2015 Anomalous Absorption Conference Program June 14-19, 2015 Ventura Beach, CA Monday, June 15th 7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast Miguel B Chair: Thomas Kwan Miguel A 7:55-8:00 Welcome Frank Tsung UCLA Beryllium implosion experiments on the National Ignition 8:00-8:30 Austin Yi LANL [email protected] Facility 8:30-8:50 High Foot Implosions in Large Cylindrical Hohlraums Denise Hinkel LLNL [email protected] Investigation of beam non-uniformity after cross-beam 8:50-9:10 Louisa Pickworth LLNL [email protected] energy transfer on the National Ignition Facility Inline Modeling of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer and 9:10-9:30 Stimulated Raman Scattering in Radiation- Hydrodynamics David Strozzi LLNL [email protected] Codes Collective stimulated Brillouin scattering in multiple beams 9:30-9:50 Sylvie Depierreux CEA,DAM,DIF [email protected] interaction Multibeam Seeded Brillouin Sidescatter in Inertial 9:50-10:10 David Turnbull LLNL [email protected] Confinement Fusion Experiments 10:10-10:30 Break Chair: Denise Hinkel 10:30-11:00 Multi-beam stimulated Raman scattering in ICF conditions Pierre Michel LLNL [email protected] Diagnosing Cross-Beam Energy Transfer Using Beamlets of 11:00-11:20 Dana Edgell University of Rochester [email protected] Unabsorbed Light from Direct-Drive Implosions Quantifying the Growth of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer in 11:20-11:40 Amanda Davis LLE [email protected] Polar-Direct-Drive Implosions The Effects of Beam Incoherence and Colors on Cross- 11:40-12:00 Andre Maximov LLE [email protected] Beam Energy Transfer Effects of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer on Scattered-Light 12:00-12:20 Spectra from OMEGA and National Ignition Facility Wolf Seka LLE [email protected] Implosions Chair: Peter Amendt Miguel A Exploring the Scaling of Missing Energy and Backscatter with 7:00 - 8:00 Ogden Jones LLNL [email protected] Hohlraum Gas Fill, Case/Capsule Ratio, and Pulse Length* Monday, June 15th Buena Ventura Room Reduced convergence implosions using liquid layer wetted 1 Austin Yi LANL [email protected] foam capsules on the National Ignition Facility 2 Hot Spot Dynamics in Shock Ignition Claudio Bellei CELIA [email protected] Wave Bowing and Modulational Instability of Ion Acoustic 3 Richard Berger LLNL [email protected] Waves in 2D Vlasov simulations 4 Kinetic Effects in Inertial Confinement Fusion Grigory Kagan LANL [email protected] Lawrence Livermore 5 2D Simulations of 3D-Printed Ignition Double-Shell Targets Jose Milovich [email protected] National Laboratory Laser-generated magnetic field characterization on the 6 Clament Goyon LLNL [email protected] nanosecond timescale 7 CBET Experiments at the Nike laser James Weaver NRL [email protected] Sandia National 8 Effects of magnetization on fusion product trapping and Paul Schmit [email protected] secondary neutron spectra Laboratories Multi-dimensional dynamics of stimulated Brillouin scattering 9 Brian Albright LANL [email protected] and seeded two-ion-wave decay in laser speckle geometry 10 Laser Plasma Interactions with Temporal Bandwidths Frank Tsung UCLA [email protected] 11 Role of shock-timing in two-shock platform Natalia Krasheninnikova LANL [email protected] Tuesday, June 16th 7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast Miguel B Chair: Dustin Froula Miguel A Zakharov Modeling of Thomson-Scattering Measurements 8:00-8:30 Russell Follett LLE [email protected] of Multibeam Two-Plasmon Decay Planar Two-Plasmon–Decay Experiments 8:30-8:50 at Polar-Direct-Drive Ignition-Relevant Scale Lengths at the Michael Rosenberg LLE [email protected] National Ignition Facility 8:50-9:10 Absolute Two-Plasmon Decay and Stimulated Raman Robert Short University of Rochester [email protected] Scattering in Direct-Drive Irradiation Geometries A Three-Dimensional Model for Hot-Electron Generation in 9:10-9:30 Jason Myatt LLE [email protected] Direct-Drive Implosions Two-plasmon decay instabilities in a plasma with ion density 9:30-9:50 Jun Li University of Rochester [email protected] fluctuations Dynamic-Bandwidth-Reduction Experiments on the 9:50-10:10 Dustin Froula LLE [email protected] OMEGA Laser 10:10-10:30 Break Chair: David Strozzi Channeling Kilojoule Laser Pulses Through Long-Scale- 10:30-11:00 Steven Ivancic LLE [email protected] Length Plasmas 11:00-11:20 Electron shock ignition of thermonuclear fuel Ricardo Betti LLE [email protected] Improved fast heating coupling efficiency to laser- 11:20-11:40 compressed deuterated plastic shells via visualization of fast Christopher McGuffey UCSD [email protected] electron transport Fast-Electron Temperature Measurements in Laser 11:40-12:00 Andre Solodov LLE [email protected] Irradiation at 10^14 to 10^15 W/cm^2 12:00-12:20 Heat-Flux Measurements from