ICF: Dense Plasma Focus, X and Z Pinches

Presentations

• Multiple pinch formation in a kilojoule plasma focus device and its relation with x-ray and ion emission.

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 2:00 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Jalaj Jain

    • Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission

  • Jose Moreno

    • Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission

  • Biswajit Bora

    • Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission

  • Sergio Davis

    • Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission

  • Cristian Pavez

    • Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission

  • Gonzalo Avaria

    • Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission

  • Leopoldo Soto

    • Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission

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• Flyer plates accelerated by the pulsed power driven explosion of underwater planar wire arrays

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 2:12 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Savva Theocharous

    • Imperial College London

  • David Yanuka

    • Imperial College London

  • S N Bland

    • Imperial College London, UK
    • Imperial College London
    • Plasma Physics Group, Imperial College London

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• Sources of Ion Acoustic Wave Feature Broadening in the Thomson Scattering Spectrum of Gas-Puff Z-Pinches

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 2:24 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • Sophia Rocco

    • Cornell University

  • Eric Lavine

    • Cornell University

  • Jacob Banasek

    • UC San Diego

  • William Potter

    • Cornell University

  • David Hammer

    • Cornell University

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• Liner-on-target gas puff Z-pinch experiments on the CESZAR linear transformer driver.

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 2:36 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Fabio Conti

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego

  • Apsara Williams

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Vladimir Fadeev

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Jeff Narkis

    • University of California, San Diego

  • David Reisman

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Maylis Dozieres

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

  • Nicholas Aybar

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Gil Collins

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

  • F. N. Beg

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego
    • UCSD
    • CER, UCSD, USA

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• Effect of the outflows from conical wire array Z-pinch on silicon targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 2:48 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Felipe Veloso

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Gonzalo Munoz-Cordovez

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Donovan Diaz-Droguett

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Milenko Vescovi

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Heman Bhuyan

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Mario Favre

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

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• Copper X-Pinch Characterization and Implementation as X-Ray Source for Talbot-Lau Deflectometry

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 3:00 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 3:12 PM

  Authors

  • Milenko Vescovi

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • M. P. Valdivia

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Felipe Veloso

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Dan Stutman

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Mario Favre

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

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• Comparison of Wire, Foil, and Hybrid X-Pinch Backlighters for Talbot-Lau X-Ray Imaging Diagnostics

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 3:12 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 3:24 PM

  Authors

  • Gil Collins

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

  • Maria Pia Valdivia

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • D. Stutman

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • F. N. Beg

    • University of California San Diego

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• First demonstration of an inductively driven X-pinch for diagnosing high energy density experiments on the Z Pulsed Power Facility

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 3:24 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 3:36 PM

  Authors

  • Clayton E. Myers

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • D. A. Yager-Elorriaga

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Matt Gomez

    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • SNL

  • Brian Hutsel

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Michael Kossow

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Derek C. Lamppa

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Larry M. Lucero

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Adam M. Steiner

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Timothy J. Webb

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• First Use of Z-pinch-driven Ion Deflectometry for Azimuthal Magnetic Field Measurements

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 3:36 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 3:48 PM

  Authors

  • Vojtech Munzar

    • Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • Daniel Klir

    • Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • Jakub Cikhardt

    • Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • Balzhima Cikhardtova

    • Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • Josef Kravarik

    • Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • Pavel Kubes

    • Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • Karel Rezac

    • Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • Alexander Shishlov

    • Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia

  • Vladimir Kokshenev

    • Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia

  • Rustam Cherdizov

    • Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia

  • Nikolai Ratakhin

    • Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia

  • Karel Turek

    • Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

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• K-shell radiation from z-pinch plasmas generated by hybrid gas-puff implosions onto on-axis wires.

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 3:48 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel Klir

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • J. Cikhardt

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • J. Kravarik

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • P. Kubes

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • V. Munzar

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • K. Rezac

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • A.V. Shishlov

    • IHCE in Tomsk

  • R.K. Cherdizov

    • IHCE in Tomsk

  • F.I. Fursov

    • IHCE in Tomsk

  • V.A. Kokshenev

    • IHCE in Tomsk

  • N.E. Kurmaev

    • IHCE in Tomsk

  • N.A. Ratakhin

    • IHCE in Tomsk

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• Energy coupling in axially pre-magnetized triple gas-puff Z-pinches

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 4:00 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 4:12 PM

  Authors

  • Jeff Narkis

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Maylis Dozieres

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

  • David Reisman

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Fabio Conti

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego

  • Farhat Beg

    • University of California, San Diego
    • UCSD

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• Direct Quantification of Insulator Breakdown and Plasma Sheath Formation on Pinch Quality in a 10 kJ Dense Plasma Focus.

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 4:12 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 4:24 PM

  Authors

  • Eric Hahn

    • University of California, San Diego

  • David Housley

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Fabio Conti

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Jeff Narkis

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Farhat Beg

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Validation of MHD Simulations Using Spectroscopically Characterized O Gas-Puff Z-Pinches.

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 4:24 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 4:36 PM

  Authors

  • Nicholas Aybar

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Maylis Dozieres

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

  • Marko Cvejic

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Dimitry Mikitchuk

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Fabio Conti

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego

  • Eyal Kroupp

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Yitzhak Maron

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • F. N. Beg

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego
    • UCSD
    • CER, UCSD, USA

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• Plasma jets generated from conical-wire arrays driven by a 1-kJ pulsed-power system

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 4:36 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 4:48 PM

  Authors

  • Po-Yu Chang

    • Natl Cheng Kung Univ
    • National Cheng Kung University

  • Ming-Cheng Jheng

    • National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center/Natl Cheng Kung Univ

  • Chih-Jui Hsieh

    • Natl Cheng Kung Univ

  • Mei-Feng Huang

    • Natl Cheng Kung Univ

  • Po-Wei Lai

    • Natl Tsing Hua Univ/Natl Cheng Kung Univ

  • Yen-Cheng Lin

    • Natl Cheng Kung Univ

  • Jia-Kai Liu

    • Natl Cheng Kung Univ

  • Sheng-Hua Yang

    • Natl Cheng Kung Univ

  • I-Lin Yeh

    • Natl Cheng Kung Univ

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• Computational Exploration of the Spatiotemporal Effects of Laser Interaction with X-Pinches.

  ORAL

  Nov. 12, 2020, 4:48 PM – Nov. 12, 2020, 5:00 PM

  Authors

  • J. Young

    • University of Rochester

  • Matt Evans

    • University of Rochester

  • Hannah Hasson

    • University of Rochester

  • Roman Shapovalov

    • University of Michigan

  • Imani West-Abdallah

    • University of Rochester

  • Charles Seyler

    • Cornell University

  • Pierre Gourdain

    • University of Rochester

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