Omega Laser Facility Users Group 2018 Workshop
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The Tenth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop, held 25–27 April 2018, attracted 130 researchers from around the world. The purpose of the workshop is to facilitate a continuing dialog among the individual users and between the users and LLE.
Agenda
| Wednesday, 25 April 2018 | ||
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| 7:30 AM | Registration Begins–East entrance (entrance with the rounded glass front) of LLE | |
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 AM – 8:50 AM | Workshop Opening and a Recognition | R. Mancini |
| 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Welcoming Remarks | C. Sangster, LLE |
| Session Chair, E. Merritt, LANL | ||
| 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM | Relativistic Electrons and Strong Magnetic Fields from High-Intensity Laser Plasma Interaction Experiments using OMEGA EP | K. Krushelnick, UMich |
| 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM | Exploring HED Physics, ICF Dynamics, and Laboratory Astrophysics with multiple Mono-Energetic Particle Radiography at OMEGA | C. Li, MIT |
| 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Break | |
| Session Chair, P. Tzeferacos, UChicago | ||
| 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | NNSA Perspective | N. Frazier, NNSA |
| 11:00 AM – 11:45 PM | Successful Letters: An Editor’s Perspective | S. Dalena, APS/PRL |
| 11:45 PM – 12:00 PM | Pictures: All attendees, then student/postdocs | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch (box lunches) OMEGA and OMEGA EP Tours | |
| 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Poster Session I: HED Science (East Entrance Lobby)> | |
| A Phoswich Detector System to Measure Sub-Second Half-Lives using ICF Reactions | K. Cook | |
| Laser and Pulsed Power X-ray Backlighters for Electron Density Imaging with a Talbot-Lau X-ray Deflectometer | M. P. Valdiva | |
| Shock-driven Discrete Vortex Evolution on a High-Atwood Number Oblique Interface | A. Rasmus | |
| Hot Electrons and X-ray Generation at ARC-like Condition | J. Williams | |
| Experiments to Understand the Interaction of Stellar Radiation with Molecular Clouds | R. Van Dervort | |
| Determination of Ion-electron Equilibration Rate Through Measurements of Ion Stopping Power Below the Bragg Peak on OMEGA | P. Adrian | |
| Generating a Highly Radiative Shock in the Laboratory | B. Albertazzi | |
| Kelvin-Helmholtz Evolution in Subsonic Cold Streams Feeding Galaxies | A. Angulo | |
| Assessment of Gradient Effects on Soft X-ray Spectral Measurements on the Z Machine | C. Beatty | |
| Equation of State Measurements of Shocked Carbon Foam on OMEGA EP | P. Belancourt | |
| PEaLine: An Open Source Python Solver for Linear Reconstruction of Magnetic Fields from Proton Radiographs | A. Bogale | |
| Proton Radiography of Highly Asymmetric Laser-Driven Magnetic Reconnection | P. Campbell | |
| Temperature Distribution and Heat Flow in Laser Heating Experiments Relevant for MagLIF | K. Carpenter | |
| Radiation Interacting with Media of Varying Opacity | G. Cearley | |
| Laboratory Observation of Stochastic Particle Diffusion in a Turbulent Plasma | L. Chen | |
| Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection Using Laser-powered Capacitor Coils | A. Chien | |
| Investigating Spectroscopic Signatures of Fuel/Shell Mixing at OMEGA using xRAGE | D. Cliche | |
| Scaling a Galactic Cold Stream to an Omega EP Laboratory Experiment | S. Coffing | |
| Phase Transitions in SnO2 Under Dynamic Ramp Compression | K. Donghoon | |
| Hydrodynamic Instabilities in an Oblique Interface: Experiments and Simulations | E. Douglass-Mann | |
| Characterization of Cylindrically Imploded Magnetized Plasma by Spectroscopy and Proton Probing | M. Dozieres | |
| Experiments of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in the Highly Nonlinear Stage and Dependence on Atwood Number | L. Elgin | |
| Hydrodynamic Instabilities at an Oblique Interface: Experiments and Simulations | C. Fiedler-Kawaguchi | |
| Advances in Laser Micromachining of Image Forming Components for X-ray Diagnostics | H. Abu-Shawared | |
