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FUSION SCIENCE CENTER FOR EXTREME STATES OF MATTER AND FAST IGNITION PHYSICS. OVERVIEW. R. Betti University of Rochester. 2 nd FSC PI Meeting June 1-2, 2005 General Atomics San Diego, CA. THE STATE OF THE CENTER IS STRONG!. The FSC has been in operation for 10 months
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FUSION SCIENCE CENTER FOR EXTREME STATESOF MATTER AND FAST IGNITION PHYSICS OVERVIEW R. Betti University of Rochester 2nd FSC PI Meeting June 1-2, 2005 General Atomics San Diego, CA
THE STATE OF THE CENTER IS STRONG! • The FSC has been in operation for 10 months • The FSC has already made significant progress • in all the areas crucial to Fast Ignition HEDP: • Fuel Assembly • Electron Transport • Simulation capabilities • Laser-Plasma interaction and other HEDP areas • Details on the progress are presented at this meeting • The FSC is organizing a summer school in HEDP • for August 7-13 at UC Berkeley • The FSC is co-sponsoring the FI miniconference at APS • The FSC has hired several postdocs and graduate • students
The outcome of this meeting is an assessment of the scientific work and plans of the FSC • Assessing the progress made is essential • for optimizing the use of the limited resources • The FSC is supporting many different activities • and PIs. • We need to assess the productivity within the • various activities and possibly redistribute some • of the funding. • We need to assess if there are activities not • currently funded that should be funded
What have we promised to do? • Organize a summer school in HED • Organize a Fast Ignition workshop • Proposed Research: • Fuel Assembly • Electron Generation and Transport • Diagnostic Development • Integrated Experiments
Summer school in HEDP, August 7-13, 2005 Clark-Kerr Campus UC. Berkeley
Over 80 participants will attend the 2005 HEDP summer school • Admissions are CLOSED ! • 78 confirmed attendees + 11 to hear from • 46 confirmed full financial aid packages have been awarded • 8 partial aid packages confirmed and 1 to hear from • 55 graduate students • 5 undergraduates • 23 postdocs + 6 research scientists • Room and Board $500/week, Airfare up to $600 Total financial aids ~ 55K • AV ~ 1K, Conference room ~ 1.5K, Poster Boards ~ 2K • Projected cost ~ 70-75K. ILSA Matching funds = 50K
Speakers at the 2005 HEDP Summer School Paul Drake - UM Mark Knudson - SNL Chris Deeney - SNL William Kruer _ UC Davis Todd Ditmire - UT Austin Eric Esarey - LBNL Rick Freeman -OSU Steven Rose - Oxford University Dimtry Ryutov - LLNL Max Tabak -LLNL Riccardo Betti, U. Rochester David Meyerhofer, U. Rochester Chuand Ren, U. Rochester Francis Theo, DOE-OFES
Sunday7 August Monday8 August Tuesday9 August Wednesday10 August Thursday11 August Friday12 August Saturday13 August 7:30-8:30 Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast 9:00-12:00 Welcome(Betti) Laser-plasma Interaction (instabilities, absorption, relativistic effects)(Kruer) Inertial Confinement Fusion (Betti) Fast Ignition (Tabak) Particle in Cell Simulations (Ren) Departure Introduction to HEDP (Drake) Particle Transport(Freeman) 12:00-1:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch 1:15-2:45 Registration Shocks(Knusdon) Short pulse laser technology (CPA/OPCPA)(Ditmire) Tour1. NIF (U.S. Citizens only)2. LBL (open to all) Equation of State at high energy densities (Rose) Diagnostics for HEDP (Meyerhof) 3:00-4:30 Registration HEDP with Z-pinches(Deeney) Plasma Based Accelerators(Esarey) Tour (continued) Astrophysical HEDP (Ryutov) Prize student poster Informal reception Concluding remarks 4:30-6:30 HEDP Posters Posters on laser plasma interactions Job opportunitiesin HEDP ICF and FI posters Astrophysical posters Posters on Z-pinches Posters on Diagnostics 6:45-8:00 Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner
The FSC is co-sponsoring the Miniconference on Fast Ignition at the upcoming APS-DPP meeting • Rich Stephens is the main coordinator of the • miniconference • All the FSC members are encouraged to present • their work at the FI Miniconference • The APS Mini-Conference will be used to solicit • feedback from the HEDP community and the • FSC technical advisors on the FSC activities
Proposed Research: Fuel Assembly and Integrated Experiments • Develop numerical tools and models to optimize • fuel assembly for FI (year 1-2) • Include improved electron stopping calculations • in numerical simulations (year 3) • Perform and diagnose cone focused and cryogenic • fuel assembly implosions to optimize for FI (year 1-3) • Perform integrated FI experiments, including cone • focused and cryogenic targets (years 3-5) • Validate integrated numerical models (year 4-5)
Proposed Research: Electron Generation and Transport • MODELING • Develop simulation test problems to benchmark • PIC and Hybrid-PIC against each other (year 1) • Carry out simulations of test problems and • compare codes (year 2-3) • EXPERIMENTS • Develop experimental test-beds for code validation (y1) • Develop experiments to measure e-beam stopping • in cryogenic D2 (y1) • Carry out code benchmarking experiments (year 2-5)
Proposed Research: Electron Generation and Transport • INTEGRATION • Develop integrated simulation capability of e-beam • generation and transport (year 3-5) • Develop integrated experiments to benchmark • integrated simulations (year 4-5)
Proposed Research: Diagnostic Development • Develop a concept for photon imaging of cone • target implosions (year 1) • Develop Zr K-alpha monochromatic imaging for integrated • experiments on electron transport (year 1) • Develop concepts for optical and xuv polarimetry • diagnostics (year 1) • Build and test high photon energy imager (year 2-3) • Build, test and deploy optical and xuv polarimetry • diagnostics (years 2-3) • Use high energy photon imager to diagnose integrated • experiments (years 4-5) • Use optical and xuv polarimetry diagnostics for integrated • experiments (years 4-5) • Use Zr K-alpha fluorescence diagnostics for integrated experiments (4-5)