HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY PHYSICS

NATIONAL IMPLOSION STAGNATION PHYSICS WORKSHOP (NISP) PROCEEDINGS

FY 2016 Report of the NISP group

Charter of the NISP group

Fourth NISP Workshop (13-14 September 2016, Washington D.C.)

Day One

Johan Frenje: "Purpose of the 4thNISP Workshop".

Brian Spears: "Stagnation in indirect drive implosions:an updated, updated picture".

Pravesh Patel: "Proposed experiments, analysis, and measurements".

Kyle Peterson, et al.: "Review of observations, gaps, and hypotheses in MagLIF".

Patrick Knapp, et al.: "Plans for addressing MagLIF hypotheses in 2017 and beyond".

Day Two

P. B. Radha: "A Consolidated Picture of the Stagnated Fuel in Cryogenic Direct-Drive Implosions on OMEGA".

J. P. Knauer: "Review of LDD observations/knowledge-gaps/hypotheses".

Second NISP Workshop (8-9 March 2016, Livermore CA)

Day One

Johan Frenje, et al.: "Overview of the NISP effort".

P. B. Radha: "A Consolidated Picture of the Stagnated Fuel in Cryogenic Direct-Drive Implosions on OMEGA".

Brian K. Spears: "A cartoon picture of the IDI stagnation phase:What we’re doing to improve our implosions".

Kyle Peterson, et al.: "Consolidated Picture of MagLIF implosions & Current State of our Understanding".

J.P. Knauer: "Summary of nToF Workshop".

J.P. Knauer: "T_ion variations in OMEGA, 2015, cryogenic - implosions".

Gary Grim: "NIF nToF Update".

Brian Spears et al.: "Progress on understanding neutron spectral peak shapes:getting a handle on scattering effects".

Brent Jones et al.: "SNL perspective on the nTOFworkshop".

Patrick Knapp et al.: "nTOF (and other) measurements at Z: Assessing the impacts of flows, spatial variations, and Magnetic Fields".

Edmund Yu et al.: "Developing simple physical descriptions of stagnation in the presence of nonradial flows".

Day Two

F.J. Marshall: "X-ray emission shape/size analysis at LLE".

M. Gatu Johnson: "Shape vs Tionin perturbed gas-filled CH implosions".

P. B. Radha: "3D Picture of OMEGA Cryogenic Implosions from Simulations Using ASTER".

E.C. Harding et al.: "X-ray Imaging of MagLIF Experiments Using a Spherically Bent Crystal Optic".

A summary of the second NISP workshop

First NISP Workshop (27-28 October 2015, Livermore CA)

Magnetically Driven Implosions and MagLIF (27 October)

Kyle Peterson, et al.: "Introduction to Magnetically Driven Implosions and MagLIF".

Mathew Gomez, et al.: "Diagnosing stagnation conditions in Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) Experiments".

Patrick Knapp: "THE PHYSICS OF STAGNATION IN MAGNETICALLY DRIVEN IMPLOSIONS AT Z".

Overview of direct-drive OMEGA cryogenic implosion results (27 October)

Valeri Goncharov: "Overview of stagnation properties from direct-drive cryogenic OMEGA implosions".

Sean Regan: "Hot-spot size".

Sean Regan: "Confinement Time".

Jim Knauer: "Ion temperature".

Jim Knauer and Maria Gatu Johnson: "Areal density".

Overview of indirect-drive implosion results (28 October)

A. Pak, et al.: "Hot spot shape measurements for understanding stagnation in IDI".

Brian K Spears: "Hot spot flows in the stagnation phase for the IDI platform".

"Inferences of shell asymmetry in indirect drive experiments at NIF".

A summary of the first NISP workshop