5D  Z-pinches - 2 (oral)

Wednesday, June 23  9:30-12:00  Hampton VI-VII-VIII

9:30  5D-1  (invited) EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF AN INVERSE WIRE ARRAY Z-PINCH OPERATING AS A CURRENT SWITCH

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

Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

10:00  5D-2 CIRCUIT MODEL FOR THE INVERSE Z-PINCH WIRE ARRAY SWITCH

E. M. Waisman¹, M. E. Cuneo¹, S. V. Lebedev², A. Harvey-Thompson²

¹Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
²The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK

10:15  5D-3 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HOHLRAUM EXPERIMENTS USING DIRECT AXIAL FLUX DONE ON THE SPHINX (6MA, 800NS) Z-PINCH MACHINE

P. Maury¹, J. Grunenwald¹, F. Zucchini¹, H. Calamy¹, F. Lassalle¹, A. Morell¹, F. Hamann²

¹CEA, DAM, GRAMAT, Gramat, France
²CEA, DAM, DIF, Arpajon, France

10:30  5D-4 DESIGN OF Z-PINCH BASED, JET-TARGET COLLISION EXPERIMENTS FOR LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS USING 3D MHD MODELLING

J. P. Chittenden¹, M. Bocchi¹, S. V. Lebedev¹, F. Suzuki-Vidal¹, G. N. Hall¹, A. Ciardi²

¹Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
²Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France

10:45  5D-5  (invited) MEASUREMENTS OF MAGNETO-RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY GROWTH IN SOLID LINERS ON THE 20 MA SANDIA Z FACILITY

D. B. Sinars¹, S. A. Slutz¹, M. C. Herrmann¹, K. J. Peterson¹, M. E. Cuneo¹, R. D. McBride¹, J. L. Porter¹, R. A. Vesey¹, B. E. Blue²

¹Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
²General Atomics, San Diego, CA, United States

11:15  5D-6 NEUTRON PRODUCTION IN DEUTERIUM GAS-PUFF IMPLOSIONS ON THE REFURBISHED Z ACCELERATOR

A. L. Velikovich¹, J. Davis¹, J. L. Giuliani¹, Y. K. Chong¹, R. W. Clark², C. A. Coverdale³, D. G. Flicker³

¹Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
²BERKELEY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, Beltsville, MD, United States
³SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES, Albuquerque, NM, United States

11:30  5D-7 HIGH ION ENERGIES IN Z PINCHES: POTENTIAL FOR HE-3 FUSION?

J. P. Apruzese¹, J. L. Giuliani¹, R. W. Clark², J. W. Thornhill¹, A. L. Velikovich¹, J. W. Schumer¹, F. C. Young³, M. G. Haines⁴

¹Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
²Berkeley Research Associates, Inc., Beltsville, MD, United States
³L-3 Communications, Reston, VA, United States
⁴Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

11:45  5D-8 PIC/MHD MODELING OF DENSE PLASMA FOCUS IN 2D AND 3D

C. S. Kueny¹, D. V. Rose², K. R. Cochrane³, D. G. Flicker⁴

¹Hewlett-Packard Company, Albuquerque, NM, United States
²Voss Scientific, LLC, Albuquerque, NM, United States
³KTech Corp., Albuquerque, NM, United States
⁴Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

12:00  5D-9 DESIGN OF MULTIPLE-SHELL GAS NOZZLES FOR REFURBISHED Z

M. Krishnan¹, K. W. Elliott¹, R. Madden¹, P. Coleman², J. Giuliani³, A. Velikovich³, W. Thornhill³, R. Clark³, B. M. Jones⁴, E. Waisman⁴, D. Ampleford⁴, M. Cuneo⁴, C. Coverdale⁴

¹Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation, San Leandro, CA, United States
²Consultant, Philomath, OR, United States
³Naval Research laboratory, Washington DC, United States
⁴Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States