Announcement:
There will be a Workshop on Ion Beam Driven High Energy Density Physics
Where: Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Pleasanton, CA, USA
When: June 22-24, 2010
Deadlines:
Workshop Registration:
March 21 – June 13, 2010 ($200);
after June 13, 2010 ($275)
Hotel room reservation for reduced rate: June 6, 2010
For more information, including registration details, please visit the website:
Purpose: The NDCX-II ion beam driver for warm dense matter research is under construction with a projected completion date of April 2012. We welcome you to participate in the existing NDCX-I facility and the new user facility NDCX-II. Plans for NDCX-II (2-3 MeV Li+ sub-ns ion beam pulse, 1-3 eV target temperature) include a new target chamber with enhanced capability for diagnostics such as high power lasers, cryo-targets and x-ray diagnostics. The purpose of this workshop is to gather researchers on Warm Dense Matter (WDM) and accelerator physics to explore how heating methods based on particle beams can best contribute to the growing and exciting field of WDM science. The workshop is intended to develop ideas and proposals for experiments on these machines, including collaborative experiments that could be carried out in conjunction with other HEDP facilities, on topics such as WDM and inertial fusion energy (IFE). The emphasis will be on theoretical, simulation and experimental capabilities, in furthering our knowledge of the fundamental material properties of matter in this regime, such as equation of state, conductivity and other transport parameters, critical points, and phase transition boundaries. Other heating methods using lasers, pulsed power and other methods will also be discussed. Benefits of using particle beams, such as precise control and uniformity of energy deposition, large sample sizes compared to diagnostic resolution volumes, ability to heat a wide variety of target materials, relatively long times to allow equilibrium conditions to be achieved, a benign environment for diagnostics, etc., will be considered to explore the best niche for particle beam heating.
Workshop format: The first day of the workshop will consist of plenary talks on HEDP and WDM, including the science that is being explored using: ion accelerators, short pulse lasers (including lasers which create ion beams to isochorically heat targets), and pulsed power machines. The second day of the workshop will begin with more plenary sessions in the morning. The rest of the day will be devoted to working groups. The working groups will have specialized talks as well as tasks. There will be opportunities for short contributed talks during the working group sessions. Please see website to indicate your willingness to give a short working group talk.
The topics of the working groups are:
1. WDM Experiments
2. IFE Experiments
3. Collaborative Experiments
4. Beam Dynamics Experiments
The subgroups will have the opportunity to discuss experiments, diagnostics, and modeling in the respective areas. The final half-day of the workshop will consists of reports of the working groups and ample time will be set aside to consider issues which cross working group boundaries.
Workshop sponsors: This workshop is being sponsored by the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory (LLNL, LBNL, and PPPL) and the University of California’s Institute for Material Dynamics at Extreme Conditions.