Overview
As part of the International Conference on Plasma Science 2009 (ICOPS 2009), a special one-day mini-course on target fabrication considerations for high energy density physics experiments will be offered on Friday June 5th. ICOPS 2009 and the Mini Course will be held in the South Foyer of the Omni Hotel, San Diego, California.
A group of international experts from academia and industry will provide a set of lectures on target-related issues connected with High-Energy-Density Science experiments.
HEDP issues include radiation and particle transport in dense, hot plasmas, shock compression, inertial confinement fusion, fast ignition, laboratory astrophysical plasmas, and radiation generation and effects. They are being investigated at facilities ranging from the > megaJoule National Ignition Facility (LLNL) and Z-accelerator (SNL), 10s kiloJoule Omega EP (LLE), to short pulse lasers like 100s Joule Texas PW (U.Texas) and few Joule Hercules (U.Mich). Targets used in these campaigns are designed to express the phenomenon being investigated and suppress competing processes. One's ability to create or study these effects is limited by the range and accuracy of achievable target parameters. Knowledge of targets' variety, limitations, and their (sometimes subtle) effects on the physics investigated is valuable to both experimentalists and theorists.
Course Content
Morning lecturers will concentrate on considerations faced in building targets: to avoid (or enhance) instabilities (Mauldin), creating high-density plasmas (Betti), validating the targets as -made (Huang) and probing the HED dynamics (Akli).
Afternoon lecturers will focus the range of low-density materials that can be built (Hund) and various physics topics - lab astrophysics (Blue), shock propagation (Back) that can be investigated using them. The last session will focus on developing capability for campaigns on rep-rated lasers (Alexander). The course will end with an open discussion to respond to specific interests of the participants.
The course closes with dinner that evening, giving an opportunity for one-on-one discussions with the instructors.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for engineers/scientists from industry and research, technicians, and graduate level engineering/science students with an interest in high-energy density physics. At the same time, for the audience, the instructors will provide the most current information and will provide laboratory visits on the latest technology developments in their respective areas.
Mini-course Chair: Dr. R.B. Stephens
INSTRUCTORS
| Dr. Neil Alexander (General Atomics). Expert on development of room temperature and cryogenic target fielding systems. | Dr. Haibo Huang (General Atomics). Expert on optical and x-ray characterization of complex structures. |
| Dr. Kramer Akli (General Atomics). Expert on x-ray and xuv characterization of laser-generated plasmas | Dr. B. Manuel Hegelich (Los Alamos National Laboratory). Leader of the ion beam ignition approach to fast ignition. |
| Prof. Riccardo Betti (University of Rochester). Director of the Fusion Science Center, and leader in target implosion dynamics. | Dr. Jared Hund (General Atomics). Expert on coatings, polymers, and foam development. |
| Dr. Christine Back (General Atomics). Expert on radiation transport in highly ionized plasmas | Dr. Michael Mauldin (General Atomics). Leader in the micromachining group |
| Dr. Brent Blue (General Atomics). Expert on hydrodynamics of astrophysical objects | Dr. Richard Stephens (General Atomics). Chief scientist, inertial fusion in the Inertial Fusion Technology division |
ICOPS 2009 Mini Course Schedule
| Friday 5th June, 2009 - South Foyer | ||
| 8:15 | Introduction and Overview | Dr. R. Stephens |
| 8:30 | Real world target structure & its control | Dr. M. Mauldin |
| 9:15 | Characterizing targets | Dr. H. Huang |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 | Theory of implosion hydrodynamics | Prof. R. Betti |
| 11:00 | Self-emission probing of laser-produced plasmas | Dr. K. Akli |
| 11:45 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 | Low density limits in target fab | Dr. J. Hund |
| 2:00 | Fabrication of astrophysically relevant targets | Dr. B. Blue |
| 2:45 | Exploring novel physics in the laboratory using low density materials | Dr. C. Back |
| 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:45 | Target technology for laser-driven ion acceleration | Dr. B. Hegelich |
| 4:30 | Targets for rep-rated laser facilities | Dr. N. Alexander |
| 5:15 | Discussion focused on attendee interests | Panel |
| 7:00 | Conference Dinner | |
