM - 2:24PM		CO1.00002: The Equilibrium of Pure Electron Plasmas Confined on Magnetic Surfaces Remi G. Lefrancois, Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Allen H. Boozer, Jason P. Kremer, Quinn R. Marksteiner Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:24PM - 2:36PM		CO1.00003: Antihydrogen from merged plasmas - not cold enough to trap? Niels Madsen Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:36PM - 2:48PM		CO1.00004: Viscosity of strongly-coupled dusty plasmas in a liquid state J. Goree, Z. Donk\'o, P. Hartmann, K. Kutasi Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:48PM - 3:00PM		CO1.00005: Phase Transitions in 2-D Dusty Plasmas Christopher Jones, Michael Murillo Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:00PM - 3:12PM		CO1.00006: Void Structure in Complex Plasmas Truell Hyde, Jie Kong, Lorin Matthews, Jerry Reay, Mike Cook, Jimmy Schmoke Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:12PM - 3:24PM		CO1.00007: Dynamics in Saturn's F Ring: Orbits of Charged Grains Lorin Matthews, Meihong Sun, Ginger Bryngelson, Truell Hyde Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:24PM - 3:36PM		CO1.00008: Propagation and maintenance of plasma in a grounded slot and peripheral chamber connected to a capacitive discharge Allan Lichtenberg, Sungjin Kim, Michael Lieberman Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:36PM - 3:48PM		CO1.00009: Temperature Oscillations in Ultracold Plasmas Michael S. Murillo Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:48PM - 4:00PM		CO1.00010: Axial Modeling of an Electric Discharge in Air Harold Ladouceur, Andrew Baronavski, Tzvetelina Petrova Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:00PM - 4:12PM		CO1.00011: Electronic Structure and Equation of State of Warm Dense Gold Vanina Recoules, Patrick Renaudin, Pierre Noiret, Jean Clerouin Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:12PM - 4:24PM		CO1.00012: Trapping of Intense Electromagnetic Waves in Relativistic Electron Holes Bengt Eliasson, Padma Kant Shukla Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:24PM - 4:36PM		CO1.00013: Self-similar expansion of finite-size non-quasi-neutral plasmas Masakatsu Murakami, Mikhail Basko Preview Abstract

Session CO2: High Intensity Laser Matter Interacting; Intense Coherent X-rays; Beams

Chair: Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University
Room: Adam's Mark Hotel Governor's Square 11

Monday, October 24, 2005 2:00PM - 2:12PM		CO2.00001: Short-Pulse Heavy Ion Production via Target Laser-Ablation-Cleaning and Proton Acceleration Suppression Kirk Flippo, B.M. Hegelich, M.J. Schmitt, E. Dodd, J.A. Cobble, D.C. Gautheir, R. Gibson, R. Johnson, S. Letzering, J.C. Fern\'{a}ndez, T. Lin, A. Maksimchuk, M. Rever, D. Umstadter Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:12PM - 2:24PM		CO2.00002: Target Optimization Stategies for Control Laser Driven Ion Acceleration Bjoern Manuel Hegelich, K.A. Flippo, Brian J. Albright, Lin Yin, J. Cobble, Cort Gautier, Samuel Letzring, Mark Paffet, Roland Schulze, Juan C. Fernandez Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:24PM - 2:36PM		CO2.00003: Hot Electron and Positron Energy Distributions from Ultra-Intense Laser Solid Interactions Hui Chen, Scott Wilks, W. Kruer, S. Moon, N. Patel, P. Patel, R. Shepherd, R. Snavely Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:36PM - 2:48PM		CO2.00004: Numerical Calculations of Laser-Generated MeV Electrons and Characteristic X-Ray Production in Copper Foil Targets J. Myatt, J.A. Delettrez, W. Theobald, C. Stoeckl, M. Storm, A.V. Maximov, R.W. Short, R.P.J. Town, L.A. Cottrill Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 2:48PM - 3:00PM		CO2.00005: Stochastic Heating in High Intensity Laser-Plasma Interaction: Theory and PIC Code Simulations Alain Bourdier, David Patin, Erik Lefebvre Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:00PM - 3:12PM		CO2.00006: Relativistic Oscillating Gyromagnetic Effects in Ultra-intense Laser-Matter Interaction Robin Marjoribanks, Jean-Paul Geindre, Patrick Audebert Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:12PM - 3:24PM		CO2.00007: Dielectric Response of a Laser-Exploded Cluster to a Perturbing Field J.P. Palastro, T.M. Antonsen, A. Gupta Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:24PM - 3:36PM		CO2.00008: Intense Laser-Cluster Interaction: Effect of hot electrons on propagation and studies with longer pulse widths A. Gupta, T. Antonsen, T. Taguchi, J. Palastro, H. Milchberg Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:36PM - 3:48PM		CO2.00009: Energetic Ion Generation in Intense Femtosecond Laser Interaction with Clusters Katsunobu Nishihara, Vasilii Zhakhovskii, Toshiyuki Hirao, H. Amitani, Serugei Bulanov, Timur Esirkepov Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 3:48PM - 4:00PM		CO2.00010: High repetition rate tabletop soft x-ray lasers at wavelengths down to 11.9 nm in Nickel-like ions Bradley M. Luther, Yong Wang, Miguel A. Larotonda, David Alessi, Mark Berrill, Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev, Jorge J. Rocca Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:00PM - 4:12PM		CO2.00011: Demonstration of a desk-top size high repetition rate soft x-ray laser based on a fast capillary discharge Scott Heinbuch, Michael Grisham, Dale Martz, Fong Deng, Elliot Bernstein, Jorge Rocca Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:12PM - 4:24PM		CO2.00012: Multiply Ionized Plasmas with index of refraction greater than one Jorge Filevich, Jonathan Grava, Mike Purvis, Mario C. Marconi, Jorge Rocca, James Dunn, Joe Nilsen, Jim Scofield, Stephen S. Moon, Raymond F. Smith, Roisin Keenan, Jim R. Hunter, V.N. Shlyaptsev Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:24PM - 4:36PM		CO2.00013: Dynamic Study of an Intense Relativistic Electron Beam Transported in an Over-Dense Plasma Alain Piquemal Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:36PM - 4:48PM		CO2.00014: Equilibrium and stability of a high-intensity periodically twisted ellipse-shaped charged-particle beam Jing Zhou, Ronak Bhatt, Chiping Chen Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 4:48PM - 5:00PM		CO2.00015: Priming effects in a relativistic magnetron with a transparent cathode H.L. Bosman, S. Prasad, M.I. Fuks, E. Schamiloglu Preview Abstract
Monday, October 24, 2005 5:00PM - 5:12PM		CO2.00016: Development of the Indiana Rf Photocathode Source Simulator Mark Hess, Chong Shik Park, Daniel Bolton Preview Abstract

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

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 CO1: Basic Plasma: Non-neutral, Strongly Coupled and Other

Session CO2: High Intensity Laser Matter Interacting; Intense Coherent X-rays; Beams

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

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