Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 1 NOVEMBER 2001

14:00 RI1.001 Introduction to Burning Plasma Physics

Gerald A. Navratil (Columbia University)

15:00 RI1.002 Fast-Ion Physics in Burning Toroidal Plasmas

W.W. Heidbrink (UC Irvine)

15:30 RI1.003 Fast ion dynamics measured by collective Thomson scattering

Henrik Bindslev (Risø National Laboratory, P.O.Box 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark)

16:00 RI1.004 Characterization of Avalanche-Like Events in a Confined Plasma

P.A. Politzer (General Atomics)

16:30 RI1.005 towards a continuum theory of avalanches

Stephanie Champeaux (U.C. San Diego)

14:00 RI2.001 Quiet Monte Carlo Method for the Simulation of Semi-Collisional Plasmas

Brian J. Albright (Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:30 RI2.002 Kinetic Electron Closures for Electromagnetic Simulation of Drift and Shear-Alfven Waves

Bruce I. Cohen (University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:00 RI2.003 Fluid model for a magnetized, relativistic plasma

Richard Hazeltine (University of Texas at Austin)

15:30 RI2.004 Density Fluctuation Measurements in Tokamaks and Spherical Tori via Microwave Imaging Reflectometry and High Resolution Wave Scattering

Ernesto Mazzucato (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

16:00 RI2.005 Electrostatic degrees of freedom in non-Maxwellian plasma

Fred Skiff (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

14:00 RO1.001 Scattered and (n,2n) neutrons as a measure of areal density in ICF capsules

D. C. Wilson, T. J. Murphy (Los Alamos National Laboratory), W. C. Mead (ANSR, Inc.), L. Disdier, M. Houry, C. Bayer, J.-L. Bourgade (CEA-DAM Ile de France, Bruyères Le Chatel)

14:12 RO1.002 Conceptual design of a scintillation fiber neutron detector for \rho R measurements in ICF

N. IZUMI, R. A. LERCHE, T. W. PHILLIPS, G. J. SCHMID, M. J. MORAN, S. P. HATCHETT, T. C. SANGSTER (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:24 RO1.003 CVD diamond detector for DD rho-r measurement at OMEGA/NIF

G.J. Schmid (LLNL), V.Yu. Glebov (LLE), S.P. Hatchett, N. Izumi, R.A. Lerche, M.J. Moran, T.W. Phillips, T.C. Sangster (LLNL), C Stoeckl (LLE)

14:36 RO1.004 Tertiary Neutron Measurements by Carbon Activation

V.Yu. Glebov, D.D. Meyerhofer, P.B. Radha, W. Seka, S. Skupsky, C. Sorce, J.M. Soures, C. Stoeckl (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), S. Padalino, L. Baumgart, R. Colburn, J. Fuschino (SUNY Geneseo), T.C. Sangster (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:48 RO1.005 The OMEGA Gas Sampling System and Radiochemical Diagnostic Development

Mark Stoyer, Bryant Hudson, Craig Sangster (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Charlie Freeman, B. Schwartz, M. Olsen (State University of NY, Geneseo)

15:00 RO1.006 Streaked X-Ray Imager for Observation of Oscillations of Perturbed Ablation Fronts in Planar ICF Targets During Shock Transit

O.V. Gotchev, V.N. Goncharov, P.A. Jaanimagi, J.P. Knauer, D.D. Meyerhofer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

15:12 RO1.007 Plasma Calorimeter Calibration Using a 2 MV Van de Graaff Accelerator

Charles Freeman, David Burke, Joseph DeCiantis, Michele Olsen, Brook Schwartz (State University of New York at Geneseo), James Knauer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)

15:24 RO1.008 Observation of a density depression in the sub-critical region of a laser-created plasma by soft x-ray laser interferometry

Jorge Filevich, Ela Jankowska, Eric Hammarsten, Mario Marconi, Jorge Rocca (Colorado State University), Vyacheslav Shlyaptsev (Univerity of California Davis/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Steve Moon (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:36 RO1.009 Interpretation of Single- and Multiple-Beam SBS Observations in OMEGA, Long-Scale-Length Plasma Experiments

R.W. Short, R.S. Craxton, W. Seka, D.D. Meyerhofer (LLE, U. of Rochester)

15:48 RO1.010 Exploring 2ømega Laser-Plasma Interactions on the HELEN Laser System

Kevin Oades, Gary Slark, Mark Stevenson (AWE PLC, Aldermaston, UK), Laurence Suter, Michael Miller, Christina Back, Peter Young (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA), Jacob Grun (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), John Davis (Alme amp; Associates, Alexandria, VA)

16:00 RO1.011 Stimulated forward and backward Raman scatter

R. L. Berger (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:12 RO1.012 Growth of Ion Acoustic Waves in Two Species Plasmas

Dustin Froula, Siegfried Glenzer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:24 RO1.013 Modeling of non-linear saturation of acoustic waves in stimulated Brillouin backscattering

L. Divol, E. A. Williams, B. I. Cohen, C. H. Still, R. L. Berger (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:36 RO1.014 Evolution of laser filaments in plasmas: simulations and theory

