Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 11 NOVEMBER 2002

09:30 BI1.001 High beta, long pulse, and bootstrap sustained scenarios on the National Spherical Torus Experiment* (NSTX)

David A. Gates (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

10:00 BI1.002 Performance and Stability of Near-Unity Aspect Ratio Plasmas in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment

Gregory D. Garstka (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:30 BI1.003 Next-Step-targeted experiments on MAST

Mikhail Gryaznevich (EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB, UK)

11:00 BI1.004 Formation of Electron Internal Transport Barrier and Achievement of High Ion Temperature in Large Helical Device

Yasuhiko Takeiri (National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan)

11:30 BI1.005 The New Advanced Operational Regime on the W7-AS Stellarator

Kent McCormick (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany)

12:00 BI1.006 Fast electron confinement in the MST reversed field pinch: progress towards the elimination of magnetic transport.

Rob O'Connell (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

09:30 BI2.001 Weimer Award Talk: MHD Discontinuities in the Dynamics of Collisionless Space Plasmas

Yu Lin (Physics Department, Auburn University, Alabama, U.S.A.)

10:00 BI2.002 Coronal Mass Ejections and Their Interplanetary Consequences

Jon Linker (Science Applications International Corporation, San Diego, CA)

10:30 BI2.003 Why current-carrying magnetic flux tubes gobble up plasma and become thin as a result

Paul Bellan (Applied Physics, Caltech)

11:00 BI2.004 Anisotropic MHD Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium and the Solar Wind

C. S. Ng (Center for Magnetic Reconnection Studies, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa, 203 Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242)

11:30 BI2.005 Laboratory Investigation of Boundary Layer Processes*

William Amatucci (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

12:00 BI2.006 Shear Alfven waves with electron kinetic effects in nonuniform plasmas

Stephen Vincena (UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy)

09:30 BO1.001 Stabilization of Filamentary Propagation of High-Density Relativistic Electrons Generated with 10TW - PW lasers

Y Toyama, R Kodama, H Fujita, Y Kitagawa (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University), K.A. Tanaka (Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University), K Mima, T Yamanaka (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

09:42 BO1.002 Using Heavy Ions to Compress Fuel for Fast Ignition

Debra Callahan, Mark Herrmann, Max Tabak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Grant Logan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:54 BO1.003 Proton and electron propagation during short pulse laser plasma interactions

Eugene Clark (AWE plc, Aldermaston, Reading RG7 4PR, UK), Mingsheng Wei, Farhat Beg, Bucker Dangor, Karl Krushelnick (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK), Paul McKenna, Iain Spencer, Thomas McCanny, Kenneth Ledingham (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK), Kate Lancaster (RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK)

10:06 BO1.004 Beam Model for Energetic Electron Transport in Laser Produced Plasmas

Wallace Manheimer, Denis Colombant (Plasma Physics Division, NRL, Washington, DC 20375)

10:18 BO1.005 Fast electron heating in ultra-intense laser-solid interaction by shifted K\alpha line fluorescence spectroscopy

E. Martinolli, M. Koenig, J.J. Santos, F. Amiranoff, S.D. Baton (LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France), D. Batani, E. Perelli, F. Scianitti (Dip. Fisica, Università Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy), L. Gremillet, M. Rabec, C. Rousseaux (CEA, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France), T. A. Hall (Univ.Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK), M.H. Key, A. J. Mackinnon, J.A. Koch (LLNL, CA 94550-9234, USA), R.R. Freeman, R.A. Snavely, J.A. King, C. Andersen, J.M. Hill (UC-Davis, CA 95616, USA), R.B. Stephens, T.E. Cowan (G. Atomics., San Diego, CA 92121-1122, USA), A. Ng, T. Ao (Dep. of Physics, UBC, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada)

10:30 BO1.006 Fast electron generation and transport in solid matter irradiated at relativistic intensities. Evidence of vxB acceleration

S.D. BATON, J.J. SANTOS, F. AMIRANOFF, H. POPESCU, L. GREMILLET, M. KOENIG, E. MARTINOLLI (LULI, UMR7605, CNRS-CEA-Paris VI-Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France), C. ROUSSEAUX, M. RABEC-LE-GLOAHEC (CEA, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France), T.A. HALL (Department of Physics, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom), D. BATANI, E. PERELLI, F. SCIANITTI (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Milano-Bicocca and INFM, 20126 Milan, Italy), T.E. COWAN (General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA)

10:42 BO1.007 Self-generated magnetic fields and electron transport in laser driven hohlraums

John Edwards, Ed Alley, Jim Hammer, Richard Town (LLNL), Malcolm Haines (Imperial College, UK)

10:54 BO1.008 Energy Gain and Loss of a Positron Beam in the E162 Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at SLAC

