USA - UNR

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

MS-220 Reno, NV 89557-0058

Telephone: +1 775 784 6792
Telefax: +1 775 784 1398
E-mail: phaneuf@physics.unr.edu
URL:   http://www.physics.unr.edu

Atomic and Plasma Physics Group and the Nevada Terawatt Facility

Ali, Rami M. (experimental atomic physics)
Bauer, Bruno S. (experimental plasma physics)
Bruch, Reinhard (experimental atomic physics)
Derevianko, Andrei (theoretical atomic and plasma physics)
Glassman, Jack (experimental laser physics and electro-optics)
Kantsyrev, Victor L. (plasma diagnostics)
Le Galloudec, Nathalie Renard (plasma diagnostics)
Makhin, Volodymyr (theoretical plasma physics)
Mancini, Roberto C. (atomic and plasma physics theory and modeling)
Merabet, Hocine (experimental atomic physics)
Neil, Paul A. (experimental atomic physics)
Phaneuf, Ronald A. (experimental atomic physics)
Shlyaptseva, Alla S. (atomic and plasma physics theory and modeling)
Sotnikov, Vladimir I. (theoretical plasma physics)
Thompson, Jeffrey S. (experimental atomic physics)
Winkler, Peter (theoretical atomic physics)
Winterberg, Friedwardt (theoretical plasma physics)

Research Funding
$2.7 million annually from Department of Energy, Department of Defense and National Science Foundation.

Staffing
10 academic faculty, 7 research faculty, 6 technical, 4 postdoctoral fellows, 15 graduate students, 10 undergraduate students.

Major Facilities
2 terawatt Zebra z-pinch pulsed power device (operational)
2-D imaging X-ray spectral diagnostics (operational)
NOVA laser beamline (under construction)
Petawatt laser (under construction)
Multicharged ion beam laboratory (operational)
Photon-ion research endstation at Advanced Light Source (operational)

Research activities:
Inertial confinement fusion, magnetized target fusion, and advanced fusion concepts. Dense z-pinches. Atomic processes and radiation transport in plasma. Radiation magnetohydrodynamics. Microparticle acceleration. Short-wavelength optical elements and instrumentation. Plasma diagnostics