Bulletin of the American Physical Society

59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 62, Number 12

Monday–Friday, October 23–27, 2017; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Session Index

Session BO4: DIII-D Tokamak

Chair: Ahmed Diallo, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Room: 201AB

Monday, October 23, 2017 9:30AM - 9:42AM		BO4.00001: Overview of Recent DIII-D Experimental Results Max Fenstermacher Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:42AM - 9:54AM		BO4.00002: High confinement in negative triangularity discharges in DIII-D M.E. Austin, A. Marinoni, M.L. Walker, M.W. Brookman, J.S. deGrassie, A.W. Hyatt, C.C. Petty, K.E. Thome, T.L. Rhodes, C. Sung, O. Sauter Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:54AM - 10:06AM		BO4.00003: Shafranov shift bifurcation of turbulent transport in the high $\beta_p$ scenario on DIII-D J. McClenaghan, A. M. Garofalo, G.M. Staebler, J. Qian, X. Gong, S.Y. Ding Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:06AM - 10:18AM		BO4.00004: Plasma Response to n=3 Magnetic Perturbations in Noninductive Hybrid Plasmas in the DIII-D Tokamak R. Nazikian, A. Bortolon, N. Ferraro, N. Logan, C.C. Petty, C. Paz-Soldan, T.L. Rhodes, R. Moyer, D. Orlov, F. Turco Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:18AM - 10:30AM		BO4.00005: Stability of helical cores in high performance tokamak discharges Andreas Wingen, Robert Wilcox, Sudip Seal, Steven Hirshman, Francesca Turco Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:30AM - 10:42AM		BO4.00006: Test of the Eich model for ELM energy densities in DIII-D Matthias Knolker, A. Bortolon, G. Canal, T. Abrams, T. Evans, A.W. Leonard, R. Nazikian, H. Zohm Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:42AM - 10:54AM		BO4.00007: Advances in Understanding and Control of Plasma Rotation on DIII-D B A Grierson, N Logan, S Haskey, A Ashourvan, D Ernst, C Chrystal, J deGrassie, J Boedo, T Tala, A Salmi Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:54AM - 11:06AM		BO4.00008: Role of turbulence in determining particle transport in DIII-D Saskia Mordijck, Lei Zeng, Terry Rhodes, Antti Salmi, Tuomas Tala Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:06AM - 11:18AM		BO4.00009: Local Access Conditions for ELM-free Pedestals in DIII-D Quiescent H-mode Plasmas Theresa Wilks, A Garofalo, P.H. Diamond, Z.B. Guo, J.W. Hughes, K.H. Burrell, Xi Chen, X. Xu Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:18AM - 11:30AM		BO4.00010: A unique predator-prey system of coupled turbulence, drive, and sheared ExB flow in the pedestal of high performance DIII-D plasmas K. Barada, T.L. Rhodes, W.A. Peebles, L. Zeng, K.H. Burrell, L. Bardoczi, Xi Chen Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:30AM - 11:42AM		BO4.00011: Understanding the influence of current profile and RF heating on impurity transport in advanced tokamak scenarios B.S. Victor, S.L. Allen, C.T. Holcomb, D.M. Thomas, T.W. Petrie, E.A. Unterberg, B.A. Grierson, E.M. Hollmann, K.E. Thome Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:42AM - 11:54AM		BO4.00012: Characterizing Tungsten Sourcing and SOL Transport during the Metal Rings Campaign D.M. Thomas, T. Abrams, E.A. Unterberg, D. Donovan, J.D. Elder, W.R. Wampler Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:54AM - 12:06PM		BO4.00013: Impact of target material on D and D$_{\mathrm{2}}$ recycling in DIII-D ELMy H-mode discharges Igor Bykov, Eric Hollmann, Dmitry Rudakov, Richard Moyer, Jose Boedo, Rui Din, Huiqian Wang, Ezekeal Unterberg, Alexis Briesemeister, Christopher Chrobak, Tyler Abrams, Jon Watkins, Charles Lasnier, Adam McLean Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 12:06PM - 12:18PM		BO4.00014: Effects of divertor geometry on H-mode pedestal structure near divertor detachment Huiqian Wang, Houyang Guo, Anthony Leonard, Auna Moser, Thomas Osborne, Philip Snyder, Emily Belli, Richard Groebner, Dan Thomas, Jonathan Watkins, Zheng Yan Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 12:18PM - 12:30PM		BO4.00015: Modelling the detachment dependence on strike point location in the small angle slot divertor (SAS) with SOLPS Livia Casali, Brent Covele, Houyang Guo Preview Abstract