A. Maximov, W. Rozmus (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), R. L. Berger (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA), V. T. Tikhonchuk (Universite Bordeaux-1, 33405 Talence Cedex, France), D. Pesme (Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France), A. Brantov, M. Roebuck, C. E. Capjack (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

16:48 RO1.015 Self-similar solution to Fokker-Planck equation in inhomogeneous plasma

V. Yu. Bychenkov (P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow 117924,), W. Rozmus, R. Teshima (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2J1, Alberta,)

14:00 RO2.001 Measurements of the Equation of State of Carbon Foams

T.R. Boehly, T.J.B. Collins, D.D. Meyerhofer, W.J. Armstrong (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), D.K. Bradley, R. Cauble, P.M. Celliers, G.W. Collins, S.G. Glendinning (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:12 RO2.002 Laser-driven shocks in water pre-compressed by diamond anvil cells

D. G. Hicks, P. M. Celliers, G. W. Collins, L. B. Da Silva, A. J. Mackinnon, R. Cauble, S. J. Moon, R. J. Wallace, B. A. Hammel (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. Koenig, A. Benuzzi, G. Huser (LULI CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, France), E. Henry, D. Batani (University of Milan, Italy), P. Loubeyre (CEA Bruyeres, France), O. Willi, J. Pasley, H. Gessner (Imperial College, London, U. K.), R. Jeanloz, K. M. Lee, L. R. Benedetti (U.C. Berkeley), D. Neely, M. Notley, C. Danson (Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, U. K.)

14:24 RO2.003 MHD Modeling of Isentropic Compression Experiments*

David Reisman, Robert Cauble, Vijay Sonnad, James Albritton, Bruce Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Douglas Tasker, James Goforth (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:36 RO2.004 Generation of high pressure, steady shocks in metals using high power laser systems*

D.K. Bradley, G.W. Collins, D.G. Braun, R.C. Cauble, P. Celliers, A.J. Mackinnon, S. Moon, R. Wallace (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:48 RO2.005 Shockless acceleration and compression of aluminum foils using a laser driven plasma reservoir

John Edwards, Thomas Lorenz, Dan Kalantar, Bruce Remington, Jeff Greenough, Jeff Colvin (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:00 RO2.006 EXAFS Detection of Laser Shock Heating

D.D. Meyerhofer, B. Yaakobi, F.J. Marshall, T.R. Boehly, R.P.J. Town (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

15:12 RO2.007 Target simulations with SCROLL non-LTE opacity/emissivity databases.

M. Klapisch (ARTEP, inc. Columbia, MD 21044), D. Colombant (Plasma Physics Division, NRL, Washington, DC.), A. Bar-Shalom (ARTEP, inc. Columbia, MD 21044)

15:24 RO2.008 Non-LTE opacity/emissivity database for high Z elements in laser produced plasmas

A. Bar-Shalom, M. Klapisch, J. Oreg (ARTEP, inc, Columbia, MD21044), D. Colombant (Plasma Physics Division, NRL, Washington, DC.)

15:36 RO2.009 X-ray spectroscopic measurements of laser-produced gas-jet plasmas supported by Thomson scattering diagnostics

J.-C. Gauthier, C. Chenais-Popovics, V. Malka (LULI, Ecole polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau (France)), S. Gary, M. Rabec Le Gloahec, O. Peyrusse (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, 91680 Bruyères-le-Chatel (France)), I. Matsushima (Electrotechnical Laboratory, 305 Tsukuba, Japan)

15:48 RO2.010 Similarity of Skeletal Structures Observed in Laser-Produced Plasmas and High-Current Electric Discharges

V.A. Rantsev-Kartinov, A.B. Kukushkin (INF RRC "Kurchatov Institute", 123182, Moscow, Russia)

16:00 RO2.011 Perturbation theory solutions for Marshak waves

James Hammer, Mordecai Rosen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:12 RO2.012 Green light targets for NIF

Larry Suter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:24 RO2.013 Reduced Scale Halfraums – Energetics and Laser-Plasma Interactions

D.E. Hinkel, M.B. Schneider, A.B. Langdon, L.J. Suter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:36 RO2.014 Late-time Hohlraum Simulations: Spatial Dependence of X-Rays from NIF Targets

David Eder, Alice Koniges, Marty Marinak

16:48 RO2.015 Particle Dynamics in Neutral-Gas Confined Laser-Produced Plasmas

Yong W. Kim (Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015)

14:00 RM1.001 Reconnection in Astrophysical Plasmas

Roger Blandford (Caltech)

14:50 RM1.002 Reconnection Events in Laboratory Plasmas and Inherently Intermittent Accretion in Astrophysics\textbf*

B. Coppi (MIT), P.~S. Coppi (Yale U.)

15:05 RM1.003 Magnetic Helix Formation Driven by Keplerian Disk Rotation in an External Plasma Pressure

H. Li (Lanl), R.V.E. Lovelace (Cornell), J.M. Finn, S.A. Colgate (Lanl)

15:20 RM1.004 Reconnection in Astrophysics

Ethan Vishniac (Johns Hopkins University)

15:45 RM1.005 Meaning of Magnetic Reconnection

Allen Boozer (Columbia University)

16:00 RM1.006 Three-dimensional electron-positron Weibel instability, generation of fast particles, and the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic field

L. O. Silva, R. A. Fonseca (GoLP/IST, Portugal), J. Tonge, R. G. Hemker, J. M. Dawson, W. B. Mori (Dept. Phys, UCLA)

16:15 RM1.007 Scaling of Collisionless Reconnection

A. Bhattacharjee, Z. W. Ma, Xiaogang Wang (Center for Magnetic Reconnection Studies, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa.)