Brent Blue (UCLA), Patrick Muggli (USC), Mark Hogan, Caolionn O'Connell, Robert Siemann (SLAC), Chris Clayton (UCLA), Franz-Josef Decker (SLAC), Chengkun Huang (UCLA), Richard Iverson (SLAC), Chan Joshi (UCLA), Thomas Katsouleas (USC), Kenneth Marsh, Warren Mori (UCLA), Dieter Walz (SLAC), E162 Collaboration

11:06 BO1.009 Plasma Modeling of Electron Cloud Instability in Circular Accelerators

Ali Ghalam, Tom Katsouleas (USC), Giovanni Rumolo, Frank Zimmermann, Francesco Ruggiero (CERN), chengkun Huang, Viktor Decyk, Warren Mori (UCLA)

11:18 BO1.010 ECR Plasma Source for Heavy Ion Beam Charge Neutralization

P. C. Efthimion, E. Gilson, L. Grisham, R. C. Davidson (PPPL, Princeton, NJ), S. Yu, B. G. Logan (LBNL, Berkeley, CA)

11:30 BO1.011 SPATIAL AND TIME DYNAMICS OF NON-LINEAR VORTICES IN PLASMA LENS FOR HIGH-CURRENT ION BEAM FOCUSING

Alexei A. Goncharov, Vasyl I. Maslov, Ivan N. Onishchenko, Vitalij N. Tretyakov (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technoogy, 61108, Kharkov, Ukraine, e-mail: vmaslov@kipt.kharkov.ua)

11:42 BO1.012 High-Perveance Steady State Deuterium Ion Beam Extracted From Floating Plasma Stream

Yasser Shaban, George Miley (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

11:54 BO1.013 Physics Issues for a Next Generation High-Yield Ion -Injected IEC

George Miley, Hiromu Momota (Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:30 BO2.001 Modeling of Fuel--Pusher Mix Effects in 1-D Simulations of Cryogenic, All-DT Ignition Capsule Implosions

R. Epstein, T.J.B. Collins, J.A. Delettrez, V.N. Goncharov, P.W. McKenty, P.B. Radha, S. Skupsky (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

09:42 BO2.002 Experimental Investigation of Fuel--Pusher Mix in Direct-Drive Implosions on OMEGA

S.P. Regan, J.A. Delettrez, F.J. Marshall, J.M. Soures, V.A. Smalyuk, B. Yaakobi, R. Epstein, V.Yu. Glebov, P.A. Jaanimagi, D.D. Meyerhofer, P.B. Radha, T.C. Sangster, W. Seka, S. Skupsky, C. Stoeckl (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), Jr. Haynes (UW), J.A. Frenje, C.K. Li, R.D. Petrasso, F.H. Seguin (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT)

09:54 BO2.003 Effects of Fuel--Shell Mix on Direct-Drive Implosions of ^3He-Gas-Filled, CD-Layered Plastic Capsules on OMEGA

J.A. Frenje, C.K. Li, F.H. Seguin, R.D. Petrasso (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT), J.M. Soures, J.A. Delettrez, V.Yu. Glebov, D.D. Meyerhofer, P.B. Radha, T.C. Sangster, C. Stoeckl (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), N. Hoffmann, D. Wilson (LANL)

10:06 BO2.004 Non-Cryo Hydrodynamic Experiments on Nike

Y. Aglitskiy, N. Metzler (SAIC, McLean, VA), A. L. Velikovich, M. Karasik, A. N. Mostovych, V. Serlin, A. J. Schmitt, S. P. Obenschain (Plasma Physics Division, NRL, Washington, DC), J. H. Gardner (LCPamp;FD, NRL, Washington, DC), J. Varadarajan, T. Walsh, S. Faulk (Schafer Laboratories, Livermore, CA)

10:18 BO2.005 Study of short-wavelength perturbation growth for NIF double-shell ignition designs.

Jose Milovich, Peter Amendt, Michael Marinak, Harry Robey (LLNL)

10:30 BO2.006 The Effects of Concentricity on Omega Double-Shell Capsules

Robert Tipton, Peter Amendt, Jeffrey Colvin (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:42 BO2.007 Modified Bell-Plesset effect with compressibility and mode-coupling: Application to double-shell targets for the National Ignition Facility

Peter Amendt, Jeff Colvin, Harry Robey, Jose Milovich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:54 BO2.008 The effect of viscosity and mass diffusion on the growth of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities in double-shell ignition targets

Harry Robey, Peter Amendt, Jeff Colvin (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

11:06 BO2.009 Convergent, Compressible Richtmyer-Meshkov Experiment-Zero Order Hydrodynamics

G.R. Magelssen*, J.M. Scott*, N.E. Lanier*, S.H. Batha*, M.M. Balkey*, C.W. Barnes*, D.D. Delamater*, A.M. Dunne**, K.W. Parker**, S. Rothman**, D. Youngs**, *Los Alamos National Laboratory Collaboration, **AWE Aldermaston United Kingdom Collaboration

