Announcing a 4th Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions
on Plasma Science
on Z-PINCH PLASMAS
Deadline August 1, 2009
(Scheduled for February 2010)
Z-pinches have been a rich field for study over the last several
years, and the range of plasma environments produced in these systems enable
a wide variety of applications. A stagnating z-pinch creates a hot, dense plasma
suitable for radiation materials studies and inertial confinement fusion, while
the production of supersonic plasmaoutflows provide an exciting contribution
to laboratory astrophysics. Traditionally, Z pinch loads have consisted offoils,
cylindrical and uniform-fill gas puffs, multiple shell gas puffs, and both
single and nested wire arrays.Continuing improvements in diagnostics for experiments,
such as backlighting, shadowgraphy, and other imagingtechniques, as well as
highly resolved (spatially and temporally) spectroscopy, and the development
of advanced, multi-dimensional computer models allow for detailed studies of
all phases of a z-pinch implosion. Advanced load designs to tailor mass distributions,
such as axial jets inside multiple shell gas puffs, conical wire arrays, planar
wire arrays, and modulated wires have added to the suite of tools available
for studying the dynamics of implosions and their radiated output. Based on
this, the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society announces a fourth Special
Issue on Z Pinch Plasmas. This follows the first three Special Issues on Z
Pinch Plasmas of August 1998, April 2002, and October 2006, and serves as an
ongoing historical archive of the research in this field.
The continuing, and growing, interest in Z pinches is regularly illustrated
by the high quality work shown at the Wire Array Workshops, Dense Z-pinch Conference,
IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS). The fourth Special
Issue of Z Pinch Plasmas, scheduled for publication in February 2010, is timed
such that the deadline submission for the manuscripts (August 1, 2009) encompasses
the upcoming Wire Array Workshop in La Jolla, CA, and the upcoming ICOPS in
San Diego, CA (June 2009). Participants in the Workshop and ICOPS are especially
encouraged to submit manuscripts.
The Special Issue on Z Pinch Plasmas will focus on the latest advances in the
physics understanding of z pinches. Suggested topics include, but are not limited
to:
Contributors should submit their manuscripts electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tps-ieee.
When submitting the manuscript, be sure to select "Special Issue- Z-Pinch
Plasmas - 2/2010" as one of the MS’s. The manuscript format and
style should follow that provided by the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science,
which can be found at http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html.
The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2009
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Policy Statement Regarding Page Charges: “Papers will be reviewed on
the basis of their technical merit, and decisions to publish will be made independently
of an author’s willingness or ability
to pay page charges. Page charge of $110 per page will be requested for papers
of five printed pages or less. Page charges of $110 per page are mandatory
for each page in excess of five printed pages. Papers not covered by page charges
may need to be reduced in length to five printed pages. The Editor may waive
the mandatory page charge requirement for exceptional papers or because of
other extenuating circumstances.” Authors are encouraged to contact
one of the guest editors for additional information or the applicability of
their
potential submission.
Dr. Simon Bott |
Dr. Jeremy Chittenden |
Dr. Christine Coverdale |
Dr. John Giuliani Naval Research Laboratory PH: 202-767-9299 john.giuliani@nrl.navy.mil |