11th High Average Power Laser Program Workshop
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Thursday, March 3, 2005 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | ||
| 8:00-8:30 | Coffee, pastries, bagels, etc | All |
| 8:30-8:45 (15) |
Welcome | NRL |
| 8:45-9:05 (20) |
Introduction/ Description of our chamber concepts:
a) Large chamber, no gas b) Smaller chamber, no gas, magnetic deflection (ppt) |
J. Sethian (NRL) |
| LASERS | ||
| 9:05 - 9:35 (30) |
KrF Lasers (ppt) | F. Hegeler (CTI/NRL) |
| 9:35 - 10:00 (25) |
Mercury Diode Pumped Solid State Laser (pdf) | C. Bibeau (LLNL) |
| 10:00 - 10:20 (20) |
Future Generation DPSSL systems (pdf) | R. Beach (LLNL) |
| 10:20 - 10:30 (10) |
LASERS DISCUSSIONS | All |
| POSTER BREAK-- | ||
| 10:30-11:00 (30) |
Posters will be up for entire workshop | All |
| TARGET PHYSICS - EXPERIMENTS & MODELING | ||
| 11:00 - 11:25 (25) |
NRL experiments in support of High Gain Target Designs (ppt) | J. Weaver (NRL) |
| 11:25 - 11:45 (20) |
Threat spectra 1: what comes off the target (ppt) | J. Santarius
G. Moses (Wisc) |
| 11:45 - 11:55 (10) |
Target Physics Discussion | All |
| Group Photo | ||
| 11:55-12:00 (15) |
SMILE ? | All |
| LUNCH | ||
| 12:00 - 1:00 (60) |
Lunch | All |
| CHAMBER PHYSICS |
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| 1:00 - 1:10 (10) |
Overview of Chamber Physics talks | J. Sethian (NRL) |
| 1:10 - 1:30 (20) |
LSP calculations of Magnetic Deflection of Ions (ppt) (pdf) | D. Rose (MRC) |
| 1:30 - 1:50 (20) |
Threat spectra 2:
a) The effects of the cusp field on wall loading. b) Ion collector options. (unk) |
R. Raffray (UCSD) |
| 1:50 - 2:05 (15) |
SPARTAN Chamber Dynamics code (what's in the chamber before the next shot) (ppt) (pdf) | F. Najmabadi (UCSD) |
| 2:05 - 2:20 (15) |
Chamber Vacuum system: What's the base pressure and how much will it cost to get there? (pdf) | C. Gentile (PPPL)
B. Parsells (PPPL) |
| 2:20 - 2:30 (10) |
Chamber Physics Discussion | All |
| TARGET FABRICATION-1 | ||
| 2:30 - 2:40 (10) |
Overview of target fabrication, injection and engagement tasks (ppt) | D. Goodin (GA) |
| 2:40 - 3:00 (20) |
Divinyl Benzene (DVB) shells (ppt) | D. Schroen (Schafer)
J. Streit (Schafer) |
| POSTER BREAK-- | ||
| 3:00-3:25 (25) |
Posters will be up for entire workshop | All |
| TARGET FABRICATION-2 | ||
| 3:25 - 3:40 (15) |
Non-concentricity issues (ppt) (pdf) | B. Vermillion (GA) |
| 3:40 - 3:55 (15) |
Solid DT Studies... Thermal response, DT foam layering, mechanical strength (ppt) | J. Hoffer (LANL) |
| 3:55 - 4:05 (10) |
Target fabrication discussion | All |
| TARGET INJECTION, TRACKING, & BEAM STEERING | ||
| 4:05 - 4:15 (15) |
Target Survival during injection... the advantages of getting rid of the buffer gas (ppt) | R. Raffray (UCSD) |
| 4:15 - 4:30 (15) |
Target Injector
a) Cryogenic sabot for EM gun, b) Options if we can inject the target slower (ppt) |
Ron Petzoldt (GA) |
| 4:30 - 5:00 (30) |
Target Engagement (ppt) | Graham Flint (GA) |
| 5:00 - 5:15 (15) |
Discussion of Target Injection and Tracking | All |
| Tour of NRL LASER FACILITIES | ||
| 5:15-6:30 | All are welcome | Optional |
Friday, March 4, 2005 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | ||
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Coffee, pastries, bagels, etc | All |
| FINAL OPTICS | ||
| 8:30 - 8:50 (20) |
The end game for Aluminum GIMM fabrication and Laser Induced Damage Testing. (ppt) (pdf) | M. Tillack (UCSD) |
| 8:50 - 9:05 (15) |
Can beam ports, magnets, and neutrons live together in harmony? (ppt) | J. Latkowski (LLNL) |
| 9:05 - 9:15 (10) |
Final optics discussion | All |
| FIRST WALL ARMOR MODELING | ||
| 9:15 - 9:35 (20) |
Armor options when we don't need to worry about ions (ppt) | L. Snead (ORNL) |
| 9:35 - 9:55 (20) |
Thermo-mechanical modeling of first wall/armor
a) review ions + x-rays, b) options with x-rays only (ppt) |
J. Blanchard (Wisc) |
| 9:55 - 10:15 (20) |
Helium Behavior and Surface Roughening of Solid Tungsten (ppt) | N. Ghoneim (UCLA) |
| POSTER BREAK-- | ||
| 10:15-10:45 (30) |
Posters will be up for entire workshop | All |
| FIRST WALL ARMOR EXPERIMENTS: Threat spectra simulation | ||
| 10:45-11:05 (20) |
Long term exposure of candidate FW materials with XAPPER (x-rays). (ppt) (pdf) | J. Latkowski (LLNL) |
| 11:05-11:25 (20) |
Long term exposure of candidate FW materials with DRAGONFIRE (Laser). (ppt) (pdf) | F. Najmabadi (UCSD) |
| 11:25-11:45 (20) |
Long term exposure of candidate FW materials with RHEPP (Ions). (ppt) (pdf)
BONUS! Laser Inertial Fusion Dry-Wall Materials Exposure to X-rays and Ions* Presented at US/Japan Workshop on Laser IFE General Atomics, San Diego, CA March 21-22, 2005. (A good compilation and summary of the work to date) (pdf) |
T. Renk (SNL) |
| 11:45-12:00 (15) |
Discussion of threat spectra simulation experiments | All |
| LUNCH | ||
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | All |
| FIRST WALL ARMOR EXPERIMENTS: HELIUM RETENTION AND BONDING | ||
| 1:00 - 1:20 (20) |
Helium Retention studies (ppt) | L. Snead (ORNL) |
| 1:20 - 1:40 (20) |
Bonding tungsten to low activation ferritic (ppt) (pdf) | G. Romanowski (ORNL) |
| 1:40 - 2:00 (20) |
IEC for helium retention studies, including first look at engineered materials (ppt) (pdf) | J. Kulcinski
R. Radell (Wisc) |
| CHAMBERS- THE BLANKET AND BEYOND | ||
| 2:00 - 2:20 (20) |
Assessment of blanket options for magnetic diversion concept (ppt) | R. Raffray (UCSD) |
| 2:20 - 2:35 (15) |
Neutronics issues related to magnetic diversion concept (ppt) | M. Sawan (Wisconsin) |
| 2:35 - 2:50 (15) |
Impact of magnetic diversion concept on blanket mechanical design (ppt) | I. Sviatoslavsky (Wisconsin) |
| 2:50 - 3:00 (10) |
Blanket discussions | All |
| 3:00 - 3:15 (15) |
Workshop Wrap up Next meeting date and location |
J. Sethian (NRL) |
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Meeting hosted by NRL. web support provided by J. Pulsifer (JP Consulting) |