Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 25 OCTOBER 2000

09:20 MI1.001 Generation and Sustainment of Plasma Rotation by ICRF Heating

F. W. Perkins (Princeton - DIII-D Collaboration, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton Univ.)

09:50 MI1.002 Neoclassical Current Drive by Waves with a Symmetric Spectrum

Per Helander (EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK.)

10:20 MI1.003 Localized Electron Cyclotron Current Drive in DIII-D: Experiment and Theory

Y.R. Lin-Liu (General Atomics)

10:50 MI1.004 Steady-state fully non-inductive operation with ECCD and current profile control in the TCV tokamak

O. Sauter (CRPP-EPFL, Association EURATOM-Switzerland)

11:20 MI1.005 Electron Bernstein Waves in Spherical Tokamaks

Abhay Ram (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, M.I.T.)

11:50 MI1.006 ICPP: Alfve´n Wave heating And Current Drive

Artour Elfimov (Physics Institute,USP, 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

09:20 MI2.001 Mach Cones in a 2D Dusty Plasma Crystal: Shock Wave or Wake?

Daniel H.E. Dubin (Department of Physics-University of California, San Diego)

09:50 MI2.002 Gradient-Driven Vortex Motion in Nonneutral Plasmas and Ideal 2D Fluids

David A. Schecter (Department of Physics-University of California, San Diego)

10:20 MI2.003 Inward Transport, Compression and Manipulation of Positron Plasmas and Beams

Clifford M. Surko (Department of Physics-University of California, San Diego)

10:50 MI2.004 Neoclassical Transport in an Annular Penning Trap

Scott Robertson (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0390)

11:20 MI2.005 Kinetic Stability Analysis of Very-High-Beta Dipole Plasmas

H. Vernon Wong (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

11:50 MI2.006 Centrifugally Confined Plasmas: An Alternative Concept for Fusion

A. B. Hassam (University of Maryland)

09:20 MI3.001 Laboratory experiments on wave propagation in dusty plasmas

Robert L. Merlino (Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242)

09:50 MI3.002 Waves and Instabilities in Weakly and Strongly Correlated Dusty Plasmas

Marlene Rosenberg (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA)

10:20 MI3.003 ICPP: Collective Modes in a Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasma

Predhiman Kaw (Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, India)

10:50 MI3.004 ICPP: Dynamic Behaviors of Dust Particles in Plasma-Sheath Boundary

Shuichi TAKAMURA (Graduate School of Eng., Nagoya University, Japan)

11:20 MI3.005 ICPP: The interactions of ultra short high intensity pulse lasers with large molecules and clusters : Experimental and Computational Studies

Shuji SAKABE (Graduate School of Engineering and Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

11:50 MI3.006 ICPP: Structure and Melting of Two-Dimensional Dust Crystals

Hiroo Totsuji (Fac. of Engineering, Okayama Univ., Okayama 700-8530, Japan)

09:20 MO1.001 Overview of the 2000 DIII-D Experimental Campaign

J.S. deGrassie, the DIII-D Team (DIII-D National Fusion Facility)

09:32 MO1.002 Progress Toward Long-Pulse High Performance Discharges in DIII-D

T.C. Luce (GA), M.R. Wade (ORNL), P.A. Politzer (GA), J.G. Watkins (SNL), M.A. Mahdavi, E.J. Strait, A.D. Turnbull, C.C. Petty (GA), J.E. Kinsey (Lehigh U.), R.J. Jayakumar (LLNL), L.L. Lao, C.M. Greenfield, R. Prater (GA)

09:44 MO1.003 Stability of Advanced Tokamak Plasmas in DIII-D

E.J. Strait, D.P. Brennan, M.S. Chu, J.R. Ferron, A.W. Hyatt, R.J. La Haye, Y.R. Lin-Liu, T.C. Luce, T.H. Osborne, P.A. Politzer, J.T. Scoville, T.S. Taylor, A.D. Turnbull (General Atomics), E.D. Fredrickson, L.C. Johnson, M. Okabayashi (PPPL), A.M. Garofalo, G.A. Navratil (Columbia U.), E.A. Lazarus, M.R. Wade (ORNL)

09:56 MO1.004 Active Feedback Control of the Resistive Wall Mode in DIII-D

A.M. Garofalo, G.A. Navratil, J. Bialek (Columbia Univ.), E.D. Fredrickson, L.C. Johnson, M. Okabayashi (PPPL), T.K. Jensen, R.J. La Haye, E.J. Strait, J.T. Scoville, A.D. Turnbull (GA), M. Gryaznevich (UKAEA), DIII-D Team

10:08 MO1.005 Commissioning of the 110 GHz ECH System on DIII-D for Physics Applications

J.M. Lohr, R.W. Callis, W.P. Cary, S.W. Delaware, I. Gorelov, T.E. Harris, R.A. Legg, A. Nerem, D. Ponce, R. Prater, S.G. Pronko (General Atomics), Jr. Baity, G.C. Barber (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:20 MO1.006 Highly Localized Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive in DIII-D

R. Prater, K.H. Burrell, C.M. Greenfield, L.L. Lao, Y.R. Lin-Liu, J. Lohr, T.C. Luce, C.C. Petty, R.I. Pinsker, G.M. Staebler (General Atomics), M.E. Austin (U.~Texas), C. Fuchs (IPP Garching), R.W. Harvey (CompX), J.E. Kinsey (Lehigh U.), M.A. Makowski (LLNL), V. Trukhin (Kurchatov Institute), K.L. Wong (PPPL), DIII-D Team

10:32 MO1.007 Progress Towards Control of Internal Transport Barriers in DIII-D

E.J. Doyle, C.M. Greenfield, E.J. Synakowski, K.H. Burrell, J.C. DeBoo, P. Gohil, G.L. Jackson, J.E. Kinsey, G.R. McKee, M. Murakami, R. Prater, C.L. Rettig, T.L. Rhodes, G.M. Staebler, B.W. Stallard (DIII-D National Fusion Facility)

10:44 MO1.008 A Comparative Study of Tokamak Discharges with Internal Transport Barriers Using Predictive Transport Simulations

J.E. Kinsey (Lehigh University), R.E. Waltz, G.M. Staebler (General Atomics)

10:56 MO1.009 Direct Test of the Role of E\times B Shear in Improved Confinement with Neon Injection Using Magnetic Braking

D.R. Ernst (PPPL), M. Murakami (ORNL), R.J. La Haye, G.L. Jackson, K.H. Burrell, T.E. Evans, C.M. Greenfield, W.P. West (General Atomics), G.R. McKee (U.\ Wisconsin), C.L. Rettig (UCLA)

11:08 MO1.010 Thermal Diffusivities in DIII-D Show Evidence of Critical Gradients

D.R. Baker, C.M. Greenfield, J.C. DeBoo, T.C. Luce, C.C. Petty, K.H. Burrell (General Atomics), B.W. Stallard (LLNL), DIII-D Team

11:20 MO1.011 Confinement and Stability of H-mode Discharges at Densities Above the Greenwald Limit

