Bulletin of the American Physical Society

55th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 58, Number 16

Monday–Friday, November 11–15, 2013; Denver, Colorado

Session Index

Session TO4: Z-Pinch and Dense Plasma Focus	Show Abstracts
Chair: Daniel Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories Room: Plaza D

Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:30AM - 9:42AM		TO4.00001: Spectroscopic magnetic field measurements of the drive current on the Z machine S.B. Hansen, M.R. Gomez, D.J. Ampleford, T.J. Awe, D.E. Bliss, A.L. Carlson, M.E. Cuneo, C.A. Jennings, A.J. Harvey-Thompson, B. Jones, P.F. Knapp, D.C. Lamppa, R.D. McBride, S.A. Slutz, D. Schroen, K. Tomlinson Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:42AM - 9:54AM		TO4.00002: Ablation Flow Interactions in Wire Array Z-Pinches on the MAGPIE generator George Swadling, Sergey Lebedev, Gareth Hall, Francisco Suzuki-Vidal, Guy Burdiak, Nicolas Niasse, Louisa Pickworth, Jonathon Skidmore, Philip De Grouchy, Essa Koory, Lee Suttle, Matthew Bennett, Jianqiang Yuan, Adam Harvey-Thomson Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:54AM - 10:06AM		TO4.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:06AM - 10:18AM		TO4.00004: Comparison of 1D stagnation solutions to 3D wire-array Z pinch simulations in absence of radiation Edmund Yu, Alexander Velikovich, Yitzhak Maron Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:18AM - 10:30AM		TO4.00005: Acceleration of Hydrogen Ions up to 30 MeV and Generation of 3x10$^{12}$ Neutrons in Megaampere Deuterium Gas-Puff Z-Pinch D. Klir, J. Cikhardt, J. Kravarik, P. Kubes, K. Rezac, O. Sila, A. Shishlov, R. Cherdizov, F. Fursov, V. Kokshenev, B. Kovalchuk, N. Kurmaev, A. Labetsky, N. Ratakhin, H. Orcikova, K. Turek Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:30AM - 10:42AM		TO4.00006: New Regimes of Implosions of Larger Sized Wire Arrays With and Without Modified Central Plane at 1.5-1.7 MA Zebra A.S. Safronova, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.A. Esaulov, M.E. Weller, I. Shrestha, V.V. Shlyaptseva, A. Stafford, S.F. Keim, E.E. Petkov, M. Lorance, A.S. Chuvatin, C.A. Coverdale, B. Jones Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:42AM - 10:54AM		TO4.00007: High gain fusion in a Staged Z-pinch Paul Ney, Hafiz Rahman, Frank Wessel, Radu Presura Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:54AM - 11:06AM		TO4.00008: A novel investigation of the ion temperature and hydromotion of stagnating z-pinch plasma using Stark-broadened line shapes Dror Alumot, Eyal Kroupp, Evgeny Stambulchik, Dmitry Osin, Alexander Starobinets, Vladimir Bernshtam, Leonid Weingarten, Yitzhak Maron, Ingo Uschmann, Amnon Fisher Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:06AM - 11:18AM		TO4.00009: Numerical simulation of the wire array load for Z pinch and optimal load design based on PSPICE Hailong Zhao, Jianjun Deng, Wenkang Zou, Ganghua Wang, Mingxian Kan Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:18AM - 11:30AM		TO4.00010: Study of Bright Spots in Wire-Array Z-Pinches V.V. Ivanov, D. Papp, A.A. Anderson, B. Talbot, A.L. Astanovitskiy, V. Nalajala, O. Dmitriev, J.P. Chittenden, N. Niasse Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:30AM - 11:42AM		TO4.00011: Computational modeling of Krypton Gas Puffs on Z C.A. Jennings, D.J. Ampleford, A.J. Harvey-Thompson, B. Jones, S.B. Hansen, D.C. Lamppa, M.R.L. Jobe, T. Strizic, M.E. Cuneo Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:42AM - 11:54AM		TO4.00012: Hard X-ray and Particle Beams Research on 1.7 MA Z-pinch and Laser Plasma Experiments Ishor Shrestha, Victor Kantsyrev, Alla Safronova, Andrey Esaulov, Mineyuki Nishio, Veronica Shlyaptseva, Steven Keim, Michael Weller, Austin Stafford, Emil Petkov, Kimberly Schultz, Matthew Cooper Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:54AM - 12:06PM		TO4.00013: Direct Measurement of the Acceleration of a Probe Beam by a Dense Plasma Focus Z-Pinch J.L. Ellsworth, S. Falabella, B. Rusnak, A.E.W. Schmidt, V. Tang Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:06PM - 12:18PM		TO4.00014: Neutron Emission in Deuterium Dense Plasma Foci Brian Appelbe, Jeremy Chittenden Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:18PM - 12:30PM		TO4.00015: Application of Proton Deflectometry to Z-Pinch Plasma Systems at the Mega-Ampere Scale Derek Mariscal, Chris McGuffey, Julio Valenzuela, Mingsheng Wei, Farhat Beg, Radu Presura, Showera Haque, Angel Arias, Aaron Covington, Hiroshi Sawada, Jeremy Chittenden Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

55th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 58, Number 16

Monday–Friday, November 11–15, 2013; Denver, Colorado

Session Index

Session TO4: Z-Pinch and Dense Plasma Focus

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