Bulletin of the American Physical Society

54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 57, Number 12

Monday–Friday, October 29–November 2 2012; Providence, Rhode Island

Session Index

Session BO5: Target Charging and Wire Array Z-pinches	Show Abstracts
Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories Room: 552AB

Monday, October 29, 2012 9:30AM - 9:42AM		BO5.00001: An empirical target discharging model for direct-drive implosions on OMEGA N. Sinenian, M.J.-E. Manuel, J.A. Frenje, F.H. Seguin, C.K. Li, R.D. Petrasso, V. Goncharov, J. Delettrez, C. Stoeckl, T.C. Sangster, J. Cobble Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 9:42AM - 9:54AM		BO5.00002: Mapping kA Return Currents in Laser-generated Z-pinch Plasmas M.J.-E. Manuel, N. Sinenian, F.H. S\'eguin, C.K. Li, J.A. Frenje, H.G. Rinderknecht, D.T. Casey, A.B. Zylstra, R.D. Petrasso, M. Fatenejad, F.N. Beg Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 9:54AM - 10:06AM		BO5.00003: Aluminum Wire Array Experiments on the Z Generator D.J. Ampleford, S.B. Hansen, C.A. Jennings, B. Jones, M.E. Cuneo, R.W. Clark, Y.K. Chong, J. Apruzese, J.L. Giuliani Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 10:06AM - 10:18AM		BO5.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 10:18AM - 10:30AM		BO5.00005: Optical Spectroscopic Measurements of the Z Machine Power Flow Region Matthew Gomez, Ron Gilgenbach, Mike Cuneo, Ryan McBride, Greg Rochau, Brent Jones, Dave Ampleford, Dan Sinars, Jim Bailey, Bill Stygar, Mark Savage, Michael Jones, Aaron Edens, Mike Lopez, E. Stambulchik, Y. Maron, Dave Rose, Dale Welch Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 10:30AM - 10:42AM		BO5.00006: Study of instabilities in wire-array Z pinches at stagnation V.V. Ivanov, J.P. Chittenden, R.C. Mancini, D. Papp, N. Niasse, S.D. Altemara, A.A. Anderson Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 10:42AM - 10:54AM		BO5.00007: Theoretical Investigation of Radiation Characteristics of Silver Z-pinch Arrays with Applications M.E. Weller, A.S. Safronova, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.A. Esaulov, I. Shrestha, G.C. Osborne, V.V. Shlyaptseva, S.F. Keim, A. Stafford, E.E. Petkov, A.S. Chuvatin, J.P. Apruzese, I.E. Golovkin, J.J. MacFarlane Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 10:54AM - 11:06AM		BO5.00008: Experiments and Numerical Simulation on a New Hohlraum Configuration with Planar Wire Array Sources at the 1.7 MA Zebra Generator V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Chuvatin, L.I. Rudakov, A.S. Safronova, A.A. Esaulov, I. Shrestha, G.C. Osborne, V.V. Shlyaptseva, M.E. Weller, S.F. Keim, A. Stafford, B. Jones, R.A. Vesey Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 11:06AM - 11:18AM		BO5.00009: Larger Size Planar Wire Arrays with a Modified Central Plane and Their Applications on Zebra with LCM A.S. Safronova, A.A. Esaulov, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Chuvatin, C.A. Coverdale, B. Jones, V.V. Shlyaptseva, M.E. Weller, A. Stafford, I. Shrestha, G.C. Osborne, S.F. Keim Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 11:18AM - 11:30AM		BO5.00010: Shell-Like Loads and Spherical Arrays Driven by a Two-Stage Wire-Array Configuration Gareth Hall, Sergey Lebedev, Essa Khoory, Jeremy Chittenden, Francisco Suzuki-Vidal, George Swadling, Simon Bland, Adam Harvey-Thompson, Guy Burdiak, Philip de Grouchy, Louisa Pickworth, Jonathan Skidmore, Lee Suttle, Matthew Bennett Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 11:30AM - 11:42AM		BO5.00011: End-On Laser Interferometry of Wire Array Z-Pinch Implosions on the MAGPIE Generator G. Swadling, S.V. Lebedev, S. Patankar, A. Harvey-Thompson, F. Suzuki-Vidal, G.N. Hall, S.N. Bland, G. Burdiak, J.P. Chittenden, P. de Grouchy, J. Skidmore, L. Pickworth, L. Suttle, M. Bennett, R.A. Smith Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 11:42AM - 11:54AM		BO5.00012: Predictions of non-LTE spectra from large scale 3D magneto-hydrodynamic modelling of wire array Z-pinches Nicolas Niasse, Jeremy Chittenden Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 11:54AM - 12:06PM		BO5.00013: Hybrid X Pinches at 1.2 MA Tatiana A. Shelkovenko, Sergey A. Pikuz, Adam D. Cahill, Cad L. Hoyt, David A. Hammer, Ivan N. Tilikin, Sergey N. Mishin, Albert R. Mingaleev Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 12:06PM - 12:18PM		BO5.00014: Investigation of the interaction between a supersonic, radiatively cooled, plasma jet with metallic foil targets Louisa Pickworth, Sergey Lebedev, Francisco Suzuki-Vidal, Simon Bland, Gareth Hall, George Swadling, Matteo Bocchi, Guy Burdiak, John Skidmore, Phil de Grouchy, Lee Suttle, Mathew Bennett, Siddharth Patankar, Jerry Chittenden, Nicolas Niasse, A. Frank Preview Abstract
Monday, October 29, 2012 12:18PM - 12:30PM		BO5.00015: Energetic cavitation collapse: tabletop high energy density once per minute with $\sim $1 J, $\sim $1 kW driver Marc Ramsey, Robert Pitz Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 57, Number 12

Monday–Friday, October 29–November 2 2012; Providence, Rhode Island

Session Index

Session BO5: Target Charging and Wire Array Z-pinches

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