M.A. Mahdavi, T.H. Osborne, A.W. Leonard, M.S. Chu, C.M. Greenfield, T.W. Petrie, G.M. Staebler (GA), M.E. Fenstermacher (LLNL)

11:32 MO1.012 Neutral Density Measurements at the Midplane of DIII-D

R.J. Colchin, L.W. Owen, R. Maingi, R.C. Isler (ORNL), N.H. Brooks, T.N. Carlstrom, R.J. Groebner (GA)

11:44 MO1.013

11:56 MO1.014 Sources for Carbon Production in the DIII-D Divertors

R.C. Isler (ORNL), N.H. Brooks, W.P. West (GA), D.G. Whyte (UCSD)

09:20 MO2.001 Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of SSD Laser Imprint

R.S. Craxton, J.A. Marozas, S. Skupsky (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

09:32 MO2.002 Imprint Reduction with Shaped Pulses

T.J.B. Collins, S. Skupsky (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

09:44 MO2.003 Imprint mitigation by the use of multi-density foam buffered targets

H Nishimura, N Ohnishi, M Nishikino, K Shigemori, H Shiraga, M Nakai, H Azechi, N Miyanaga, H Takabe, T Norimatsu, K Nagai, K Nishihara, K Mima, T Yamanaka (ILE, Osaka U., Japan), R Ishizaki (NIFS, Toki, Japan), GOD Team

09:56 MO2.004 Reduction of the initial imprint by radiation in foam buffered targets

Naofumi Ohnishi, Hideo Nagatomo, Hideaki Takabe, Hiroaki Nishimura, Tatsuhiko Yamanaka (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

10:08 MO2.005 Experimental Studies of the Effects of Thin Gold Layers on Laser Imprint

S. P. Obenschain, D. Colombant, J. P. Dahlburg, J. H. Gardner, M. Karasik, C. J. Pawley, A. J. Schmitt, V. Serlin (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.), Y. Aglitskiy (Science Applications International)

10:20 MO2.006 Perturbation transfer between front and rear surfaces of laser-irradiated targets

K. Shigemori, M. Nakai, H. Azechi, K. Nishihara, T. Nagaya, H. Nagatomo (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

10:32 MO2.007 Feedout and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability at large density ratio

A. L. Velikovich, A. J. Schmitt (Plasma Physics Division, NRL), J. H. Gardner (LCPamp;FD, NRL), N. Metzler (Physics Department, NRCN, Israel)

10:44 MO2.008 Laser-Driven Burnthrough Experiments on OMEGA with 1-THz SSD

S.P. Regan, J.A. Delettrez, B. Yaakobi, R. Epstein, D.D. Meyerhofer, W. Seka, P.B. Radha, R.P.J. Town (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

10:56 MO2.009 A New Model for the Analysis of Burnthrough Experiments on OMEGA

J.A. Delettrez, S.P. Regan, P.B. Radha, R.P.J. Town (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

11:08 MO2.010 Measurements of Shock Heating Using Al Absorption Spectroscopy in Planar Targets

T.R. Boehly, B. Yaakobi, J.P. Knauer, D.D. Meyerhofer, R.P.J. Town (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), D. Hoarty (Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, UK), O. Willi (Imperial College, London, UK)

11:20 MO2.011 Two-Dimensional Simulations of X-Ray Absorption Spectra from Nonuniformly Driven Planar Targets

R. Epstein, B. Ling, J.A. Delettrez, P.B. Radha, T.R. Boehly, B. Yaakobi (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), J.J. MacFarlane (Prism Computational Sciences, Inc.)

11:32 MO2.012 Equation of State Measurements of Liquid Deuterium Subject to Magnetically Driven Hypervelocity Plate Impact

Marcus Knudson, David Hanson, Jim Bailey, Clint Hall, Jim Asay, Ray Lemke (Sandia National Labs, ABQ, NM), Bryan Oliver (Materials Research Corp, ABQ, NM)

11:44 MO2.013 Optical measurements of strongly-shocked water

P.M. Celliers, G.W. Collins, D.K. Bradley, L.B. Da Silva, R. Cauble, S.J. Moon, R.J. Wallace, B.A. Hammel, W.W. Hsing (University of California/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94551), I. Masclet, B. Marchet, M. Rebec, Ch. Reverdin (CEA Limeil, France), M. Koenig, A. Benuzzi (LULI CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, France), D. Batani (University of Milan-Bicocca and INFM, Italy)

11:56 MO2.014 Shock Compressing Diamond into the Metallic Phase

D.K. Bradley, G.W. Collins, P. Celliers, S. Moon, L.B. Da Silva, R. Cauble, B.A. Hammel, R.J. Wallace (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551)

09:20 MM1.001 Tokamaks with lithium covered walls

Leonid E. Zakharov (Princeton University, PPPL)

09:40 MM1.002 Simulations of Edge-Plasmas and Lithium Core Pentration for Low-Recycling Lithium Walls

T.D. Rognlien, M.E. Rensink (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), J.N. Brooks (Argonne National Lab)

10:10 MM1.003 Long-pulse particle control in plasmas surrounded by liquid metal walls.*

peter mioduszewski, David Rasmussen, Brad Nelson (ORNL)

10:40 MM1.004 Coffee Break

10:50 MM1.005 Observations Concerning the Injection of a Lithium Aerosol into the Edge of TFTR Discharges.

D.K. Mansfield, D.W. Johnson, B. Grek, H. Kugel, M.G. Bell, R.E. Bell, R.A. Budny, C.A. Bush, E.D. Fredrickson, K.W. Hill, D.L. Jassby, R. Maqueda, H.K. Park, C.H. Skinner, G. Taylor, G.A. Wurden (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

11:20 MM1.006 Spectroscopic Studies of Lithium in TFTR

K.W. Hill, D.K. Mansfield, S.S. Medley, A.T. Ramsey, C.H. Skinner (Princeton University)

11:40 MM1.007 Physics of Improved Core Confinement with Lithium Injection in TFTR

D. R. Ernst, TFTR Team (Princeton Univ. Plasma Physics Laboratory)

12:10 MM1.008 Initial Results of the Liquid Lithium Rail Limiter Experiment L3 on the CDX-U Torus

Stan Luckhardt, M. Baldwin, R. Doerner, E. Hollmann, A. Liebscher, R. Seraydarian, D. Whyte (UCSD), R. Kaita, R. Majeski (PPPL)

MP1.001 Partially Ionized and Low Temperature Plasmas I (DPP)

MP1.002 Experimental Measurements of Electric Fields in the Transition Region Between the Sheath and Presheath in Weakly Collisional Plasmas

Noah Hershkowitz, Lutfi Oksuz (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

MP1.003 Control of Plasma Chemistry in Helicon Sources

R. F. Boivin, M. M. Balkey, J. L. Kline, E. E. Scime, R. S. Spangler (Physics Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6315)

MP1.004 Axial Dumping of Helicon Waves in Molecular- and Rare-Gas Plasmas

Hideki Kikuchi, Youichi Sakawa, Tatsuo Shoji (Nagoya Univ., Japan.)

