Z-pinches, X-pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus

Presentations

• Jet formation in multi-wire X-pinch

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 12:00 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 12:12 PM

  Authors

  • Erik Shipton

  • David Haas

  • Greg Andreev

  • Kathy Wagschal

  • Zaid Karim

  • Farhat Beg

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Generation of electron and ion beams in X pinches.

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 12:12 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 12:24 PM

  Authors

  • Y.S. Dimant

    • Boston University

  • T.A. Shelkovenko

  • S.A. Pikuz

  • D.A. Hammer

    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University
    • Cornell University
    • LPS, Cornell University
    • Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

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• Spectroscopy and implosion dynamics of combined W and Al X-pinches and their comparison with W wire arrays produced on the UNR 1 MA z-pinch generator

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 12:24 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 12:36 PM

  Authors

  • Alla Safronova

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Victor Kantsyrev

  • Dmitry Fedin

  • Andrey Esaulov

  • F. Yilmaz

  • N. Ouart

  • T. Hoppe

  • G. Osborne

  • V. Nalajala

  • Shivaji Pokala

  • I. Shrestha

    • University of Nevada,Reno

  • J.P. Apruzese

    • NRL

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• Time Gated Imaging of Cylindrical Wire Array Z-Pinches Using X-Pinch Backlighting

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 12:36 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 12:48 PM

  Authors

  • Jon Douglass

    • ECE, LPS, Cornell University

  • John Greenly

  • D.A. Hammer

    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University
    • Cornell University
    • LPS, Cornell University
    • Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

  • Ryan McBride

  • S.A. Pikuz

  • Tanya Shelkovenko

    • Cornell University

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• Effect of material on precursor flow conditions and column formation in cylindrical wire arrays

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 12:48 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 1:00 PM

  Authors

  • S.C. Bott

  • S. Lebedev

  • S.N. Bland

  • J.P. Chittenden

  • M. Sherlock

  • M. Haines

    • Imperial College, London

  • D. Ampleford

  • G. Hall

  • C. Jennings

  • J. Rapley

  • J.B.A. Palmer

    • AWE Plc
    • AWE Plc, UK

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• Dependence of z-pinch mass ablation rate on wire size and inter-wire gap

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 1:00 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 1:12 PM

  Authors

  • Edmund Yu

    • Sandia National Labs

  • Bryan Oliver

    • Mission Research Corporation, Albuquerque, NM

  • Pavel Sasorov

    • Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow

  • Dan Sinars

  • Mike Cuneo

  • Tom Mehlhorn

    • Sandia National Labs

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• WITHDRAWN - Dynamics of Precursor Coronal Plasmas and Wire Ablation in Wire Array Z-Pinches

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 1:12 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 1:24 PM

  Authors

  • B.V. Oliver

    • ATK-Mission Research

  • Edmund Yu

    • Sandia National Labs

  • T.A. Mehlhorn

    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • Sandia National Laboratory
    • Sandia National Labs

  • P. Sasorov

    • ITEP, RU

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• Studies of Al and W wire array z-pinches, and the role of ``magnetic bubbles'' in energy deposition at 1 MA Cobra generator

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 1:24 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 1:36 PM

  Authors

  • Victor Kantsyrev

  • Alla Safronova

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Dmitry Fedin

  • Andrey Esaulov

  • V. Nalajala

  • N. Ouart

  • F. Yilmaz

  • T. Hoppe

  • G. Osborne

  • K. Williamson

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • John Greenly

  • Jon Douglass

    • ECE, LPS, Cornell University

  • Ryan McBride

  • Lloyd Maxson

  • D.A. Hammer

    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University
    • Cornell University
    • LPS, Cornell University
    • Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

  • A.L. Velikovich

    • Naval Research Laboratory
    • Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory

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• Wire Fixturing in High Wire-Number Z-Pinch Implosions Important for Reproducibility and High Power

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 1:36 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 1:48 PM

  Authors

  • T.W.L. Sanford

  • R.C. Mock

  • J.F. Seamen

  • M.R. Lopez

    • SNL

  • R.G. Watt

  • G.C. Idzorek

  • D.L. Peterson

    • LANL

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• Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence model

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 1:48 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 2:00 PM

  Authors

  • James Hammer

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Time- and space-resolved Si emission measurements of the Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 2:00 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • J.J. MacFarlane

    • Prism Computational Sciences

  • Gregory A. Rochau

  • J.E. Bailey

  • K.J. Peterson

  • G.S. Dunham

  • P.W. Lake

  • S.A. Slutz

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Y. Maron

    • Weizmann Institute of Physics

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• Using a Z-pinch precursor plasma to produce a cylindrical, hotspot ignition, ICF

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 2:12 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Jeremy Chittenden

  • Peter Vincent

  • Christopher Jennings

  • Andrea Ciardi

    • Imperial College

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• Thermonuclear and Beam-Target Fusion in Deuterium Gas-Puff Z-Pinch Implosions: Theory and Modeling

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 2:24 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • R.W. Clark

  • A.L. Velikovich

  • J. Davis

  • Y.K. Chong

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • C. Deeney

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • C.A. Coverdale

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • C. Ruiz

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • G. Cooper

    • University of New Mexico

  • J. Franklin

    • Ktech Corporation

  • L.I. Rudakov

    • Icarus Research, Inc.

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• Computational Study of Plasma Radiation in MITL Gap

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 2:36 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Milena A. Angelova

  • Bruno S. Bauer

  • Volodymyr Makhin

  • Richard E. Siemon

  • Stephan Fuelling

    • University of Nevada, Reno

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• Shrapnel Formation in a Z-Pinch Power Plant

  ORAL

  Oct. 24, 2005, 2:48 PM – Oct. 24, 2005, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • John De Groot

  • N. Gronbech-Jensen

    • University of California Davis

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