1. FUSION SCIENCE CENTER FOR EXTREME STATES OF MATTER AND FAST IGNITION PHYSICS OVERVIEW R. Betti for the Fusion Science Center team UR, MIT, UCSD, OSU, UNR, UT, UCLA, GA, LLNL FSC

2. FSC Members -Faculty and Research Scientists D. Meyerhofer (UR-LLE) W. Mori (UCLA) R. Petrasso (MIT) C. Ren (UR-LLE) F. Seguin (MIT) Y. Sentoku (UNR) R. Stephens (GA) L. Van Woerkom (OSU) F. Beg (UCSD) R. Betti (UR-LLE) D. Correll (LLNL) T. Cowan (UNR) T. Ditmire (UT) R. Freeman (OSU) M. Key (LLNL) C. Li (MIT) FSC

3. Members - Post docs K. Anderson (UR- starting ‘06) E. Baronova (UCSD) O. Gotchev (UR) F. He (UCSD) P. Nelson (UR-starting ‘06) J. Pasley (GA) A. Solodov (UR) J. Tonge (UCLA) Graduate Students D. Casey (MIT) C. Chen (MIT) G. Dyer (UT) B. Ick Cho (UT) N. Jang (UR) S. Kneip (UT) E. Shipton (UCSD) M.Tzoufras (UCLA) C. Zhou (UR) FSC Post docs and Graduate Students FSC

4. Administrators M. Kyle (UR-LLE) J. Morris (UR) Collaborators - Research Scientists J. Delettrez (UR-LLE) V. Goncharov (UR-LLE) J. Knauer (UR-LLE) J. Myatt (UR-LLE) C. Sangster (UR-LLE) V. Smalyuk (UR-LLE) C. Stoeckl (UR-LLE) W. Theobald (UR-LLE) M. Wei (UCSD) FSC Collaborators and Administrators FSC

5. There are four external technical advisors and two DOE program managers attending this meeting J. Sheffield (ORNL-U. Tennessee) J. Kilkenny (GA) M. Tabak (LLNL) R. Town (LLNL) M. Crisp (DOE) F. Thio (DOE)  Each advisor will receive a questionnaire to provide input to the FSC FSC  The input of the advisor will be used to keep the FSC productive and competitive through the next funding cycle.

6. The purpose of this meeting is to present and discuss the latest results as well as to coordinate a work plan for the next two years  The FSC has a strong simulation program in place (UR,UCLA,UNR). Can we include LLNL?  The FSC is currently conducting 3 signature experiments  The FSC is also sponsoring several collaborative experiments with LLE, NLUF, RAL, LLNL  Two task forces have been charged with exploring the possibilities for additional signature experiments  One task force has been charged with conducting PIC and Hybrid code benchmarking FSC

7. HEDP RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ARE THE TWO GOALS OF THE FSC FUEL ASSEMBLY e-TRANSPORT and LPI Other HEDP FI INTEGRATED SIMULATIONS HEDP SUMMER SCHOOL FAST IGNITION WORKSHOP and MINI-CONFERENCE FSC

8. FSC Education: Summer school in HEDP, August 7- 13, 2005 Clark-Kerr Campus UC. Berkeley 96 attendees 50 financial aid packages from FSC/ILSA 55 graduate students 5 undergraduates 23 postdocs 13 research scientists FSC

9. Paul Drake - UM (Introduction to HEDP) Mark Knudson - SNL (Shock Waves) Chris Deeney - SNL (HEDP with Z-pinch) William Kruer _ UC Davis (Laser-Plasma Interaction) Bill White – SLAC (Intense Lasers) Eric Esarey - LBNL (Plasma Accelerators) Rick Freeman -OSU (Fast Electron Transport) Rip Collins – LLNL (Equation of State) Dmitry Ryutov - LLNL (Laboratory Astrophysics) Max Tabak -LLNL (Fast Ignition) Riccardo Betti, U. Rochester (Inertial Confinement Fusion) David Meyerhofer, U. Rochester (HEDP Diagnostics) Chuang Ren, U. Rochester (PIC codes) Warren Mori, UCLA (Large-scale PIC simulations) Lectures and posters available on the FSC web site fsc.lle.rochester.edu FSC Education: Speakers at the HEDP Summer School FSC

