Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 31 OCTOBER 2001

14:00 LI1.001 Confinement amp; Stability in MAST

Rob Akers (EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association.)

14:30 LI1.002 Transport Properties of Auxiliary Heated NSTX Plasmas

R. E. Bell (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

15:00 LI1.003 Observation of Beam-driven Modes during Neutral Beam Heating on the National Spherical Torus Experiment

E.D. Fredrickson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

15:30 LI1.004 Current Drive Experiments in the Helicity Injected Torus (\urllinkHIT-IIhttp://www.aa.washington.edu/AERB/HIT/hit.html).

Aaron J. Redd (Aerospace and Energetics Research, Box 352250, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195--2250)

16:00 LI1.005 Impurity screening and edge-plasma modifications for plasma devices with liquid walls.

Thomas D. Rognlien (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551)

16:30 LI1.006 The Role of Neutrals in H-mode Pedestal Formation

R.J. Groebner (General Atomics)

14:00 LI2.001 LAPTAG: Los Angeles Physics Teachers Alliance Group and the UCLA Basic Plasma User Facility.

Walter Gekelman (Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles)

14:30 LI2.002 The Use of a Glow Discharge Source in Teaching Introductory Physics

Sophia Gershman (Watchung Hills Regional High School)

15:00 LI2.003 Energetic Particles from Magnetic Reconnection Events in SSX

Michael Brown (Swarthmore College)

15:30 LI2.004 A Model of Solar Flares Based on Arcade Field Reconnection and Merging of Magnetic Islands

G. S. Choe (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08543-0451)

16:00 LI2.005 Intra-cluster plasmas in clusters of galaxies

Benjamin Chandran (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

16:30 LI2.006 Plasma Photoionization Equilibrium Experiments to Benchmark Models of Astrophysical Plasmas

Robert Heeter (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

14:00 LO1.001 A Numerical Procedure for Three-Dimensional Non-Ideal Magnetogasdynamics

Datta Gaitonde, Jonathan Poggie (Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, OH)

14:12 LO1.002 VORPAL: a multidimensional, parallel plasma simulation code

Chet Nieter, John R. Cary (University of Colorado)

14:24 LO1.003 Turbulence Signature in Microwave-Generated Plasmas

Nirmol K. Podder, Joseph A. Johnson III, Ephrem D. Mezonlin (Center for Nonlinear amp; Nonequilibrium Aeroscience, Florida Aamp;M University, Tallahassee, FL 32310)

14:36 LO1.004 Frequency Sweeping of Phase Space Structures

D. Yu. Eremin, H. L. Berk (University of Texas at Austin (IFS))

14:48 LO1.005 Plasma Screening for Endothermic Synthesis in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

Heinrich Hora (University of NSW, Sydney, Australia), George H. Miley (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA)

15:00 LO1.006 Prospects for Using High Neutron Fluxes in Igniting Capsules to Probe the Contributions of Excited Nuclear State Reactions to R, P, and S Process Nucleosynthesis

Stephen Libby, Max Tabak, Robert Hoffman, Mark Stoyer, Dennis McNabb, Erich Ormand, Morton Weiss, Mohammed Mustafa, Richard Ward (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA 94550)

15:12 LO1.007 Low-Frequency Waves in a Hall-effect Discharge

Nicolas Gascon, Mark Cappelli (Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University)

15:24 LO1.008 Nonlinear coherent structures in magnetic curvature driven Rayleigh Taylor instability.

Abhijit Sen, Amita Das, Predhiman Kaw (IPR, India)

15:36 LO1.009 Gyrophase self-organisation ina a magnetoplasma

Subbarao Dantu (IIT Delhi), Uma R (Physics Associates and IIT Delhi), Phanendra M.V.R. (IIT Delhi)

15:48 LO1.010 Skeletal Structures in High-Current Electric Discharges: Observations and Hypotheses

A.B. Kukushkin (INF RRC "Kurchatov Institute", 123182, Moscow, Russia)

14:00 LO2.001 Ion beam charge neutralization by a background plasma

Igor D. Kaganovich, Edward Startsev, Gennady Shvets, Ronald C. Davidson (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543)

14:12 LO2.002 New Stable Matched Solutions for Periodically Focused Intense Particle Beams

Pakter Renato (Universidade Luterana do Brasil), Felipe Rizzato (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

14:24 LO2.003 Measuring the emittance of the DARHT-II electron beam

Carl Ekdahl, Richard Bartsch, Dan Custer, Rae Ridlon, Evan Rose (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Shmuel Eylon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), William Broste, Jefferey Johnson (Bechtel Nevada)

14:36 LO2.004 ELECTRON BEAM DISTRUPTION DUE TO ION RELEASE FROM TARGETS - EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS

Christophe Vermare, Harold A. Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Thomas P. Hughes (Mission Research Corporation), David C. Moir, Russell Olson, W. Monty Wood (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:48 LO2.005 ELECTRON BEAM DISTRUPTION DUE TO ION RELEASE FROM TARGETS - COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTER CALCULATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS

Thomas P. Hughes (Mission Research Corporation), Harold A. Davis, Christophe Vermare, David C. Moir, Russell T. Olson, W. Monty Wood (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:00 LO2.006 Plasma Evolution From Rod-Pinch Diodes

B.V. Weber, B.G. Moosman, S.J. Stephanakis, D.D. Hinshelwood, D. Mosher, J.W. Schumer (Naval Research Laboratory), D.R. Welch, B.V. Oliver, D.V. Rose (Mission Research Corp.)

