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FUSION SCIENCE CENTER FOR EXTREME STATES OF MATTER AND FAST IGNITION PHYSICS FSC OVERVIEW R. Betti for the Fusion Science Center team UR, MIT, UCSD, OSU, UNR, UT, UCLA, GA, LLNL FSC Members -Faculty and Research Scientists FSC F. Beg (UCSD) R. Betti (UR-LLE) D. Correll (LLNL) T. Cowan (UNR) T. Ditmire (UT) R. Freeman (OSU) M. Key (LLNL) C. Li (MIT) D. Meyerhofer (UR-LLE) W. Mori (UCLA) R. Petrasso (MIT) C. Ren (UR-LLE) F. Seguin (MIT) Y. Sentoku (UNR) R. Stephens (GA) L. Van Woerkom (OSU) FSC Post docs and Graduate Students FSC Members - Post docs K. Anderson (UR- starting ‘06) E. Baronova (UCSD) O. Gotchev (UR) F. He (UCSD) P. Nelson (UR-starting ‘06) J. Pasley (GA) A. Solodov (UR) J. Tonge (UCLA) Graduate Students D. Casey (MIT) C. Chen (MIT) G. Dyer (UT) B. Ick Cho (UT) N. Jang (UR) S. Kneip (UT) E. Shipton (UCSD) M.Tzoufras (UCLA) C. Zhou (UR) FSC Collaborators and Administrators FSC Collaborators - Research Scientists J. Delettrez (UR-LLE) V. Goncharov (UR-LLE) J. Knauer (UR-LLE) J. Myatt (UR-LLE) C. Sangster (UR-LLE) V. Smalyuk (UR-LLE) C. Stoeckl (UR-LLE) W. Theobald (UR-LLE) M. Wei (UCSD) Administrators M. Kyle (UR-LLE) J. Morris (UR) There are four external technical advisors and two DOE program managers attending this meeting FSC J. Sheffield (ORNL-U. Tennessee) J. Kilkenny (GA) M. Tabak (LLNL) R. Town (LLNL) M. Crisp (DOE) F. Thio (DOE) Each advisor will receive a questionnaire to provide input to the FSC The input of the advisor will be used to keep the FSC productive and competitive through the next funding cycle. The purpose of this meeting is to present and discuss the latest results as well as to coordinate a work plan for the next two years FSC The FSC has a strong simulation program in place (UR,UCLA,UNR). Can we include LLNL? The FSC is currently conducting 3 signature experiments The FSC is also sponsoring several collaborative experiments with LLE, NLUF, RAL, LLNL Two task forces have been charged with exploring the possibilities for additional signature experiments One task force has been charged with conducting PIC and Hybrid code benchmarking HEDP RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ARE THE TWO GOALS OF THE FSC FSC HEDP SUMMER SCHOOL FI INTEGRATED SIMULATIONS FUEL ASSEMBLY FAST IGNITION WORKSHOP and MINI-CONFERENCE Other HEDP e-TRANSPORT and LPI FSC Education: Summer school in HEDP, August 713, 2005 Clark-Kerr Campus UC. Berkeley FSC 96 attendees 50 financial aid packages from FSC/ILSA 55 graduate students 5 undergraduates 23 postdocs 13 research scientists FSC Education: Speakers at the HEDP Summer School FSC Paul Drake - UM (Introduction to HEDP) Mark Knudson - SNL (Shock Waves) Chris Deeney - SNL (HEDP with Z-pinch) William Kruer _ UC Davis (Laser-Plasma Interaction) Bill White – SLAC (Intense Lasers) Eric Esarey - LBNL (Plasma Accelerators) Rick Freeman -OSU (Fast Electron Transport) Rip Collins – LLNL (Equation of State) Dmitry Ryutov - LLNL (Laboratory Astrophysics) Max Tabak -LLNL (Fast Ignition) Riccardo Betti, U. Rochester (Inertial Confinement Fusion) David Meyerhofer, U. Rochester (HEDP Diagnostics) Chuang Ren, U. Rochester (PIC codes) Warren Mori, UCLA (Large-scale PIC simulations) Lectures and posters available on the FSC web site fsc.lle.rochester.edu The FSC is sponsoring the 9th international FAST IGNITION WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 3-5, 