| The Revolver Direct-drive Ignition Concept: Ignition Platform and Burning Plasma Testbed | M. Schmitt | |
| Analysis of Trends in Direct-drive Cryogenic Experiments on OMEGA Using Reconstruction of the Implosion Core and Extrapolation to NIF Energy | A. Bose | |
| Development and Demonstration of the xRAGE ICF Validation Suite | B. Wilson | |
| 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | Refreshments | |
| 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM | Poster Session II: HED Science (East Entrance Lobby) | |
| Enhancements to the Low-Energy Ion Facility at SUNY Geneseo | Z. Barfield | |
| Using Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy to Characterize Targets for MTW | G. M. Brown | |
| EBT-XD Radiochromic Film Sensitivity Calibrations Using X-rays and :roton Beams | B. F. Stockler | |
| Accelerating CR-39 Track Detector Processing by Utilizing UV | J. Sparling | |
| Determining Light Decay Curves in a Plastic Scintillator Using cosmic Ray Muons | S. Padalino | |
| Characterizing ICF Neutron Diagnostics on the nTOF Line at SUNY Geneseo | S. Padalino | |
| Compensation for Self-Focusing on OMEGA EP by the Use of Frequency Conversion | N. Bose | |
| Characterization and Detection of the Deterioration of Electrical Connectors in a Flash-Lamp System | M. Cornelius | |
| First Measurement of Strong Collisional Plasma Shock Formation | H. Rinderknecht | |
| Exploring the Charge and Mass Dependence of Strong Shock Energy Coupling in Kinetic DT Exploding Pushers at Omega | N. Kabadi | |
| FLASH MHD Simulations of LMJ Experiments that Study Compressible Magnetized Turbulence and Turbulent Dynamo | B. Khiar | |
| Boltzmann Plot Techniques for Inferring Electron Temperature of HED Plasma | P. Kozlowski | |
| Investigating Multi-element Stark Broadening Effects | T. Lane | |
| Problem Solver: A Nonlinear Proton Radiography Reconstruction Algorithm Implemented in Phyton | J. Laune | |
| A Preliminary Experimental Design for Observing Photoionization Fronts on the Omega 60 Laser | J. Le Fevre | |
| Measuring Across Shock Fronts Using the Imaging Thomson Scattering Diagnostic | J. Levesque | |
| Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Hot Electron Generation in Laser Plasma Instabilities in Shock Ignition | J. Li | |
| Magnetized Jet Creation Using a Hollow Ring of Laser Beams | Y. Lu | |
| Measurement of Ion Stopping Power in Warm Dense Matter Plasmas at OMEGA | B. Lahmann | |
| Simulation of Radiative Shocktube Experiments with X-ray Thomson Scattering Measurements on NIF | K. Ma | |
| Experimental Simulation of Accretion Shocks in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables | P. Mabey | |
| Raman Amplification in the Ultraviolet Regime | M. Mayr | |
| A Photoionized Plasma Experiment for OMEGA EP | D. Mayes | |
| Progress of GDP Capsule Fabrication Towards 100 Gbar Specifications | R. Luo | |
| Modeling of LANL Hydrodynamic Experiments on OMEGA 60 and OMEGA EP | C. Di Stefano | |
| Potential Experiments to Diagnose Deceleration Phase Self-generated Magnetic Fields | C. Walsh | |
| SPECT3D: Imaging and Spectral Analysis Package | I. Golovkin | |
| 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Optical Diagnostics at OMEGA | C. Sorce, LLE |
| Pizza Served | ||
| Thursday, 26 April 2018 | ||
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| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| Session Chair, J. Frenje, MIT | ||
| 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM | OLUG Election Results | M. Koepke, WVU |
| 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | Omega Facility OLUG 2018 Update: Progress on Recommendations and Items of General Interest |
S. Morse, LLE |
| 9:30 AM – 1130 AM | Poster Session III: Facility and HED Science (East Entrance Lobby) | |
| Use of CAD for Real-time Target-Position Guidance and Geometry Validation | G. Pien | |
| Fielding of a Gas Jet on OMEGA and OMEGA EP | D. Mastrosimone | |
| High-Stability Sub-10ps Fourth-harmonic Probe Seed Source | R. Brown | |
| On-shot Focal-Spot Characterization in the OMEGA Target Chamber | L. Waxer | |
| Power Balance on a Multibeam Laser | S. Sampat | |
| A New Spectrally Tunable Narrowband Front-end Source for Cross-beam Energy Transfer Mitigation Experiments | A. Consentino | |
