Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 29 OCTOBER 2003

09:30 KI1.001 Stability of a finite-length screw pinch revisited

Dmitri Ryutov (LLNL, Livermore, CA 94551)

10:00 KI1.002 Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection Dynamics

Amitava Bhattacharjee (Center for Magnetic Reconnection Studies, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824)

10:30 KI1.003 Plasma Dynamics in Pulsed Strong Magnetic Fields

Yitzhak Maron (Weizmann Institute, Israel)

11:00 KI1.004 Topological Symmetry Breaking and Access to Magneto Bernoulli States

Prashant Valanju (Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin)

11:30 KI1.005 MHD Stability of Centrifugally Confined Plasmas

Yi-Min Huang (Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park)

12:00 KI1.006 High-Beta, Anisotropic Plasma Confinement in an Axially Symmetric Gas Dynamic Trap

A. A. Lizunov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia)

09:30 KI2.001 The Coalition for Plasma Science: Bringing Plasmas to the Public

Lee Berry (ORNL)

10:00 KI2.002 Recent Results from the Plasma Science Education Laboratory

Andrew Post-Zwicker (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

10:30 KI2.003 The effects of return current and target charging in short pulse high intensity laser interactions

Farhat Beg (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, UK)

11:00 KI2.004 Short-pulse high intensity laser thin foil interaction

Patrick Audebert (Laboratoire pour l Utilisation des Lasers Intenses Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France)

11:30 KI2.005 Advanced Fast Ignition Studies at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Peter Norreys (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon. OX11 0QX, UK)

12:00 KI2.006 Shock Propagation, Preheat, and X-ray Burnthrough Measurements in NIF Ignition Capsule Ablator Materials

Rick Olson (Sandia National Laboratories)

09:30 KO1.001 Progress towards high performance, steady-state Spherical Torus

Masayuki Ono (PPPL, Princeton University), and The NSTX National Team

09:42 KO1.002 MHD-induced Fast Ion Losses on NSTX

E. D. Fredrickson, D Darrow, N. N. Gorelenkov, S. Medley, J. Menard, L. Roquemore (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

09:54 KO1.003 Influence of kinetic effects on ballooning stability in NSTX

Janardhan Manickam, Charles Kessel, Jon Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

10:06 KO1.004 Resistive Wall Mode Stabilization in NSTX

S.A. Sabbagh, J. Bialek, A.C. Sontag, W. Zhu (Columbia University), R.E. Bell, M.G. Bell, T.M. Biewer, D.A. Gates, B.P. LeBlanc, J.E. Menard, and the NSTX Research Team (PPPL), A.H. Glasser (LANL), L.L. Lao (General Atomics)

10:18 KO1.005 Improved Resistive Wall Mode Detection on NSTX

A. C. Sontag, J. M. Bialek, S. A. Sabbagh, W. Zhu (Columbia University), J. E. Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), and the NSTX Research Team

10:30 KO1.006 Observation of enhanced electron confinement in low density beam heated NSTX discharges

D. Stutman, M. Finkenthal, K. Tritz (Johns Hopkins University), M.G. Bell, R.E. Bell, S.M. Kaye, B.P. LeBlanc, J.E. Menard, E.J. Synakowski (Princeton University), C. Bourdelle (Association Euratom-CEA, France), NSTX Team

10:42 KO1.007 Gyrokinetic Calculations of NSTX and C-Mod H-mode Plasmas

M. H. Redi (PPPL, Princeton, NJ), W. Dorland (U. Maryland, College Park, MD), J. Candy, R. Waltz (GA, San Diego, CA), C. Bourdelle (Euratom-CEA, France), S. Kaye and the NSTX Team, C. Fiore and the C-Mod Team

10:54 KO1.008 NSTX Electron Bernstein Wave (EBW) Research

G. Taylor, P.C. Efthimion, J.R. Wilson (Princeton U.), G.L. Bell, T.S. Bigelow, M.D. Carter, D.A. Rasmussen, J.B. Wilgen (ORNL), T. Peebles, S. Kubota (UCLA), A.K. Ram, A. Bers, R. Temkin (MIT), R.W. Harvey, A.P. Smirnov (CompX)

11:06 KO1.009 Integrated Scenario Modeling of NSTX Advanced Plasma Configurations

Charles Kessel, Edward Synakowski (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), NSTX Research Team

11:18 KO1.010 An outer PF coil-only inductive plasma startup technique on spherical tori

W. Choe, Jayhyun Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), M. Ono (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

11:30 KO1.011 Observation and Modeling of the Ar^16+ K-shell X-ray Emission Produced by Charge Exchange on NSTX