15:12 LO2.007 Frequency-doubling Gyro-amplifier using a TE Cluster Cavity

V. Granatstein, H. Guo, Y. Miao, G. Nusinovich, J. Rodgers (University of Maryland, College Park)

15:24 LO2.008 Investigation of a Failure Mechanism of Diamond Windows

Herman Bosman, Y. Y. Lau (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104)

15:36 LO2.009 Selective Heating of Ceramic Joints using an 83 GHz Millimeter-wave Beam

Arne W. Fliflet, David Lewis III, Steven H. Gold, Richard P. Fischer, Allen K. Kinkead, Scott Miserendino (Plasma Physics Division), M.A. Imam (Material Science and Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

15:48 LO2.010 Generation of microwaves in a reflex triode with a ferroelectric plasma cathode

Konstantin Chirko, Yakov Krasik, Joshua Felsteiner (Physics Department, Technion, 32000 Haifa, Israel), Abraham Sternlieb (DDRamp;D/IMOD)

16:00 LO2.011 Properties of Forward Current Propagation beyond the Virtual Cathode

E. H. Choi, M. C. Choi (Kwangwoon University), H. S. Uhm (Ajou University)

14:00 LM1.001 Reconnection in Solar Plasmas

Spiro Antiochos (Naval Research Lab)

14:50 LM1.002 Possible Radio Evidence of Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares

Mukul R Kundu (University of Maryland), Victor V Grechnev (Institute of Solar Terrestrial Physics)

15:05 LM1.003 Observations of double discontinuities in the magnetotail

Y. C. Whang (Catholic University of America)

15:20 LM1.004 Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Eruptions

T. G. Forbes (University of New Hampshire)

15:45 LM1.005 The Reconnection Layer And Ion Heating In The MST Experiment

V.V. Mirnov, D. Craig, N.A. Crocker, G. Fiksel, D.J.Den Hartog, S.C. Prager, J.C. Reardon, J.S. Sarff, J.C. Wright (Physics Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison)

16:00 LM1.006 Collision-less Reconnection in the Versatile Toroidal Facility

Jan Egedal, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jon Nazemi (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

16:15 LM1.007 Experimental Study of Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory Plasmas

H. Ji (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

16:30 LM1.008 Experimental observation of super-Alfvénic ions in SSX

Christopher D. Cothran, M. R. Brown, Matt Landreman (Swarthmore College)

16:45 LM1.009 Reconnection Scaling Experiment (RSX): Magnetic Reconnection in Linear Geometry

T Intrator, C Sovinec, D Begay, G Wurden, I Furno (Los Alamos National Laboratory), C Werley (Los Alamos High School), M Fisher (Univ. N. Carolina - Asheville), L Vermare (Univ. Bordeaux), W Fienup (Mass. Instit. of Technology)

14:00 LM2.001 Recent progress and future prospects for high energy density experimental physics

Warren. Hsing (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550)

14:30 LM2.002 Dense Hot Matter in Planetary Interiors

David Stevenson (California Institute of Technology)

15:00 LM2.003 Predictive Stellar Astrophysics

Dave Arnett (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona)

15:30 LM2.004 Experiments, phenomenology, and simulations of turbulence and turbulent mixing

Paul E. Dimotakis (California Institute of Technology)

16:00 LM2.005 Atomic Physics of High Energy Density Matter

Steven Rose (AWE, Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, UK Clarendon Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK)

16:30 LM2.006 Plastic Deformation in Laser-induced shock compression of monocrystalline copper

M. A. Meyers, M. S. Schneider, B. K. Kad (University of California, San Diego), F. Gregori (University of Paris), D. H. Kalantar, B. A. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. S. Wark (Oxford University, Oxford, UK), T. Boehly (University of Rochester), G. Ravichandran (California Institute of Technology)

LP1.001 DIII-D Transport, Boundary Plasmas

LP1.002 DIII-D Confinement and Boundary Physics Programs

R.D. Stambaugh, DIII-D Team (General Atomics)

LP1.003 Edge Similarity Experiments on C-Mod and DIII-D

R.A. Moyer, D.L. Rudakov (University of California, San Diego), D. Mossessian, M. Greenwald, A. Hubbard, J.C. Rost, S. Wolfe (MIT), R.J. Groebner, T.H. Osborne, N.H. Brooks, L.L. Lao, P.B. Snyder (GA), G. Wang, L. Zeng (UCLA), J.G. Watkins (SNL), X.Q. Xu (LLNL)

LP1.004 Development of Methods to Contral Internal Transport Barriers in DIII-D Plasmas

P. Gohil (General Atomics), E.J. Doyle (UCLA), G.M. Staebler (GA), L.R. Baylor (ORNL), K.H. Burrell, C.M. Greenfield (GA), T.C. Jernigan (PPPL), M. Murakami (ORNL), G.R. McKee (U.\ Wisconsin)

LP1.005 Density Fluctuations During Modulated Off-Axis ECRH in DIII-D

R.V. Bravenec, D.W. Ross, M.E. Austin (Fusion Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin), G.R. McKee (University of Wisconsin at Madison), J.C. DeBoo, DIII-D Team (General Atomics), W. Dorland (University of Maryland), M.A. Beer, G.W. Hammett (PPPL)

LP1.006 Comparison of DIII-D Experimental Ion Temperature Gradients with the Critical Gradient as Calculated by the GKS Code

D.R. Baker, G.M. Staebler (General Atomics)

LP1.007 Rotation Speed Differences of Impurity Species in the DIII-D Tokamak and Comparison with Neoclassical Theory

L.R. Baylor, W.A. Houlberg, M. Murakami (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), K.H. Burrell, R.J. Groebner (GA), D.R. Ernst (PPPL)

