Invited Session HED: Stix Award, Proton imaging, and Warm Dense Matter

Presentations

• Stix Award: Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Pulsed-Power

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 9:30 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 10:00 AM

  Publication: 1. Hare, J. D. et al. Anomalous Heating and Plasmoid Formation in a Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiment. Physical Review Letters 118, 085001 (2017).
  2. Datta, R. et al. Plasmoid Formation and Strong Radiative Cooling in a Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiment. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 155102 (2024).
  3. Varnish, T. W. O. et al. Quadrupolar density structures in driven magnetic reconnection experiments with a guide field. Physics of Plasmas 32, 022118 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Jack D Hare

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Jack D Hare

    • Cornell University

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• High-Energy Protons from X-pinch Plasmas: First Observation and Application to Proton Radiography

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 10:30 AM

  Publication: Observation of Radially Emitted Proton Beams from Low-Mass X-Pinch Plasmas
  submitted to Physical Review Letters

  Presenters

  • Daniel Klir

    • Czech Tech Univ

  Authors

  • Daniel Klir

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Vojtech Munzar

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Jan Novotny

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Karel Rezac

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Adam M Bedel

    • University of Michigan

  • Nathaniel Grant Chalmers

    • Cornell University

  • Joe Ming Ju Chen

    • University of Michigan

  • Jakub Cikhardt

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Balzima Cikhardtova

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Nicholas M Jordan

    • University of Michigan

  • Vojtech Juras

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Pavel Kubes

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Jakub Malir

    • Czech Tech Univ

  • Landon R Tafoya

    • University of Michigan

  • Karel Turek

    • Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

  • David A Hammer

    • Cornell University

  • Ryan D McBride

    • University of Michigan

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• Tomographic characterization of self-generated magnetic fields in laser-produced plasmas

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 10:30 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 11:00 AM

  Publication: J. Griff-McMahon, et al., Tomographic characterization of self-generated magnetic fields in laser-produced plasmas, in prep. (2025).

  Presenters

  • Jesse Griff-McMahon

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Derek B Schaeffer

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Jesse Griff-McMahon

    • Princeton University

  • William Fox

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Sophia Malko

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

    • Department of Astrophysical Sciences
    • Princeton University

  • Christopher A Walsh

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Brendan McCluskey

    • Princeton University

  • Kirill Lezhnin

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Huws Y Landsberger

    • Princeton University

  • Gennady Fiksel

    • University of Michigan

  • Michael J Rosenberg

    • University of Rochester

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• Density Dependent Metallization and Plasma Phase Transition in Warm Dense Matter

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 11:30 AM

  Publication: "Evidence of the Liquid Metal to Plasma Phase Transition in Dense Double
  Shocked Deuterium to 600 GPa", Z. K. Sprowal et al. D. N. Polsin, M. F.
  Huff, A. LaPierre, G. W. Collins, and J. R. Rygg, Submitted Physical Review
  Letters
  
  "Density Dependent Reflectance in Double Shocked CH", Z. K. Sprowal et
  al. D. N. Polsin, M. F. Huff, A. LaPierre, G. W. Collins, and J. R. Rygg, In
  Preparation Physical Review E

  Presenters

  • Zaire Sprowal

    • University of Rochester

  Authors

  • Zaire Sprowal

    • University of Rochester

  • Tom Boehly

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

  • Margaret F Huff

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Danae N Polsin

    • University of Rochester

  • Damien G Hicks

    • Swinburne University of Technology

  • J. Ryan Rygg

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

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• Probing Planetary Interior States with Multi-Shock Compression of Hydrogen in Diamond Anvil Cells

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 11:30 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 12:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Terry-Ann Suer

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

  Authors

  • Terry-Ann Suer

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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• Launching Magnetized Warm Dense Matter Experiments

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – Nov. 18, 2025, 12:30 PM

  Publication: I. N. Erez, J. R. Davies, J. L. Peebles, R. Betti, and P.-A. Gourdain, "Generation of strong fields with subcritical density plasmas to study the phase transitions of magnetized warm dense matter," Phys. Plasmas 32, 042511 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0198340

  Presenters

  • Irem Nesli Erez

    • Plasma Quantum Group & University of Colorado Boulder

  Authors

  • Irem Nesli Erez

    • Plasma Quantum Group & University of Colorado Boulder

  • Jonathan R Davies

    • University of Rochester

  • Jonathan L Peebles

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Peter V Heuer

    • University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Daniel H Barnak

    • University of Rochester

  • Fernando Garcia Rubio

    • Pacific Fusion Corporation
    • Pacific Fusion

  • Riccardo Betti

    • University of Rochester

  • Gilbert W Collins

    • University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States

  • Yuan Shi

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain

    • University of Rochester

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