| Development of a Tunable UV Capability for Cross-beam Energy Transfer Mitigation Studies in the OMEGA Target Chamber | J. Kwiatkowski | |
| A Model for Producing High Energy Quasi-monoenergetic Proton Spectra from Collisionless Electrostatic Shocks | A. Savin | |
| Diagnosing Fuel Areal Density in Cryogenic DT Implosions at OMEGA Using Knock-o Deuteron Spectra | R. Simpson | |
| Time Evolution of Ion Species Separation in Hydrodynamic-like Shock-driven Implosions | H. Sio | |
| Expectations for Density Peaks in Ponderomotive Steepening from Particle-in-Cell Simulations | J. Smith | |
| Prediction and Analysis of Proton Radiographs | B. Spiers | |
| Extension of Proton Backlighter Platform to Three Probe Particles by Using D+T+3He-filled Capsules | G. Sutcliffe | |
| Laser Interferometry of Photoionized Plasma Experiments Using Gas Jets | K. Swanson | |
| A Vorticity Model for Blast Induced Rayleigh-Taylor Growth | M. Wadas | |
| Machine Learning Approaches to 3D Plasma Imaging | R. Wang | |
| Scaling Arguments for Magnetically Affected Shock Experiments | R. Young | |
| Hot Electron Generation from Multi-kilojoule Shock Ignition Relevant High-intensity IR and UV Lasers | S. Zhang | |
| Renewable Liquid Crystal Films for High Repetition Rate Contrast Enhancement of Petawatt Laser Pulses | A. Zingale | |
| Influence of Plasma Density on the Generation of 100 MeV Electrons via Direct Laser Acceleration | A. Hussein | |
| Study of Mg He-like Intercombination Line in Optically Thin, Solid Density Plasmas | G. Perez-Callejo | |
| Generation of Collisionless Shocks and the Associated Electric Field at Shock Front in Low Density Gas System | R. Hua | |
| Offline Component Testing and Development for the Magnetic Recoil Spectrometer for Time-resolved neutron Measurements (MRSt) Using the MIT-HEDP Accelerator Facility, OMEGA, and the NIF | C. Parker | |
| Understanding the Role of Incidence Angle in PDD | B. Scheiner | |
| VISRAD: 3D Target Design and Radiation Simulation Code | J. Sebald | |
| The Shock Response of Energetic Materials Undergoing Reaction | M. Gregor | |
| Turbulent Dynamo Amplification of Magnetic Fields in Laser-produced Plasmas: Simulation and Experiments | P. Tzeferacos | |
| 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Break | |
| 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM | Lunch (box lunches) and roundtable discussion with on Careers in HED Science | |
| Session Chair, S. Ali, LLNL | ||
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Students and Postdocs Panel Discussion and Recommendations | |
| Session Chairs, M. Gatu-Johnson, MIT, and C. Huntington, LLNL | ||
| 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Discussions of Findings and Recommendations of the Users | |
| 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM | Refreshments | |
| 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM | Discussion of Findings and Recommendations of the Users | |
| 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Banquet and No Host Reception | Delmonico’s Italian Steakhouse |
| Friday, 27 April 2018 | ||
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| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM | LLE Director Remarks | E. M. Campbell, LLE |
| Session Chair, M. Koepke, WVU | ||
| 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | Turbulent Magnification and Dynamics of Magnetic Fields in Laser-Produced Plasmas | A. Bott, Oxford U |
| 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Opacity Experiments: From OMEGA to the NIF | R. Heeter, LLNL |
| 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Poster Awards to Graduate Students and Postdocs | M. Wei, GA, and J. Knauer, LLE |
| 10:30 AM – 10:45 PM | Refreshments | |
| Session Chairs, M. Gatu-Johnson, MIT, and C. Huntington, LLNL | ||
| 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM | Discussion of Findings and Recommendations with LLE Management | |
| 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM | Lunch (box lunches) | |
| 1:00 PM | Workshop adjourns | |
Photos
![Chikang Li [Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)] gave a talk on multiple mono-eneregeticm particle radiography at Omega](https://www.lle.rochester.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/14_OLUG.jpg "14_OLUG")