MP1.005 Experiments with a helicon plasma source

G. Makrinich, A. Fruchtman, J. Ashkenazy (Holon Academic Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 305, Holon 58102, Israel)

MP1.006 Anomalous Ion Heating in a Helicon Plasma Source

M.M. Balkey, E.E. Scime, R.F. Boivin (West Virginia University), P.A. Keiter (The University of Michigan), J.L. Kline, R.S. Spangler, B.R. Kent, R.C. Soulsby (West Virginia University)

MP1.007 First Plasma in Alpha

christopher watts (Auburn Univeristy), jeremy hanna (Auburn University)

MP1.008 Plasma Production Using VHF Band of RF in Helicon Discharges

Youichi Sakawa, Hideki Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Kunimatsu, Tatsuo Shoji (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

MP1.009 Investigation of standing helicon waves and plasma production in a cylindrical plasma column

Mudtorlep Nisoa, Youichi Sakawa, Tatsuo Shoji (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

MP1.010 Electron energy distribution function measurements

Kurt Taylor, Seok-Min Yun, George Tynan (UC San Diego), Basic and Applied Plasma Physics Laboratory Team

MP1.011 Effects of particle thermal motion on the ponderomotive force in inductively coupled plasmas

Yu. Tyshetskiy, A. Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5E2 Canada), V. Godyak (OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc., MA Beverly, USA)

MP1.012 Classical collisional and nonlinear skin depths

F.F. Chen, J.D. Evans (UCLA)

MP1.013 On Nonlinear Effects in Inductively Coupled Plasmas

A. Duffy, A. Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan), V. Godyak (OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc., MA, Beverly)

MP1.014 Numerical Investigation on Plasma and Etching Uniformity Control over Large Area with a Modified Inductively Coupled Plasma Source

Sung-Sik Kim, Satoshi Hamaguchi (Department of Fundamental Energy Science, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan), Nam-Sik Yoon (School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361--480, Korea), Young-Dong Lee, Seung-Hoe Ku, Choong-Seock Chang (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305--701, Korea)

MP1.015 Effect of Electron-axial Motion in Anomalous Skin Effect

Nam-Sik Yoon (School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk National University, 48 Gaeshin-dong Heungduk-ku, Chongju, Chungbuk 361-763, Korea)

MP1.016 PIC simulations of RF electronegative discharges: effect of adding Coulomb collisions and effect of driving at the series resonance frequency.

E. Kawamura, C.K. Birdsall (U. California, Berkeley)

MP1.017 An Integrated Radiation Transport Particle-in-Cell Method

H.J. Lee, J.P. Verboncoeur, H.B. Smith, G.J. Parker, C.K. Birdsall (EECS Dept., University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1770), Plasma Theory and Simulation Group Team

MP1.018 Experimental Studies of Ionization Waves in Fast Pulsed Capillary Discharges.

Mario Favre, Ana Maria Lenero, Hernan Chuaqui, Ian Mitchell, Edmund Wyndham (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile), Peter Choi, Carmen Dumitrescu (Ecole Polytechnique, France), Igor Rutkevich, Michael Mond, Yitzhak Kaufman (Ben Gurion University, Israel)

MP1.019 A Study of the Magnetic Circuit of a Cylindrical Hall Plasma Source

C Andrew Burlingame, Kevin Ertmer, Yevgeny Raitses, Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

MP1.020 Ultra High Energy Electron Production Near the Critical Layer in High Power Microwave - Plasma Nonlinear Interaction

Chirag RAJYAGURU, Hiroaki ITO, Noboru YUGAMI, Yasushi NISHIDA (Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2 Yoto, Utsunomiya Tochigi 321-8585 JAPAN)

MP1.021 Experiments and Theory of Ablation Plasma Ion Implantation

R. M. Gilgenbach, B. Qi, Y. Y. Lau, M.D. Johnston (Intense Energy Beam Interaction Lab, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Dept., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104), G.L. Doll, A. Lazarides (Materials Science Department, Timken Research, Canton, OH 44706-0939)

MP1.022 Laser Produced Bubbles for Underwater Shock Hydrodynamics Studies

C. K. Manka, E.C. Briscoe (Research Support Instruments), R. Lunsford (Icarus Research Inc.), T. G. Jones, J. Grun (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), J. Penano (NRL-National Research Council)

MP1.023 Liquid Metals Research in PISCES B

M J Baldwin, R P Doerner, S C Luckhardt, R W Conn, R Seraydarian, D G Whyte (UC San Diego)

MP1.024 Particle confinement time in a plasma produced by short-pulse high-power microwaves

Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Takahide Nakagawa, Yasushige Yano (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

MP1.025 Partially Ionized and Low Temperature Plasmas I (ICPP)

MP1.026 Decay Process of Backward Plasma Produced by XeCl Excimer Laser in High-pressure Argon Gas

Norio Tsuda, Jun Yamada (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan)

MP1.027 Numerical Model of Laser Ablation and Plasma Expansion for Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Stéphane Laville, Frangois Vidal, Mohamed Chaker (INRS-Energie et Materiaux, Varennes, Canada), Olivier Barthilemy (Universite de Montreal, Canada), Tudor Wyatt Johnston, Boris Le Drogoff (INRS-Energie et Materiaux, Varennes, Canada), Jo'"elle Margot (Universite de Montreal, Canada), Mohamad Sabsabi (National Research Council of Canada, Canada)

MP1.028 Calculation of Plasma Parameters Produced by Excimer Laser in High-Pressure Argon Gas

Jun Yamada, Norio Tsuda (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan)

MP1.029 VOC Treatment by Atmospheric Non-Thermal Plasma Produced by DC Streamer Discharge

Nobuya Hayashi, Hideo Suganuma, Saburoh Satoh, Chobei Yamabe (School of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Japan)

MP1.030 Problem of Reduction of Reaction Mechanism of Methane Decomposition in N2 Afterglow Plasma

Rudolf Hrach (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic), Jean-Claude Legrand, Anne-Marie Diamy (Universite Pierre-et-Marie Curie, Paris, France), Vera Hrachova (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

MP1.031 ICP and Microwave Plasma Torches and Gas Combustion chamber with the Reverse Vortex Stabilization

Alexander Gutsol (Inst. Chem. amp;Techn., Apatity, Russia), Jussi Larjo, Rolf Hernberg (Tampere Univ. of Techn., Finland)

MP1.032 Influence of Torch Nozzle Geometry on Nonequilibrium Effects in Induction Plasma

Svetlana Selezneva, Maher Boulos (University of Sherbrooke, CRTP, Chemical Engineering Department, Quebec, Canada)

MP1.033 The Effect of Arc Plasma Jet Treatment Upon Mos Structure Modification

Vladimir Andreev (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Kaluga Branch, Russia), Guennadi Bondarenko (Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Russia), Vladimir Maslovsky (Zelenograd Research Institute of Physical Problems, Russia), Alexander Stolyarov (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Kaluga Branch, Russia)

MP1.034 Plasma Focus Ions Induced Carbonitriding of Stainless Steel

Rachna Garg, Ruby Gupta, MaheshPrasad Srivastava (Dept. of Physics amp; Astrophysics, University of Delhi, India)

MP1.035 Influence of Plasma Properties on Plasma-solid Interaction

Vera Hrachova, Rudolf Hrach (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

MP1.036 Argon Plasma Surface Modification of Polymers.