11:18 BO2.010 Mixing Between Two Compressing Cylinders

S.H. Batha (Los Alamos National Laboratory), N.D. Delamater (LANL), K.W. Parker (AWE), M.M. Balkey, Cris W. Barnes (LANL), A.M. Dunne (AWE), N.E. Lanier, G.R. Magelssen (LANL), S.D. Rothman (AWE), J.M. Scott (LANL)

11:30 BO2.011 Calculations of Double Cylinder Implosions at OMEGA

Norman Delamater, Steven Batha, Glenn Magelssen, John Scott, Nicholas Lanier (Los Alamos National Lab), Kenneth Parker, Michael Dunne (AWE,Aldermaston, UK)

11:42 BO2.012 2D CALE SIMULATIONS OF PUSHERED-SINGLE-SHELL CAPSULES INCLUDING THE K-L TURBULENT MIX MODEL

K. O. Mikaelian, R. E. Tipton (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551), G. Dimonte (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), D. P. Rowley, P. A. Amendt, O. S. Jones, J. D. Colvin, H. F. Robey, R. J. Wallace, H. Louis (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551)

11:54 BO2.013 Affect of initial conditions on turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Guy Dimonte (LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

12:06 BO2.014 Numerical Simulation of Supernova-Relevant Laser-Driven Rayleigh-Taylor Experiments on OMEGA

Aaron Miles, John Edwards, Jeff Greenough (Affiliation), Harry Robey (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:30 BM1.001 A Charged Interface Comes to a Point

Leo Kadanoff (University of Chicago), Cheng Yang

10:06 BM1.002 Simulation of Vortex Sheet Roll-Up in 3-D Flow and Application to Vortex Ring Dynamics

Robert Krasny (University of Michigan), Keith Lindsay (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

10:42 BM1.003 Critical Thresholds in Eulerian Dynamics

Eitan Tadmor (Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM), University of Maryland, College park MD, 20742)

11:18 BM1.004 Collapse in hydrodynamics and Kolmogorov spectrum

Evgenii Kuznetsov (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2 Kosygin str., 119334 Moscow, Russia)

11:54 BM1.005 Anisotropic Structures and Singularities in Thermal Rossby Wave Turbulence

P.H. Diamond, O.D. Gurcan (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319 USA)

BP1.001 Partially Ionized Discharges

BP1.002 Elastic and Transport Cross Sections for Argon and Carbon in Hydrogen Plasmas

David Schultz, Predrag Krstic\'c (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

BP1.003 Secondary electron emission from dielectrics at low energies of primary electrons

Alexander Dunaevsky, Raitses Yevgeny, Fisch Nathaniel (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

BP1.004 Anomalous Electron Heating and Nonlocal Effects in Inductively Coupled Plasmas

Yuriy Tyshetskiy, Andrei Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan), Valeriy Godyak (OSRAM Sylvania)

BP1.005 Self-consistent system of equations for kinetic description of low-pressure discharges accounting for nonlocal and collisionless electron dynamics

Demetre J. Economou, Badri Ramamurthi (Plasma Processing Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-4004), Igor D. Kaganovich (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543)

BP1.006 Generation of electron cyclotron resonance plasma in a rectangular waveguide by high power microwave

Lekha Nath Mishra (Energy and Environmental Science,Graduade school of Engineering ,Utsunomiya University,7-1-2 Ypto,Utsunomiya Tochigi 321-8585 Japan), Shibata Kanetoshi (Oyama Polytechnic College,612-1 Mitake Yokokura, Oyama, Tochigi 323-0813, Japan), Ito Hiroaki, Yugami Noboru, Nishida Yasushi (Energy and Environmental Science,Graduade school of Engineering ,Utsunomiya University,7-1-2 Ypto,Utsunomiya Tochigi 321-8585 Japan)

BP1.007 First-principle model for helicon plasma sources

Alexey Arefiev, Boris Breizman (The University of Texas at Austin)

BP1.008 Characterization of Alpha helicon plasmas

summer b. spores, christopher watts (new mexico tech)

BP1.009 Helium helicon discharges in Alpha

sara joe searl, christopher watts, summer b. spores (new mexico tech)

BP1.010 Multi-Source Helicon Operation on Alpha

christopher watts, joseph allen, sara hawkes, adam searl, summer b. spores (new mexico tech)

BP1.011 High-density hydrogen plasma production by helicon waves near the lower-hybrid resonace frequency

Hideki Kikuchi, Youichi Sakawa, Tatsuo Shoji (Department of energy engineering and science, Nagoya university, Japan)

BP1.012 Parallel Flows in an Expanding Helicon Plasma

Xuan Sun, Amy M. Keesee, John L. Kline, Earl Scime (West Virginia University)

BP1.013 Rotational Flow Measurement in a Helicon Plasma Source

Robert Hardin, Chris Compton, Earl Scime (West Virginia University), John Kline (P-24, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Robert Boivin (Auburn University)

BP1.014 Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field Geometry Light Ion Helicon Plasma Source

