Bulletin of the American Physical Society

49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 52, Number 11

Monday–Friday, November 12–16, 2007; Orlando, Florida

Session Index

Session UO6: Z Pinches and X Pinches	Show Abstracts
Chair: Christine Coverdale, Sandia National Labs Room: Rosen Centre Hotel Salon 5/6

Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:00PM - 2:12PM		UO6.00001: Perspectives on Recent Progress in Developing Ar K-shell Z-Pinch Sources J.P. Apruzese, R.J. Commisso, B.V. Weber, D. Mosher, F.C. Young, J.W. Thornhill, J.L. Giuliani, A.L. Velikovich, J. Davis, J.S. Levine, B.H. Failor, H. Sze, N. Qi, J.W. Bannister, P.L. Coleman, C.A. Coverdale Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:12PM - 2:24PM		UO6.00002: The development of instabilities in wire array Z-pinches Jeremy Chittenden, Christopher Jennings Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:24PM - 2:36PM		UO6.00003: Bounds for Kinetic Energy and Resistance for W wire array implosions on Z Eduardo Waisman, Michael Cuneo, Daniel Sinars, William Stygar, Raymond Lemke Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:36PM - 2:48PM		UO6.00004: Faster, 80ns, current scaling experiments yield higher radiated x-ray power and approach quadratic dependence Michael G. Mazarakis, Michael E. Cuneo, William A. Stygar, Henry C. Harjes, Daniel B. Sinars, Brent M. Jones, Christopher Deeney, Eduardo M. Waisman, Thomas J. Nash, Kenneth W. Struve, Dillon H. McDaniel Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:48PM - 3:00PM		UO6.00005: Measurement of Doppler implosion velocity in wire array z pinches B. Jones, J.E. Bailey, G.A. Rochau, C.A. Coverdale, M.E. Cuneo, Y. Maron, V. Fisher, V. Bernshtam, A. Starobinets, C. Deeney Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:00PM - 3:12PM		UO6.00006: Ablated Wire Material and Coronal Structure Interactions David Haas, Simon Bott, Yossof Eshaq, Utako Ueda, Farhat Beg Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:12PM - 3:24PM		UO6.00007: The Implosion of Radial Wire Array Z-Pinches S.N. Bland, S.V. Lebedev, F. Suzuki-Vidal, J.P. Chittenden, G.N. Hall, A. Harvey-Thompson, J.B.A. Palmer, D.J. Ampleford, K. Chandler-Mitchell, M. Mitchell Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:24PM - 3:36PM		UO6.00008: The Structure of Ablated Plasma from Coiled Wire Arrays G.N. Hall, S.N. Bland, S.V. Lebedev, J.P. Chittenden, J.B.A. Palmer, F.A. Suzuki-Vidal, S.C. Bott Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:36PM - 3:48PM		UO6.00009: Ablation of wires in an inverse wire array z-pinch Sergey Lebedev, G.N. Hall, S.N. Bland, F.A. Suzuki-Vidal, J.P. Chittenden, C. Jennings, A. Harvey-Thompson, Cheng Ning, J.B.A. Palmer Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:48PM - 4:00PM		UO6.00010: Investigation of implosions in star-like wire arrays on the 1-MA Zebra generator V.V. Ivanov, V.I. Sotnikov, A. Haboub, A.L. Astanovitskiy, A. Morozov, S.D. Altemara, C. Thomas, S. Batie, V. Nalajala, A.P. Shevelko, E.D. Kazakov Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:00PM - 4:12PM		UO6.00011: Analysis of implosion and spectroscopic characteristics of combined planar wire arrays composed from low- and mid-z wire materials on the 1MA pulsed power generator at UNR A.S. Safronova, V.L. Kantsyrev, N.D. Ouart, M.F. Yilmaz, K. Williamson, V. Shlyaptseva, I. Shrestha, G. Osborne, C.A. Coverdale, C. Deeney Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:12PM - 4:24PM		UO6.00012: Implosion dynamics and radiation features of planar, compact cylindrical, and nested wire arrays on 1 MA, 100 ns z-pinch generators V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Safronova, A.A. Esaulov, K. Williamson, I. Shrestha, G. Osborne, N.D. Ouart, M.F. Yilmaz, V. Shlyaptseva, J.B. Greenly, J.D. Douglass, R.D. McBride, D.A. Chalenski, D.A. Hammer, B.R. Kusse, L.I. Rudakov, A.S. Chuvatin Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:24PM - 4:36PM		UO6.00013: Plasma Density Measurements within Tungsten Wire-Array Z-Pinches on the COBRA Accelerator Jon Douglass, Ryan McBride, Kate Bell, Patrick Knapp, John Greenly, Sergei Pikuz, Tanya Shelkovenko, David Hammer Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:36PM - 4:48PM		UO6.00014: Implosion dynamics of wire-array z-pinches on the COBRA accelerator R.D. McBride, K.S. Bell, I.C. Blesener, D.A. Chalenski, J.D. Douglass, J.B. Greenly, P.F. Knapp, S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko, T. Blanchard, H. Wilhelm, D.A. Hammer, B.R. Kusse Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:48PM - 5:00PM		UO6.00015: Soldered contact effect on wire array Z-pinches David Chalenski, Bruce Kusse, John Greenly Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 52, Number 11

Monday–Friday, November 12–16, 2007; Orlando, Florida

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