Session BO5: Laser-Plasma Acceleration

Chair: John Palastro, University of Rochester
Room: 202AB

Monday, October 23, 2017 9:30AM - 9:42AM		BO5.00001: Direct Laser Acceleration in Laser Wakefield Accelerators J.L. Shaw, D.H. Froula, K.A. Marsh, C. Joshi, N. Lemos Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:42AM - 9:54AM		BO5.00002: Influence of plasma density on the generation of 100’s MeV electrons via Direct Laser Acceleration Amina Hussein, T. Batson, A.V. Arefiev, H. Chen, R.S. Craxton, A. Davies, D.H. Froula, D. Haberberger, O. Jansen, K. Krushelnick, P.M. Nilson, W. Theobald, T. Wang, G.J. Williams, L. Willingale Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:54AM - 10:06AM		BO5.00003: A detailed examination of the LWFA in the Self-Guided Nonlinear Blowout Regime for 15-100 Joule Lasers Asher Davidson, Adam Tableman, Peicheng Yu, Weiming An, Frank Tsung, Warren Mori, Wei Lu, Ricardo Fonseca Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:06AM - 10:18AM		BO5.00004: Optimization of electron beam properties from intense laser pulses interacting with structured gas jets Kelly Swanson, Hai-En Tsai, Sam Barber, Remi Lehe, Hann-Shin Mao, Sven Steinke, Jeroen van Tilborg, Kei Nakamura, Cameron Geddes, Carl Schroeder, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:18AM - 10:30AM		BO5.00005: Control of quasi-monoenergetic electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators by adjusting shock density profile Hai-En Tsai, Kelly K. Swanson, Remi Lehe, Sam K. Barber, Fumika Isono, Jorge G. Otero, Xinyao Liu, Hann-Shin Mao, Sven Steinke, Jeroen van Tilborg, Cameron G. R. Geddes, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:30AM - 10:42AM		BO5.00006: Measured emittance dependence on injection method in laser plasma accelerators SAMUEL BARBER, Jeroen van Tilborg, Carl Schroeder, Remi Lehe, Hai-En Tsai, Kelly Swanson, Sven Steinke, Kei Nakamura, Cameron Geddes, Carlo Benedetti, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:42AM - 10:54AM		BO5.00007: Generating high brightness electron beams using density down ramp injection in nonlinear plasma wakefields Thamine Dalichaouch, Xinlu Xu, Asher Davidson, Peicheng Yu, Weiming An, Chan Joshi, Chaojie Zhang, Warren Mori, Fei Li, Wei Lu, Ricardo Fonseca Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:54AM - 11:06AM		BO5.00008: Pulse Front Tilt and Laser Plasma Acceleration Daniel Mittelberger, Maxence Th\'{e}venet, Kei Nakamura, Remi Lehe, Anthony Gonsalves, Carlo Benedetti, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:06AM - 11:18AM		BO5.00009: Relativistic Electron Acceleration with Ultrashort Mid-IR Laser Pulses Linus Feder, Daniel Woodbury, Valentina Shumakova, Claudia Gollner, Bo Miao, Robert Schwartz, Audrius Pugžlys, Andrius Baltuška, Howard Milchberg Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:18AM - 11:30AM		BO5.00010: Enhancement of Laser Wakefields via a Backward Raman Amplifier Joshua Ludwig, Paul-Edouard Masson-Laborde, Wojciech Rozmus, Stefan Huller, Scott Wilks Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:30AM - 11:42AM		BO5.00011: Strong Optical Shock excitation in the mismatched regime of bubble plasma-wave based LWFA Aakash Sahai Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:42AM - 11:54AM		BO5.00012: Application of a laser-heater for advanced guiding of PetaWatt laser pulses in capillary plasmas Anthony Gonsalves, Joost Daniels, Carlo Benedetti, Hann-Shin Mao, Kei Nakamura, Christopher Pieronek, Carl Schroeder, Sven Steinke, Wim Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:54AM - 12:06PM		BO5.00013: Group Velocity Measurements in Laser-Heated Capillary Discharge Waveguides for Laser-Plasma Accelerators C.V. Pieronek, J. Daniels, A.J. Gonsalves, C. Benedetti, W.P. Leemans Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 12:06PM - 12:18PM		BO5.00014: On the Asymmetric Focusing of Low-Emittance Electron Bunches via Active Lensing by Using Capillary Discharges Stepan Bulanov, Gennadiy Bagdasarov, Nadezhda Bobrova, Alexey Boldarev, Olga Olkhovskaya, Pavel Sasorov, Vladimir Gasilov, Samuel Barber, Anthony Gonsalves, Carl Schroeder, Jeroen van Tilborg, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans, Tadzio Levato, Daniele Margarone, Georg Korn, Masaki Kando, Sergei Bulanov Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 12:18PM - 12:30PM		BO5.00015: \textgreater 1 Hz Renewable Films for Plasma Mirrors for High Repetition Rate Petawatt Class Laser Systems Anthony Zingale, Jordan Purcell, Patrick Poole, Ginevra Cochran, Christopher Willis, Douglass Schumacher Preview Abstract