LP1.008 Analysis of Angular Momentum Transport in DIII-D Using CALTRANS

T.B. Kaiser, T.A. Casper, R.H. Cohen, L.L. LoDestro (University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

LP1.009 Overview of H-Mode Pedestal Studies on the \mboxDIII-D Tokamak

T.H. Osborne (General Atomics)

LP1.010 Dependence of the H-mode Power Threshold on Plasma Shape in DIII-D

T.N. Carlstrom, R.J. Groebner (General Atomics), T.L. Rhodes (UCLA)

LP1.011 Comparison of Fluctuations in Lower and Upper Single Null Plasmas in DIII-D

J.C. Rost, M. Porkolab, B.J. Youngblood (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT), G.R. McKee (U. Wisconsin), T.L. Rhodes (UCLA), R.A. Moyer (UCSD), K.H. Burrell (GA)

LP1.012 Recent Results from the Quiescent Double Barrier Regime on DIII-D

E.J. Doyle, K.H. Burrell, T.A. Casper, J.C. DeBoo, D. Ernst, A.M. Garofalo, P. Gohil, C.M. Greenfield, R.J. Groebner, J.E. Kinsey, C.J. Lasnier, M.A. Makowski, G.R. McKee, R.A. Moyer, G.D. Porter, T.L. Rhodes, D.L. Rudakov, G.M. Staebler, B.W. Stallard, G. Wang, W.P. West, L. Zeng (DIII-D National Fusion Facility)

LP1.013 Evidence for Reynolds-Stress Driven Shear Flows Using Bispectral Analysis

C. Holland, G.R. Tynan, P.H. Diamond, R.A. Moyer, M.J. Burin (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.\ University of California, San Diego)

LP1.014 Modeling of Steady-State Non-Inductive ITB Discharges with Application to DIII-D

H.E. St~John, L.L. Lao (General Atomics), M. Murakami (ORNL), J.E. Kinsey (Lehigh U.)

LP1.015 Analysis Techniques for Observing Zonal Flow Characteristics in the Turbulence Flow Field

M. Jakubowski, R.J. Fonck, G.R. McKee (U.\ Wisconsin)

LP1.016 Fluctuation Characteristics of the QDB Regime in DIII-D

L. Zeng, E.J. Doyle, T.L. Rhodes, G. Wang, W.A. Peebles (University of California, Los Angeles), G.R. McKee, R.J. Fonck (U.\ Wisconsin), C.M. Greenfield (General Atomics)

LP1.017 Heating Induced Toroidal Rotation and Other Consequences of Anomalous Momentum Transport in Tokamaks

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

LP1.018 Treatment of Kinetic Electrons in Eulerian Gyro- kinetics

J. Candy, R.E. Waltz, M.N. Rosenbluth (General Atomics)

LP1.019 DIII-D Transport Simulations with CalTrans

L.L. LoDestro, LoDestro CalTrans Team (LLNL and GA)

LP1.020 Nonlinear Electron Response to Electromagnetic Fluctuations in the Zero Electron Mass Limit

F.L. Hinton, M.N. Rosenbluth, R.E. Waltz (General Atomics)

LP1.021 Solution of Linearized Drift Kinetic Equations in Neoclassical Transport Theory by the Method of Matched Asymptotic Expansions

S.K. Wong, V.S. Chan, F.L. Hinton (General Atomics)

LP1.022 Finite Orbit Effects in a Rotating Tokamak Plasma

S.C. Chiu (Sunrise Ramp;M, Inc.), V.S. Chan (General Atomics)

LP1.023 A Model for Energy Confinement Scaling of Tokamak Plasmas with Double Transport Barriers

C.-L. Hsieh, B. Bray (General Atomics)

LP1.024 Co-Toroidal Rotation With Electron Cyclotron Heating in DIII-D

J.S. deGrassie, D.R. Baker, J. Lohr, T.C. Luce, C.C. Petty, R. Prater (General Atomics)

LP1.025 Comparison of Pellet Injection Measurements with a Pellet Cloud Drift Model on the DIII-D Tokamak

T.C. Jernigan, L.R. Baylor, S.K. Combs (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), P.B. Parks (GA), G.L. Schmidt (PPPL), W.D. Sessions (Tennessee Technological U.)

LP1.026 Effects of Known Non-axisymmetric Radial Magnetic Perturbations on the DIII-D Boundary Plasma

T.E. Evans (General Atomics), R.A. Moyer, P. Monat (UCSD)

LP1.027 Turbulent Heat Flux in the Edge of DIII-D

D.L. Rudakov, J.A. Boedo, R.A. Moyer, S. Krashennikov, D.G. Whyte (University of California, San Diego), M.A. Mahdavi, W.P. West (GA), P.G. Stangeby (U. of Toronto), J.G. Watkins (SNL)

LP1.028 The effect of drifts opn the edge plasma in DIII-D

G.D. Porter, T.D. Rognlien, M.E. Rensink (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), R.J. Groebner, M.J. Schaffer (General Atomics), R. Moyer (UCSD)

LP1.029 Modeling of neon and argon dynamics during ELMs in DIII-D

John Hogan, Larry Baylor, Richard Colchin, Mickey Wade (ORNL)

LP1.030 Edge Plasma Simulations for DIII-D Double-Null Configurations

M. E. Rensink, C. J. Lasnier, G. D. Porter, T. D. Rognlien (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. W. Petrie (General Atomics)

LP1.031 Calculated X-Point Neutral Density and Plasma Distributions for Lower Single Null Discharges in DIII-D