16:40 RM1.008 Inertia-Driven Reconnection in Extragalactic Jets

Guido Birk (Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Munich, Germany)

16:50 RM1.009 Interchange instability at a reconnection jet front

Masaki Fujimoto, Ryouji TanDokoro (Dept. Earth Planet. Sci. Tokyo Inst. Tech.)

RP1.001 DIII-D Stability, Current Drive

RP1.002 Progress in MHD Stability and Current Drive Towards Steady-State High Performance

T.S. Taylor, DIII-D Team (General Atomics)

RP1.003 Stability Limits of Wall Stabilized DIII-D Discharges

A.D. Turnbull, M.S. Chu, L.L. Lao, T.C. Luce, E.J. Strait, T.S. Taylor (General Atomics), A.M. Garofalo, G.A. Navratil (Columbia U.), M.S. Chance, M. Okabayashi (PPPL), D.H. Edgell, J.S. Kim (FARTECH), M.A. Makowski (LLNL)

RP1.004 Effects of Plasma Rotation on Stabilization of Resistive Wall Modes in DIII-D

L.C. Johnson, M. Okabayashi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), R.J. La Haye, J.T. Scoville, E.J. Strait, A.D. Turnbull (GA), J. Bialek, A.M. Garofalo, G.A. Navratil (Columbia U.)

RP1.005 Normal Mode Approach to Modeling of Feedback Stabilization of the Resistive Wall Mode

M.S. Chu, E.J. Strait (General Atomics), M.S. Chance, L.C. Johnson, M. Okabayashi (PPPL), A.H. Glasser (LANL), A.M. Garofalo, G.A. Navratil (Columbia U.)

RP1.006 Stability of DIII-D Wall Stabilization Discharges

M. Okabayashi, M.S. Chance, L.C. Johnson, R. Hatcher (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M.S. Chu, D.A. Humphreys, R.J. La Haye, E.J. Strait, M.L. Walker (General Atomics), A.M. Garofalo, G.A. Navratil (Columbia U.), M.R. Wade (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

RP1.007 Real-Time Matched Filter Resistive-Wall-Mode Identifier for the DIII-D Tokamak

D.H. Edgell, J.S. Kim, I.N. Bogatu (FARTECH, Inc.), D.A. Humphreys, A.D. Turnbull, E.J. Strait (General Atomics)

RP1.008 Modeling and Simulation of Resistive Wall Mode Control In DIII-D

M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys, T.H. Jensen, J.A. Leuer, A. Nerem, E.J. Strait (General Atomics), A.M. Garofalo (Columbia U.)

RP1.009 Resonant Response of High Beta Plasmas to an Applied Error Field

J.T. Scoville, E.J. Strait, R.J. La Haye (General Atomics), A.M. Garofalo, G.A. Navratil (Columbia U.), L.C. Johnson, M. Okabayashi (PPPL)

RP1.010 Design, Simulation, and Operational Use of Control Algorithms for ECCD Suppression of the m/n=3/2 Neoclassical Tearing Mode

D.A. Humphreys, R.J. La Haye, B.G. Penaflor, M.L. Walker (General Atomics)

RP1.011 A Study of Nonlinear Properties of Tearing Modes

T.H. Jensen (General Atomics)

RP1.012 Modeling Studies of Steady-State, Advanced Tokamak Configurations

F.W. Perkins (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), T.A. Casper (LLNL), P.A. Politzer (GA)

RP1.013 Dependence of Achievable \beta_N on Discharge Shape and Edge Safety Factor in DIII-D Steady-State Scenario Discharges

J.R. Ferron, T.C. Luce, P.A. Politzer (General Atomics), R. Jayakumar (LLNL), M.R. Wade (ORNL)

RP1.014 Current Profile Evolution in High Performance Discharges in DIII-D

R.J. Jayakumar, T.A. Casper, S.L. Allen, M.A. Makowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M.R. Wade (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), T.C. Luce, P.A. Politzer (General Atomics)

RP1.015 Disruptions and the Evolution to Disruption in \mboxDIII-D

A.W. Hyatt, P.L. Taylor, A.G. Kellman (General Atomics)

RP1.016 A 30-Chord Radiometer for Disruptions and Fast Transients in DIII-D

D.S. Gray, E. Hollmann, S.C. Luckhardt, J. Chalfant, L. Chousal, R. Hernandez, E. Jones (Center for Energy Research (UC San Diego)), A.G. Kellman (General Atomics)

