Ion-beam-driven warm dense matter experiments

FM Bieniosek, JJ Barnard, A Friedman… - Journal of Physics …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
As a technique for heating matter to high energy density, intense beams of heavy ions are
capable of delivering precise and uniform beam energy deposition to a relatively large …

The NDCX-II engineering design

WL Waldron, WJ Abraham, D Arbelaez… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment (NDCX-II) is a user facility located at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory which is uniquely designed for ion-beam-driven …

Noiseless Vlasov–Poisson simulations with linearly transformed particles

MC Pinto, E Sonnendrücker, A Friedman… - Journal of computational …, 2014 - Elsevier
We introduce a deterministic discrete-particle simulation approach, the Linearly-
Transformed Particle-In-Cell (LTPIC) method, that employs linear deformations of the …

NDCX-II target experiments and simulations

JJ Barnard, RM More, M Terry, A Friedman… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The ion accelerator NDCX-II is undergoing commissioning at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (LBNL). Its principal mission is to explore ion-driven High Energy Density …

A multi-wavelength streak-optical-pyrometer for warm-dense matter experiments at NDCX-I and NDCX-II

PA Ni, FM Bieniosek, E Henestroza, SM Lidia - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2014 - Elsevier
We report on a multi-wavelength streak-optical-pyrometer (SOP) developed the for warm-
dense-matter (WDM) experiments at the existing NDCX-I facility and the NDCX-II facility …

Towards pump–probe experiments of defect dynamics with short ion beam pulses

T Schenkel, SM Lidia, CD Weis, WL Waldron… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
A novel, induction type linear accelerator, the Neutralized Drift Compression eXperiment
(NDCX-II), is currently being commissioned at Berkeley Lab. This accelerator is designed to …

Ion beam heated target simulations for warm dense matter physics and inertial fusion energy

JJ Barnard, J Armijo, DS Bailey, A Friedman… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Hydrodynamic simulations have been carried out using the multi-physics radiation
hydrodynamics code HYDRA and the simplified one-dimensional hydrodynamics code …

Generalized phase-space tomography for intense beams

D Stratakis, RA Kishek, S Bernal, RB Fiorito… - Physics of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Tomographic phase-space map** in an intense particle beam is reviewed. The diagnostic
is extended to beams with space-charge by assuming linear forces and is implemented …

Testing of optical diagnostics for ion-beam-driven WDM experiments at NDCX-1

PA Ni, FM Bieniosek, M Leitner, C Weber… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2009 - Elsevier
We report on the testing of optical diagnostics developed for warm-dense-matter (WDM)
experiments on the neutralized drift compression experiments (NDCX-1) at Lawrence …

Multi-channel optical pyrometer for sub-nanosecond temperature measurements at NDCX-I/II

PA Ni - 2011 - escholarship.org
We present a detailed technical description of a fast multi-channel pyrometer designed for
warm-dense-matter (WDM) experiments with intense heavy ion beams at the neutralized …