L.W. Owen, R. Maingi, R. Colchin (ORNL), M. Fenstermacher (LLNL), T. Carlstrom, R. Groebner (General Atomics)

LP1.032 UEDGE Analysis of Core Fueling and Carbon Density with Open and Closed Divertor Geometries in DIII-D

N.S. Wolf (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T.W. Petrie (GA), G.D. Porter, T.D. Rognlien (LLNL)

LP1.033 Edge Similarity Experiments on C-Mod and \mboxDIII-D

M. Groth, G.D. Porter, T.D. Rognlien (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), P.G. Stangeby (U.\ Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies)

LP1.034 Changes in Edge and Scrape-off Layer Plasma Behavior Due to Variation in Magnetic Balance

T.W. Petrie, A.W. Hyatt, R.J. La Haye, A.W. Leonard, M.A. Mahdavi, T.H. Osborne, W.P. West (General Atomics), M.E. Fenstermacher, C.J. Lasnier, G.D. Porter, M.E. Rensink, N.S. Wolf (LLNL), J.G. Watkins (SNL)

LP1.035 Divertor Plasma Conditions and Pumping Efficiency in DIII-D

J.G. Watkins (Sandia National Laboratories), M.A. Mahdavi, T.C. Luce, T.W. Petrie (GA), M.R. Wade, R.J. Colchin, R.C. Isler, R. Maingi (ORNL), L.W. Owen, S.L. Allen, M.E. Fenstermacher, C.J. Lasnier, G.D. Porter (LLNL), J.A. Boedo, R.A. Moyer, D. Rudakov (UCSD), P.C. Stangeby (University of Toronto)

LP1.036 Scrape-off Layer Characteristics of QH and QDB Plasma Compared with ELMing H-mode and Advanced Tokamak Plasma

C.J. Lasnier, G.D. Porter, M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A.W. Leonard (General Atomics), J.G. Watkins (SNL)

LP1.037 ELM Energy Transport in DIII-D

A.W. Leonard, R.J. Groebner, T.H. Osborne, M.A. Mahdavi (General Atomics)

LP1.038 Evolution of the 2D Spatial Profile of Visible Emission During an ELM in the DIII-D Divertor

M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J.C. Boedo (UCSD), A.W. Leonard (General Atomics)

LP1.039 Transport Simulations of DIII-D Discharges with Impurity Injection

J. Mandrekas, W. M. Stacey (Georgia Institute of Technology), M. Murakami (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

LP1.040 Carbon Release Mechanisms in the DIII-D Divertors

R.C. Isler, R.J. Colchin, J.T. Hogan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), N.H. Brooks, T.E. Evans, W.P. West (GA), D.G. Whyte (UCSD)

LP1.041 Thermal Instability Analysis of Gas Fueled DIII-D \mboxH-mode Shots that Achieved Densities in Excess of the Greenwald Density

W.M. Stacey (Georgia Tech), T.H. Osborne, T.W. Petrie (General Atomics)

LP1.042 Determination of Ar Concentration Evolution Within DIII-D Core Plasma by X-ray Ross Filter Method

I.N. Bogatu, D.H. Edgell (FARTECH, Inc.), N.H. Brooks, R.T. Snider, W.P. West (GA), M.R. Wade (ORNL)

LP1.043 Accurate Measurements of the Pitch-Angle Scattering of Beam Ions

W.W. Heidbrink (University of California, Irvine)

LP1.044 Recent Progress with Reflectometer Electron Density Profile Measurements on DIII-D

G. Wang, L. Zeng, E.J. Doyle, T.L. Rhodes, W.A. Peebles (Department of Electrical Engineering and IPFR, University of California, Los Angeles)

LP1.045 Characteristics of DIII-D Electron Temperature Profiles

B. Bray, C.-L. Hsieh (General Atomics)

LP1.046 Oblique Electron Cyclotron Emission as Diagnostic for Fast Electrons in the DIII-D Tokamak

K.L. Wong, P. Efthimion, J. Hosea, L.C. Johnson, F.W. Perkins (Plasma Physics Laboratory,Princeton University), PPPL-GA Collaboration

LP1.047 Dipoles, Mirrors and Other Plasma Configurations

LP1.048 A New Velocity Inversion Method for the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch Project

R. P. Golingo, U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, E. A. Crawford, S. L. Jackson (Aerospace amp; Energetics Research Program, University of Washington), D. J. Den Hartog (University of Wisconsin)

LP1.049 Holographic Interferometry on the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch

S.L. Jackson, U. Shumlak, E.A. Crawford, B.A. Nelson, R.P. Golingo (Aerospace amp; Energetics Research Program, University of Washington)

LP1.050 Status of the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment (MCX)*

R. F. Ellis, Deepak Gupta, A. B. Hassam, S. Messer (University of Maryland, College Park)

LP1.051 NMCX: Numerical Maryland Centrifugal Experiment

Yi-Min Huang, A. B. Hassam (University of Maryland)

LP1.052 Convective Cells in Asymmetrically Sourced Magnetized Plasmas

A. M. Rey, A. B. Hassam (University of Maryland)

LP1.053 Overview of the Levitated Dipole Experiment

M. E. Mauel, D. T. Garnier, A. Hansen, T. Sunn Pedersen (Columbia University), J. Kesner, C. M. Jones, I. Karim, J. Liptac, J. Minervini, P. Michael, A. Radovinsky, J. H. Schultz, B. A. Smith, A. Zhukovsky (MIT PSFC)

LP1.054 Multi-Frequency ECRH on LDX

A.K. Hansen, D.T. Garnier, M.E. Mauel (Columbia University), J. Kesner, A. Ram (MIT PSFC)

