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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Fusion Cuisine: Mingling Inertial and Magnetic Fusion Concepts
  in High Energy Density Plasma Physics\, Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/N
 E 922) Seminar\, Dr. Kirk Flippo\, Los Alamos National Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma (HEDLP) science is o
 ne of the few areas in physics where the US\, compared to the rest of 
 the world\, has a significant lead. In general\, HEDLP has great bread
 th encompassing high energy density hydrodynamics\, radiation-dominate
 d dynamics and material properties\, magnetized high energy density pl
 asma physics\, nonlinear optics of plasmas\, relativistic high energy 
 density plasma physics and warm dense matter physics. Specific to fusi
 on this entails Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and several alternat
 ive concepts known collectively as Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) or M
 agneto-Inertial Fusion (MIF). MIF concepts are basically a mixture of 
 Magnetic Confinement Fusion and ICF\, where the ICF fuel can now be le
 ss dense and compressed less due to the insulating effects of the appl
 ied magnetic field. A very brief history of the Controlled Thermonucle
 ar Research program at Los Alamos is presented to illustrate how the m
 ore modern concepts for fusion came about\, and how our recent work in
  laser-accelerated electrons and ions is poised to further bring about
  important changes and additions to these concepts. Our work has focus
 ed on a small subset of HEDLP\, namely ultra-high intensity laser matt
 er interactions\, which have been producing high energy particles for 
 over 10 years\, and now the technology is reaching a maturity where th
 e physics can be controlled and applied to the aforementioned problems
 \, as well as a host of others from hadron cancer therapy to illicit n
 uclear material detection. These interactions create Megagauss magneti
 c fields and Megaamp current beams of MeV kinetic energy. The extremes
  (temperatures\, pressures and field strengths) of the field have led 
 some to brand it the X-games of physics. In all seriousness\, eXtreme 
 hype aside\, HEDLP science has a bright future\, with the potential to
  be the next technological and economic driver of the 21st century.<br
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