Session BO6: Reconnection

Chair: Will Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Room: 202C

Monday, October 23, 2017 9:30AM - 9:42AM		BO6.00001: Laser-driven magnetic reconnection in the multi-plasmoid regime Samuel Totorica, Tom Abel, Frederico Fiuza Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:42AM - 9:54AM		BO6.00002: 3-D magnetic reconnection in colliding laser-produced plasmas Jackson Matteucci, Will Fox, Clement Moissard, Amitava Bhattacharjee Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:54AM - 10:06AM		BO6.00003: The role of current sheet formation in driven plasmoid reconnection in laser-produced plasma bubbles Kirill Lezhnin, William Fox, Amitava Bhattacharjee Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:06AM - 10:18AM		BO6.00004: Electron acceleration in pulsed-power driven magnetic-reconnection experiments Jonathan Halliday, Jack Hare, Sergey Lebedev, Lee Suttle, Simon Bland, Thomas Clayson, Eleanor Tubman, Sergei Pikuz, Tanya Shelkovenko Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:18AM - 10:30AM		BO6.00005: Fast magnetic reconnection supported by sporadic small-scale Petschek-type shocks Takuya Shibayama, Kanya Kusano, Takahiro Miyoshi, Grigory Vekstein Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:30AM - 10:42AM		BO6.00006: Tearing Instability of a Current Sheet Forming by Sheared Incompressible Flow Elizabeth Tolman, Nuno Loureiro, Dmitri Uzdensky Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:42AM - 10:54AM		BO6.00007: A Nonlinear evolution of tearing mode with resistivity and hyper-resistivity Ding Li, Wen Yang, Xueqiao Xu Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:54AM - 11:06AM		BO6.00008: Scaling Study of Reconnection Heating in Torus Plasma Merging Experiments Yasushi Ono, Moe Akimitsu, Asuka Sawada, Qinghong Cao, Hideya Koike, Hironori Hatano, Taishi Kaneda, Hiroshi Tanabe Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:06AM - 11:18AM		BO6.00009: Development of a sub-cm high resolution ion Doppler tomography diagnostics for fine structure measurement of guide field reconnection in TS-U Hiroshi Tanabe, Hideya Koike, Hironori Hatano, Takumi Hayashi, Qinghong Cao, Shunichi Himeno, Taishi Kaneda, Moe Akimitsu, Asuka Sawada, Yasushi Ono Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:18AM - 11:30AM		BO6.00010: Nonthermal particle acceleration in 3D relativistic pair reconnection Gregory Werner, Dmitri Uzdensky, Vladimir Zhdankin, Mitchell Begelman Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:30AM - 11:42AM		BO6.00011: Non-thermal particle acceleration in 3D magnetic reconnection Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Hui Li Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:42AM - 11:54AM		BO6.00012: Relativistic reconnection in near critical Schwinger field Kevin Schoeffler, Thomas Grismayer, Ricardo Fonseca, Luis Silva, Dmitri Uzdensky Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:54AM - 12:06PM		BO6.00013: Apex Dips of Experimental Flux Ropes: Helix or Cusp? Magnus Haw, Pakorn Wongwaitayakornkul, Hui Li, Shengtai Li, Paul M. Bellan Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 12:06PM - 12:18PM		BO6.00014: Relativistic magnetic reconnection driven by a moderately intense laser interacting with a micro-plasma-slab. Longqing Yi, Baifei Shen, Alexander Pukhov, Tünde Fülöp Preview Abstract