LP1.055 The Levitation Control System for the Levitated Dipole Experiment

D.T. Garnier, A.K. Hansen, M.E. Mauel, T. Sunn Pedersen (Columbia University), S. Dagen, J. Kesner, J. Liptac (MIT PSFC)

LP1.056 Magnetic Diagnostics in LDX

Ishtak Karim, Jay Kesner (MIT PSFC), Darren Garnier, Mike Mauel (Columbia University)

LP1.057 Drift Frequency Interchange Modes in a Dipole Confined Plasma at Varying Collisionality

Jay Kesner, R.J. Hastie (MIT PSFC)

LP1.058 Microstability and Turbulence in Magnetic Dipole Configuration

P. Goswami, W. Dorland (Univ. of Maryland), B.N. Rogers (Dartmouth College), D.T. Garnier (Columbia University)

LP1.059 Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Plasma Confinement in a Levitated Dipole

J. Tonge, C. Huang, J. N. Leboeuf, J. M. Dawson (UCLA)

LP1.060 On Equilibria of Finite Pressure Plasma in Magnetic Multipoles

T.K. Soboleva (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleare, UNAM, Mexico D.F., Mexico), S.I. Krasheninnikov (University of California San Diego, CA, USA)

LP1.061 Kinetic Stability of Electrostatic Modes in Closed Line Magnetic Fields

Peter J. Catto, Andrei N. Simakov, R. J. Hastie (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

LP1.062 Kinetic Stability of Electromagnetic Modes in Closed Line Magnetic Fields

Andrei N. Simakov, R. J. Hastie, Peter J. Catto (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

LP1.063 Experimental Studies Of Hot Startup Plasma In Central Solenoid Of AMBAL-M Mirror Machine

T.D. Akhmetov, V.S. Belkin, V.I. Davydenko, G.I. Dimov, A.S. Krivenko, Yu.V. Kovalenko, V.V. Razorenov, V.B. Reva, V. Sokolov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, prospect Lavrentieva 11,Novosibirsk,630090, Russia)

LP1.064 Plasma Production with the high harmonics ICRF and central cell NBI in the GAMMA 10 Tandem Mirror

H. HIGAKI, T. CHO, M. HIRATA, H. HOJO, E. KAWAMORI, M. ICHIMURA, K. ISHII, A. ITAKURA, I. KATANUMA, J. KOHAGURA, Y. NAKASHIMA, Y. OKAMOTO, T. SAITO, Y. TATEMATSU, K. YATSU, M. YOSHIKAWA (Plasma Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

LP1.065 Initial Results From INS-E

R. A. Nebel, C. P. Munson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), B. B. Cipiti (University of Wisconsin)

LP1.066 A Self-consistent Discharge Simulation for Hanbit RF Heating Experiment

N.S. Yoon (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Korea), B.H. Park, J.Y. Kim, M. Kwon (Korea Basic Science Institute, Taejeon 305-333, Korea)

LP1.067 Proton-Boron Beam Fusion Device Concept with Cooling Electron Beams

John Machuzak (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Leslie Bromberg (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

LP1.068 Proton Collimator for Fusion Energy Extraction

Hiromu Momota, George Miley (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA)

LP1.069 ILLIBS, a RF-Driven Ion Source for IEC Fusion

Yasser Shaban (), George H. Miley (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA)

LP1.070 Stellarator and SOL Physics

LP1.071 Ideal MHD Ballooning Modes in Three-Dimensional Equilibria: Study of Stability Boundaries

R. Torasso, C.C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wi, USA), S.R. Hudson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ,USA)

LP1.072 Effect of plasma flows on equilibrium in non-symmetric configurations

Massimo Tessarotto (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy), Alexei Beklemishev (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk Russia)

LP1.073 Elimination of Unnecessary Constraints on Stellarator Coils

Allen Boozer (Columbia University), Robert Woolley (Princeton Plasma Laboratory)

LP1.074 Global Search Methods for Stellarator Design

H.E. Mynick, N. Pomphrey (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

LP1.075 Reduction of islands in full-pressure free-boundary stellarator equilibria.

S.R. Hudson, D. Monticello, A. Reiman, A. Brooks (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. Strickler, L. Berry, S. Hirshman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

LP1.076 Recent Developments in the PIES Code

A. Reiman, D. Monticello, S. Hudson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

LP1.077 Linear and Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Calculations in Stellarator Geometry

E. A. Belli, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, M. C. Zarnstorff (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

LP1.078 Drift Mode Calculations in Nonaxisymmetric Geometry

G. Rewoldt, L.-P. Ku, W.M. Tang (PPPL), H. Sugama, N. Nakajima, K.Y. Watanabe, S. Murakami, H. Yamada (NIFS), W.A. Cooper (CRPP-EPFL)

LP1.079 HINT Computations of LHD Equilibria with m/n=1/1 Island

Ryutaro Kanno, Noriyoshi Nakajima, Takaya Hayashi, Hideaki Miura, Masao Okamoto (National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan)

LP1.080 Theory Modeling of Second Harmonic Electron Cyclotron Plasma Breakdown in a Quasi-Helical Plasma

Jaechun Seol, Chris C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

LP1.081 Detachment: synergy of the perpendicular transport and atomic physics effects

S.I. Krasheninnikov, A.Yu. Pigarov (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA), D.A. D’Ippolito, J.R. Myra (Lodestar Research Co., Boulder, CO, USA)

LP1.082 Numerical Simulation of Blob Propagation through SOL and Divertor Plasmas

