
2004 Publications
The NTF had 25 papers published in 2004.
- "Spectroscopic Analysis of x-ray bursts from Nichrome and coinchrome x-pinch plasmas" of K.M. Chandler, A.S. Shlyaptseva, N.D. Ouart, S.B. Hansen, M.D. Mitchell, S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko, D.A. Hammer, V. Kantsyrev, and D. Fedin. Accepted in Review of Scientific Instruments, July 2004.
- "Ultralow emittance, multi-MeV proton beams from a laser virtual-cathode plasma accelerator" of T.E. Cowan, J. Fuchs, H. Ruhl, A. Kemp, and P. Audebert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 , 204801 (March 2004)
- "Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the inverse-pinch plasma discharge" of A. Esaulov, B.S. Bauer, I.R. Lindemuth, V. Mahkin, R. Presura, D.D. Ryutov, P.T. Sheehey, R.E.Siemon, and V.I. Sotnikov. Published in the Physics of Plasmas , April 2004.
- "Investigation of the radiation properties of L- and M- shell X- pinch plasma x-ray sources using a transmission grating spectrometer" of D.A. Fedin, V. L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Shlyaptseva, M.D. Mitchell, B.M. Song, S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko, K.M. Chandler, D.A. Hammer, and L.M. Maxson. Accepted in Review of Scientific Instruments, May 2004.
- "Spatial Uniformity of Laser-Accelerated Ultrahigh-Current MeV Electron Propagation in Metals and Insulators " of J. Fuchs, T.E. Cowan, P. Audebert, H.Ruhl, L, Gremillet, A. Kemp, M. Allen, A. Blazevic, J.-C. Gauthier, M. Geissel, M. Hegelich, S. Hegelich, S. Karsch, P. Parks, M. Roth, Y. Sentoku, R. Stephens, and E.M. Campbell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 255002 (Dec. 2003)
- "E1, E2, M1, And M2 transitions in the nickel isoelectronic sequence" of S.M. Hamasha, A.S. Shlyaptseva, and U.I. Safronova. Canadian Journal of Physics, May 2004.
- "Analysis of L-shell line spectra with picosecond-scale time resolution from MoX pinch plasmas" of S.B. Hansen, A.S. Shlyaptseva, S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko, D.B. Sinars, K.M. Chandler, and D.A. Hammer. Accepted in Physical Review E, June 2004.
- "Effects of the electron energy distribution function on modeled x-ray spectra" of S.B. Hansen and A.S. Shlyaptseva. Accepted in Physical Review E, June 2004
- "Amplified spontaneous emission in a Ti:Sapphire regenerative amplifier" of Vladimir V. Ivanov, Anatoly Maksimchuk, And Gerard Mourou, Dec 20 2003
- "Investigation of Plasma Evolution in a Coaxial Small-Gap Magnetically Insulated Transmission Line" of V. V. Ivanov, P. J. Laca, B.S. Bauer, R. Presura, V.I. Sotnikov, A.L. Astanovitskiy, B. Le Galloudec, J. Glassman, and R.A. Wirtz has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.
- "Studies of energetic electrons with space and time resolution in Mo and W X-pinches from measurements of x-rays >9 keV" of V.L. Kantsyrev, D.A. Fedin, A.S. Shlyaptseva, M.D. Mitchell, Byungmoo Song, S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko, K.M. Chandler, D.A. Hammer, and L.M. Maxson. Accepted in Review of Scientific Instruments, July 2004.
- "Anomalous inhibition of electron transport in laser-matter interaction at sub-relativistic intensities" of A.J. Kemp, Y. Sentoku, T. Cowan, J. Fuchs, H. Ruhl. Accepted to the Letters of Physics of Plasma June 2004.
- "Electron Acceleration in an Ultraitense-Laser-Illuminated Capillary" of Yoneyoshi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Sentoku, Shin Akamatsu, Watura Sakamoto, Ryosuke Kodama, Kazuo A. Tanaka, Ken Azumi, Takayoshi Norimatsu, Takeshi Matsuoka, Hisanori Fujita, and Hidetsugu Yoshida, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 205002 (May 2004)
- "Interaction of powerful laser pulse with magnetized plasma" of V.B. Krasovitskii, V.G. Dorofeenko, V.I. Sotnikov, and B.S. Bauer, Phys. Plasmas 11, 724 (Feb. 2004)
- "Nonlinear processes during the interaction of a petawatt laser pulse with a plasma in the presence of an external magnetic field" of V. B. Krasovitskii, V.G. Dorofeenko, V. I. Sotnikov, and B.S. Bauer. Accepted to the Computer Physics Communications, November 2003.
- "The study of X-ray M-shell spectra of W ions from the LLNL Electron Beam Ion Trap'" of P. Neill, C. Harris, A.S. Shylaptseva, S. Hamasha, S. Hansen, P. Beierdorfer, And U.I. Safronova. Accepted to the Candian Journal of Physics, April 2004.
- "The generation of micro- fiducials in laser-accelerated proton flows, their imaging property of surface structures and application for the characterization of the flow" of H. Ruhl, T. Cowen, and, J. Fuchs, Phys. Plasmas 11 , L17 (May 2004)
- "Super intense quasi-neutral proton beams interacting with plasma: a numerical investigation" of H.Ruhl, T. Cowan, J. Dahlburg, P. Parks, R. Stephens Institute of Physics Publishing and International Atomic Energy Agency, Feb 13, 2004
- "Ion acceleration from thin foils irradiated by ultrashot high-intensity laser pulses" of J. Schreiber, M. Kaluza, B.M. Hegelich, J. Cobble, U. Schramm, F. Gruner, M. Geissler, E. Brambrink, J. Fuchs, P. Audebert, D. Habs, and K. Witte. Accepted to Applied Physics B, June 2004.
- "Laser light and hot electron micro focusing using a conical target" of Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, H. Ruhl, Y. Toyama , R. Kodama, and T.E. Cowan, Phys. Plasmas 11 , 3083 (March 2004).
- "Development of M-shell x-ray spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry of Z-pinch tungsten plasmas" of A. Shlyaptseva, D. Fedin, S. Hamasha, C. Harris, V. Kantsyrev, P. Neill, N. Ouart, U.I. Safronova, P. Beiersdorfer, K. Boyce, G. V. Brown, R. Kelley, C.A. Killbourne, and F.S. Porter. Accepted to the Review of Scientific Instruments, June 2004.
- "Development of global magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in Z-pinch plasmas in the presence of non-ideal effects" of V.I. Sotnikov, B.S. Bauer, J.N. Leboeuf, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, and V. Fiala, Phys. Plasmas 11, 1897 (June 2004)
- "Hybrid Simulations of Z-Pinches" of V.I. Sotnikov, B.S. Bauer, J.N. Leboeuf, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, and V. Fiala will be published in April 2004 in the Comp. Phys. Communications.
- "Linear Analysis of axial sheared flow in the astrophysical jets" of Lucas F. Wanex. Accepted in Astrophysics and Space Science Journal.
- "Linear analysis of stabilizing mechanisms for the kink instability" by L.F. Wanex, V.I.Sotnikov, B.S. Bauer, and J. N. Leboeuf, Phys. Plasmas 11 , 1372 (April 2004)