Session BO7: Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics I

Chair: A. Pak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: 203AB

Monday, October 23, 2017 9:30AM - 9:42AM		BO7.00001: The advanced hohlraum research project Ogden Jones, M. Tabak, P. A. Amendt, J. H. Hammer, K. L. Baker, T. F. Baumann, R. L. Berger, M. M. Biener, D. D. Ho, S. H. Kim, B. G. Logan, D. A. Mariscal, S. Patankar, R. L. Wallace Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:42AM - 9:54AM		BO7.00002: Progress in Octahedral Spherical Hohlraum Study Ke Lan Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 9:54AM - 10:06AM		BO7.00003: View Factor and Radiation-Hydrodynamic Simulations of Gas-Filled Outer-Quad-Only Hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility Christopher Young, Nathan Meezan, Otto Landen Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:06AM - 10:18AM		BO7.00004: Simulations of super-ellipse hohlraum targets as a path to high neutron yields Jose Milovich, Peter Amendt, Erik Storm, Harry Robey, Steve Haan, Otto Landen, Nathan Meezan, John Lindl Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:18AM - 10:30AM		BO7.00005: Simulation of alternate hohlraum shapes for improved inner beam propagation in indirectly-driven ICF implosions H. F. Robey, L. F. Berzak Hopkins Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:30AM - 10:42AM		BO7.00006: Enhancing Hohlraum Design with Artificial Neural Networks J. L. Peterson, L. F. Berzak Hopkins, K. D. Humbird, S. T. Brandon, J. E. Field, S. H. Langer, R. C. Nora, B. K. Spears Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:42AM - 10:54AM		BO7.00007: Progress understanding how hohlraum foam-liners can be used to improve laser beam propagation through hohlraum plasmas Alastair Moore, N Meezan, C Thomas, K Baker, T Baumann, M Biener, S Bhandarkar, C Goyon, W Hsing, N Izumi, O Landen, A Nikroo, M Rosen, J Moody Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 10:54AM - 11:06AM		BO7.00008: Constraining heat-transport models by comparison to experimental data in a NIF hohlraum W. A. Farmer, O. S. Jones, M. A. Barrios Garcia, J. M. Koning, G. D. Kerbel, D. J. Strozzi, D. E. Hinkel, J. D. Moody, L. J. Suter, D. A. Liedahl, A. S. Moore, O. L. Landen Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:06AM - 11:18AM		BO7.00009: Study Plasma Stagnation in Laser-Driven Hohlraums C.K. Li, J.A. Frenje, F.H. Seguin, R.D. Petrasso, S.C. Wilks, P.A. Amendt, P.E. Masson-Laborde, S. Laffite, V. Tassin, R. Betti, E.M. Campbell, T.C. Sangster, G. Gregori, A. Bott Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:18AM - 11:30AM		BO7.00010: NLTE atomic kinetics modeling in ICF target simulations Mehul V. Patel, Christopher W. Mauche, Howard A. Scott, Ogden S. Jones, Benjamin T. Shields Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:30AM - 11:42AM		BO7.00011: Design of Thin-Au-Coating Sphere experiments on the OMEGA Laser to examine Hohlraum model Dov Shvarts, Erez Raicher, Matan Ben Dov, Kevin H. Ma, Elad Malka Preview Abstract
Monday, October 23, 2017 11:42AM - 11:54AM		BO7.00012: Heat-Flux Measurements in Laser-Produced Plasmas Using Thomson Scattering from Electron Plasma Waves R.J. Henchen, V.N. Goncharov, D. Cao, J. Katz, D.H. Froula, W. Rozmus Preview Abstract

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