Omega Laser Facility Users Group 2011 Workshop

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More than 115 researchers from 15 universities, 14 centers and laboratories, and 13 countries gathered at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics for the third Omega Laser Facility Users Group (OLUG) workshop. The purpose of the three-day workshop was to facilitate communications and exchanges among individual OMEGA users and between users and LLE; to present on-going and proposed research; to encourage research opportunities and collaborations that could be undertaken at the Omega Laser Facility and in a complementary fashion at other facilities; to provide an opportunity for students and post-doctoral fellows to present their research at LLE in an interactive and informal atmosphere; and to provide feedback to LLE about ways to improve the facility and future experimental campaigns.

Agenda

OLUG 2011 Workshop, Wednesday Agenda
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
7:15 AM	Registration
7:30 AM – 8:15 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:15 AM – 8:25 AM	Welcome from the Director	R. L. McCrory
8:25 AM – 8:35 AM	Welcome from the Provost	R. Kuncl
8:35 AM – 8:45 AM	Workshop objectives, announcements, queries	R. Petrasso
8:45 AM – 9:15 AM	Stellar Evolution, LabAstro, and Supercomputer Simulations	A. Frank
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM	Working under Intense Pressure at Omega (.pdf, 24.2 MB)	J. Wark
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM	Overview of the Current Status of Shock Ignition (.pdf, 5.2 MB)	P. McKenty
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Shots, shots and more shots on OMEGA allows diagnostics and targets development, opening new areas of science (.pdf, 2.6 MB)	J. Kilkenny
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM	Nuclear Physics Opportunities at OMEGA and the NIF (.pdf, 1.9 MB)	D. McNabb
11:30 AM – 12:00 AM	Tuning Low-Adiabat Cryogenic Implosions on OMEGA (.pdf, 2.7 MB)	V. Goncharov
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM	Workshop Photos
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM	Lunch/OMEGA and OMEGA EP Tours
1:30 PM – 4:15 PM	Poster Session I
	Systematic Study of Fast Electron Transport in Imploded Plasmas	C. Jarrott
	High contrast, high intensity proton acceleration from short pulse lasers	F. Dollar
	Design of experiments to study non-LTE effects in radiative shocks and turbulently generated magnetic fields	M. Fatenejad
	Development of a 1.5 to 6 MeV DD-Neutron Spectrometer for diagnosing implosions on OMEGA and the NIF and for advancing basic science	M. Gatu Johnson
	Effects of self-generated fields on the interpretation of the fast ignition electron source from x-ray measurements	C. D. Chen
	18 keV X-Ray Thomson Scattering to Characterize Dense States of Al & Fe	Tammy Ma
	High-Energy Neutron Generation on OMEGA EP	D. P. Higginson
	The NIF South Pole Bang Time X-ray Diagnostic Analysis; automation of signal processing and data extraction	R. Sweeney
	The NIF shock and compression particle bang time diagnostic	H. Rinderknecht
	Use of Monoenergetic Proton Radiography in HED Plasmas and in Fusion Diagnostics: OMEGA to the NIF	H. Sio
	Measurements of Yield, Temperature, Bang Time, and Areal Density in Exploding Pusher Implosions on OMEGA and the NIF	M. J. Rosenberg
	Designing and Optimizing 4ω Interferometry with Plasma Ray Tracing to Probe Underdense Plasmas on OMEGA EP	N. Kugland
	Measurements of multi-shock compressed deuterium	J. R. Rygg
	Laboratory Experiments in Photoionized plasmas	I. Hall
	Determination of Astrophysical S factors for ICF Plasmas	C. J. Waugh
	Utilization of Preformed Plasmas to Increase Positron Yield in Intense Laser–Matter Interaction	J. Park
	Measurements of shock and compression Areal density at NIF and OMEGA	A. Zylstra
	Spectroscopic observations of Titanium doped implosions at OMEGA	H. M. Johns
	Ultrafast Electron Beam Radiography of Self-Generated Magnetic Fields from High Intensity Laser-Solid Interactions	W. Schumaker
	The MIT Accelerator ICF Lab for development and testing of ICF diagnostics at OMEGA and the NIF	N. Sinenian
	Recent results on neutron imaging system at OMEGA	T. Caillaud