Yoshitaka MORI, Hideki NAKASHIMA (Kyushu University, Kasuga-city, Fukuoka, Japan), R.H. Goulding, M.D. Carter, Jr. Baity, D.O. Sparks, G.C. Barber, K.F. White, E.F. Jaeger (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee), F.R. Chang-Díaz, J.P. Squire (Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, Houston, Texas)

BP1.015 Azimuthal self-pressed radiating discharge as a source of radially converging light flow

Vladimir Burtsev, Alexander Andrezen, Maria Kasatkina, Nikolay Kalinin, Vladimir Smirnov (Efreemov Scientific Research Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus, 196641, St.-Petesburg, Metallostroy, NIIEFA, Russia)

BP1.016 H^- ion density and temperature in volume negative ion source

A. Ivanov, M. Bacal (LPTP, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France), M. Nishiura (RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

BP1.017 Modeling UW Gridded Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Experiments

John F. Santarius (University of Wisconsin)

BP1.018 HOW TO PATCH ACTIVE PLASMA AND COLLISIONLESS SHEATH: PRAGMATICAL GUIDE

Mikhail N. Shneider, Igor D. Kaganovich (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08543, USA)

BP1.019 Manipulation of a magnetized plasma using ring electrodes

B. P. Cluggish, K. R. Umstadter (Archimedes Technology Group, San Diego), N. A. Crocker, G. R. Tynan (Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego)

BP1.020 Sheath instabilities of electronegative inductive discharges

Michel Tuszewski, Robert White, Glen Wurden (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.021 Simulation of pulsed corona discharge plasma in air at atmosphere pressure

Wook-Hee Koh (Department of Physics, Hanseo University), In-Ho Park (Department of Physics, University of Incheon)

BP1.022 Study of the validity of LTE condition in Laser Induced Plasma Experiments

Hugo Sobral, Mayo Villagran-Muniz, Jazmin Ramirez-Gonzales (Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnologico, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Fausto Bredice (Centro de Investigaciones Opticas), Laboratory of Photophysics Team, Laboratory of Atomic Spectroscopy Team

BP1.023 Mid-infrared CW laser diodes and their application in cavity ring-down spectroscopy

Jerome Remy, Winfred Stoffels (Affiliation), Gerrit Kroesen (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)

BP1.024 Diode Laser Based LIF Diagnostics for Argon and Helium Plasmas.

E. Stolzenberg, R. F. Boivin, C. Compton, R. Hardin, A. Keesee, J. L. Kline, E. E. Scime (Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506-6315)

BP1.025 Laser Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Ion Temperatures in Helium Plasmas

Christopher Compton, Robert Boivin, Robert Hardin, Earl Scime, Xuan Sun (West Virginia University)

BP1.026 Design of an Ion Beam Diagnostic for an RF Heated Helicon Plasma

Si Jiahe, Schoch Paul, Connor Kenneth (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

BP1.027 Enthalpy Probe Measurements in Air Thermal Plasma Generated by a Non-transferred Plasma Torch with Hollow Electrodes for Hazardous Waste Treatments

Keun Su Kim, Shin Il Choi, Tae Hyung Hwang, Jun Ho Seo, Chan Min Lee, Jun Seok Nam, Sang Hee Hong (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Seoul National University)

BP1.028 An approach to reduce plasma perturbations induced by electrostatic probes in Hall thrusters

David Staack, Yevgeny Raitses, Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

BP1.029 Field Reversed Configuration

BP1.030 Overview of Reversed Field Configuration plasma target research at LANL for Magnetized Target Fusion

T. Intrator, J. Taccetti, G. Wurden, R. Siemon, P. Sanchez, W. Waganaar, S.Y. Zhang, M. Tuszewski, R. Maqueda, D. Begay, C. Bass, J. Campbell, C. Carey, M. Kozar, J. Liang, R. Renneke (Los Alamos National Laboratory), C. Grabowski, J. Degnan, W. Sommars, E. Ruden, D. Gale, T. Cavasos (Air Force Research Laboratory)

BP1.031 High-Density FRC Formation Studies on FRX-L

J.M. TACCETTI, T.P. INTRATOR, S.Y. ZHANG, G.A. WURDEN, R.J. MAQUEDA, M. TUSZEWSKI, R. SIEMON, D. BEGAY, E. MIGNARDOT, P. SANCHEZ, B. WAGANAAR (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J.H. DEGNAN, W. SOMMARS, C. GRABOWSKI, E. RUDEN (Air Force Research Laboratory)

BP1.032 Diagnosing the field reversed configuration plasmas on FRX-L

S.Y. ZHANG, G.A. WURDEN, J.M. TACCETTI, T.P. INTRATOR, P. SANCHEZ, C. BASS, C. CAREY, R. RENNEKE, M. HARRIS, S. DE VRIES, J. LIANG, M. KOZAR, R. ARAGONEZ, R.J. MAQUEDA, M. TUSZEWSKI (LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY, LOS ALAMOS, NM 87545), E. RUDEN, C. GRABOWSKI, J.H. DEGNAN, W. SOMMARS, F. ANALLA (AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY, KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM 87117)

