7D  Laser Produced Plasmas&Particle Acceleration with Laser and Beams (oral)

Thursday, June 24  9:30-12:00  Hampton Rds VI-VII-VIII

9:30  7D-1  (invited) X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY OF WARM DENSE MATTER

E. Stambulchik¹, E. Kroupp¹, Y. Maron¹, U. Zastrau², R. Loetzsch², I. Uschmann², E. Foerster²

¹Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
²Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany

10:00  7D-2  (invited) SUPRATHERMAL ELECTRON GENERATION IN FAST IGNITION RELEVANT SHORT-PULSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS

C. D. Chen¹, A. J. Kemp¹, L. Divol¹, M. H. Key¹, S. Le Pape¹, H. McLean¹, Y. Ping¹, M. Tabak¹, P. K. Patel¹, T. Y. Ma², T. Bartal², S. Chawla², D. P. Higginson², C. Murphy², H. Sawada², M. Wei², B. Westover², T. Yabuuchi², F. N. Beg², T. Link³, E. Kemp³, A. Krygier³, L. Van Woerkom³, R. R. Freeman³, K. U. Akli⁴, R. B. Stephens⁴

¹Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
²Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
³Colege of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
⁴General Atomics, San Diego, CA, United States

10:30  7D-3 MULTI-KEV X-RAY YIELDS FROM HIGH-Z GAS TARGETS FIELDED AT THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY

K. B. Fournier¹, M. J. May¹, J. D. Colvin¹, C. A. Thomas¹, M. Schneider¹, R. Marrs¹, S. Compton¹, J. Moody¹, E. Bond¹, E. Dewald¹, J. F. Davis²

¹Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
²Alme & Associates, Alexandria, VA, United States

10:45  7D-4 ePLAS MODEL SIMULATIONS OF SHORT PULSE LASER TARGET INTERACTION EXPERIMENTS

R. Faehl¹, R. Mason², F. Beg², T. Ma², M. Wei², T. Yabuuchi², R. Stephens³

¹Research Applications Corporation, Los Alamos, NM, USA
²University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
³General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA

11:00  7D-5 EFFECT OF PREPULSE ON FAST ELECTRON LATERAL TRANSPORT AT THE TARGET SURFACE IRRADIATED BY INTENSE FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES

Y. Li¹, X. Lin¹, J. Zhang^1,2

¹Institute of Physics, CAS, Beijing, China
²Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

11:15  7D-6 MEASUREMENTS OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PLASMA BUBBLE DYNAMICS AND ELECTRON TRAPPING IN A LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATOR

D. Kaganovich^1,2, M. Helle^1,3, D. Gordon¹, A. Ting¹

¹Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
²Icarus Research Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States
³Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States

11:30  7D-7 KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY IN A SHEARED FLOW ACTUATED BY A MAGNETIC FIELD

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

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

11:45  7D-8 ULTRA-SHORT PULSE LASER-GENERATED PLASMA FLARES IN AIR AND ON DIELECTRIC SURFACES

B. Hafizi¹, J. Penano², P. Sprangle², D. Gordon², A. Ting², A. Fliflet², S. Gold²

¹Icarus Research, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States
²Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States