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Refreshments

4:15 PM – 7:00 PM	Poster Session II
	Quantifying Uncertainty in Radiative Shock Experiments	C. Kuranz
	Progress in Making FLASH a Highly Capable Code for the Academic HEDP Community	S. Couch
	Measurement of the Absolute Neutron Spectrum from T(t,2n)⁴He reaction using ICF Implosions	Dan Casey
	Neutron Imaging System and Unfolding Methods	S. Kime
	Expansion of compressed THD capsules	A. Pak
	Measurements of radiative shock properties using optical and scattering diagnostics	A. J. Visco
	Investigation of Fast Electron Generation and Coupling using Cone-Wire targets on OMEGA EP	H. Sawada
	Digital Imaging, and Analyzing Protons and Ions Patterns from High Intensity Short Pulse Laser Target Interactions	Y. Paudel
	Using Monoenergetic Proton Radiography to Measure Rayleigh–Taylor Induced Magnetic Fields	M. J.-E. Manuel
	Reverse Radiative Shock Experiments on the OMEGA Laser	C. Krauland
	Multi-keV X-Ray Production Using Ultra-Low Density Materials	J. J. Kay
	X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Non-equilibrium Warm Dense Copper	Byoung-ick Cho
	The development of multi-channel counting mode downscattered neutron detector	Y. Arikawa
	Same-Shot X-Ray Thomson Scattering And Streaked Imaging Of Radiative Shock Experiments At Omega	C. M. Huntington
	In-Flight Measurements of Capsule Shell Adiabats in Laser Driven Implosions	A. L. Kritcher
	Self-generated electromagnetic fields around direct-drive ICF implosions	F. H. Séguin
	Collisions between Red Giant Stars and Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Disks	R. P. Young
	Thomson scattering measurements of species separation in a laser plasma	J. S. Ross
	Imaging X-Ray Thomson Scattering Spectroscopy for Characterizing Extreme Matter States	E. J. Gamboa
	Time Evolution of a Collisionless Shock in Counterstreaming Laser Produced Plasmas	Y. Kuramitsu
	High Mach-number collisionless shock generation with large-scale laser systems	T. Morita
	IViPP: Visualizations for Inertial Confinement Fusion	D. Baldwin
	Hydro Equivalent THD Studies for NIF and OMEGA: The Plans for NLUF Shots of 2011 Sept 1	M. Gatu Johnson
	Nucleo-Synthesis H-D Experiments on OMEGA and the NIF: Step 2 of the Solar Proton Chain	A. Zylstra

OLUG 2011 Workshop, Thursday Agenda
Thursday, 28 April 2011
7:30 AM – 8:20 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:20 AM – 8:30 AM	Announcements/Queries	R. Petrasso
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM	OMEGA Facility Update: Progress on OLUG Recommendations (.pdf, 2.3 MB)	S. Morse
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM	OMEGA Experimental Operations 2011 OLUG Status Report (.pdf, 1.3 MB)	G. Pien
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM	Static Wavefront Correction on OMEGA EP (.pdf, 832 KB)	B. Kruschwitz
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM	The OMEGA EP 4ω Probe Diagnostic (.pdf, 1.3 MB)	D. Froula
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Target Basics for OMEGA (.pdf, 19.1 MB)	A. Nikroo
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM	Student/postdoc/young researcher’s forum and discussion
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Lunch/ OMEGA and OMEGA EP tours
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM	Contributed Oral Talks
	High-Power Laser Interactions with Underdense Plasma: Channeling, surface waves and electron acceleration	L. Willingale
	ICF Gamma-Ray Physics	H. Herrmann
	Collisionless Shocks in Laser Driven Laboratory High Energy Density Plasmas	H.-S. Park
	Experimental Study of Dependence of Fast-Electron Energy Coupling on Target Material and Preplasma	M. S. Wei
	Spike Morphology in Supernova-Relevant Hydrodynamics Experiments	C. Di Stefano
	Fast Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy-Density Laser-Produced Plasmas	W. Fox
	Results of the First Nucleosynthesis ³He-³He experiments in Inertial Confinement Fusion	J. Frenje
	Laser Compression of Nanocrystalline Tantalum	C. H. Lu
	Defect Implosion Experiments at OMEGA-60	J. Cobble
	Vlasov-Fokker-Planck simulations of Fast Electron Transport and Calculations of the Subsequent K_α Production for Modeling OMEGA Experiments	A. G. R. Thomas
	Development of a Platform for Laser Ramp Compression of Planetary Materials at the Omega Laser Facility	J. Wang
	Effects of Spontaneous Electromagnetic Fields on Hohlraum Dynamics	C. K. Li
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Refreshments
4:15 PM – 7:00 PM	General Session on update of OMEGA Findings and Recommendations
	Bringing OMEGA EP Performance up to its Full Specification, and 4-ω Probe Utilization	L. Willingale
	Long Pulse Operation on OMEGA EP	Mingsheng Wei
	2 Foci Operation of OMEGA EP into the OMEGA Chamber	Peter Norreys
	Progress on 2010 Student/Postdoc Findings and Recommendations	Ryan Rygg
	Independent Operations of the 3 Legs of OMEGA 60; Bringing the Backlighter Driver up to Nominal Specs	Carolyn Kuranz
	Two Cu-K_α Crystal Imaging Spectrometers for OMEGA and OMEGA EP	Hye-Sook Park
	Low-energy (~ 1.5 – 5 MeV) Neutron Spectrometer for OMEGA and the NIF	Maria Gatu-Johnson
	Gamma Ray Spectrometer for OMEGA	Hans Herrmann
7:30 PM – 10:30 PM	Dinner and no-host reception at Meliora

OLUG 2011 Workshop, Friday Agenda
Friday, 29 April 2011
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM	NNSA perspective on HED Science	D. Cook
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM	Discuss OLUG Update at the APS meeting, 15 Nov 2011, and next OLUG workshop, 25–27 April 2012
9:10 AM – 10:15 AM	General Session regarding working group Findings, Recommendations, Progress
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Presentation and discussion of working group findings/recommendations/progress with LLE management
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Lunch/ OMEGA and OMEGA EP tours
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM	Job Fair: Panel discussion on opportunities in High-Energy-Density-Laboratory Physics Universities: P. Drake LLE: Craig Sangster LLNL: Hye-Sook Park GA: Richard Stephens LANL: Jonathan Workman SNL: Ray Leeper
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM	Job Fair: Open discussion with panelists
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM	Job Fair: Individual discussions with panelists