BP1.033 Characterizing a High Density Field-Reversed Configuration Device for Magnetized Target Fusion

R. Renneke, T. Intrator, J.M. Taccetti, S.Y. Zhang, G. Wurden, W. Waganaar, R. Siemon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.034 Design and Performance of the Prefire Detection System for the FRX-L Main Capacitor Bank

W.J. Waganaar, T Intrator, P. Sanchez, J.M. Taccetti, B. Cochrane, C. Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), C. Grabowski (Air Force Research Laboratory)

BP1.035 FRC formation and trapping by counter injection for MTF liner implosions

Richard Siemon (Los Alamos National Laboratory), James Degnan (Air Force Research Laboratory), Michael Frese (NumerEx), Martin Taccetti (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.036 Thomson Scattering implementation on the FRX-L Field Reversed Configuration

G.A. Wurden, C. Bass, S. deVries, J. Faulkner, F.J. Wysocki (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.037 Nonlinear dynamical study of FRC particle orbits.

A.S. Landsman, S.A. Cohen (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), A.H. Glasser (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.038 Ion kinetic effect for the bifurcated relaxation of merging spheromaks

Eiichirou KAWAMORI, Yasushi ONO, Mayuko TSURUDA, Yukihiro MURATA, Makoto KATSURAI (High Temperature Plasma Center, University of Tokyo)

BP1.039 Numerical Study of Stability Properties of Field-Reversed Configuration

E. V. BELOVA, R. C. DAVIDSON, H. JI, M. YAMADA (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

BP1.040 Self-consistent electric fields and flows in the edge plasma of FRCs

Loren Steinhauer (University of Washington, Redmond Plasma Physics Laboratory)

BP1.041 Newly started rotamak plasma experiments at Prairie View Aamp;M University

Tian-Sen Huang, Yuri Petrov, Fangchuan Zhong (Prairie View Aamp;M University)

BP1.042 Evaluation of Improvements planned for TCS Upgrade on the TCS Prototype Experiment

John Slough, George Vlases, Samuel Andreason, Richard Milroy (University of Washington)

BP1.043 Recent Results from and proposed changes to the TCS Rotating magnetic Field FRC Generation Experiment

H.Y. Guo, A.L. Hoffman, Z.A. Pietrzyk, R.D. Brooks, J.A. Grossnickle, K.E. Miller, A.M. Peter, G.R. Votroubek (University of Washington)

BP1.044 Internal Magnetic Field Measurements in the TCS Experiment

K.E. Miller, J.A. Grossnickle (RPPL, University of Washington)

BP1.045 Tomographic Reconstruction on the TCS Experiment

G.R. Votroubek, A.M. Peter, Z.A. Pietrzyk (University of Washington, Redmond Plasma Physics Lab)

BP1.046 On The Possibility of FRC Formation with FIREX Ion Rings

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

BP1.047 Azimuthal Energy Loss in Strong Proton Rings in the Cornell Ion Ring Experiment

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

BP1.048 Theory and Simulation of Ion Ring-Alfvén Wave Dynamics in the Cornell FIREX Experiment: Plasma Heating and FRC Injection

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

BP1.049 Spectroscopic Observation of Ion Heating in FIREX

D.D. Lee, J.B. Greenly, W.J. Podulka (Cornell University)

BP1.050 Spheromak

BP1.051 Future Directions for the SSPX Experiment

David Hill (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), SSPX Team

BP1.052 Internal Magnetic Field Measurements for Equilibrium Reconstruction and Fluctuation Analysis in SSPX

Chris Holcomb, David Hill, Simon Woodruff, Reg Wood, Harry McLean (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Tom Jarboe, Hyundae Kim (University of Washington)

BP1.053 Injection of high-energy electrons into a spheromak to map out magnetic field lines

H.S. McLean, H. Chen, D.N. Hill, D.D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.054 Sub-microsecond imaging showing formation dynamics of the SSPX plasma

Carlos Romero-Talamas, Paul Bellan (Caltech), SSPX Team

BP1.055 Current filamentation and formation of hot spots on the cathode of the SSPX spheromak

D.D. Ryutov, R.H. Cohen, D.N. Hill (LLNL, Livermore, CA 94551)

BP1.056 Controlled magnetic perturbations for probing the quality of magnetic flux surfaces in a spheromak

M.R. Terry (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332), R.H. Bulmer, D.N. Hill, D.D. Ryutov (LLNL, Livermore, CA 94551)

BP1.057 The Effect of Impurities on Plasma Performance in SSPX

Reg Wood, David Hill, Bick Hooper, Chris Holcomb, Harry Mclean, Barry Stallard, Simon Woodruff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.058 Helicity coupling efficiency during field buildup in SSPX

Barry Stallard, Bick Hooper, Simon Woodruff, David Hill, Dick Bulmer, Harry McLean (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.059 Processes that govern gun voltage in SSPX and their role in helicity injection