P. Beiersdorfer, M. Marion (LLNL), M. Bitter (PPPL), M.-F. Gu (MIT)

11:42 KO1.012 The Path to High Field Utilization and Beta in the Toroidal Experiment

G.D. Garstka (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Pegasus Team

11:54 KO1.013 The Kinetic Stabilizer: A Route to Axisymmetric Tandem Mirror Systems

R. F. Post, R. H. Bulmer, J. A. Byers, T. K. Fowler, D. D. Ryutov, L. S. Tung (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:30 KO2.001 Energy Depostion and Expansion in Single Wire Experiments

Peter Duselis, Jeffrey Vaughan, Bruce Kusse (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

09:42 KO2.002 ALEGRA-calculated wire core expansion rates in single-wire explosions and their comparison to experimental results

J. H. Musk, P. U. Duselis, D. A. Hammer, B. R. Kusse (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University)

09:54 KO2.003 Droplet Formation in Wire Array Plasmas

J. S. De Groot (UC Davis and Sandia National Laboratories), S. Rosenthal, K. Cochrane, T. Haill, T. Mehlhorn (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:06 KO2.004 Observation of Anomaly-High Energy Deposition in Exploding Wire Experiments

G.S. Sarkisov (Ktech Corp.), K.W. Struve, D.H. McDaniel (SNL)

10:18 KO2.005 Observation of the effects of current distribution in linear wire array experiments

Min Hu, Bruce R. Kusse (Lab of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853)

10:30 KO2.006 Plasma dynamics in radial wire array z-pinches

Sergey Lebedev, D.J. Ampleford, S.N. Bland, S. Bott, J.P. Chittenden, A. Ciardi, C. Jennings, M.G. Haines, J. Rapley (Imperial College London)

10:42 KO2.007 3D full circumference modelling of wire array Z-pinches

J.P. Chittenden, S.V. Lebedev, S.N. Bland, C.A. Jennings, A. Ciardi (Imperial College)

10:54 KO2.008 Investigation of Implosion Dynamics and Stagnation of Tungsten Wire Arrays With Varied Wire Number and Constant Total Mass

Michael Mazarakis, Christopher Deeney (Sandia National Laboratory), Melissa Douglas (Los Alamos National Laboratory), William Stygar, Daniel Sinars, Michael Cuneo, Gordon Chandler, Thomas Nash, Kenneth Struve, Dillon McDaniel (Sandia National Laboratory), Jerry Chittenden (Imperial College)

11:06 KO2.009 Observations of Wire Array Dynamics on the Z Accelerator using Optical Frames and Streak Images

David E. Bliss (Sandia National Laboratories), Gennady S. Sarkisov (Ktech Corporation), Sonrisa T. Rogowski, Brent M. Jones, Chris Deeney, Thomas J. Nash, Kenneth W. Struve, Dillon H. McDaniel (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:18 KO2.010 A Radiation Transfer Experiment on Z

P. A. Keiter, G. A. Kyrala, R. G. Watt, G. Idzorek, R. R. Peterson, B. P. Wood, D. L Peterson, R. Chrien, P. J. Adams, M. M. Wood-Schultz (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:30 KO2.011 Validating Radiation Transport Calculations with Z-Experiments on SiO2 Foams

Robert R. Peterson, George A. Kyrala, Paul A. Keiter, Robert G. Watt, Darrell L. Peterson, Blake P. Wood, Robert E. Chrien (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:42 KO2.012 Axial radiation asymmetry in dynamic hohlraums diagnosed spectro-scopically

T. W. L. Sanford, T. J. Nash, R. C. Mock, J. E. Bailey, G. A. Chandler, D. O. Jobe, P. W. Lake, R. J. Leeper, J. M. Lucas, T. H. Mehlhorn, T. C. Moore, D. S. Nielson (SNL), J. P. Apruzese, R. W. Clark, P. C. Kepple, J. Davis (NRL), J. J. MacFarlane (Prism Computational Sciences), R. C. Watt, D. L. Peterson, R. E. Chrien, G. C. Idzorek (LANL), N. F. Roderick (University of New Mexico)

11:54 KO2.013 A New Method for Setting Bounds on Magnetic Rayleigh Taylor Instabilities in Z-Pinches

R. W. Lemke, J. E. Bailey, G. A. Chandler, T. J. Nash, S. A. Slutz, T. W. L. Sanford (Sandia National Laboratories)

12:06 KO2.014 Modeling of nested Ti wire array implosions on foam targets

A. L. Velikovich, J. Davis (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), V. I. Oreshkin (High Current Electronics Institute, Tomsk, Russia), C. Deeney, C. A. Coverdale, B. Jones (Sandia National Laboratories), P. D. LePell (Ktech Corporation)

12:18 KO2.015 Magnetic Field Measurements in Z-Pinches Using Polarization Separation Zeeman Techniques

E.J. Yadlowsky, R.C. Hazelton, C.C. Klepper, M. Keitz, E.P. Carlson, J.J. Moschella (HY-Tech Research Corp.)

