High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) is a rapidly growing scientific field that is receiving international attention due to a new generation of accelerators, lasers, X-ray sources, and pulse power machines that are being brought to bear to explore this interesting regime. HEDP has applications ranging from astrophysics to material science, and includes Warm Dense Matter physics and inertial confinement fusion.
This workshop will focus on one means of creating this regime in the laboratory: accelerator-created ion beams. Our main focus will be on experiments that are being or could be created on the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment-I (NDCX-I) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); the next generation of this type of accelerator (NDCX-II), now being constructed at LBNL; and on experiments that could be carried out in collaboration with scientists at other HEDP facilities, such as LCLS, Jupiter, GSI, NIF and others.
As a means of informing HEDP scientists and potential users about capabilities of NDCX-I and NDCX-II, and experiments that could be carried out, a workshop will be held at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Pleasanton, California. The workshop will consist of lectures and working discussion groups. The workshop will take place Tuesday June 22 through noon Thursday June 24, 2010. A tour of the NDCX-1 experiment at LBNL in Berkeley will be offered in the afternoon of Thursday, June 24th.
Important dates:
Early registration ($200): March 21 - June 13, 2010 (graduate students and post docs may apply for a registration fee waiver). (Early registration was
extended to June 13, 2010).
Late registration ($200): After June 13, 2010
Final date to reserve hotel at special rate: June 6, 2010
Workshop: June 22 - June 24, 2010
The workshop is being sponsored by the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory (HIFS VNL, a collaboration between LBNL, LLNL and PPPL), and the University of California's Institute for Material Dynamics at Extreme Conditions (IMDEC).
This workshop is the fourth in a series of workshops and schools in the genSeral area of beam driven high energy density physics and warm dense matter physics. Links to previous events in this series:
http://hifweb.lbl.gov/wdmschool/ Warm Dense Matter School, January 10-16, 2008
https://ilsa.llnl.gov/html/conferences/past/wdm_2006/index.html Workshop on Accelerator Driven Warm Dense Matter Physics, February 22-24, 2006
http://hifweb.lbl.gov/public/hedpworkshop/toc.html Accelerator Driven High Energy Density Physics, October 26-29, 2004
IMDEC is also sponsoring a related workshop “1st Student and Post Doctoral HEDP Workshop 2010” on June 28-30, 2010 at UC Sand Diego that may also interest attendees of the 2010 Ion Beam Driven HEDP Workshop. For details see: http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/beg/HEDP%20Workshop/HEDPWmain.html