Maria G. Neira-Velazquez, Robert Short (University of Sheffield, UK)

MP1.037 Growth Mechanism for Boron Nitride

Patricia Barreto (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil), Mark Cappelli (Stanford University, USA), Seiichiro Matsumoto (National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Japan)

MP1.038 Analysis of Initial Deposition on Wall Surface During In-situ Chamber Wall Cleaning

Kouichiro Horiuchi, Satoru Iizuka, Noriyoshi Sato (Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan)

MP1.039 Effect of Plasma Irradiation on Formation of TiO2 Thin-Film in Electron Cyclotron Resonance Sheet Plasma Source

Shinji Sugihara, Shigeyuki Ishii (Toyama Prefectural University, Japan), Eiji Honbo (Toyama-Prefecture Industrial Technology Center, Japan), Yushi Kato (Toyama Prefectural University, Japan)

MP1.040 Investigation of Thin TiN Film Precursors Created by Inductively Coupled Plasma Assisted DC Magnetron Sputtering

Yin-an Li, Shuyan Xu, Shuyan Xu (Plasma Processing Laboratory, School of Science, Nanyang Technological Univers)

MP1.041 Theoretical Study of sputtered Material Re-deposition on the Target in Alternating Current Gas Discharge Plasma

Guennadi Bondarenko (Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Russia), Olga Bonk, Vladimir Kristya (Kaluga Branch of Bauman Moscow Technical State University, Russia)

MP1.042 Carbon thin Film Deposition by Microwave ECR Plasma

Enrique Camps (Departamento de Fmsica, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico), Stephen Muhl (IIM-UNAM, Mexico), Luis Escobar-Alarcsn (Departamento de Fmsica, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico), Oscar Olea (Facultad de Quimica, UAEM, Mexico), Jose Luis Garcma-Esquivel (Departamento de Fmsica, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico)

MP1.043 Growth of TiC-surface layer by carbon ion implantation into titanium sample using repetitive compact Plasma Focus Device

R. S. Rawat (School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), P. Lee (School of Natural Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), M. H. Liu (School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), T. White (Environmental Tech. Instt., Innovation Centre, NTU Campus, Singapore), S. Lee (School of Natural Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

MP1.044 Deposition of Alloy and Composite Thin Films by Means of RF Plasma-Jet System.

Zdenek Hubicka, Miloû Emcha, Ladislav Soukup, Lubommr Jastrabmk, Jan Touû (Institute of Physics AVCR, Czech Republic)

MP1.045 Cylindrical Magnetron System for Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the DC Discharge in Crossed ExB Fields

Juergen F. Behnke, Carsten Csambal (EMA University, Inst. of Physics, Domstrasse 10a, 17487 Greifswald, Germany), Jan Rusz, Pavel Kudrna, Milan Tichy (Charles University, KEVF MFFUK, V Holesovickach 2, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Rep.)

MP1.046 Laser Accelerators and Laser-Plasma Interaction (DPP)

MP1.047 Transverse Dynamics of a 30 GeV Electron Beam in a 1.4 m Long Lithium Plasma

Mark Hogan, Ralph Assmann (SLAC), Brent Blue, Christopher Clayton (UCLA), Franz-Josef Decker, Rick Iverson (SLAC), Chan Joshi (UCLA), Thomas Katsouleas, Seung Lee (USC), Kenneth Marsh, Warren B. Mori (UCLA), Patrick Muggli (USC), Panteleo Raimondi, Robert Siemann, Dieter Walz (SLAC), Shuoqin Wang (UCLA), SLAC/UCLA/USC E157 Collaboration

MP1.048 Search for Electron Beam Hosing Instability in the SLAC E157 Experiment

Brent Blue, Christopher Clayton (UCLA), Franz-Josef Decker, Mark Hogan, Rick Iverson (SLAC), Chan Joshi (UCLA), Thomas Katsouleas, Seung Lee (USC), Kenneth Marsh, Warren B. Mori (UCLA), Patrick Muggli (USC), Panteleo Raimondi, Robert Siemann, Dieter Walz (SLAC), Shuoqin Wang (UCLA), Ralph Assmann (SLAC), SLAC/UCLA/USC E157 Collaboration

MP1.049 Spontaneous X-ray Emission from Betatron Oscillations of an Ultra-Relativistic Electron Beam in a Plasma

Shuoqin Wang (UCLA), Ralph Assmann (SLAC), Brent Blue, Christopher E. Clayton (UCLA), Franz-Josef Decker, Mark Hogan, Rick Iverson (SLAC), Chan Joshi (UCLA), Thomas Katsouleas, Seung Lee (USC), Kenneth Marsh, Warren B. Mori (UCLA), Patrick Muggli (USC), Panteleo Raimondi, Robert Siemann, Dieter Walz (SLAC), SLAC/UCLA/USC E157 Collaboration

MP1.050 E-157: A Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment

Patrick Muggli (USC), Ralph Assmann (SLAC), Brent Blue, Christopher Clayton (UCLA), Franz-Josef Decker, Mark Hogan, Rick Iverson (SLAC), Chan Joshi (UCLA), Thomas Katsouleas, Seung Lee (USC), Kenneth Marsh, Warren B. Mori (UCLA), Panteleo Raimondi, Robert Siemann (SLAC), Shuoqin Wang (UCLA), Dieter Walz (SLAC), SLAC/UCLA/USC E157 Collaboration

MP1.051 Refraction of a 30 GeV Beam at a Plasma-Gas Interface

Christopher Clayton (UCLA), Ralph Assmann (SLAC), Brent Blue (UCLA), Franz-Josef Decker, Mark Hogan, Rick Iverson (SLAC), Chan Joshi (UCLA), Thomas Katsouleas, Seung Lee (USC), Kenneth Marsh, Warren Mori (UCLA), Patrick Muggli (USC), Panteleo Raimondi, Robert Siemann, Dieter Walz (SLAC), Shuoqin Wang (UCLA), SLAC/UCLA/USC E157 Collaboration

MP1.052 Measurements of radiation near an atomic spectral line in a 30 GeV plasma wakefield experiment, E157.

P. Catravas, S. Chattopadhyay, E.H. Esarey, W.P. Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), R. Assmann, F.-J. Decker, R. Iverson, M.J. Hogan, R.H. Siemann, D. Walz, D. Whittum (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94309), B. Blue, C. Clayton, C. Joshi, K.A. Marsh, W.B. Mori, S. Wang (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA 90095), T. Katsouleas, S. Lee, P. Muggli (University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089), E157 Collaboration

MP1.053 Plasma Wakefield Acceleration of a Positron Beam

Seung Lee, Tom Katsouleas, Patrick Muggli (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089), Roy Hemker, Evan Dodd, Warren Mori, Chan Joshi (University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024), Mark Hogan, Robert Siemann (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA 94025), USC Collaboration, UCLA Collaboration, SLAC Collaboration

MP1.054 New Theoretical and Computational Results on Whole-Beam Laser-Plasma Instabilities.