09:30 KM1.001 Characterization of MHD liquid metal instabilities: dynamo saturation

Daniel P. Lathrop (Dept. of Physics, IREAP and IPST, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742), Daniel R. Sisan (Dept. of Physics, IREAP and IPST, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

09:55 KM1.002 The Madison Dynamo Experiment

Cary Forest, Roch Kendrick, Adam Bayliss, Mark Nornberg, Erik Spence (University of Wisconsin)

10:20 KM1.003 Dynamos in small magnetic Prandtl number fluids

Fausto Cattaneo (Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago)

10:45 KM1.004 A Liquid Metal Dynamo and MRI Experiment; Rm \simeq 120

Stirling Colgate (Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico Tech), New Mexico Dynamo Experiment Team

11:10 KM1.005 Experiments on the Expansion of a Dense Plasma into a Background Magnetoplasma

Walter Gekelman, Mike VanZeeland, Steve Vincena, Pat Pribyl (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles)

11:35 KM1.006 Theory, Simulations and Experiments in Dynamos and MHD Turbulence.

Steven Cowley (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA), Alexander Schekochihin (Department of Physics, Imperial College, London.), Gregory Hammett (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ.), William Dorland (Department of Physics, University of Maryland.), James McWilliams (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA.)

12:00 KM1.007 Future Perspectives of Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics II: Liquid Metal and Basic Plasma Experiments

H. Ji (PPPL), F. Cattaneo (U Chicago), S. Colgate (LANL and NMT), S. Cowley (UCLA), C. Forest (U Wisconsin), D. Lathrop (U Maryland), W. Gekelman (UCLA)

09:30 KM2.001 Eulerian and Lagrangian pictures of plasma dynamics using LIF

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

09:55 KM2.002 Measurement of Ion Motion in a Large Amplitude Shear Alfvén Wave

Walter Gekelman, Nathan Palmer (Physics Dept. University of Calicornia, Los Angeles)

10:20 KM2.003 Particle and Heat Transport Measurement Using Laser Induced Fluorescence.

F. Anderegg (UCSD)

11:15 KM2.004 Ultracold Neutral Plasma Imaging

T. C. Killian, C. E. Simian, Y. C. Chen, P. Gupta, S. Laha, Y. N. Martinez, P. G. Mickelson, S. B. Nagel (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University; Houston, TX 77005)

11:40 KM2.005 Doppler velocimetry of low temperature ion plasmas using laser-induced fluorescence

J.J. Bollinger, W.M. Itano, J.M. Kriesel (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305), T.B. Mitchell (Dept. of Phys. and Astron., Univ. of Delaware), D.H.E. Dubin (Dept. of Phys., UCSD)

12:05 KM2.006 Laser Light Scattering Probes of Molecular Collision Dynamics

Paul Kleiber (University of Iowa)

KP1.001 DIII-D Diagnostics, Pedestal Divertor, ECH

KP1.002 Divertor Diagnostic Neutral Beam Plans for DIII-D

R.L. Boivin, N.H. Brooks, K.H. Burrell, W.P. West (General Atomics), S.L. Allen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

KP1.003 Physics Feasibility Studies of a Divertor Charge Exchange Recombination Diagnostic for DIII-D

N.H. Brooks, W.P. West, R.L. Boivin (General Atomics), R.E. Olsen (U. Missouri at Rolla), G.D. Porter, N.S. Wolf, S.L. Allen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

KP1.004 UEDGE Modeling of the Proposed Divertor CER Diagnostic in DIII-D

N.S. Wolf, G.D. Porter, S.L. Allen, R.D. Rognlien (LLNL), N.H. Brooks, W.P. West (General Atomics)

KP1.005 In-Situ Calibration of the DIII-D MSE Diagnostic System With Magnetic Fields

S.L. Allen, R.J. Jayakumar, M.A. Makowski, R.F. Ellis, D. Behne, R. Geer, J.M. Moeller, W.M. Meyer, T.A. Casper, M. Groth (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A.W. Hyatt (General Atomics)