RP1.017 Physics of the Edge Harmonic Oscillation in Quiescent H-Mode Discharges in DIII-D

K.H. Burrell, C.M. Greenfield, R.J. Groebner (GA), E.J. Doyle, T.L. Rhodes, L. Zeng, G.R. McKee, J.C. Rost (DIII-D National Fusion Facility)

RP1.018 Oscillating Scrape-off Layer (SOL) Current During Edge Harmonic Oscillation (EHO) Phenomena in DIII-D Tokamak

H. Takahashi, E.D. Fredrickson (Princeton University), M.J. Schaffer, T.E. Evans, L.L. Lao (General Atomics), J.G. Watkins (Sandia National Laboratories)

RP1.019 3-D Distortion of Magnetic Surfaces due to Toroidally Asymmetric External Magnetic Field

L.L. Lao, M.S. Chu, T.E. Evans, R.J. La Haye, T.C. Luce, T.W. Petrie, E.J. Strait, T.S. Taylor (General Atomics), M.R. Wade (ORNL)

RP1.020 Sensitivity of EFITS to the Form of the MSE Fitting Function

M.A. Makowski, S.L. Allen, R.F. Ellis, R. Geer, R.J. Jayakumar, J.M. Moller (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), B.W. Rice (Xenogen Corporation)

RP1.021 Energetic Particle Effects Can Explain the Low Frequencies of Alfvén Modes in the DIII-D Tokamak

G.W. Watson, W.W. Heidbrink (University of California, Irvine), N. Gorelenkov (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), T.C. Luce (General Atomics)

RP1.022 Increased Efficiency of Off-Axis ECCD with Higher Electron Beta

R. Prater (General Atomics), R.W. Harvey (CompX), Y.R. Lin-Liu, J. Lohr, T.C. Luce, C.C. Petty (GA)

RP1.023 High Power Performance of the DIII-D Gyrotron System

J. Lohr, R.W. Callis, W.P. Cary, R.I. Pinsker, D. Ponce, R. Prater (General Atomics)

RP1.024 Calorimetric Power Measurements of the DIII-D Gyrotron System

I. Gorelov, J. Lohr, R.W. Callis, W.P. Cary, D. Ponce, R.I. Pinsker, H. Chiu (General Atomics), F.W. Baity (ORNL)

RP1.025 Coupling to the Electron Bernstein Wave With Wave- guide Antennas

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

RP1.026 Radial Transport Effects on ECCD in the DIII-D and TCV Tokamaks

R.W. Harvey (CompX), R. Prater (General Atomics), O. Sauter, P. Nikkola (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

RP1.027 Phase Foldings of Poloidal Magnetic Signals in Tokamak Plasmas

J.-S. Kim, D.H. Edgell (FARTECH, Inc.), M.S. Chance (PPPL), J.M. Greene, E.J. Strait, A.D. Turnbull (GA)

RP1.028 Beam-Ion Profile Diagnostic Using 3 MeV Protons

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

RP1.029 Initial Results from the LIBEAM Diagnostic

D.M. Thomas, A.S. Bozek, J.I. Robinson, T.N. Carlstrom, A.W. Leonard, K.H. Burrell, J. Kulchar, J. Lynch, D. Hoyt, T.E. Harris, S.G.E. Pronko, S.W. Delaware, D.H. Kellman (General Atomics), J. Brewis (Allied Optics), D.K. Finkenthal (Palomar Scientific Instruments)

RP1.030 A New System to Monitor Data Analyses and Results of Physics Data Validation Between Pulses at DIII-D

S. Flanagan, J.M. Schachter, D.P. Schissel (General Atomics)

RP1.031 Neural Network Modeling and Shape Control of DIII-D Tokamak

Alexander Trunov (Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc.), David Humphreys (General Atomics)

RP1.032 Pegasus, HIT-II, CDX-U, Other ST

RP1.033 Characteristics and Stability of OH Plasma in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment

E. Unterberg, S. Diem, R. Fonck, G. Garstka, R. Lawson, B. Lewicki, P. Probert, A. Sontag (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.034 MHD Activity and Analysis at Near-Unity Aspect Ratio in PEGASUS

G. Garstka, S. Diem, R. Fonck, A. Sontag, T. Thorson, K. Tritz, E. Unterberg (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.035 Magnetic Reconstruction and Stability Analysis of PEGASUS Plasmas

S.J. Diem, R.J. Fonck, G.D. Garstka, A.C. Sontag, K.L. Tritz (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.036 2-D SXR Imaging for j(R,t) and Equilibrium Reconstruction in Pegasus

K.L. Tritz, R. J. Fonck, M. Reinke, A.C. Sontag, G. Winz (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.037 High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating in Pegasus

P. Probert, R.J. Fonck, G.D. Garstka, T.A. Thorson (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.038 Multi-Color Soft X-Ray Measurements of Te in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment

C. Ostrander, R.J. Fonck, R. Lawson, T. Thorson (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.039 Time-resolved Pulse-Height Analysis and 1-D Bolometric imaging of Pegasus Plasmas

R. Schooff, R. J. Fonck, C. Ostrander, M. Reinke, T. Thorson, G. Winz (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.040 Facility Development for the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment

