19th - 20th April 2010, Imperial College London
The 2010 Direct Drive and Fast Ignition Workshop was organised by the Imperial College Plasma Physics Group and the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies (CIFS).
The workshop covered theory, experiment and computer modelling related to direct drive inertial confinement fusion and to fast ignition.
Presentations:
| Title | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Spike train of uneven duration and delay: STUD pulses for the effective control of laser-plasma instabilities | Dr Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research) |
| Spatially autoresonant stimulated Raman scattering in the kinetic regime | Thomas Chapman (CPHT Ecole Polytechnique) |
| Order statistics and extremal properties of spatially smoothed laser beams for fast ignition | Dr Stefan Hüller (CPHT Ecole Polytechnique) |
| A parallel object-oriented Vlasov-Fokker-Planck code for shock ignition and fast ignition | Dr Michaeil Tzoufras (University of Oxford) |
| Beam-plasma instabilities in relativistic laser-plasma interaction: a 1D approach | Dr Laurent Gremillet (CEA, DAM, DIF) |
| Progress on shock ignition studies for the laser Mégajoule | Dr Canaud Benoit (CEA) |
| Fuel assembly in a 48 beams direct drive configuration - FC12 calculations | Dr Stephane Laffite (CEA) |
| Experiments and simulations of shock propagation along two layers in the context of direct drive fusion | Déborah Elbaz (ENS Cachan) |
| Cavitation of dense plasmas by relativistic electron beams | Ian Bush (University of York) |
| How does the energy of fast electrons in a target relate to that measured in the vacuum? | Dr Mark Sherlock (Imperial College London) |
| The effect of the rear-surface in laser-solid target interactions | Dr Christopher Ridgers (Imperial College London) |
| Control of relativistic electron generation in high intensity laser-solid interactions | Dr Sabrina Nagel (Imperial College London) |
| The effect of density scale length on solid target heating | Robbie Scott (Imperial College London / STF C Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) |
| Fast electron transport and ion acceleration in thin foil targets irradiated by high intensity, picosecond laser pulses | Dr Paul McKenna (University of Strathclyde) |
| HiPER relevant fast electron energy transport experiments | Professor Peter Norreys (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) |
| Some aspects of burn physics | Professor Steve Rose (Imperial College London) |