Simon Woodruff, Barry Stallard, Harry McLean, Chris Holcomb, David Hill, Bick Hooper (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.060 Simulations and Theory of Resistive MHD in Spheromaks*

B.I. Cohen, R.H. Cohen, L.L. LoDestro (Univ. Cal. LLNL, Livermore, CA 94550), C.R. Sovinec (Dept. Nuc. Engr., U. Wisc., Madison, WI 53076)

BP1.061 Current drive and helicity transport in slowly building SSPX discharges

Bick Hooper, Dick Bulmer, David Hill, Chris Holcomb, Harry McLean, Don Pearlstein, Barry Stallard, Reg Wood, Simon Woodruff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.062 Fluctuation Measurements of the Ultrashort Pulse Reflectometry System on SSPX

Y. Roh, C. W. Domier, Jr. Luhmann (University of California, Davis), S. Woodruff, D. N. Hill, E. B. Hooper (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.063 Initial results from the SSX-FRC experiment

M. R. Brown, C. D. Cothran, A. Falk, A. Fefferman, M. Landreman (Swarthmore College), M. J. Schaffer (General Atomics)

BP1.064 Numerical Simulations of the Caltech Spheromak Formation Experiment

Mayya Tokman (Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley), Scott C. Hsu, Paul M. Bellan (Applied Physics, Caltech)

BP1.065 Laser Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Spheromak Plasmas

Steven Pracko, Paul Bellan (Caltech)

BP1.066 Laboratory Study of Spheromak Formation and Magnetic Helicity Injection

S. Hsu, P. Bellan (Caltech)

BP1.067 Magnetic Reconnection of Internal SCT Field with External Axial DC field

Robert Horton, David Hwang, Stephen Howard, Russell Evans (UC Davis/LLNL)

BP1.068 Plasma Density Profile Measurement of Accelerated SCT Using Laser Deflection Diagnostics

Samuel Brockington, David Hwang, Robert Horton, Russ Evans, Steven Howard (Department of Applied Science UC Davis/ Livermore), Department of Applied Science Team

BP1.069 Characteristics of Compact Toroids Propagating in a Curved Drift Tube

M. NOMURA, N. FUKUMOTO, M. NAGATA, T. UYAMA (Graduate School of Engineering, Himeji Institute of Technology)

BP1.070 Nonlinear MHD Simulations of Inductive Transients in Spheromaks and Spherical Tori

G. A. Cone, C. R. Sovinec, H. Tian (Univ. of WI-Madison), B. I. Cohen (LLNL)

BP1.071 Heating and Current Drive

BP1.072 DESIGN OF THE IGNITOR ICRF ANTENNA SYSTEM

Giuseppe Vecchi, Muzio Gola, Riccardo Maggiora, Teresa Berruti, Volodymyr Kyrytsya, Matteo Salvetti, Vito Lancellotti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

BP1.073 A New Method for Shear Stabilization of Advanced Tokamak Reactors via Mode Converted Ion Bernstein Waves*

Richard Sund, John Scharer (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

BP1.074 Mode conversion at the ion-ion-hybrid resonance in multidimensional tokamak plasmas

E.F. Jaeger, L.A. Berry, D.B. Batchelor (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), P. T. BONOLI (MIT), C. K. PHILLIPS, R. J. DUMONT (PPPL), D. N. SMITHE (Mission Research Corporation)

BP1.075 Analysis of Mode Converted Waves

L.A. Berry, E.F. Jaeger, D.B. Batchelor, SciDAC RF Team

BP1.076 Local Mode Analysis of 2D ICRF Wave Solutions

D.A. D'Ippolito, J.R. Myra (Lodestar Research Corp.), E.F. Jaeger, L.A. Berry, D.B. Batchelor (ORNL)

BP1.077 New RF Modeling Method for Three-Dimensional Non-Uniformity

D. N. Smithe (Mission Research Corporation), C. K. Phillips, R. J. Dumont (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. B. Batchelor, E. F. Jaeger, L. A. Berry (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), P. T. Bonoli (MIT)

BP1.078 Fast Ion Interaction with MHD in ICRH Plasmas

V.S. Chan, M.S. Chu, Y. Sentoku (General Atomics), S.C. Chiu (Sunrise Ramp;M, Inc.), T.K. Mau (UCSD), Y.A. Omelchenko (Dynamics Research Corp.)

BP1.079 Numerical Study of Energetic Ion Orbit Characteristics in Tokamak Plasmas

Y. Sentoku, V.S. Chan (General Atomics), Y.A. Omelchenko (Dynamics Research Corp.), S.C. Chiu (Sunrise Ramp;M Inc.)

BP1.080 Effects of non-Maxwellian populations on ICRF waves propagation and absorption

R.J. Dumont, C.K. Phillips (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.), D.N. Smithe (Mission Research Corp.)

BP1.081 Physics of nonlinear ICRF-driven flows in 2D toroidal geometry

J. R. Myra, D. A. D'Ippolito (Lodestar Research Corp.), E. F. Jaeger, L. A. Berry, D. B. Batchelor (ORNL)

BP1.082 High Harmonic Fast Wave Damping on Electrons and Ions in the NSTX Experiment.