B. Lewicki, S. Diem, R. Fonck, G. Garstka, T. Thorson, P. Probert, R. Schooff, A. Sontag, E. Unterberg, G. Winz (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.041 Overview of the HIT-II Program and Diagnostic Development

R.J. SMITH, A.J. REDD, B.A. NELSON, T.R. JARBOE, P. GU, W.T. HAMP, P.D. JEWELL (University of Washington)

RP1.042 Ion Flow Distributions and Sapphire magnetic probe measurements of the Electron Locking Model in HIT-II

P. Gu, T.R. Jarboe, B.A. Nelson, A.J. Redd, R.J. Smith (University of Washington), M. Nagata, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology)

RP1.043 Progress of the Multi-Point Thomson Scattering Diagnostic for the Helicity Injected Torus

W.T. Hamp, R.J. Smith, T.R. Jarboe, B.A. Nelson (University of Washington), B.P. LeBlanc (PPPL), P. Phillips (University of Texas)

RP1.044 An overview of the HIT-SI experiment and preliminary numerical simulations with the NIMROD code.

V.A. Izzo, T.R. Jarboe, P.E. Sieck, J.A. Rogers, U. Shumlak, B.A. Nelson, A.J. Redd, B.E. Joseph (University of Washington)

RP1.045 Construction of the Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive Helicity Injection (HIT-SI)

P. E. Sieck, P. Gu, W. T. Hamp, V. A. Izzo, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson, J. A. Rogers (University of Washington)

RP1.046 Experiments with a Toroidal Liquid Lithium Limiter on CDX-U

R. KAITA, R. MAJESKI, M. BOAZ, P. EFTHIMION, B. JONES, H. KUGEL, J. MENARD, T. MUNSAT, A. POST-ZWICKER, V. SOUKHANOVSKII, J. SPALETA, G. TAYLOR, J. TIMBERLAKE, R. WOOLLEY, L. ZAKHAROV (Princeton University), M. FINKENTHAL, D. STUTMAN (Johns Hopkins University), G. ANTAR, R. DOERNER, S. LUCKHARDT (UCSD), R. MAINGI (ORNL), B. MILLER (Dartmouth College), S. SMITH (Oklahoma State University)

RP1.047 A Liquid Lithium Rail Limiter for CDX-U

R.P. Seraydarian (University of California San Diego), G.Y. Antar, R.P. Doerner (UCSD), R. Kaita, R. Majeski (PPPL), S.C. Luckhardt, R.W. Conn (UCSD), CDX-U Team

RP1.048 Investigations of Low and Moderate Harmonic Fast Wave Physics on CDX-U

J. Spaleta, R. Majeski, C.K. Phillips (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

RP1.049 Electron Bernstein Wave Research on CDX-U and NSTX

G. Taylor, P.C. Efthimion, B. Jones, T. Munsat, J.C. Hosea, R. Kaita, R. Majeski (Princeton U.), R.W. Harvey (CompX), S. Shiraiwa (U. Tokyo)

RP1.050 Influence of the plasma surface density fluctuations on ECE in CASTOR

Josef Preinahelter (IPP, Czech Academy of Sciences), Jan Stockel, Frantisek Zacek (Czech Academy of Sciences), M. Irzak, E. Tregubova (Joffe Institute, St. Petersburg, RU), Linda Vahala (Old Dominion University), George Vahala (William amp; Mary)

RP1.051 HHFW Experiments on the TST-2 Spherical Tokamak

Y. Takase, A. Ejiri, D. Iijima, H. Kasahara, N. Kasuya, Y. Kobori, Y. Nagashima, T. Nishi, S. Shiraiwa, T. Taniguchi, M. Ushigome, H. Wada, T. Yamada, K. Yamagishi (Univ. Tokyo)

RP1.052 Magnetic diagnostics and equilibrium reconstruction including the eddy current effect in the TST-2 Spherical Tokamak

S Shiraiwa (Sch. Frontier Science, Univ. Tokyo), M Ushigome, N Kasuya, Y Nagashima (Sch. Science, Univ. Tokyo), H Nozato, H Kasahara (Sch. Frontier Science, Univ. Tokyo), T Yamada (Sch. Science, Univ. Tokyo), D Iijima, Y Kobori, T Nishi (Sch. Frontier Science, Univ. Tokyo), T Taniguchi, K Yamagishi (Sch. Science, Univ. Tokyo), A Ejiri, Y Takase (Sch. Frontier Science, Univ. Tokyo)

RP1.053 Measurement of EBW Emission on the TST-2 Spherical Tokamak

Yoshihiko Nagashima (Graduate School of Science, Univ. Tokyo), Syun'ichi Shiraiwa (Graduate School of Frontier Science, Univ. Tokyo), Masayasu Ushigome, Naohiro Kasuya (Graduate School of Science, Univ. Tokyo), Hideaki Nozato, Hiroshi Kasahara (Graduate School of Frontier Science, Univ. Tokyo), Takuma Yamada (Graduate School of Science, Univ. Tokyo), Daisuke Iijima, Yosuke Kobori, Tomoichiro Nishi (Graduate School of Frontier Science, Univ. Tokyo), Tomokazu Taniguchi, Ken'ichi Yamagishi (Graduate School of Science, Univ. Tokyo), Akira Ejiri, Yuichi Takase (Graduate School of Frontier Science, Univ. Tokyo)