Brian Duda (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles), Warren Mori (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Electrical Engineering,University of California at Los Angeles), Frank Tsung, Roy Hemker (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles)

MP1.055 Self-injection of Background Plasma Electrons in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wake Field

H. Suk (), N. Barov, J.B. Rosenzweig (UCLA), E. Esarey (LBNL)

MP1.056 Mutual Interaction of Photon Beams in a Plasma: ``Braided Lights"

C. Ren, R. G. Hemker, R. A. Fonseca, B. J. Duda, W. B. Mori (UCLA)

MP1.057 High harmonic generation in relativistic laser-plasma interaction

S. Banerjee, A. Valenzuela, R. C. Shah, A. Maksimchuk, D. P. Umstadter (Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

MP1.058 Measurement of the Ionization Dynamics of Air on a Femtosecond Time Scale Using Single-Shot Chirped-Pulse Spectral Interferometry

Alain Desparois (INRS-Énergie et Matériaux), Ching-Yuan Chien, Zhimming Jiang, Tudor Wyatt Johnston, Jean-Claude Kieffer, Bruno La Fontaine, Henri Pépin, Ariane Verdy, François Vidal (INRS-Énergie et Matériaux), Hubert P. Mercure (Institut de Recherche en Électricité du Québec), David M. Gold, Luis B. Da Silva (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), INRS-Énergie et Matériaux Team, Institut de Recherche en Électricité du Québec Collaboration, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Collaboration

MP1.059 Studies on Optical Breakdown of Inert Gases in a Plasma Shutter

R. L. Williams (Florida A. & M. University), K. D. Gebre-Amlak (Vanderbilt University)

MP1.060 X-ray spectroscopy of high-Z laser-produced plasmas

Patrick Forget, Fabien Dorchies, Pascal Gallant, Zhimming Jiang, Jean-Claude Kieffer (INRS-Énergie et Matériaux), Csaba Tóth, Andrea Cavalleri, Craig Siders, Jeff Squier (UCSD - Departement of chemistry and biochemistry)

MP1.061 Plasma Dynamics and VUV Emission in a Fast Hollow Cathode Capillary Discharge

Leopoldo Soto (Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear, CCHEN, PO Box 188-D, Santiago, Chile), Andrey Esaulov, Patricio Silva, Gustavo Sylvester, José Moreno, Marcelo Zambra (CCHEN), Andrey Nazarenko (Institute of Spectroscopy, RAS, Troitsk, Moscow Region, 142090 Russia)

MP1.062 Compressing and Focusing a Short Laser Pulse by a Thin Plasma Lens

H. G. Roy, C. Ren, B. J. Duda, W. B. Mori (UCLA), Jr. Antonsen (University of Maryland), T. Katsouleas (USC), P. Mora (Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

MP1.063 Evaluation of Axially Modulations in Plasma Channels

James Cooley, Thomas Antonsen, Howard Milchberg, Jay Fan, Enrique Parra (The University of Maryland at College Park, MD 20742)

MP1.064 Laser-driven parametric instability of plasma waves revisited

Gennady Shvets, Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08540)

MP1.065 PIC SIMULATIONS OF RELATIVISTIC LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION: ASYMMETRY AND POLARIZATION EFFECTS ON SELF-FOCUSING AND WAKEFIELD GENERATION

Andrea Macchi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Pisa, Italy), Sergei V. Bulanov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia), Francesco Califano, Fulvio Cornolti (Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Pisa, Italy), Tatiana V. Liseikina (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy), Francesco Pegoraro (Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Pisa, Italy), Hartmut Ruhl (Max Born Institut, Berlin, Germany)

MP1.066 Laser Accelerators and Laser-Plasma Interaction (ICPP)

MP1.067 Production of MeV-Electrons in Laser produced Plasmas

Kazuyoshi Koyama, Naoaki Saito, Mitsumori Tanimoto (Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan)

MP1.068 Propagation of Ultra-intense Laser Pulses in Plasma filled Capillary Tubes : Simulations and Experiments

Cidric Courtois, Brigitte Cros (LPGP, CNRS UMR 8578, Universiti Paris XI, 91405 Orsay, France), Arnaud Couairon (CEA, DPTA, BP12, 91680 Bruyhres-leChatel, France), Gilles Matthieussent (LPGP, CNRS UMR 8578, Universiti Paris XI, 91405 Orsay, France), Jean-Raphael Marques (LULI, UMR 7605, CNRS CEA Ecole Polytechnique Universiti Paris VI, 91128 Palais)

MP1.069 Generation of One-cycle Laser pulses by Use of High Amplitude Plasma Waves

Zheng-Ming Sheng, Yasuhiko Sentoku, Kunioki Mima, Katsunobu Nishihara (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)

MP1.070 Subcycle Solitary Pulse in Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions

Hitoshi Hojo (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Kazuhiro Akimoto (Teikyo University, Japan)

MP1.071 Laser Wakefield in Low Density Plasma

Eiji Takahashi (Center for TARA, University of Tsukuba, Japan), Noboru Yugami, Yasushi Nishida (Utsunomiya University, Japan), Michiaki Mori, Kiminori Kondo (Center for TARA, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

MP1.072 Laser Pulse Envelope Soliton in a Warm Plasma

S. Poornakala, A. Das, P. Kaw, A. Sen (Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India), Z. M. Sheng, Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, K. Nishikawa (Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan)

MP1.073 Stimulated Photon Cascade and Condensation in Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction

Moma Jovanovic, Kunioki Mima, Yasuhiko Sentoku (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan), Milos Skoric, Tetsuya Sato (National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki-shi 509-52, Japan)

MP1.074 Wire Initiation, X-Pinches, and Self-Focusing Discharges (DPP)

MP1.075 A New Experimental Device to Study Pre-Implosion Wire Expansion

D. Lee, J.W. Pennington, J.B. Greenly, D.A. Hammer, B.R. Kusse (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853)

MP1.076 Rapid Expansion Rates of 25\mu m Ag, Au, and Cu Wires Driven by a Current Rise Rate of 10^10 A/s for <100 ns

K.M. Chandler, Min Hu, D.B. Sinars, T.A. Shelkovenko, S.A. Pikuz, P.U. Duselis, J.B. Greenly, D.A. Hammer, B.R. Kusse (Lab of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)

MP1.077 WIRE ALLOY EXPLOSION TESTS IN PREPARATION FOR Z EXPERIMENTS

P.U. Duselis, D.B. Sinars, Min Hu, K.M. Chandler, J.B. Greenly, B.R. Kusse, S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko, D.A. Hammer (Lab of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853), M.E. Cuneo, W.E. Fowler, R.B. Spielman, K.W. Struve, W.A. Stygar (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)

MP1.078 Polarizability Measurements of Exploding Wire Vapor using Optical Interferometry and X-pinch Backlighting

Min Hu, D.B. Sinars, S.A. Pikuz, K.M. Chandler, J.B. Greenly, D.A. Hammer, B.R. Kusse, T.A. Shelkovenko (Lab of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)

