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Workshop on Accelerator Driven Warm Dense Matter Physics

Four Point Sheraton Hotel

Pleasanton, California

February 22-24, 2006

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

8:45 Welcome/Logistics -- John Barnard

9:00 Warm Dense Matter Research -- Richard More

9:45 Beam Driven Target Experiments -- Frank Bieniosek

10:20 Coffee break

10:30 Prospects of High Energy Density Matter Research at the Future Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) at Darmstadt: The HEDgeHOB Collaboration -- Naeem Tahir

11:05 Hydrodynamics Experiments on ETAII -- Gary Guethlein

11:40 Warm Dense Matter on Light Sources -- Dick Lee

12:15 Lunch

1:15 QMD simulations of WDM in support of HEDP experiments on the Z machine -- Michael Desjarlais

1:50 WDM Science Using Lasers -- Hitoki Yoneda

2:25 Liquid Metals and the relation to Warm Dense Matter - Friedrich Hensel

3:00 Coffee break

3:15 Thermodynamic Properties of Warm Dense Matter -- David Young

3:50 The idealized slab approach for Warm Dense Matter -- Andrew Ng

4:25 Working group organization

Thursday February 23, 2006

9:00 Progress of Heavy Ion Fusion Science towards Warm Dense Matter Physics -- Grant Logan

9:35 Determining dE/dx in Warm Dense Matter using Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics -- Michael Murillo

10:10 Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:30 Panel Discussion on Computer Codes -- Methods and needs

Moderator: Jonathan Wurtele; Panelists: David Bailey, Phil Colella, Marty Marinak, Richard More, Peter Stoltz, Robert Tipton, Dale Welch

11:30 Lunch

12:30 Working groups (talks presented in some of the groups)

1. Drivers and experiments

Characterizing the RHEPP-1 oxygen beam and its effects on solid targets -- Tim Renk

NDCX 1a parameter optimization simulations: Moving towards 1-eV target heating for WDM experiments -- Adam Sefkow

Avoiding Preheat in a Warm Dense Matter Experiment -- Dale Welch

Warm, Dense Plasmas using the Proton Beam from PSR -- Richard Sheffield

Synchrotron radiation source configurations for the fast x-ray ignition of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) targets: application to WDM heating -- Roman Tatchyn

2. Science and Applications

3. Computer codes

WDM code viewgraphs -- Philip Sterne

4. Diagnostics

X-ray diagnostic techniques for WDM -- Otto Landen

Banquet (6-8 pm): Faz restaurant (in the Four-Points Sheraton Hotel)

Friday, February 24, 2006

9:00 Report on drivers and experiments working group -- John Barnard

9:40 Report on science and applications working group -- Richard Lee

10:20 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 Report on computer codes working group -- Alex Friedman

11:10 Report on diagnostics working group -- Frank Bieniosek

11:50 - 12:50 Lunch

12:50 - Discussions/acknowledgments

Workshop sponsors: This workshop is being sponsored by the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory (LLNL, LBNL, and PPPL) and the Institute for Laser Science and Applications (LLNL/University of California)

Accelerator-Driven Warm Dense Matter Websites

A previous workshop was held at LBNL entitled "Accelerator Driven High Energy Density Physics" in October, 2004. Presentations and summary articles from that workshop may be found at:

http://hifweb.lbl.gov/public/hedpworkshop/toc.html