National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of Science Joint Workshop

Scientific Opportunities in High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma Physics

 

May 23-24, 2007

Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne, Illinois
 

 

 Time

 Topic

 Speaker

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Introduction

 

8:00 a.m.

 Welcome 

 R. Rosner

8:10 Workshop Charter and DOE Perspectives

R. Fonck/C. Keane

8:30 Workshop Overview R. Rosner/J. Browne
  Plenary Session

 

8:45 Scientific Opportunities in HEDLP

R. Davidson

9:15 Scientific Opportunities at NIF E. Moses
10:00 Break  
10:45 Recent Community Activities (HEDSA) D. Hammer
11:15 Clarifying Questions  
11:30 Panels Meet Separately for Orientation and Pick Up Lunch Panel Chairs
12:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Scientific Opportunities/Facilities Presentations (Presentations are 20 minutes/10 viewgraphs max each)  
  Inertial Fusion, Laser-Plasma Interaction, and Plasmas in Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields Panel (D. Meyerhofer, E. Synakowski, Co-Chairs)  
 
ICF and Fast Ignition
Laser-Plasma Interaction
Plasma in Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields
D. Meyerhofer
D. Meyerhofer
R. Siemon
  Laboratory Astrophysics and Hydrodynamics panel (P. Drake, S. Kahn, co-chairs)  
 
Laboratory Astrophysics
Compressible Hydrodynamics and Radiation Transport
S. Kahn
P. Drake
  Materials/Warm Dense Matter/Ultrafast, Ultraintense Panel (T. Ditmire/R. Falcone, Co-Chairs)  
 
Materials
Warm Dense Matter
HEDLP Using Ultrafast, Ultraintense Lasers
R. Falcone
G. Logan
T. Ditmire
  Facilities and User Programs Panel (D. Hammer/E. Moses, Co-Chairs)  
 
Omerga
Z
Intermediate Scale
LCLS
R. McCrory
J. Porter
J. Fernandez
K. Budil
     
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Discussion and Path Forward

 
8:00 a.m. Breakout Panel Discussions (The Group is Divided into 4 Panels) Panel Co-Chairs
10:00 Break  
10:15 Group Reconvene/Panel Reports (25 minutes presentation/25 minute discussion)  (Pick-up lunch, 30 minutes) R. Rosenr/J. Browne Panel Co-Chairs
2:15 Break  
2:30 Summary Discussions (Free Form) R. Rosner/J. Browne
4:00 Writing Assignments R. Rosner/J. Browne
5:00 Adjourn  

            

PANEL QUESTIONS FOR 8-10AM DISCUSSION ON DAY 2

 

Facilities Panel*

 

1.      Compare and contrast facility capabilities. What facility capabilities (including diagnostics and targets) are needed to support the evolution of HEDLP?

2.      For each scientific area, provide a sense of the relative importance of small scale, intermediate scale, and large scale experimental facilities.

3.      Identify compelling experiments that that can be done in the next five years on the various facilities.

4.      Identify and comment on other issues as needed.

*Facilities include:

Large scale:  NIF, Omega, Z, LCLS

Intermediate scale:  Jupiter, Trident, Z-Beamlet, NDCX, Nike

University scale: Univ. of Texas, Univ. of Nevada, Reno, Cornell

Panel should modify this list as needed.

 

Scientific Opportunities Panels

 

1.      Identify compelling research opportunities in each of the panel presentation subareas.

2.      What is needed (experimental and computational resources, personnel support) to realize these opportunities? What is the state of the university community in each presentation subarea?

3.      Identify needed workshops to further explore scientific opportunities in the presentation subareas.

4.      Identify and comment on other issues as needed.

 

Summary questions (Co-chairs and panel lead and presenters - discuss on 2nd day)

 

1.      What is needed to strengthen the field of HEDLP? Comment on the mix of funding for individual investigators, user programs, and other infrastructure such as computational and target fabrication capabilities.

2.      Identify a package of compelling scientific opportunities appropriate for communicating the excitement and potential of HEDLP.

 

PARTICIPANTS

 

Co-Chairs: Bob Rosner (ANL), John Browne  

Bedros Afeyan (Polymath)

Riccardo Betti (Univ. of Rochester)

Dick Boyd (LLNL)

Kim Budil (LLNL)

Steve Cowley (UCLA)

Ron Davidson (Princeton Univ.)

Todd Ditmire (Univ. of Texas)

Paul Drake (Univ. of Mich.)

Roger Falcone (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

Juan Fernandez (LANL)

Ray Fonck (DOE/SC/OFES)

Adam Frank (Univ. of Rochester)

Mary Hockaday (LANL)

David Hammer (Cornell)

Chan Joshi (UCLA)

Steve Kahn (Stanford)Chris Keane (DOE/NNSA)

 

Joe Kilkenny (GA)

Grant Logan (LBNL)

Christian Mailhiot (LLNL/NNSA)

Bob McCrory (Univ. of Rochester)

David Meyerhofer (Univ. of Rochester)

Ed Moses (LLNL)

John Peoples

Rich Petrasso (MIT)

John Porter (SNL)

Bruce Remington (LLNL)

Dick Siemon (Univ. of Nevada, Reno)

Ed Synakowski (LLNL)

Francis Thio (DOE/SC/OFES)

Alexander Velikovich (NRL)

Glen Wurden (LANL)