Thomson-Scattering Spectra Robert Henchen LLE [email protected] Chair: Ben Winjum Miguel A 7:00 - 8:00 High energy density physics research at SLAC Frederico Fiuza SLAC [email protected] Tuesday, June 16th Buena Ventura Room SECHEL: a CBET post-processor for hydro codes Recent 1 Michel Casanova CEA [email protected] results and related studies Multi-scale Fokker-Planck modeling of α-particle transport 2 Olivier Larroche CEA [email protected] in igniting ICF capsules 3 High-foot NIF beryllium targets with 6.72-mm cylindrical Andrei Simakov LANL [email protected] hohlraums with low gas fills Mounting stalk effects on the burn in separated- reactant 4 Mark Schmitt LANL [email protected] capsules* Application of Imposed Magnetic Fields to Ignition and 5 David Strozzi LLNL [email protected] Thermonuclear Burn on the National Ignition Facility Ion acoustic wave decay to two daughter waves using a 6 Thomas Chapman LLNL [email protected] 2D+2V Vlasov code† 7 Vlasov Simulation of the Effects of Pitch Angle Collisions in Jeffrey Banks RPI [email protected] Electron Plasma Waves Three-Dimensional Full-Beam Simulation of Ultrashort 8 Kathleen Weichman University of Texas [email protected] Laser Pulse Amplification by Brillouin Backscattering Proton acceleration in the interaction of high power laser 9 Rohini Mishra SLAC [email protected] and cryogenic hydrogen targets Vlasov Fokker Planck modeling of High Energy Density 10 Adam Tableman UCLA [email protected] Plasmas Wednesday, June 17th 7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast Miguel B Chair: Suxing Hu Miguel A 8:00-8:30 Ion-kinetic effects in ICF Olivier Larroche CEA [email protected] Off-axis stagnation of a high-Z hohlraum wall onto a capsule 8:30-8:50 Laurent Divol LLNL [email protected] ablator: hydrodynamics vs. collisional-PIC modeling An Ideal Hohlraum Platform Using Double-Shell Ignition 8:50-9:10 Peter Amendt LLNL [email protected] Targets Simulating the growth of small perturbations in laser-driven 9:10-9:30 Jason Bates NRL [email protected] ICF planar targets using the FAST3D code Effects of Long- and Intermediate-Wavelength Asymmetries 9:30-9:50 Arijit Bose LLE [email protected] on Hot-Spot Energetics Sensitivity of hot spot properties to the cold DT fuel 9:50-10:10 Baolian Cheng LANL [email protected] adiabat and interfacial instabilities 10:10-10:30 Break Chair: Scott Wilks First principles based EOS model of carbon for HEDP and 10:30-11:00 Lorin Benedict LLNL [email protected] ICF applications Extended Equation of State of Polystyrene (CH) Based on 11:00-11:20 Suxing Hu LLE [email protected] First-Principles Calculations 11:20-11:40 The Release Behavior of Diamond Shocked to 15 Mbar Michel Gregor LLE [email protected] Three-dimensional Single-mode Nonlinear Ablative Rayleigh- 11:40-12:00 Rui Yan LLE [email protected] Taylor Instability PHYSICS AND DESIGNS OF IGNTION CAPSULES USING HIGH- DENSITY CARBON (HDC) ABLATORS: 12:00-12:20 Darwin Ho LLNL [email protected] ROBUST DESIGNS, STABILTY, PICKETED PULSES, AND SHOCK MERGES Chair: Matthias Geissel Miguel A Sandia National 7:00 - 8:00 Adventures in ICF with magnetic fields Adam Sefkow [email protected] Laboratories 12:30 Business Meeting Miguel A Wednesday, June 17th Buena Ventura Room Ion-kinetic simulations of D3He gas-filled ICF target 1 Olivier Larroche CEA [email protected] implosions with moderate to large Knudsen number Saturation of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer for Multi- 2 Lin Yin LANL [email protected] Speckled Laser Beams iFP: An Optimal, Fully Implicit, Fully Conservative, 1D2V 3 William Taitano LANL [email protected] Vlasov-Rosenbluth-Fokker-Planck Code for ICF Simulation SYMMETRY OF BERYLLIUM CAPSULE IMPLOSION AT 4 George Kyrala LANL [email protected] THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY Controlling Laser-Driven Hohlraums- Clues from 5 William Kruer LLNL [email protected] Experiments with Earlier Lasers HOT SPOT DYNAMICS AND IGNITION BOUNDARIES 6 Darwin Ho LLNL [email protected] FOR HIGH- DENSITY CARBON (HDC) CAPSULES Sandia National 7 Semi-analytic Knudsen-layer reactivity reduction model for Paul Schmit [email protected] spheroidal cavities Laboratories Recent progress on understanding LWFA in the nonlinear 8 Asher Davidson UCLA [email protected] self-guided blowout regime 9 Laser Absorption at Over-Critical Surfaces Josh May UCLA [email protected] 10 Recent results on laser-plasma interactions in shock ignition Chuang Ren University of Rochester [email protected] Thursday, June 18th 7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast Miguel B Chair: Christopher McGuffey Miguel A Efficient ion beams with narrow energy spread from laser- 8:00-8:30 driven relativistic plasma accelerators using giant self- Sasi Palaniyappan LANL [email protected] generated plasma fields Numerical Cerenkov instability