S. Galkin, S. Krasheninnikov (USCD, San Diego, California), X.Q. Xu (LLNL)

LP1.083 Cross-Field Blob Transport in Tokamak SOL Plasmas

D.A. D'Ippolito, J.R. Myra (Lodestar Research), S.I. Krasheninnikov, J.A. Boedo (UCSD)

LP1.084 Curvature driven nondiffusive transport in the scrape off layer

Daniel McCarthy (Southeastern Louisiana University), Sergei Krasheninnikov (University of California at San Diego)

LP1.085 UEDGE code modelling of non-diffusive cross-field transport in DIII-D edge plasmas

A. Yu. Pigarov, S. I. Krasheninnikov, J. A. Boedo, D. G. Whyte (University California San Diego), T. W. Petrie (General Atomics), T. D. Rognlien (LLNL)

LP1.086 Effect of Dipole Perturbation on Area of Footprint of Field Lines on Collector Plate Using Maps

Halima Ali, Alkesh Punjabi (Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668), Allen Boozer (Columbia University, New York, NY; and Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany)

LP1.087 Assessment of issues for the MAST divertor biasing experiment

P Helander(1), R.H. Cohen(2), S. Fielding(1), D. Ryutov(2) (1 EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK; 2 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA), and the MAST(1) Team

LP1.088 Neutral Gas Transport Simulations of Gas Puff Imaging Experiments on NSTX and Alcator C-Mod

D.P. Stotler, S.J. Zweben (PPPL), R.J. Maqueda, G.A. Wurden (LANL), M.E. Rensink, X.Q. Xu (LLNL), B. LaBombard, J.L. Terry, S. Wolfe (PSFC, MIT)

LP1.089 Radiation Transport in an Edge Plasma Code

Howard Scott (LLNL), Mark Adams (MIT), Thomas Rognlien (LLNL)

LP1.090 Effect of Neutral atoms on Tokamak Edge Plasmas

T. Fülöp (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), P. J. Catto (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), P. Helander (Euratom/UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Lab.)

LP1.091 Z-Pinches and ICF Diagnostics

LP1.092 Observation of Non-0-D Wire Array Trajectory and Pinch Precursor on the Z Accelerator

M.E. CUNEO, G.A. CHANDLER, R.A. VESEY, J.L. PORTER, T.J. NASH, J.E. BAILEY, R.A. ARAGON, W.E. FOWLER, W.A. STYGAR, K.W. STRUVE, J.A. TORRES, J.S. McGURN (Sandia National Laboratories), S.E. LAZIER, D.S. NIELSON (KTech Corp.), J.P. CHITTENDEN, S.V. LEBEDEV (Imperial College)

LP1.093 Theory and simulation of Z wire dynamics in the r-\theta plane

B.V. Oliver (Mission Research Corp., Albuquerque, NM), C. Garasi, T. Mehlhorn (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)

LP1.094 Tungsten wire number scan on the Z accelerator: experiments and simulations

M.R. Douglas, M.G. Mazarakis, C. Deeney, M.P. Desjarlais, S.E. Rosenthal (Sandia National Laboratories)

LP1.095 Wavelet Denoising of and X-Ray Power Extraction from Bolometry Data from fast Z Pinches

Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc., Pleasanton, CA), Michael Cuneo, Rick Spielman (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)

LP1.096 Characteristics of Molybdenum Plasmas Created on the Z-Accelerator at Sandia National Laboratory

P. David LePell, Christine A. Coverdale, Christopher Deeney (Sandia National Laboratory), Stephanie Hansen, Alla S. Shlyaptseva (University of Nevada at Reno), David E. Bell (Defense Threat Reduction Agency)

LP1.097 Comparative 2D Radiation MHD Simulations of Argon Gas Puff Z-pinch Plasma Experiments on the Sandia Z Machine Using the Radiative Diffusion and CRE Transport Models

Y.K. Chong (Berkeley Research Associates, Inc.), J.W. Thornhill, Jr. Giuliani, J.P. Apruzese, R.E. Terry, J. Davis (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

LP1.098 Numerical Simulation of MHD instabilities in classical and twisted z-pinch plasmas

Tatiana Golub (GNG Enterprises, Inc.), Nikolay Volkov (Institute of Electrophysics, RAS), Rick Spielman, Gordon Chandler (Sandia National Laboratories), Natalia Gondarenko (IPR, UMD)

LP1.099 Dynamic Hohlraum Z-Pinches

D.L. Peterson, R. Chrien, G. Idzorek, R. Watt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), T.W.L. Sanford, R. Lemke (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque)

LP1.100 Spectral Analysis of Tracer Emission and Absorption Lines in Z-Pinch Dynamic Hohlraum Experiments

J.J. MacFarlane, K.A. Park, A.R. Thomas-Cramer (Prism Computational Sciences, Madison, WI), J.E. Bailey, G.A. Chandler, P. Lake, T.A. Mehlhorn, T.J. Nash, G.A. Rochau S., S.A. Slutz, R.A. Vesey (Sandia National Laboratories)

LP1.101 Magnetic Diffusion in Aluminum and Copper on the Z-Accelerator

Greg Sharp (University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories), Clint Hall (Sandia National Laboraotries)

LP1.102 Mach2 Simulations of Kr Shell Deuterium Target Z-Pinches

Haffiz Rahman, Paul Ney (UC Riverside), Alan Van Drie (UC Irvine)

LP1.103 Deuterium fiber extrusion and handling system for neutron production experiment

Edward L. Ruden (Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate), Donald G. Gale (SAIC), Hafiz U. Rahman (University of California, Riverside)

LP1.104 Simple Estimation of Material Thickness Ablated by Intense X-ray with Spectrum and Energy Level of Sandia Pinch Source

Koichi Kasuya, Yosuke Kinoshita (Department of Energy Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

LP1.105 Characterization of Hydrogen Desorption from Rapidly-Heated Metal Foils and Wires

M.D. Johnston, R.M. Gilgenbach, B. Qi, M.C. Jones (Intense Energy Beam Interaction Laboratory, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104), T.A. Mehlhorn (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185), D.R. Welch (Mission Research Corp.)