MP1.079 Deposition of the Joule Energy in Initial Stage of Wire Explosion

G.S. Sarkisov, B.S. Bauer (University of Nevada Reno), J.S. De Groot (University of California Davis)

MP1.080 SNL-Z wire-array initiation to 1 MA

R. Presura, B.S. Bauer, V.L. Kantsyrev, N. Le Galloudec, G.S. Sarkisov, A.S. Shlyaptseva, S. Batie, W. Brinsmead, H. Faretto, B. Le Galloudec, A. Oxner, M. Al-Shorman, D. Fedin, D. McCrorey, S. Hansen, H. Zheng, A. Jones, H. LeBeau, N. Ouart, S. Rogowski (Nevada Terawatt Facility, Physics Department, University of Nevada, Reno), J. Farley, J. Glassman (Physics Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

MP1.081 Time-resolved measurements of X-pinch x-ray bursts

D.B. Sinars, T.A. Shelkovenko, S.A. Pikuz, K.M. Chandler, D.A. Hammer (Lab of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853)

MP1.082 Polarization spectroscopy of x- and z-pinch plasmas.

A.S. Shlyaptseva, V.L. Kantsyrev, B.S. Bauer, D.A. Fedin, S.B. Hansen, N.D. Ouart (University of Nevada, Reno, USA), S.A. Kazantsev (Meudon Observatory, France), A.G. Petrashen (State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, Russia), U.I. Safronova (University of Notre Dame, USA.)

MP1.083 High-current x-pinch x-ray/EUV radiation sources.

V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Shlyaptseva, B.S. Bauer, N. Le Galloudec, V. Makhin, G.S. Sarkisov, D.A. Fedin, S.B. Hansen, R. Presura, S. BATIE, W. BRINSMEAD, H. FARETTO, B. Le Galloudec, A. Oxner, D. Chamberlain, N. Ouart, A. Jones, H. LeBeau, S. Rogowski (University of Nevada, Reno.)

MP1.084 Experiments with Al, Ni, Ti and W single and nested wire arrays on the MAGPIE generator

F.N. Beg, S.V. Lebedev, S.N. Bland, J.P. Chittenden, M.G. Haines (The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BW, UK)

MP1.085 Time and Space Resolved Measurements of Plasma Content in a Fast Capillary Discharge Using Slit-Wire Spectroscopy.

P. Choi, J. Larour (Ecole Polytechnique, France), I. Krisch (John Caunt Scientific Ltd., United Kingdom), M. Favre (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)

MP1.086 Plasma Dynamics in a Microcapillary Discharge

T.N. Hansen, J.G. Lunney, J. Castro (Trinity College, Ireland), P. Choi, J. Larour, J. Rous (Ecole Polytechnique, France), I. Krisch (John Caunt Scientific Ltd., United Kingdom), C. Dumitrescu, A. Guilbert (EPPRA, XTEC, Ecole Polytechnique, France), M. Favre (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)

MP1.087 X-ray and Plasma Dynamics of an Intermediate Size Capillary Discharge

E. Wyndham, R. Aliaga-Rossel, H. Chuaqui, M. Favre, I. Mitchel (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile), P. Choi (Ecole Polytechnique, France), I. Krisch (John Caunt Scientific Ltd., United Kingdom)

MP1.088 Electrical Characterization of a Very Small Plasma Focus in th Limit of Low Energy

Patricio Silva (Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear, CCHEN, PO Box 188-D, Santiago, Chile), Leopoldo Soto, Gustavo Sylvester, Marcelo Zambra (CCHEN), César Moreno (Red Interinstitucional de Plasmas Densos, PLADEMA, Argentina), Horacio Bruzzone, Alejandro Clausse (PLADEMA)

MP1.089 Ion Beam Measurements on a Modified Plasma Focus

J. Larour, P. Choi, J. Rous, S. Dine (Ecole Polytechnique, France), S.L. Yap, C.S. Wong (University of Malaya, Malaysia), G. Pavelescu (National Institute of Opto Electronics, Romania), M. Favre (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), A. Guilbert (EPPRA, XTECH, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

MP1.090 Temporal Sequence of Ionization Processes in the Last Regime of a Transient Hollow Cathode Discharge

Marcelo Zambra (Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear, CCHEN, PO Box 188-D, Santiago, Chile), José Moreno, Patricio Silva, Leopoldo Soto, Gustavo Sylvester (CCHEN)

MP1.091 Wire Initiation, X-Pinches, and Self-Focusing Discharges (ICPP)

MP1.092 MHD Simulation of Fast Capillary Discharge

Andrey Esaulov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia; Toyama University, Japan), Pavel Sasorov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia), Leopoldo Soto, Marcelo Zambra (CCHEN, Santiago, Chile), Jun-ichi Sakai (Toyama University, Japan)

MP1.093 Numerical Simulation of Gas Embedded Z-Pinch

Andrey Esaulov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia; Toyama University, Japan), Pavel Sasorov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia), Leopoldo Soto, Marcelo Zambra (CCHEN, Santiago, Chile)

MP1.094 The Main Issues of Dense Magnetized Plasma in Poland

Marek Jan Sadowski (The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies (IPJ), Poland), Marek Scholz (Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion (IPPLM), Poland)

MP1.095 Optimization of Neon and Argon Olasma Temperatures for Soft X-ray Output in Plasma Focus

Bing Shan, Mahe Liu, Paul Lee, Rajdeep Rawat, Sing Lee (School of Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

MP1.096 Simulations with Conventional and Gas Puff Plasma Focus Devices

Bing Shan, Mahe Liu, Paul Lee, Sing Lee (School of Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

MP1.097 Dense Plasma Focus with pB11 Fuel for Space Propulsion

Eric J. Lerner (Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, US)

MP1.098 Different Regimes of Plasma Dynamics in Opening Switch. MHD simulation.

Andrey Esaulov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia; Toyama University, Japan), Pavel Sasorov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia)

MP1.099 Spheromaks and Field-Reversed Configurations (DPP)

MP1.100 Overview of Recent SSPX Experiments

Dave.N. Hill, SSPX Team

MP1.101 Temperature Measurements and Beta Limits in SSPX

H.S. McLean, D.N. Hill, E.B. Hooper, C.T. Holcomb, B.W. Stallard, R.D. Wood, S. Woodruff, E.C. Morse, A. Ahmed (UCB), C.W. Domier, Y Roh (UCD), G. Wurden, Z. Wang (LANL)

MP1.102 Multi-pulse power injection and spheromak sustainment in SSPX

B.W. Stallard, D.N. Hill, E.B. Hooper, R.H. Bulmer, H.S. Mclean, R.D. Wood, S. Woodruff, and SSPX Team

MP1.103 Spheromak sustainment near flux conserver resonance

E. B. Hooper, B. I. Cohen, D. N. Hill, C. T. Holcolm, H. S. McLean, B. W. Stallard, K. I. Thomassen, S. Woodruff, R. D. Wood (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