RP1.054 Ultra-High-Beta Spherical Tokamak with Absolute Minimum-B in TS-3/4 Merging Experiments

Y. Ono, Y. Ueda, T. Matsuyama, M. Turuda, Y. Murata, T. Kimura, M. Katsurai (High Temperature Plasma Center, U. Tokyo)

RP1.055 Transition Behavior to Spherical RFP from Spherical Torus during the Helicity Injection Process

T. Oguro, M. Nagata, T. Akamatsu, M. Fujitani, T. Jinno, N. Fukumoto, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology), S. Masamune, M. Iida (Kyoto Institute of Technology), M. Katsurai (University of Tokyo)

RP1.056 Impurity Radiation amp; Transport in the MAST Tokamak.

I. Lehane, M.W.D. Mansfield (Association Euratom-DCU, University College, Cork, Ireland.), H. Meyer, P.G. Carolan (Euratom /UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, OX14 3DB, UK), E.R. Arends (FOM Institut voor plasmafysica 'Rijnhuizen', Neuwegein, Netherlands), S. Korsholm (RisøNational Laboratory, Denmark)

RP1.057 First Results of the ETE Spherical Tokamak

G. O. Ludwig, E. Del Bosco, J.G. Ferreira, J.J. Barroso, L.A. Berni, R.M. Oliveira (Laboratorio Associado de Plasma - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil), ETE Team

RP1.058 RFPs, FRCs and Spheromaks: Theory

RP1.059 Implication of Small Aspect Ratio RFP and an Design Example

K. Hayase, H. Sugimoto, H. Ashida, Y. Sato, Y. Hirano, Y. Yagi (AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, JAPAN)

RP1.060 Neoclassical MHD Equilibria in Low Aspect Ratio Reversed Field Pinch

Yasuo Nagamine, Yuichiro Yoshioka, Motohiro Harada, Yukio Osanai, Katsunori Saito, Katsuhiko Saito, Shoichi Shiina (Atomic Energy Research Institute, College of Science and Technology, Nihon Univ., Tokyo, Japan), Masayoshi Taguchi (College of Industrial Technology, Nihon Univ., Chiba, Japan), Yoshiomi Kondoh (Department of Electronic Engineering, Gunma Univ., Kiryu, Gunma, Japan), Eijiro Uchimoto (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, U.S.A.)

RP1.061 Self-Similar Rampdown for RFPs

C. K. Rowdyshrub (New Paris Polytechnic Institute), R. A. Nebel (Los Alamos National Laboratory), D. D. Schnack (Science Applications International Co.), T. A. Gianakon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

RP1.062 Nonlinear Simulations of Toroidal Geometry RFPs with Sheared Flow

C. R. Sovinec, J. M. Reynolds (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

RP1.063 Phase-locking of tearing modes in reversed field pinch plasmas

Richard Fitzpatrick (IFS, UT Austin), Paolo Zanca (Conzorzio RFX, Padua, Italy)

RP1.064 Effects of Multiple Resistive Walls and Mode Coupling on Mode Locking in RFPs

S.C. GUO (Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy), M.S. CHU (General Atomics, USA)

RP1.065 High Lundquist Number MHD Computation of ac Helicity Injection

F. EBRAHIMI, S.C. PRAGER, J.C. WRIGHT, J.S. SARFF (University of Wisconsin, Physics Dept.)

RP1.066 Tearing Mode Marginal Stability in a RFP

Antonio Bruno, Jeffrey Freidberg (MIT-PSFC), MIT-PSFC Theory Group Team

RP1.067 Classical Diffusion in a Field Reversed Configuration

Norman Rostoker, Artan Qerushi (University of California, Irvine)

RP1.068 Long FRC Equilibrium and Stability

D. C. Barnes (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. P. Freidberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

RP1.069 Comparison of conserved quantities in an FRC with RMFs added

A.S. Landsman, S.A. Cohen (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

RP1.070 Dynamics of Helicity Injected Spheromak Plasma

Y. Kagei, M. Nagata (Himeji Institute of Technology), Y. Suzuki, Y. Kishimoto (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), T. Hayashi (National Institute for Fusion Science), N. Fukumoto, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology)

RP1.071 The role of MHD instabilities on open fieldlines in helicity injected current drive

PK Browning (Dept of Physics, UMIST, Manchester, UK), DP Brennan (General Atomics, San Diego, USA), R Van der Linden (Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium)

RP1.072 Space and Astrophysical Plasmas II

RP1.073 Stimulated Emissions and Radar Scatter from Pulsed RF-Ionosphere Interactions at HAARP

J.P. Sheerin, J.P. Mills (Eastern Michigan Univ.), K.M. Groves (AFRL Hanscom), W.A. Bristow (U. Alaska-Fairbanks), Jacqueline Pau, A.Y. Wong (UCLA)

