Name: 16th Direct Drive Fast Ignition Workshop
Start: 2021-03-22T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2021-03-24T20:00:00+01:00
Location: ELI Beamlines

16th Direct Drive Fast Ignition Workshop

from Monday, March 22, 2021 (8:30 AM) to Wednesday, March 24, 2021 (8:00 PM)

Monday, March 22, 2021
8:55 AM Foreword - Vladimir Tikhonchuk
Foreword
- Vladimir Tikhonchuk
8:55 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Fast Ignition and hot electrons
Fast Ignition and hot electrons
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Experimental campaigns to optimize the compression and collision processes in the double-cone ignition scheme - Jie Zhang

9:30 AM Experiments on energy flows in conical implosion - Yihang Zhang

9:50 AM Supersonic collision of high-density plasma jets from conical implosions - Zhe Zhang

10:10 AM A shock-augmented ignition approach to laser inertial fusion - Robbie Scott

10:40 AM 2-D modelling and simulation of magnetized laser fusion targets - Stefano Atzeni

11:00 AM Comparative study of hot electron generation via high resolution x-ray spectroscopy and time resolved monochromatic imaging - Oldrich Renner

11:20 AM Diagnostic of forward fast electrons in targets using terahertz radiation - Yutong Li

11:40 AM Diagnostic of ICF target inhomogeneous compression by characteristic X-ray radiography - Alexander Andreev
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM The role of standing wave in the generation of hot electrons by femtosecond laser beams incident on dense ionized target - Robert Babjak

1:00 PM New IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) in the series on Pathways to Energy from Inertial Fusion - Matteo Barbarino

1:00 PM Investigation of Electromagnetic Pulse production on the Fill Tubes of IFE targets - Imre Barna

1:00 PM Modelling of Electron Kinetics in Nonlocal Transport Regime - Antoine Chrisment

1:00 PM Diagnostic Methodologies of Laser-Initiated 11B(p,a )2a Fusion Reactions - Fabrizio Consoli

1:00 PM Improving hydrodynamic efficiency in direct-drive implosion experiments - Hao Liu

1:00 PM Analytic Solutions for Delocalized Heat Transport - Chao Lu

1:00 PM High-order VFPM and hybrid methods for laser plasma modelling - Jan Nikl

1:00 PM Advanced Time-OF-Flight methodologies for real time characterization of multi-MeV ions accelerated by high energy lasers - Martina Salvadori

1:00 PM High sensitivity Thomson spectrometry in high power picosecond laser experiments - Massimiliano Sciscio

1:00 PM Interactions of multiple shocks in planar implosions by a double-ramp irradiation - Dawei Yuan

1:00 PM Study of fast ignition via protons accelerated by electrostatic shocks - Elisabetta Boella
4:00 PM ICF theory & experiments
ICF theory & experiments
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Advanced target designs for laser-direct-drive inertial confinement fusion - Valery Goncharov

4:30 PM Self-consistent Smoothing Transverse Inhomogeneity near Critical Point in Region of Shock Wave Formation in Inertial Fusion - Vasyl Maslov

4:50 PM Experimental Measurements of Laser Imprint and Target Based Mitigation Techniques on OMEGA and OMEGA EP - Jonathan Peebles

5:10 PM Laser drive studies on OMEGA and the National Ignition Facility - Radha Bahukutumbi

5:40 PM Exploring the Landau-Darrieus instability in High Energy Density conditions on NIF: Analytical progress and recent experiments - Thibault Goudal

6:00 PM Subscale Cryogenic Implosions and Diagnostic Development for Laser-Direct-Drive Research on OMEGA - Wolfgang Theobald

6:20 PM Experimental study of the influence of hot electrons on the shock propagation in SI relevant high-intensity regime - Alessandro Tentori

6:40 PM Hot Electron and Shock Breakout Characterization in Shock Ignition Relevant Experiments - Antony Raymond
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
9:00 AM ICF simulations
ICF simulations
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM 3-D modeling of the laser plasma interaction at fluid scales coupled to plasma hydrodynamics, application to direct-drive ICF - Arnaud Colaitis

9:30 AM Two sided conical laser target for a neutron source of hybrid nuclear-thermonuclear reactor - Ivan Lebo

9:50 AM Shock Ignition Susceptibility to Hot Electrons 2D ALE Simulations, 3D Monte-Carlo Hot Electrons - Duncan Barlow

10:10 AM A raytracing method for stimulated scatterings - Arnaud Debayle

10:40 AM Machine-learning optimization of laser-pulse shapes and target structures for direct-drive implosions - Fuyuan Wu

11:00 AM Escape of α-particle from hot-spot for inertial confinement fusion - Kai Li

11:20 AM The First Direct- Drive Implosion Experiment of Polycrystalline Diamond Capsules at GEKKO Laser Facility - Koki Kawasaki