LP1.106 ZPMHD-a Rep-rated Z-Pinch Power Plant Direct Conversion Concept*

John S. De Groot (Plasma Research Group, UC Davis and SNL Albuquerque), El Houssein Alki (Plasma Research Group, UC Davis)

LP1.107 Indirect Drive ICF using highly supersonic, radiatively cooled, plasma slugs.

A. Ciardi, J.P. Chittenden, M. Zepf, S.V. Lebedev, S.N. Bland (Imperial College), M. Dunne (AWE Aldermaston)

LP1.108 Magnetically-Driven Bremsstralung Targets for Multiple-Pulse X-Ray Radiography

T.J.T. Kwan, F.L. Cochran, C.M. Snell, J.F. Benage, D.C. Wolkerstorfer (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

LP1.109 DIRECT NUMERICAL CALCULATION OF X-RAY AND NEUTRON IMAGING USING APERTURES

C. R. Christensen, T. J. Murphy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

LP1.110 Bubble Detectors for High-Resolution, Low Magnification Neutron Imaging

R.A. Lerche, N. Izumi, T.C. Sangster (LLNL), R.K. Fisher (GA), J-L. Bourgade, O. Delage, L. Disdier, A. Rouyer (CEA), P.A. Jaanimagi (LLE-UR)

LP1.111 Z-Beamlet Point Projection X-Ray Imaging of ICF Implosions in Z Accelerator Z-Pinch-Driven Hohlraums

G.R. Bennett (Ktech, Corp., Sandia National Laboratories), R.G. Adams, M.E. Cuneo, S.C. Dropinski, R.M. Green, M.J. Hurst, J.L. Porter, P. Rambo, D.C. Rovang, L.E. Ruggles, H. Seamen, W.W. Simpson, D.L. Tanner, R.A. Vesey, D.F. Wenger (Sandia National Laboratories), I.C. Smith (AWE., UK)

LP1.112 X-ray Radiography Development for Measurements of Dense Targets

Jonathan Workman, George A Kyrala, Ken Klare (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

LP1.113 Characterization of a Laser-Generated Plasma Using Collective Thomson Scattering and Schlieren Imaging

J. F. Camacho (UC Davis amp; LLNL), S. M. Cameron, D. E. Bliss (SNL), J. S. DeGroot (UC Davis)

LP1.114 Feasibility of Fluorescence-Based Imaging for Laser Driven Turbulence and Mix Studies

N. E. Lanier, Cris. W. Barnes, R. Perea, W. Steckle (Los Alamos National Laboratory), ICF and Radiation Physics Team

LP1.115 High spatial resolution Fresnel phase zone plate camera for ablation density measurement

Y Tamari, H Azechi, M Nishikino, T Sakaiya, S Fujioka, Y Ochi, H Shiraga, M Nakai, K Shigemori, T Yamanaka (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

LP1.116 Streak camera coupled with a high-resolution x-ray crystal imager.

V. Serlin, M. Karasik, C. J. Pawley, A. N. Mostovych, S. P. Obenschain (Plasma Physics Divistion, NRL), Y. Aglitskiy (SAIC)

LP1.117 Refractive lens for 5 keV- 15 keV x-rays

N. R. Pereira (Ecopulse, PO Box 528, Springfield, VA 22150)

LP1.118 Electron density diagnostics using B-like and C-like iron nd\rightarrow2p (n=3 to 6) transitions in fusion and astrophysical plasmas

H. Chen, P. Beiersdorfer, G.V. Brown*, D.A. Liedahl (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

LP1.119 X-ray calibration of diagnostics for laser plasma interaction in the target chamber of the LIL

Charles Reverdin, Bernard Angelier, Michelle Briat, Gilles Lidove, Anne-Sophie Morlens, Christian Remond, Rudolf Rosch, Gérard Soullie, Philippe Stemmler, Philippe Troussel, Bruno Villette (CEA/DAM - Ile-de-France BP12, 91680 Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France), Thierry Moreno (CAMINOTEC, 79 rue de Patay,75013 Paris, France)

LP1.120 Turbulence and Transport

LP1.121 An Experimental Study of Turbulence and Coherent Modes by Cathodoluminescent Phosphor Plasma Imaging

A. Liebscher, S. Luckhardt, G. Antar, E. Hollmann, R. Seraydarian (Center for Energy Research, Fusion Energy Division, UC San Diego), S. Zweben (PPPL, Princeton University)

LP1.122 Measurement of Plasma Rotation and Radial Electric Field Profiles Using an Emissive Probe and Imaging Techniques

R. W. Conn, A. Liebscher, E. Hollmann, R. Seraydarian, G. Antar, S. Luckhardt (Center for Energy Research, Fusion Energy Division, UC San Diego)

LP1.123 Helimak -- A Device for Controlled Drift-Wave Turbulence

K.W. Gentle (University of Texas), Luckhardt (UC San Diego), W.L. Rowan (University of Texas)

LP1.124 Diagnostics for Helimak Experiments

W.L. Rowan, P.E. Phillips, K.W. Gentle, He Huang, A. Dieter (FRC, The University of Texas), S. Luckhardt (The University of California, San Diego)