R.W. Harvey (CompX), A.P. Smirnov (Moscow State U.), C.K. Phillips, J.R. Wilson, A. Rosenberg (PPPL), T.K. Mau (UCSD), P. Bonoli (MIT)

BP1.083 Self-Consistent RFCD and Bootstrap Current

J. Decker (Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center, M.I.T.), Y. Peysson (CEA-Cadarache, France), A. Bers, A. K. Ram (Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center, M.I.T.)

BP1.084 Current Drive Experiments with Oscillating Toroidal Flux

J.S. Mao (Institute of plasma Physics, Academia Sinica, P.O.box 1126,Hefei, Anhui, 230031, People's Republic of China), J.R. Luo, J.Y. Zhao, J.G. Li, P. E. Phillips (Fusion Research Center, C1510 Univ. of Texas at Austin. TX 78712 USA), HT-7 Team

BP1.085 Waves, Shocks and Computational Methods

BP1.086 Mode Conversion of Electron Cyclotron Frequency Waves in a Non-Stratified Plasma.

Harold Weitzner (Courant Institute-NYU)

BP1.087 Experimental Studies of the Instability Excited by a Langmuir Probe in a Magnetized Plasma

A. Kostrov (Institute of Applied Physics), A. Kuritsyn (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ), A. Strikovsky (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

BP1.088 Optical and Magnetic Field Measurements for a Helicon Source with Axial Density Gradients*

John Scharer, Ben White, Shane Tysk, Kamran Akhtar, Mark Denning, Univ. of Wisconsin Collaboration

BP1.089 Relativistic Magnetoacoustic Ion Cyclotron Instabilities Driven by MeV Ions

K. R. Chen, Y. Y. Chen, J. D. Huang, X. E. Huang (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University)

BP1.090 A Strange Instability

J. D. Huang, Y. Y. Chen, K. R. Chen (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University)

BP1.091 Observations of Shear Driven Instabilities in ALEXIS

Jon David Jackson, E. A. Wallace, Jr. Thomas (Auburn University)

BP1.092 Development of Optical Diagnostics for Instability Studies on ALEXIS

E. A. Wallace, Jon David Jackson, Jr. Thomas (Auburn University)

BP1.093 Effect of Axial Plasma Nonuniformity on a rf Power Absorption in Compact Helicon Source

Shunjiro Shinohara (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan), Konstantin Shamrai (Institute for Nuclear Research, Kiev, Ukraine)

BP1.094 Large Volume Plasma Production Using Helicon Wave

Takao Tanikawa (Tokai Univ., Tokyo, Japan), Shunjiro Shinohara (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan), Sugiya Sato (Nippon Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan), Yoshiharu Nakamura (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan)

BP1.095 Mode conversion in not so slowly varying plasmas

D. G. Swanson (Physics Department, Auburn University)

BP1.096 Reflection of Alfven Waves from Boundaries with Different Conductivities

David Leneman (UCLA), Jim Maggs, Walter Gekelman (Affiliation)

BP1.097 Electromagnetically induced transparency of magnetized plasma at the cyclotron frequency

Gennady Shvets (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616), Jonathan Wurtele, Min-Soop Hur (University of California, Berkeley, CA 90420)

BP1.098 Resonant Electric Field Amplification in Critical-Density Heating

Nathan Dalrymple (Air Force Research Laboratory)

BP1.099 Comparison of nonaxisymmetric wave propagation in a collisional and non- collisional helicon plasma

Jeremy Hanna (Auburn University)

BP1.100 A comparison of the effects of collision operators on RF propagation

Brent Goode, John Cary (University of Colorado)

BP1.101 Instability suppression by a gas jet in plasma focus devices

Julio Herrera, Fermín Castillo (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico), Hugo Acuña (Lab. de Física del Plasma, U. Nal. de Mar del Plata, Argentina)

BP1.102 Long time behavior of relativistic ions incessantly accelerated by an oblique shock wave

Yukiharu Ohsawa, Shunsuke Usami (Nagoya University, Department of Physics, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan)

BP1.103 3D-Electrostatic PIC simulation with open boundaries applied to a neutral plasma beam entering a curved magnetic field

Tomas Hurtig, Michael Raadu, Nils Brenning (Alfvénlaboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden)

BP1.104 Influence of high-Z metal coatings on laser target dynamics

V. Serlin, S. P. Obenschain, A. J. Schmitt, J. H. Gardner, M. Karasik, A. N. Mostovych (Naval Research Laboratory,Washington, DC 20375), Y. Aglitskiy (SAIC, McLean, VA, 22150)

BP1.105 Off-Hugoniot measurements of water and hydrogen using laser-produced shocks in diamond anvil cells