MP1.104 Impurity Bahavior on SSPX

R.D. Wood, A. Ahmed, K.I. Thomassen, D.N. Hill, and SSPX Team

MP1.105 The Physics of a Spheromak with Applied Vertical Field

S. Woodruff, D.N. Hill, E.B. Hooper, C.T. Holcomb, B.W. Stallard, R.D. Wood, R.H. Bulmer, B.I. Cohen, L. LoDestro, L.D. Pearlstein, and SSPX Team

MP1.106 Possible Technique for Experimental Identification of the Modes Responsible for Helicity Transport in Spheromaks

D.D. Ryutov, R.H. Cohen

MP1.107 Ultrashort Pulse Reflectometry for Density Profile and Fluctuation Measurements on SSPX

Y. Roh, C.W. Domier, Jr. Luhmann (UC Davis), B.I. Cohen, E.B. Hooper, H.S. McLean (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

MP1.108 Initial Results of the SSPX Transient Internal Probe System for Measuring Toroidal Field Profiles

C.T. Holcomb, T.R. Jarboe, A.T. Mattick (UWash), D.N. Hill, H.S. McLean, R.D. Wood, V. Cellamare (Uwash), and SSPX Team

MP1.109 Ion Temperature and Rotational Velocity Measurement in SSPX

D.W. Auerbach, D.N. Hill, H.S. McLean, and SSPX Team

MP1.110 MHD Simulations on Relaxation in Helicity-driven Spheromaks

Y. Kagei, M. Nagata, N. Fukumoto, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology)

MP1.111 Studies of Helicity Injection in a Spheromak Formed by a Large Area Planar Coaxial Gun

Scott Hsu, Paul Bellan, Steven Pracko (Caltech)

MP1.112 Laser induced fluorescence measurements of spheromak plasmas

S. E. Pracko, P. M. Bellan (Caltech)

MP1.113 Ideal MHD stability of flux-core spheromaks

Franco Alladio, Paolo Micozzi (Associazione Euratom-ENEA, CR FRASCATI, Italy), Francois Rogier (ONERA, Toulouse, France)

MP1.114 The Cornell Ion Ring Program: Progress and Prospects

J.B. Greenly, A.V. Gretchikha, B. Knyazev, W.J. Podulka (Cornell University), Y.A. Omelchenko (General Atomics)

MP1.115 Proton Ring Propagation Experiments in the Cornell Ion Ring Program

W.J. Podulka, J.B. Greenly, A.V. Gretchikha, B. Knyazev (Cornell University)

MP1.116 The Role of Beam-Alfvén Wave Interaction in the Dynamics of Ion Rings

A.V. Gretchikha, J.B. Greenly, W.J. Podulka (Cornell University), Y.A. Omelchenko (General Atomics)

MP1.117 Spectroscopic Diagnostics for the Cornell Ion Ring Experiment

B. Knyazev, J.B. Greenly, A.V. Gretchikha, W.J. Podulka (Cornell University)

MP1.118 Pulsed High Density Fusion

John Slough (University of Washington)

MP1.119 Progress on the Los Alamos High-Density Field Reversed Configuration Experiment

J.M. Taccetti, T.P. Intrator, G.A. Wurden, F.J. Wysocki, M. Tuszewski, R. Siemon (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J.H. Degnan, W. Sommars, D. Gale, T. Cavazos (Air Force Research Laboratory)

MP1.120 Numerical Simulation of Magnetized Target Fusion

R.J. Faehl, P.T. Sheehey, R.C. Kirkpatrick, I.R. Lindemuth (Los Alamos National Laboratory), MTF Theory Team

MP1.121 Magnetized laser targets

Sylvia GOND (Ecole Polytechnique), Alain BOURDIER (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique)

MP1.122 Power Coupling of the Rotating Magnetic Field to the Plasma in the Translation, Confinement and Sustainment Experiment

Stephen Tobin, Louis Schrank (Affiliation), Glen Wurden (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Bob Brooks, Ed Crawford, Houyang Guo, Alan Hoffman, Dan Lotz, John Slough (Affiliation), George Votroubek (Redmond Plasma Physics Laboratory), Los Alamos National Laboratory Collaboration, Redmond Plasma Physics Laboratory Collaboration

MP1.123 Rotating Magnetic Field (RMF) Current Drive of FRCs in the new TCS Device

Houyang Guo, Alan Hoffman, John Slough, Bob Brooks, Ed Crawford, George Votroubek (Redmond Plasma Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Redmond, WA 98052), Steve Tobin (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544)

MP1.124 Antenna design for odd-parity rotating magnetic fields

Thomas Kornack, Samuel Cohen (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

MP1.125 Transient effects in rotating magnetic field current drive*

Loren Steinhauer (University of Washington)

MP1.126 Global Constraints on RMF Current Drive In an FRC

Richard Milroy (University of Washington)

MP1.127 Equilibrium and Stability of Field-Reversed Configurations with Poloidal Flows

Yu.A. Omelchenko, M.J. Schaffer, P.A. Parks (General Atomics)

MP1.128 Global Stability of Oblate Field Reversed Configuration in TS-3 Merging Device

Tomofumi Matsuyama, Masako Kikuchi, Toshiro Kimura, Yasushi Ono, Makoto Katsurai (Dept. E.E., Univ. of Tokyo)

MP1.129 Global Stability of the FRC and the Proposed SPIRIT Device

E. Belova, S. Jardin, H. Ji, M. Yamada, R. Kulsrud (PPPL)

MP1.130 Spheromaks and Field-Reversed Configurations (ICPP)

MP1.131 Observation of Improved Confinement of a Field-Reversed Configuration with Neutral Beam Injection

Tomohiko Asai, Fuji Kodera, Tomohiro Yoneda, Mamoru Okubo, Shigefumi Okada, Seiichi Goto (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan)

MP1.132 Experiments on Auxiliary Control of a Field-Reversed-Configuration Plasma Translocated in Mirror Geometry

Seiichi Goto, Satoshi Maeshima, Tomohiro Yoneda, Tomohiko Asai, Katsuhisa Kitano, Fuji Kodera, Koji Yamanaka, Yukihisa Suzuki, Satoru Yoshimura, Mamoru Okubo, Shigefumi Okada (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan)

MP1.133 NSTX (DPP)

MP1.134 Status of National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)

M. Ono, and the NSTX Research Team (Princeton University)

MP1.135 Research Program of National Spherical Torus Experiment

Y-K.M. Peng (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), E.J. Synakowski (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), and the NSTX National Research Team

MP1.136 NSTX Research in the First Year of High Power Auxiliary Heating

E.J. Synakowski (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Y-K. M. Peng (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), and the NSTX National Research Team

MP1.137 Operational Limits in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

Stanley Kaye, Michael Bell, Ron Bell, Eric Fredrickson, David Gates, Rajesh Maingi (PPPL, Princeton Univ., Princeton, N.J.), Ricardo Maqueda (LANL, Los Alamos, N.M.), Ernesto Mazzucato, Jon Menard, Dennis Mueller, Wonchull Park, Stephen Paul (PPPL, Princeton Univ., Princeton, N.J.), Steve Sabbagh (Columbia Univ., N.Y., N.Y.), Dan Stutman (JHU, Baltimore, Md.)

