3D  Z-pinches -1 (oral)

Tuesday, June 22  9:30-12:00  Hampton VI-VII-VIII

Session Chair:  Jeremy Chittenden

9:30  3D-1  (invited) MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS ON THE ABLATION PHASE OF WIRE ARRAY Z-PINCHES, AS OBSERVED WITH END-ON IMAGING

J. B. Greenly, I. C. Blesener, P. F. Knapp

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

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10:00  3D-2 DEVELOPMENT OF Z-PINCH LASER DIAGNOSTICS AT THE ZEBRA GENERATOR

V. V. Ivanov1, P. Hakel1, R. C. Mancini1, P. Wiewior1, R. Presura1, A. L. Astanovitskiy1, S. D. Altemara1, D. Papp1, T. Durmaz1, O. Chalyy1, E. McKee1, A. Anderson1, A. P. Shevelko2

1Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, United States
2Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, United States

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10:15  3D-3 STATUS ON NUMERICAL MHD TOOLS USED TO ANALYSE WIRE ARRAY EXPERIMENTS AT CEA-GRAMAT FOR RADIATION EFFECTS AND HEDP STUDIES

J. Grunenwald1, H. Calamy1, F. Lassalle1, P. Maury1, T. Maillard1, F. Zucchini1, J. Chittenden2, N. Niasse2, A. Marocchino2

1CEA, DAM, GRAMAT, GRAMAT, France
2Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, LONDON, England

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10:30  3D-4 WIRE ARRAY Z-PINCH LENGTH VARIATIONS FOR K-SHELL X-RAY GENERATION ON Z

B. Jones1, D. J. Ampleford1, C. A. Jennings1, E. M. Waisman1, S. B. Hansen1, C. A. Coverdale1, M. E. Cuneo1, J. W. Thornhill2, J. L. Giuliani2, J. P. Apruzese2, A. Dasgupta2, R. W. Clark2, J. Davis2

1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
2Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

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10:45  3D-5 EFFECTS OF AN AXIAL TARGET ON THE RADIATION OF IMPLODING WIRE ARRAYS

R. Presura, D. Martinez, S. Stein, C. Plechaty, S. Neff

Nevada Terawatt Facility, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States

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11:00  3D-6 DEVELOPMENT OF AN 85KJ STAINLESS STEEL K-SHELL X-RAY SOURCE ON THE Z GENERATOR

D. J. Ampleford1, B. Jones1, C. A. Coverdale1, T. J. Nash1, S. C. Jones1, M. C. Jones1, W. A. Stygar1, M. E. Savage1, K. R. LeChien1, C. A. Jennings1, M. E. Cuneo1, J. W. Thornhill2, J. L. Giuliani2, J. P. Apruzese2, R. W. Clark2, Y. K. Chong2, A. Dasgupta2, S. B. Hansen1

1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
2Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States

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11:15  3D-7 3-DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF LARGE DIAMETER WIRE ARRAY HIGH INTENSITY K-SHELL RADIATION SOURCES

C. A. Jennings1, D. J. Ampleford1, S. B. Hansen1, E. P. Yu1, M. E. Cuneo1, C. A. Coverdale1, B. Jones1, E. M. Waisman1, W. A. Stygar1, M. E. Savage1, K. LeChien1, J. P. Chittenden2, J. L. Giuliani3, J. W. Thornhill3

1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
2Imperial College, London, England
3Naval Research Laboratories, Washington, DC, United States

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11:30  3D-8 COILED ARRAYS AS A TOOL FOR MODIFYING CURRENT CONVERGENCE IN A WIRE-ARRAY Z-PINCH

G. N. Hall, S. V. Lebedev, S. N. Bland, J. P. Chittenden, F. Suzuki-Vidal, A. Harvey-Thompson, G. Swadling, G. Burdiak, L. Pickworth, E. Khoory, J. Skidmore, P. de Grouchy

Physics, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, London, United Kingdom

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11:45  3D-9 HALL DRIVEN INSTABILITY IN ABLATING PLASMA

M. R. Martin, C. E. Seyler

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

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12:00  3D-10 HEATING IN THE STAGNATION PHASE OF THE DYNAMIC DENSE Z-PINCH

M. G. Haines

Physics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

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