S.J. Moon, D Hicks (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA), E Henry (University Milan-Bicocca and I.N.F.M., Italy), K.M. Lee, L.R. Benedetti (University of California, Berkeley), J. Eggert, P.M. Celliers, A. Mackinnon (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA), R. Jeanloz (University of California, Berkeley), L.B. Da Silva, R. Wallace, B. Hammel (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA), M. Koenig, A. Benuzzi, G. Huser (L.U.L.I., C.N.R.S. Ecole Polytechnique, France), D. Batani (University Milan-Bicocca and I.N.F.M., Italy), O. Willi, J. Paisley (Imperial College, London, UK), R. Cauble (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA), P. Loubeyre (C.E.A. Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France), D. Neely, M. Notley, C. Danson (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), G.W. Collins (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

BP1.106 Interaction of the Cryogenically Cooled Gas-Jet with a Laser Pulse

Jong-Uk Kim, Changbum Kim, Gaung-Hoon Kim, Hae June Lee, Hyyong Suk, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute Team

BP1.107 Self-similar approximation of radiative blast wave in preheated material

K.A. Keilty, E.P. Liang (Rice University)

BP1.108 Probe measurements in the expansion region of the Magnetic Nozzle Experiment

N.S. Siefert (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University), S.A. Cohen (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

BP1.109 Evolution of a Zone-Centered Field with a Node-Centered Diffusion Solver on an Unstructured Mesh

T.B. Kaiser (University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.110 Initialization of Beam Simulations using Particle Distributions Reconstructed from Experimental Data

A. Friedman, D.P. Grote (LLNL), F.M. Bieniosek, C.M. Celata, K.A. Jordan, L.R. Prost (LBNL)

BP1.111 Realistic Geometry and Global Implementations of the Gyrokinetic Summit Framework

J. N. Leboeuf, V. K. Decyk (UCLA), A. Dimits, D. Shumaker (LLNL)

BP1.112 Mesh Refinement for Particle-In-Cell Plasma Simulations: application to Heavy Ion Fusion

J.-L. Vay, P. Colella, P. McCorquodale, D. Serafini, B. Van Straalen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), A. Friedman, D. Grote (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.113 Lattice Boltzmann Approach to Resistive MHD

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

BP1.114 Fragmentation, Merging, and Internal Dynamics for Collisional PIC Simulation with Finite Size Particles

Dennis Hewett, Dennis Larson (LLNL)

BP1.115 Application of the Broyden method to stiff transport equations

Johan Carlsson, John R. Cary (Tech-X Corporation), Ron Cohen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.116 A Local Fluid Model of Plasma Dynamics

Russell Cottam (NASA Glenn Research Center/OAI)

BP1.117 Magnetized 2-D Vlasov Simulations of Nonlinear Field Structures

David L. Newman, Martin V. Goldman, Robert E. Ergun (University of Colorado at Boulder)

BP1.118 Two Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Code for Simulation of Quantum Plasmas

V.K. Decyk (decyk@physics.ucla.edu), J. Tonge, D.E. Dauger (UCLA)

BP1.119 QUIET COLLISIONAL PIC SIMULATIONS WITH RANDOM TIME STEPS

William Peter (Advanced Power Technologies, Inc.)

BP1.120 Progress in Modeling Collisional Plasmas using Particles with Internal Dynamics

David Larson, Dennis Hewett (LLNL)

BP1.121 Quiet direct simulation of Coulomb collisions in plasma media

B.~J. Albright, D.~S. Lemons, W. Daughton, D. Winske, M.~E. Jones (Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.122 ACFM, A Computational Framework for Magnetofluid and Kinetic Calculations

Ahmet Y. Aydemir (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas)

BP1.123 Dynamical Measures - Enlightenment through Persistence

Willis Ferenbaugh, D. E. Newman (University of Alaska-Fairbanks), P.W. Terry (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

BP1.124 Adaptive Wavelet Techniques Applied to Vlasov Simulations

Marine Afeyan, Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc.), Michel Albrecht-Marc, Alain Ghizzo, Pierre Bertrand (LPMI, UHP, Nancy, France)

BP1.125 Modeling relativistic plasmas with PIC using VORPAL

Chet Nieter, John R. Cary (Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado)

BP1.126 Optimizing VORPAL, an object oriented numerical code

Viktor Przebinda, John R. Cary, Chet Nieter (Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado)

BP1.127 MHD results from a collisionless fluid model

J.J. Ramos (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, M.I.T., Cambridge MA)

BP1.128 Self-consistent ponderomotive effects in low-frequency gyrokinetics

Alain J Brizard (St Michael's College), Allan N Kaufman (LBNL amp; UCBerkeley)

BP1.129 DETERMINATION OF THE ATTRACTION BETWEEN MAGNETIC POLES OF THE DIFFERENT TYPE

YILDIRIM CINAR (University of A. Izzet Baysal, Duzce, Turkey)

BP1.130 Tomographic determination of plasma velocity with the use of Doppler spectroscopy measurements

Alexander L. Balandin, Yasushi Ono (High Temperature Plasma Center, University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656)