MP1.138 Measurements of MHD activity on NSTX using the new high frequency and high n Mirnov Coil Arrays

E.D. Fredrickson, J. Menard, R. Nazikian (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

MP1.139 Resistive wall mode studies in low aspect ratio spherical torus configurations^1

F. PAOLETTI, S.A. SABBAGH, J. BIALEK, A. GAROFALO (CU), E. FREDRICKSON, D. GATES, S. KAYE, J. MANICKAM, J. MENARD (PPPL), J. FERRON, A. TURNBULL (GA)

MP1.140 Inner wall stabilization of external kinks in spherical tokamaks

Janardhan Manickam, Jonathan Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.)

MP1.141 Modeling of Neoclassical Tearing Mode Stability for NSTX

A. Rosenberg, D. Gates, A. Pletzer (PPPL), C. Hegna (U. of Wisconsin), S. Kruger (SAIC)

MP1.142 Gas Puff Imaging of edge turbulence in NSTX

R.J. Maqueda, G.A. Wurden (LANL), S. Zweben, L. Roquemore, D. Johnson, H. Kugel, S. Kaye (PPPL), S. Sabbagh (Columbia University), R. Maingi (ORNL), X.Q. Xu (LLNL)

MP1.143 Simulation of Edge Plasmas in NSTX Double-Null Configurations

M. E. Rensink, G. D. Porter, T. D. Rognlien, X. Q. Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), H. Kugel (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), R. Maingi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), F. Paoletti, S. Sabbagh (Columbia University)

MP1.144 Impurity transport and radiated power loss estimates in NSTX using 2-d USXR arrays

Dan Stutman, Michael Finkenthal, Robert Vero (Johns Hopkins University), Lane Roquemore, David Johnson, Robert Kaita (Princeton University), and the NSTX Team

MP1.145 Initial Boronization of NSTX and the Effect on Plasma Performance

H.W. KUGEL, W. BLANCHARD, D. GATES, D. JOHNSON, R. KAITA, P. LaMARCHE, J. MENARD, D. MUELLER, S. PAUL, A.L. ROQUEMORE, C.H. SKINNER, B. STRATTON, S. ZWEBEN (PPPL), R. MAINGI (ORNL), R. MAQUEDA (LANL), D. STUTMAN (Johns Hopkins University), W. WAMPLER (SNL)

MP1.146 Neutron Monitoring Systems for NSTX

A.L. Roquemore, D. Darrow, H. Kugel, R. Nazikian (Princeton University)

MP1.147 Initial Fast Ion Loss Measurements from NSTX

D. Darrow (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

MP1.148 Modeling of Alpha Particle Loss from a DT Spherical Tokamak

D. Wyatt (UC Santa Cruz and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. Darrow (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), F. Paoletti (Columbia Univ.)

MP1.149 Reflectometer Measurements of Electron Edge-Density Profile for ICRF Coupling Studies on NSTX

J. B. Wilgen, G. R. Hanson, T. S. Bigelow, D. W. Swain, P. M. Ryan (ORNL), J. R. Wilson (PPPL)

MP1.150 Initial Results from FMCW Reflectometry on NSTX

S. Kubota, X.V. Nguyen, W.A. Peebles, L. Zeng, E.J. Doyle (Institute of Plasma amp; Fusion Research, University of California, Los Angeles 90095), A.L. Roquemore (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08543)

MP1.151 High Harmonic Fast Wave Operation on NSTX*

P. M. Ryan, D. W. Swain, M. D. Carter, J. B. Wilgen (ORNL), J. R. Wilson, D. Gates, J. C. Hosea, J. E. Menard, D. Mueller (PPPL), R. I. Pinsker (General Atomics), S. A. Sabbagh (Columbia Univ.)

MP1.152 Analysis of Initial High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating Experiments on NSTX

C.K. Phillips, J.R. Wilson, S. Bernabei, B. LeBlanc, J.C. Hosea, R.P. Majeski, J. Menard (Princeton University), D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins Univ.), P. Ryan, D. Swain (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), D.N. Smithe (Mission Research Corp.)

MP1.153 Full-Wave Simulations Using TORIC Coupled to Numerical MHD Equilibrium Solutions

J. SPALETA (PPPL), P. BONOLI (PSFC, MIT), R. MAJESKI, J. MENARD, C. K. PHILLIPS (PPPL)

MP1.154 Investigation of Minority Hydrogen Absorption of HHFW Power on NSTX

T.K. Mau (UC-San Diego), R.M. Majeski, J.E. Menard (PPPL, Princeton University), M.D. Carter (ORNL)

MP1.155 Modeling of Ion Absorption in the High Harmonic Fast Wave Experiments

A. Cardinali (Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, C.R. Frascati, C.P. 65, 00044 Frascati, Italy)

MP1.156 Preliminary ECH pre-ionization and EBW coupling experiments on NSTX

Tim Bigelow (ORNL), Don Batcherlor (ONRL), Mark Carter (Affiliation), David Swain, John Wilgen (ORNL), Randy Wilson, Phil Efthimion (PPPL)

MP1.157 Coupling Physics of Unconventional Electron Cyclotron Heating Scenarios for Low Field Devices

R.I. Pinsker, C.P. Moeller (General Atomics), C.B. Forest, P. Chattopadhyay, M. Thomas (U.\ Wisconsin), M.D. Carter (ORNL)

MP1.158 Emission of Electron Cyclotron Waves from NSTX Plasmas

A.K. Ram, A. Bers (PSFC, MIT), G. Taylor, P. Efthimion (PPPL)

MP1.159 ECE and ECRH from O-X-EBW Mode Conversion in Spherical Plasmas

Josef Preinhaelter (Czech Academy of Sciences), M. A Irzak (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia), Linda Vahala (Old Dominion University), George Vahala (William amp; Mary)

MP1.160 The NSTX Control System

Dennis Mueller, David Gates, Jon Menard (Princeton University)

MP1.161 Status of the Multichannel FIR Tangential Interferometer/ Polarimeter (FIReTIP) for NSTX

H. Park, S. Edwards (Princeton University), B.H. Deng, C.W. Domier, M. Johnson, K.C. Lee, Jr. Luhmann (University of California at Davis)

MP1.162 First experimental results from an imaging X-ray crystal spectrometer at NSTX

M. Bitter, K. W. Hill, P. Roney, L. Roquemore (Princeton Plasama Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey o8543, USA), B. Fraenkel (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem), A. L. Krieger, D. Parsignault (Radiation Science, Belmont, MA 02478, USA)

MP1.163 Calibrations and Analysis Software for the NSTX Thomson Scattering System

R. E. BELL, N. BRETZ, D. E. HOFFMAN, D. W. JOHNSON, B. P. LEBLANC, D. C. LONG, P. G. RONEY (Princeton University), D. LAFRANCE (Drexel University)

MP1.164 Determination of the Local Emmisivity Profile on the National Spherical

L.A. Morrill (Reed College), R.E. Bell, D.W. Johnson, B.P. LeBlanc (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)