Bulletin of the American Physical Society

57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 60, Number 19

Monday–Friday, November 16–20, 2015; Savannah, Georgia

Session Index

Session GO8: Beam, Source and Pinch Physics	Show Abstracts
Chair: Igor Kaganovich, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: 103/104

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		GO8.00001: An Exact Formulation of Laser Assisted Electron Emission on a Biased Metal Surface Peng Zhang, Y.Y. Lau, L.K. Ang, D. Shiffler, K.L. Jensen, R.M. Gilgenbach Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		GO8.00002: On the Interfacial Tunneling Current in Nanoscale Plasmonic Junctions Y.Y. Lau, Peng Zhang, R.M. Gilgenbach Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:54AM - 10:06AM		GO8.00003: How Accurate Is Pierce's Theory of Traveling Wave Tube? D.H. Simon, D. Chernin, P. Wong, P. Zhang, Y.Y. Lau, C.F. Dong, B. Hoff, R.M. Gilgenbach Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:06AM - 10:18AM		GO8.00004: Theory of Harmonic Generation on a Traveling Wave Tube C.F. Dong, P. Zhang, D. Chernin, Y.Y. Lau, D.H. Simon, P. Wong, G. Greening, R.M. Gilgenbach Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:18AM - 10:30AM		GO8.00005: 3-D Printed High Power Microwave Magnetrons Nicholas Jordan, Geoffrey Greening, Steven Exelby, Ronald Gilgenbach, Y.Y. Lau, Brad Hoff Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:30AM - 10:42AM		GO8.00006: Short Intense Ion Pulses for Materials and Warm Dense Matter Research Peter Seidl, Q. Ji, S.M. Lidia, A. Persaud, M. Stettler, J.H. Takakuwa, W.L. Waldron, T. Schenkel, J.J. Barnard, A. Friedman, D.P. Grote, R.C. Davidson, E.P. Gilson, I.D. Kaganovich Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:42AM - 10:54AM		GO8.00007: Theoretical studies of defect formation and target heating by intense pulsed ion beams J.J. Barnard, T. Schenkel, A. Persaud, P.A. Seidl, A. Friedman, D.P. Grote, R.C. Davidson, E.P. Gilson, I. Kaganovich Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:54AM - 11:06AM		GO8.00008: Total Kinetic Energy Of Non-Thermal Electron-Beams In Z-Pinch Experiments Ben Hammel, Erik McKee, Matt Wallace, Radu Presura, Aaron Covington, Tim Darling Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:06AM - 11:18AM		GO8.00009: Development and Characterization of Pulsed Neutron Sources at NTF Erik McKee, Ben Hammel, Danny Lowe, Radu Presura, Vladimir Ivanov, Showera Haque, Aaron Covington, Jeremy Iratcabal, Zephyr McCormick, Tim Darling Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:18AM - 11:30AM		GO8.00010: The Role of the Driver Circuit in the Neutron Yield of the Plasma Focus Jason Sears, Andrea Schmidt, Anthony Link, Dale Welch Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:30AM - 11:42AM		GO8.00011: Characterisation of the Current Switch Mechanism in Two-stage Wire Array Z-pinches Guy Burdiak, S. Lebedev, A. Harvey-Thompson, G. Hall, G. Swadling, F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. Bland, L. Pickworth, P. de Grouchy, L. Suttle, E. Waisman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:42AM - 11:54AM		GO8.00012: Experiments and Simulations on Magnetically Driven Implosions in High Repetition Rate Dense Plasma Focus Luis Caballero Bendixsen, Simon Bott-Suzuki, Samuel Cordaro, Mahadevan Krishnan, Stephen Chapman, Phil Coleman, Jeremy Chittenden Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:54AM - 12:06PM		GO8.00013: Azimuthal Current Density Distribution Resulting from a Power Feed Vacuum Gap in Metallic Liner Experiments at 1 MA Simon Bott-Suzuki, S.W. Cordaro, L.S. Caballero Bendixsen, L. Atoyan, T. Byvank, W. Potter, B.R. Kusse, J.B. Greenly, D.A. Hammer, J.P. Chittenden, C.A. Jennings Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 12:06PM - 12:18PM		GO8.00014: In-Situ Anode Heating and Its Effects on Atomic Constituents in the A-K Gap in Self-Magnetic Pinch (SMP) Experiments* Sean Simpson, Timothy Renk, Mark Johnston, Mike Mazarakis, Sonal Patel Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 12:18PM - 12:30PM		GO8.00015: Anode heating/cleaning and its effects on diode impedance in Self-Magnetic Pinch (SMP) Experiments* Timothy Renk, Sean Simpson, Jacob Zier, Bruce Weber Preview Abstract
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 12:30PM - 12:42PM		GO8.00016: Dependence of the Back-Streaming Ion Current on the Self-Magnetic Pinch (SMP) Electron Diode Parameters Michael Mazarakis, Mark Johnston, Mark Kiefer, Josh Leckbee, Dan ielsen, Timothy Renk, Timothy Webb, Derek Ziska, Nichelle Bennett Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 60, Number 19

Monday–Friday, November 16–20, 2015; Savannah, Georgia

Session Index

Session GO8: Beam, Source and Pinch Physics

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