LP1.125 A Fast-Ion Source for Ion Transport Measurements

L. Zhao, H. Boehmer, D. Edrich, W. W. Heidbrink, C. Hill, R. McWilliams (University of California, Irvine)

LP1.126 Ion Transport in a Sheared-Flow Zone

R. McWilliams, D. Edrich (University of California, Irvine)

LP1.127 Bispectral analysis of low frequency fluctuations in a simple magnetised torus

Franko Greiner (IEAP, Universität Kiel, Germany), Mirko Ramisch (EAP, Universität Kiel, Germany), Olaf Grulke (IPP Greifwald, Germany), Alexander Piel (IEAP, Universität Kiel, Germany)

LP1.128 Experiments on turbulence in toroidal plasmas and comparison with simulations

Ulrich Stroth, Carsten Lechte (IEAP, University of Kiel, 24098 Kiel Germany), Sven Niedner (IPP, Euratom-Assoziation, Garching, Germany), Nils Krause (IEAP, University of Kiel, 24098 Kiel Germany), Bruce Scott (IPP, Euratom-Assoziation, Garching, Germany)

LP1.129 Energy Dependent Streaming in Lattice Boltzmann Simulations

Pavol Pavlo (Czech Academy of Sciences), George Vahala (William amp; Mary), Linda Vahala (Old Dominion University)

LP1.130 Lattice Boltzmann Model for Dissipative Incompressible MHD

Angus Macnab, George Vahala (William amp; Mary), Pavol Pavlo (Czech Academy of Sciences), Linda Vahala (Old Dominion University)

LP1.131 Analysis of ITG Turbulence in Computer Simulations

W.M. Nevins, B.I. Cohen, A. Dimits (LLNL), W. Dorland (U. of MD)

LP1.132 Transition Probability to Turbulent Transport Regime

Mitsuhiro Kawasaki, Masatoshi Yagi (Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga 816-8580, Japan), Kimitaka Itoh (National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan), Sanae-I. Itoh (Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga 816-8580, Japan)

LP1.133 MODELING OF CARBON IMPURITY ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT

Roland Stamm, Irina Voitsekhovitch, Sadri Benkadda, Peter Beyer, Mohamed Koubiti, Yannick Marandet, Laurence Godbert-Mouret (Université de Provence, centre Saint Jérôme, Marseille, France), Glenn Bateman, Arnold Kritz, Andre Pankin (Lehigh University, department of Physics, Pennsylvania), Dynamics of Complex Systems Collaboration

LP1.134 Observation of Collisional Drift Waves in CSDX

Jonathan George, Michael J. Burin, Neal Crocker, George R. Tynan (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD)

LP1.135 Directionality of Nonlinear Coupling Between Resistive Drift Waves in CSDX

N. A. Crocker, M. J. Burin, J. George, G. R. Tynan (Dept. of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., Univ. of California - San Diego)

LP1.136 Dynamics of the Transition to Weak Turbulence in a Magnetized Plasma Column

M.J. Burin, N.A. Crocker, J. George, G.R. Tynan (Center for Energy Research, U.C. San Diego)

LP1.137 Taming drift wave turbulence

Etienne Gravier, Gerard Bonhomme (LPMI, University of Nancy (France)), Christiane Schroeder, Thomas Klinger (University of Greifswald (Germany)), Volker Naulin (Risoe National Laboratory (Denmark))

LP1.138 Long Time Behaviour of Electron Stochastic Heating

Akira Hirose, Karl Edler (Univ. of Saskatchewan)

LP1.139 Spectroscopic Diagnostics of a Current Sheet Plasma Using Helium Spectral Lines with Forbidden Components

Valeri Gavrilenko, Anna Frank, Natalia Kyrie (General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

LP1.140 Isotope Scaling of Ion Thermal Transport In CLM

V. SOKOLOV, A.K. SEN (Columbia University)

LP1.141 2D MHD turbulence and sink/source effects

Kenji Miki, S.A. Galkin, S.I. Krasheninnikov (University of California, San Diego, CA USA)

LP1.142 Temperature Diffusion Waves in Plasmas

M. A. Reynolds (Embry-Riddle University), G. J. Morales, J. E. Maggs (U.C.L.A.)

LP1.143 Conditionally sampled coherent structures and global transport.

Claudia Riccardi *), Ashild Fredriksen **) (**)Department of Physics, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø), Lucia Cartegni *) (*)Dipartimento di Fisica "G. Occhialini" e INFM, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano), Hans Pecseli ***) (***)Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Boks 1048 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo)

LP1.144 Random-Phase Approximation: A Step Toward Elucidating Inhomogeneous Turbulence

Leaf Turner (THEORETICAL DIVISION, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

LP1.145 Zonal-Flow Generation by Drift-Wave Turbulence at Finite Beta.

R. A. Kolesnikov, J. A. Krommes (Princeton U.)

LP1.146 Statistical Methods for Plasma Turbulence: Status, Future, and Application to Zonal Flows.

J. A. Krommes (Princeton U.)

LP1.147 Modification of turbulent transport by fluctuation-generated flows

Michael Shats, Wayne Solomon (Plasma Research Laboratory, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)

LP1.148 An Estimate of Electron Energy Confinement in Magnetic Fusion Machines by means of The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Igor Alexeff (University of TN)

LP1.149 Anomalous Transport and ``Logarithmic Waves''

George M. Zaslavsky (Courant Institute-NYU)

LP1.150 Angular transport in a non-periodic Chirikov-Taylor Map

Dmitri Lesnik, Karl H. Spatschek (Theor. Phys., Univ. Duesseldorf)