RP1.074 Generation of Vertical Current and ELF/VLF by Controlled Frequency Sweep of HAARP

J. Pau, A. Y. Wong (UCLA), T. Leyser (Uppsala), R. Wuerker (UCLA)

RP1.075 Precipitation of relativistic electrons by interaction with VLF chorus waves

K. R. Lorentzen, J. B. Blake (The Aerospace Corporation), U. S. Inan, J. Bortnik (Stanford University)

RP1.076 Radiation Belt Transport Theory Using Phase-Space Lagrangian Methods

A.A. Chan (Rice University), A.J. Brizard (Saint Michael's College)

RP1.077 Shock Surfing and Shock Drift Acceleration at a 2D Turbulent Front

Edward Lever (UCSD Physics Dept), Kevin Quest (UCSD ECE Dept), Vitali Shapiro (UCSD Physics Dept)

RP1.078 Comparison of Shock Surfing and Shock Drift Acceleration at Time Dependent Oblique Shock Fronts

Kevin Quest (UCSD ECE Dept), Edward Lever, Vitali Shapiro (UCSD Physics Dept)

RP1.079 Ion Heating in the Earth's Magnetosphere during Substorm and Storm-time

Amy Keesee, Earl Scime (West Virginia University), Craig Pollock (Southwest Research Institute)

RP1.080 Gradient Particle Magnetohydrodynamics: A new Lagrangian MHD code

Gregory G. Howes, Jason Maron (UCLA), Steven Cowley (Imperial College)

RP1.081 Wave activity in the mass-loading process

Vitali Shapiro (UC San Diego, Physics Department)

RP1.082 X-ray emission from comets.

B J Kellett, R Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX), J M Dawson (Dept of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024-1547, USA), V D Shapiro (Physics Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0407, USA), H Summers, M Torney (Department of Pure and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, Scotland)

RP1.083 Space Chamber Investigation of Velocity-Shear-Driven Electromagnetic Ion-Cyclotron Waves: Initial Results

Matthew M. Balkey, William E. Amatucci, David N. Walker, Gurudas Ganguli (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

RP1.084 Space Chamber Investigation of Magnetospheric Boundary Layer Dynamics

W.E. Amatucci, G. Ganguli, D.N. Walker, M.M. Balkey (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

RP1.085 Study of Magnetorotational Instability in a Rotating Gallium Disk

H. Ji (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J. Goodman (Princeton University), A. Kageyama (National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan), E. Shoshan (Rutgers University)

RP1.086 Numerical Simulation of Rotating Gallium Disk

Akira Kageyama (National Institute for Fusion Science)

RP1.087 Supernova hydrodynamics on the Omega laser

R.P. Drake, P. Keiter, K.E. Korreck, K.K. Dannenberg (Univ. of Michigan), H.A. Robey, T.S. Perry, J.O. Kane, B.A. Remington, R.J. Wallace, O.A. Hurricane, D.D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab.), J. Knauer (Lab. for Laser Energetics), R. Teyssier (CEA Saclay), A. Calder, R. Rosner, B. Fryxell (Univ. of Chicago), D. Arnett (Univ. of Arizona), Y. Zhang, J. Glimm (SUNY Stony Brook), N. Turner, J. Stone (Univ. of Maryland), R. McCray (Univ. of Colorado), J. Grove (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)

RP1.088 Modeling and Laboratory Investigations of Radiative Shocks

Jacob Grun, J. Martin Laming (Naval Research Laboratory), Charles Manka (Research Support Instruments), Christopher Moore, Ted Jones (Naval Research Laboratory), Daniel Tam (Naval Surface Weapons Center)

RP1.089 Laboratory simulations of solar prominences

J.F. Hansen, P.M. Bellan (Caltech)

RP1.090 Simulations of 2D and 3D Scaled Supernova Jet Experiments at Omega*

B. H. Wilde (Los Alamos National Laboratory), M. J. Edwards (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), P. A. Rosen, J. M. Foster (AWE), B. A. Remington, T. S. Perry (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

RP1.091 Observation of a Hydrodynamically Driven, Radiative Precursor Shock

P. A. Keiter, R.P. Drake (University of Michigan), T.S. Perry, H. Robey, B.A. Remington, C.A. Iglesias (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), N. Turner, J. Stone (University of Maryland), J. Knauer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)

RP1.092 The DYNAMO code - modelling of the Madison Dynamo Experiment

R. A. Bayliss, J. C. Wright, C. B. Forest (University of Wisconsin)

RP1.093 Z-Pinches

RP1.094 Radiative Characteristics of Pulsed Power Driven Stainless Steel Nested Wire Arrays

~~J. Davis, R.W. Clark, J.W. Thornhill, J.P. Apruzese, A. Velikovich (Naval Research Laboratory), C. Deeney, C. Coverdale (Sandia National Labortatory), D. LePell (Ktech Corporation)

RP1.095 Non-LTE Emission from a Gold-coated Deuterium Fiber Imploded on Z

~~R.W. Clark, J. Davis, P.C. Kepple, A. Dasgupta (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