10. The FSC is sponsoring the 9 th international FAST IGNITION WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 3-5, 2006, Kendall Square Marriot, CAMBRIDGE, MA FSC

11. Organizing and program committee of the Fast Ignition workshop Local Organizing Committee: R. Petrasso (Chair) A.Solodov R. Betti Program Committee: C. Stoeckl (Chair) M. Tabak S. Atzeni M. Key FSC

12. FSC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW

13. QuadraticSpline100 n c 1.3kevelectrons Quadratic Spline40n c 1.3 kevelectrons Quadratic Spline40n c 7.6kevelectrons Area Weighting 40n c 7.6kevelectrons Code development: Quadratic spline current deposition and field interpolation allows higher density simulations with OSIRIS Energy conservation in OSIRIS for different interpolation schemes (Tonge, Mori) FSC

14. Code development: a binary collision model has been implemented in PICLS. It allows to simulate fast electron stopping in dense plasmas E-stopping power from PICLS compared to NIST database (Sentoku) FSC

15. Code development: the LSP collision model is extended to the relativistic regime. It allows to perform realistic FI integrated hybrid simulations in ultra dense plasmas. 1 MeV e-stopping: LSP (left, Solodov), Theory (right, Li-Petrasso) FSC

16. Code benchmarking: LSP-PIC, LSP hybrid and Osiris have been benchmarked on the Weibel instability and e-beam wake excitation Beam and plasma e-density during Weibel evolution (Solodov, Ren, Myatt) FSC

17. Integrated Simulations: PICLS, OSIRIS and LSP are being used for FI integrated simulations PICLS simulation of ILE’s FI experiment (Sentoku) FSC

18. Fuel Assembly: Theory and Simulations. A target design has been developed to achieve large densities and areal densities with small hot spots Zhou, Betti, Delettrez (UR-LLE) Energy (  R) max FI Yield 750kJ3g/cm 2 140MJ Energy (  R) max FI Yield 25kJ0.8g/cm 2 0.2MJ High Gain 750kJ FI target 25kJ OMEGA FI target

19. Fuel Assembly: Experiments. Plastic shell implosions on Omega have been used to reproduce surrogate fuel assemblies for Fast Ignition 390μm 40μm CH D2D2  1.3 V I  2e7 (Zhou, Theobald, Smalyuk, Betti, Stoeckl, Li) FSC

20. Electron Transport Experiments: Experiments are under way (January-February ‘06) at SNL to study one dimensional fast-electron transport Be (UCSD) Stephens (GA) Freeman (OSU) Pasley (GA-UCSD) Van Woerkom (OSU) He (UCSD) FSC

21. T. Ditmire (UT) B. Ick Cho (UT) S. Kneip (UT) G. Dyer (UT) Electron Transport Experiments: Experiments on cone-shaped targets are used to study hot electron generation FSC

22. Electron Transport (Theory): Electron energy deposition in dense hydrogenic plasmas has been calculated including the effects of blooming and struggling. 1 MeV e 18.8 MeV p Li (MIT) Petrasso (MIT) FSC

23. Fuel Assembly: Experiments. Cone-target implosions have been used to study the cone hydrodynamics D. Meyerhofer, C. Stoeckl, W. Theobald (LLE) FSC

24. CH CH(DT) 6 DT ice DT gas 2μm 80μm 147μm 453μm New HEDP Concepts: Shock Ignition. A novel method to ignite high-R fuel is being developed. A laser-driven strong shock can ignite the central hot spot. Zhou, Betti (LLE), Perkins (LLNL) FSC

25. 1 cm 35 cm 20-µm CH Mesh Detector (CR-39) protons Laser beams Laser beam D 3 He-filled capsule New HEDP Concepts: EM field measurements in LPI. Proton radiography has been used to measure E and B fields during laser illuminations of a flat foil Li (MIT) Petrasso (MIT) FSC