2006, Kendall Square Marriot, CAMBRIDGE, MA FSC Organizing and program committee of the Fast Ignition workshop FSC Local Organizing Committee: R. Petrasso (Chair) A. Solodov R. Betti Program Committee: C. Stoeckl (Chair) M. Tabak S. Atzeni M. Key FSC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW Code development: Quadratic spline current deposition and field interpolation allows higher density simulations with OSIRIS FSC Quadratic Spline 100 n c 1.3 kev electrons QuadraticSpline 40n c 1.3 kev electrons QuadraticSpline 40 nc 7.6 kev electrons Area Weighting 40n c 7.6 kev electrons Energy conservation in OSIRIS for different interpolation schemes (Tonge, Mori) Code development: a binary collision model has been implemented in PICLS. It allows to simulate fast electron stopping in dense plasmas FSC E-stopping power from PICLS compared to NIST database (Sentoku) Code development: the LSP collision model is extended to the relativistic regime. It allows to perform realistic FI integrated hybrid simulations in ultra dense plasmas. FSC 1 MeV e-stopping: LSP (left, Solodov) , Theory (right, Li-Petrasso) Code benchmarking: LSP-PIC, LSP hybrid and Osiris have been benchmarked on the Weibel instability and e-beam wake excitation FSC Beam electron density t 47p1 t 188p1 t 1504p1 Plasma electron density t 188p1 t 1504p1 LSP hybrid LSP particle OSIRIS Beam and plasma e-density during Weibel evolution (Solodov, Ren, Myatt) Integrated Simulations: PICLS, OSIRIS and LSP are being used for FI integrated simulations FSC PICLS simulation of ILE’s FI experiment (Sentoku) Fuel Assembly: Theory and Simulations. A target design has been developed to achieve large densities and areal densities with small hot spots High Gain 750kJ FI target Energy (R)max FI Yield 750kJ 3g/cm2 140MJ 25kJ OMEGA FI target Energy (R)max 25kJ 0.8g/cm2 FI Yield 0.2MJ Zhou, Betti, Delettrez (UR-LLE) Power (TW) Fuel Assembly: Experiments. Plastic shell implosions on Omega have been used to reproduce surrogate fuel assemblies for Fast Ignition FSC 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 00 CH 40μm D2 390μm 1 2 3 4 Time (ns) (Zhou, Theobald, Smalyuk, Betti, Stoeckl, Li) 1.3 VI2e7 Electron Transport Experiments: Experiments are under way (January-February ‘06) at SNL to study one dimensional fast-electron transport FSC Be (UCSD) Stephens (GA) Freeman (OSU) Pasley (GA-UCSD) Van Woerkom (OSU) He (UCSD) Electron Transport Experiments: Experiments on cone-shaped targets are used to study hot electron generation FSC T. Ditmire (UT) B. Ick Cho (UT) S. Kneip (UT) G. Dyer (UT) Electron Transport (Theory): Electron energy deposition in dense hydrogenic plasmas has been calculated including the effects of blooming and struggling. FSC 1 MeV e 18.8 MeV p Li (MIT) Petrasso (MIT) Fuel Assembly: Experiments. Cone-target implosions have been used to study the cone hydrodynamics FSC D. Meyerhofer, C. Stoeckl, W. Theobald (LLE) New HEDP Concepts: Shock Ignition. A novel method to ignite high-R fuel is being developed. A laser-driven strong shock can ignite the central hot spot. FSC CH 2μm CH(DT)6 DT ice DT gas 80μm 147μm 453μm Zhou, Betti (LLE), Perkins (LLNL) New HEDP Concepts: EM field measurements in LPI. Proton radiography has been used to measure E and B fields during laser illuminations of a flat foil FSC Laser beam 20-µm CH Laser beams Mesh Li (MIT) Petrasso (MIT) protons D3He-filled capsule 1 cm 35 cm Detector (CR-39)