Physics Colloquium: Review of pulsed-power-driven high energy density physics

Zoom: https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/84673262355

Abstract: 

Pulsed power accelerators compress electrical energy in space and time to provide versatile experimental platforms for high energy density and inertial confinement fusion science. The 80-TW "Z" pulsed power facility at Sandia National Laboratories is the largest pulsed power device in the world today. Z discharges up to 22 MJ of energy stored in its capacitor banks into a current pulse that rises in 100 ns and peaks at a current as high as 30 MA delivered to mm-scale targets. Considerable progress has been made over the last decade in the use of pulsed power as a precision scientific tool, and multiple facility performance records have been set . This talk reviews  developments at Sandia in inertial confinement fusion, dynamic materials science, x-ray radiation science, and pulsed power technology. In each of these areas the talk will summarize research spanning fundamental science to highly applied science. I will conclude with a few remarks on a Next Generation Pulsed Power project that the U.S. government is considering at this time.

Event Organizer: Prof. Rennan Barkana (http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~barkana/colloq.html)