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FUSION SCIENCE CENTER FOR EXTREME STATES OF MATTER AND FAST IGNITION PHYSICS OVERVIEW R. Betti University of Rochester 2nd FSC PI Meeting June 1-2, 2005 General Atomics San Diego, CA THE STATE OF THE CENTER IS STRONG! • The FSC has been in operation for 10 months • The FSC has already made significant progress in all the areas crucial to Fast Ignition HEDP: Fuel Assembly Electron Transport Simulation capabilities Laser-Plasma interaction and other HEDP areas • Details on the progress are presented at this meeting • The FSC is organizing a summer school in HEDP for August 7-13 at UC Berkeley • The FSC is co-sponsoring the FI miniconference at APS • The FSC has hired several postdocs and graduate students The outcome of this meeting is an assessment of the scientific work and plans of the FSC • Assessing the progress made is essential for optimizing the use of the limited resources • The FSC is supporting many different activities and PIs. • We need to assess the productivity within the various activities and possibly redistribute some of the funding. • We need to assess if there are activities not currently funded that should be funded What have we promised to do? • Organize a summer school in HED • Organize a Fast Ignition workshop • Proposed Research: Fuel Assembly Electron Generation and Transport Diagnostic Development Integrated Experiments Summer school in HEDP, August 7-13, 2005 Clark-Kerr Campus UC. Berkeley Over 80 participants will attend the 2005 HEDP summer school Admissions are CLOSED ! 78 confirmed attendees + 11 to hear from 46 confirmed full financial aid packages have been awarded 8 partial aid packages confirmed and 1 to hear from 55 graduate students 5 undergraduates 23 postdocs + 6 research scientists Room and Board $500/week, Airfare up to $600 Total financial aids ~ 55K AV ~ 1K, Conference room ~ 1.5K, Poster Boards ~ 2K Projected cost ~ 70-75K. ILSA Matching funds = 50K Speakers at the 2005 HEDP Summer School Paul Drake - UM Mark Knudson - SNL Chris Deeney - SNL William Kruer _ UC Davis Todd Ditmire - UT Austin Eric Esarey - LBNL Rick Freeman -OSU Steven Rose - Oxford University Dimtry Ryutov - LLNL Max Tabak -LLNL Riccardo Betti, U. Rochester David Meyerhofer, U. Rochester Chuand Ren, U. Rochester Francis Theo, DOE-OFES Sunday 7 August 7:308:30 Tuesday 9 August Wednesday 10 August Thursday 11 August Friday 12 August Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfa st Departu re Welcome (Betti) 9:0012:00 1:152:45 Registration Fast Ignition (Tabak) Laser-plasma Interaction (instabilities, absorption, relativistic effects) (Kruer) Inertial Confinement Fusion (Betti) Particle Transport (Freeman) Particle in Cell Simulation s (Ren) Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Shocks (Knusdon) Short pulse laser technology (CPA/OPCPA) (Ditmire) Tour 1. NIF (U.S. Citizens only) 2. LBL (open to all) Equation of State at high energy densities (Rose) Diagnostic s for HEDP (Meyerhof) Introduction to HEDP (Drake) 12:00 -1:00 Registration 3:004:30 Informal reception 4:306:30 6:458:00 Dinner Saturday Monday 8 August HEDP with Zpinches (Deeney) Plasma Based Accelerators (Esarey) HEDP Posters Posters on laser plasma interactions Tour (continued) Posters on Diagnostics Dinner Dinner Concludin g remarks ICF and FI posters Job opportunities in HEDP Posters on Zpinches Astrophysical HEDP (Ryutov) Prize student poster Dinner Astrophysical posters Dinner Dinner 13 August The FSC is co-sponsoring the Miniconference on Fast Ignition at the upcoming APS-DPP meeting • Rich Stephens is the main coordinator of the miniconference • All the FSC members are encouraged to present their work at the FI Miniconference • The APS Mini-Conference will be used to solicit feedback from the HEDP community and the FSC technical advisors on the FSC activities Proposed Research: Fuel Assembly and Integrated Experiments • Develop numerical tools and models to optimize fuel assembly for FI (year 1-2) • Include improved electron stopping calculations in numerical simulations (year 3) • Perform and diagnose cone focused and cryogenic fuel assembly implosions to optimize for FI (year 1-3) • Perform integrated FI experiments, including cone focused and cryogenic targets (years 3-5) • Validate integrated numerical models (year 4-5) Proposed Research: Electron Generation and Transport MODELING • Develop simulation test problems to benchmark PIC and Hybrid-PIC against each other (year 1) • Carry out simulations of test problems and compare codes (year 2-3) EXPERIMENTS • Develop experimental test-beds for code validation (y1) • Develop experiments to measure e-beam stopping in cryogenic D2 (y1) • Carry out code benchmarking experiments (year 2-5) Proposed Research: Electron Generation and Transport INTEGRATION • Develop integrated simulation capability of e-beam generation and transport (year 3-5) • Develop integrated experiments to benchmark integrated simulations (year 4-5) Proposed Research: Diagnostic Development • Develop a concept for photon imaging of cone target implosions (year 1) • Develop Zr K-alpha monochromatic imaging for integrated experiments on electron transport (year 1) • Develop concepts for optical and xuv polarimetry diagnostics (year 1) • Build and test high photon energy imager (year 2-3) • Build, test and deploy optical and xuv polarimetry diagnostics (years 2-3) • Use high energy photon imager to diagnose integrated experiments (years 4-5) • Use optical and xuv polarimetry diagnostics for integrated experiments (years 4-5) • Use Zr K-alpha fluorescence diagnostics for integrated experiments (4-5)