Field Trip Date:  Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Field Trip cost: $75 includes lunch, transportation from Tamaya to Sandia National Laboratories and transportation from the labs to the Albuquerque airport, Tamaya or the Sheraton.
Deadline to register and submit visitor information form: June 4, 2018 at 5PM MDT

Field trip limited to 50 participants

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS FIELD TRIP

Description:
Z: Z is the world's most powerful pulsed power machine. It uses high magnetic fields associated with high electrical currents to produce high temperatures, high pressures, and powerful X-rays for worldwide research in high energy density science. Z can provide >330 trillion watts of x-ray power in the photon energy band of ~0.1-1 keV.  This capability enables benchmark experiments of fundamental material properties in radiation-heated matter at conditions previously unattainable in the laboratory. These experiments address important astrophysical problems such as energy transport in the solar interior, the radiative properties of matter in close proximity to a black hole, and the age of the Galaxy as inferred using observed spectra from the oldest stars. Z can generate pressures in mantle minerals relevant to the Earth’s interior all the way up to an exosolar super-Earth interior, which helps us understand the interior structure of planets
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Dynamic Integrated Compression Experimental (DICE) facility: The DICE facility is a material dynamic experimental test facility that has been operating since 2005. The facility houses a laboratory test launcher (gun) and a small pulse power machine (Veloce), and the new THOR pulse power machine. The facility incorporates many state of the art diagnostics such as VISAR (Velocity Interferometer for Any Reflector) and PDV (Photonic Doppler Velocimetry) as well as sample pre-heating and pre-cooling capabilities.


THOR: The Thor prototype is a cutting edge pulsed power driver optimized for material-physics experiments. Individual pulse power modules can be triggered individually to achieve precisely shaped current time histories at the material-physics load driven by the accelerator. Thor is designed to be a relatively inexpensive isentropic-compression-experiments (ICE) driver to conduct megabar-class experiments with a high degree of current-pulse-shape tailoring. The Thor facility is an ideal place to design and test new ideas and diagnostics for either Thor itself or before executing higher pressure shots on Z.


Field Trip Details:
1:00 pm: Depart from Tamaya
2:00 pm: Arrive at SNL badge office for badging
2:45 pm: Arrive at Sandia’s Area 4 and divide into 2 groups
3:00pm: Group 1: Tour of Z, Group 2: Tour of DICE and Thor
3:45pm: Change groups
4:00pm: Group 1: Tour of DICE and Thor, Group 2: Tour of Z

4:45pm: End of SNL tours;
5:00pm: Collect badges and leave for ABQ airport, Tamaya or the Sheraton.

IMPORTANT
Every participant must fill out one of the following forms. You will not be allowed on the tour without this information. This must be submitted to Beth Ha (beth3ha@unm.edu) and Shannon Clark (skclark@unm.edu) by June 4, 2018. Absolutely no exceptions. US citizen need to only fill out the badge request form. All others must fill out the badge request form AND the foreign national request visitor information form.
Foreign National Request Visitor Information Form
Badge Request Form

The Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel offers a UNM discount rate of $93/night, should any attendee need lodging for the night of August 8. To receive the UNM discount, please call to make a reservation.
Address: 2910 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Phone: (505) 843-7000

Attendees
As of June 4, 2018

Bold indicates student/post-doc