RP1.096 Atomic Model Development of Au Including Au^0+- Au^60+ Ionization Stages

A. Dasgupta, P. Kepple, R. Clark, J. Davis (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

RP1.097 Multigroup Radiation Transport for Mach2

R. E. Terry, J. P. Apruzese, J. W. Thornhill (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

RP1.098 Modeling Long Current-risetime Aluminum Experiments on the Saturn Generator

K.G. Whitney, L.I. Rudakov (Berkeley Scholars Inc.), J.W. Thornhill, J.P. Apruzese, A. L. Velikovich, J. Davis (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), C. Deeney, C.A. Coverdale (Sandia National Laboratories)

RP1.099 Magnetic Flux Compression (MCF) by Plasma Shells

A. S. Chuvatin (Ecole Polytechnique, France), L. I. Rudakov (Berkeley Scholars, Inc., Springfield, VA), A. L. Velikovich (Plasma Physics Division, NRL)

RP1.100 High energy photon radiation from a Z-pinch plasma

V. I. Oreshkin (HCEI, Tomsk, Russia), A. L. Velikovich, J. Davis, J. P. Apruzese, R. W. Clark, J. W. Thornhill (Plasma Physics Division, NRL), L. I. Rudakov (Berkeley Scholars, Inc.)

RP1.101 Phase-contrast x-ray radiography using X pinch x-ray source.

Sergei A. Pikuz, Tatiana A. Shelkovenko, Daniel B. Sinars, Kathy M. Chandler, Mark D. Mitchell, David A. Hammer (Lab of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)

RP1.102 Exploring Parallel X pinch Coupling*

M.D. Mitchell, K.M. Chandler, T.A. Shelkovenko**, S.A. Pikuz**, D.A. Hammer (Cornell University, Lab of Plasma Studies)

RP1.103 Time-dependent continuum radiation spectrum of X pinch bright spots*

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

RP1.104 Time-resolved spectroscopy of X pinch bright spots*

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

RP1.105 Optical Observations of Multi-wire Z-pinch Experiments

Min Hu, Katherine Chandler, Bruce Kusse, David Hammer (Lab of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853)

RP1.106 Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Plasma from Exploding Single Wires

P.U. Duselis, D.L. McCrorey, Min Hu, B.R. Kusse (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University)

RP1.107 Conical-shell-produced axial-shear-flow effects on z-pinch m=0 instability development

I. Paraschiv, V.I. Sotnikov, V. Makhin, B.S. Bauer (University of Nevada Reno), I.R. Lindemuth, P.T. Sheehey (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

RP1.108 Conical wire-array implosions on axial wire for shear flow stabilization

R. Presura, B.S. Bauer, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Shlyaptseva, F. Winterberg, S. Fuelling, N. Le Galloudec, I. Paraschiv, D. Fedin, S. Hansen, D. McCrorey, H. LeBeau, N. Ouart, S. Rogowski, A. Oxner, S. Batie (University of Nevada, Reno)

RP1.109 Linear analysis of the shear flow stabilization of the global MHD instabilities based on the Hall fluid model.

Vladimir Sotnikov, Ioana Paraschiv, Volodymyr Makhin, Bruno Bauer (University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0058), Jean-Noel Leboeuf, John Dawson (University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547)

RP1.110 1D Modeling of the Initial Stage of Wire Explosions and 2D Modeling of the m=0 Sausage Instability With Sheared Axial Flow

Volodymyr Makhin, Vladimir Sotnikov, Bruno Bauer (University of Nevada, Reno, 89557), Irvin Lindemuth, Peter Sheehey (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545)

RP1.111 Magnetic Mode Data and Plasma Location in the Zap Experiment

J.E. Bright, U. Shumlak, B.A. Nelson (University of Washington Aerospace and Energetics), ZaP Project Team

RP1.112 Stabilty in a Kr Shell Deuterium Target Z-Pinch

Alan Van Drie, Norman Rostoker, Frank Wessel (UC Irvine)

RP1.113 Comparison of Z-pinch and theta pinch driven solid liner implosions

J.H. Degnan (Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate), P.J. Turchi, R.E. Siemon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

RP1.114 Multiple wire x-pinch plasma development, and x-ray emission characterisation

Ian Ross (AWE Plc, Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, UK), F.N. Beg, A.E. Dangor (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial college, London SW7 2BZ, UK)

RP1.115 Ideally conducting incompressible fluid model of wire arrays

Igor V. Sokolov (University of Michigan), Andrey Esaulov (Toyama University, Japan, and ITEP, Russia), A. L. Velikovich (Plasma Physics Division, NRL)

RP1.116 Effects of Finite Larmor radius and equilibrium shear flow on MHD Stability

H. Vernon Wong, W Horton, M Kotschenreuther, J. W. Van Dam (Institute for Fusion Studies)

RP1.117 2D Simulations of Wire Explosions

R. Baksht, I. Beilis (Tel Aviv University, Israel), I. Glazyrin, O. Diyankov, S. Koshelev (VNIITF, Snezhinsk, Russia), V. I. Oreshkin (HCEI, Tomsk, Russia)