11:40 AM A laser-generated intense source of alpha-particles based on proton-boron nuclear fusion - Lorenzo Giuffrida
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM High sensitivity Thomson spectrometry in high power picosecond laser experiments - Massimiliano Sciscio

1:00 PM The role of standing wave in the generation of hot electrons by femtosecond laser beams incident on dense ionized target - Robert Babjak

1:00 PM Investigation of Electromagnetic Pulse production on the Fill Tubes of IFE targets - Imre Barna

1:00 PM Modelling of Electron Kinetics in Nonlocal Transport Regime - Antoine Chrisment

1:00 PM Diagnostic Methodologies of Laser-Initiated 11B(p,a )2a Fusion Reactions - Fabrizio Consoli

1:00 PM Improving hydrodynamic efficiency in direct-drive implosion experiments - Hao Liu

1:00 PM Analytic Solutions for Delocalized Heat Transport - Chao Lu

1:00 PM Advanced Time-OF-Flight methodologies for real time characterization of multi-MeV ions accelerated by high energy lasers - Martina Salvadori

1:00 PM Interactions of multiple shocks in planar implosions by a double-ramp irradiation - Dawei Yuan

1:00 PM Study of fast ignition via protons accelerated by electrostatic shocks - Elisabetta Boella

1:00 PM High-order VFPM and hybrid methods for laser plasma modelling - Jan Nikl

1:00 PM New IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) in the series on Pathways to Energy from Inertial Fusion - Matteo Barbarino
4:00 PM Laser plasma interaction
Laser plasma interaction
4:00 PM - 7:05 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Hot-electron preheat and mitigation in polar-direct-drive experiments at the National Ignition Facility - Andrey Solodov

4:30 PM Scaling of hot electron generation mechanisms from two-plasmon decay in ICF plasmas - Eduardo Rovere

4:50 PM Strong improvement of high energy PW-laser diagnostic potential by application of low density polymer foams - Olga Rosmej

5:10 PM New Insights in laser-driven ultra-intense gamma and particle sources for nuclear physics and high energy density applications - Marc Gunter

5:40 PM Bridging inertial and magnetic confinement fusion towards the demonstration of power measurements by t(d,g)5He gamma-rays in deuterium-tritium experiments - Massimo Nocente

6:00 PM Overview of High-Energy-Density–Physics Research for the Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Program at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics - Suxing Hu

6:20 PM Direct Laser Acceleration via Longitudinal Field Structures in Focussed Helical Beams - David Blackman

6:40 PM High pressure physics in a repetitive regime at ELI-Beamlines, video tour over the P3 experimental hall - Noemie Jourdain
7:15 PM ICF results and perspectives
ICF results and perspectives
7:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Room: For detail about the topics, see "Roundtable discussions" in the menu
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
9:00 AM Laser plasma interactions for ICF
Laser plasma interactions for ICF
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Revisiting laser optical smoothing for mitigating Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in weakly-damped plasmas: from spectral dispersion to spectral distribution - Pascal Loiseau

9:30 AM Inhibition of crossed-beam energy transfer in weakly Landau-damped plasmas - Albertine Oudin

9:50 AM Studies of laser-plasma interaction physics with low-density targets for direct-drive inertial confinement fusion on the Shenguang III prototype - Vladimir Tikhonchuk

10:10 AM Improved the fast electron beam propagation through the use of hybrid solid-foam resistive guide - Reem Alraddadi

10:40 AM High-threshold Stimulated Raman Side Scattering in Direct-drive Implosion Experiments with Large Angles Among Driver Beams - Xiaohui Yuan

11:00 AM keV range thermal diffusion in solid-density plasmas driven by relativistic laser light - Naoki Higashi

11:20 AM Nonlinear optical issues learned at GARPUN-MTW Ti:Sapphire‒KrF laser - Vladimir Zvorykin

11:40 AM Laser-induced plasma formation of a polystyrene ablator for direct-drive inertial confinement fusion applications - Adrien Pineau
12:10 PM LPI results and perspectives
LPI results and perspectives
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: For detail about the topics, see "Roundtable discussions" in the menu
4:00 PM Laser plasma interaction
Laser plasma interaction
4:00 PM - 6:40 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Advanced modeling of atomic processes in particle-in-cell simulations - David Tordeux

4:20 PM Shock-Release Experiments on OMEGA EP - Alexander Shvydky

4:40 PM A generalized photon kinetics description of parametric instabilities driven by broadband partially incoherent light - Luis Silva

5:00 PM Energy deposition in magnetized dense plasma by laser-driven relativistic electrons - Kazuki Matzuo

5:40 PM Cross-beam energy transfer saturation by ion trapping-induced detuning - K.L. Nguyen

6:00 PM The Weibel instability beyond bi-Maxwellian anisotropy - Thales Silva

6:20 PM Energetic alpha-particle sources produced by high energy, high intensity laser beams - Julien Bonvalet