Bulletin of the American Physical Society

61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 64, Number 11

Monday–Friday, October 21–25, 2019; Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Session Index

Session NO6: ICF: Z-Pinch, X-Pinch, Exploding Wires, and Dense Plasma Focus	Show Abstracts
Chair: Ryan McBride Room: Grand D

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:30AM - 9:42AM		NO6.00001: Thomson Scattering for Differentiating Sources of Spatial Velocity Distributions in Gas-Puff Z-Pinches Sophia Rocco, Jacob Banasek, E. Sander Lavine, William Potter, David Hammer Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:42AM - 9:54AM		NO6.00002: Hybrid gas-puff z-pinch as a source of protons and deuterons up to 45 MeV D. Klir, J. Cikhardt, B. Cikhardtova, J. Kravarik, P. Kubes, V. Munzar, K. Rezac, A.V. Shishlov, R.K. Cherdizov, F.I. Fursov, V.A. Kokshenev, N.E. Kurmaev, N.A. Ratakhin, S.L. Jackson, J.T. Engelbrecht, J. Krasa, K. Turek Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:54AM - 10:06AM		NO6.00003: Comprehensive magnetic field characterization of O and Ar gas-puff z-pinches using spectroscopic techniques Nicholas Aybar, Maylis Dozieres, Gilbert Collins, Fabio Conti, Marko Cvej, Dimitry Mikitchuk, Yitzhak Maron, David Reisman, Farhat Beg Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:06AM - 10:18AM		NO6.00004: Characterization of Ne gas puff Z-pinch on Linear Transformer Driver using spectroscopy Maylis Dozieres, Nicholas Aybar, Gilbert Collins, Fabio Conti, David Reisman, Farhat Beg Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:18AM - 10:30AM		NO6.00005: Shock heating versus photoionization of a central jet in gas puff z-pinches on COBRA Eric Lavine, Sophia Rocco, William Potter, Jacob Banasek, John Greenly, niansheng Qi, David Hammer, Bruce Kusse Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:30AM - 10:42AM		NO6.00006: Dynamics and MRT stability of axially pre-magnetized multi-shell, multi-species gas-puff Z-pinches Jeff Narkis, Fabio Conti, Hafiz Rahman, Emil Ruskov, Paul Ney, Farhat Beg Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:42AM - 10:54AM		NO6.00007: MHD modeling of gas-puff Staged Z-pinch implosions on university-scale and multi-MA drivers Hafiz Rahman, Jeff Narkis, Paul Ney, Emil Ruskov Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:54AM - 11:06AM		NO6.00008: The effect of breakdown phase on the reproducibility of a 10 kJ dense plasma focus David Housley, Fabio Conti, Jeff Narkis, Vladimir Fadeev, Alejandro Baez, Apsara Williams, Farhat Beg Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:06AM - 11:18AM		NO6.00009: Validation of PERSEUS and Implementing Ionization Energy Models in PERSEUS Jeff Woolstrum, David Yager-Elorriaga, Paul Campbell, Nicholas Jordan, Charles Seyler, Ryan McBride Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:18AM - 11:30AM		NO6.00010: Hard X-ray Line Radiation from Tungsten Wire Array Z-pinches. Alla Safronova, Victor Kantsyrev, Ryan Childers, Austin Stafford, Ishor Shrestha, Veronica Shlyaptseva, Christopher Butcher, Jeffrey Rowland, Emil Petkov, John Giuliani Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:30AM - 11:42AM		NO6.00011: Implicit and Hybrid Techniques for the Simulation of High-Density Electrode Plasmas for Pulsed Power Accelerator Design Dale Welch, David Rose, Carsten Thoma, Chris Mostrom, Eric Watson, Kevin Lind Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:42AM - 11:54AM		NO6.00012: Development of linear transformer driver technologies at the University of Rochester Matthew Evans, Aidan Bachmann, Tyler Mason, Ryley Robinson, Roman Shapovalov, James Young, Pierre Gourdain Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:54AM - 12:06PM		NO6.00013: Stabilizing Liner Implosions with a Dynamic Screw Pinch Paul C. Campbell, T.M. Jones, J.M. Woolstrum, N.M. Jordan, R.D. McBride, J.B. Greenly, W.M. Potter, E.S. Lavine, B.R. Kusse, D.A. Hammer Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:06PM - 12:18PM		NO6.00014: Fielding First X Pinches at New 300-kA 150-ns Pulser for High-Energy Density Laser-Plasma Experiments. Roman Shapovalov, Matthew Evans, Hannah Hasson, Imani West-Abdallah, James Young, Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain Preview Abstract
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:18PM - 12:30PM		NO6.00015: Analysis of Laser-Cut Foil X-Pinch X-Ray Line Emission for Radiography Applications G.S. Jaar, G.W. Collins IV, M. Dozieres, F. Conti, L. Carlson, R.K. Appartaim, F.N. Beg Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 64, Number 11

Monday–Friday, October 21–25, 2019; Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Session Index

Session NO6: ICF: Z-Pinch, X-Pinch, Exploding Wires, and Dense Plasma Focus

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