KP1.006 Improved Density Measurements With a Rayleigh Calibrated Thomson Scattering System at DIII-D

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

KP1.007 Study of a CW, 2-D Thomson Scattering Diagnostic System

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

KP1.008 An Analysis of Systematic Errors in the Thomson Scattering Measurement on DIII-D

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

KP1.009 Upgrade of DIII-D Phase Contrast Imaging Diagnostic for High-k Measurements

J.C. Rost, M. Porkolab, J.R. Dorris (Plasma Science and Fusion Centre, MIT), K.H. Burrell (General Atomics)

KP1.010 Self-Consistent Determination of Plasma Rotation Using Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy

W.M. Solomon, R. Nazikian (PPPL), K.H. Burrell, P. Gohil, R.J. Groebner (GA)

KP1.011 Spatially Localized Millimeter Wave Backscattering to Probe ETG-Scale High-k Turbulence in the DIII-D Tokamak

M. Gilmore (U. New Mexico), W.A. Peebles, T.L. Rhodes (University of California, Los Angeles)

KP1.012 Search for Small-Scale ETG Microturbulence on DIII-D Via Microwave Back-Scattering

W.A. Peebles, T.L. Rhodes, X. Nguyen, L. Zeng (University of California, Los Angeles), M. Gilmore (U. New Mexico)

KP1.013 ELM Characterization in the SOL of DIII-D

J.A. Boedo, D.L. Rudakov, D.S. Gray, R.A. Moyer (UCSD), G.R. McKee, D.G. Whyte (U. Wisc.), T.E. Evans, A.W. Leonard, M.A. Mahdavi, W.P. West (GA), M.E. Fenstermacher, M.E. Groth, G.D. Porter (LLNL), P.C. Stangeby (U. Toronto), J.G. Watkins (SNL)

KP1.014 Comparison of SOL/Divertor ELM Data From DIII-D With Time-Dependent UEDGE Modeling

M.E. Fenstermacher, G.D. Porter, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A.W. Leonard, T.W. Petrie (GA), J.G. Watkins (SNL), L. Zeng (UCLA), E.M. Hollmann (UCSD), A. McLean (U. Toronto)

KP1.015 Modeling Creation and Transport of Methane and Its Derivatives in DIVIMP

A. McLean, P.C. Stangeby, D. Elder (University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies), M.J. Schaffer, T.E. Evans, L.L. Lao (GA), M.E. Austin (U. Texas), J.G. Watkins (SNL)

KP1.016 Changes in Particle Pumping Due to Variation in Magnetic Balance in DIII-D

T.W. Petrie, N.H. Brooks, J.R. Ferron, C.M. Greenfield, A.W. Hyatt, T.C. Luce, M.A. Mahdavi, M.J. Schaffer, W.P. West (General Atomics), M.R. Wade (ORNL), S.L. Allen, M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth (LLNL), J.G. Watkins (SNL)

KP1.017 Far Scrape-Off Layer Studies in DIII-D

D.L. Rudakov, J.A. Boedo, R.A. Moyer, R.P. Doerner, E.M. Hollmann, S. Krasheninnikov (UCSD), N.H. Brooks, T.E. Evans, M.A. Mahdavi, W.P. West (GA), M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier (LLNL), G.R. McKee, D.G. Whyte (U. Wisc.), A. McLean, P.C. Stangeby (U. Toronto), J.G. Watkins (SNL)

KP1.018 Fueling Sources, ELMs, and Optimizing Density Control in DIII-D

J.G. Watkins (SNL), T.W. Petrie, C.M. Greenfield, T.C. Luce, M.A. Mahdavi (GA), R. Maingi, M.R. Wade (ORNL), M.E. Rensink, S.L. Allen (LLNL)

KP1.019 Critical Tasks for Understanding the H-mode Pedestal

R.J. Groebner, A.W. Leonard, M.A. Mahdavi, T.H. Osborne, P.B. Snyder (General Atomics), T.L. Rhodes (UCLA), M.E. Fenstermacher (LLNL), R.A. Moyer (UCSD)

KP1.020 Correlation of Density Pedestal Width and Neutral Penetration

X.Q. Xu, W.M. Nevins, R.H. Cohen, T.D. Rognlien, M.V. Umansky (LLNL)

KP1.021 Edge Current Profile Analysis with Lithium Beam Polarimetry on DIII-D

A.W. Leonard, H.W. Mueller, T.H. Osborne, D.M. Thomas (General Atomics)

KP1.022 Physics of Pedestal Density Profile Formation and Its Impact on H-mode Density Limit in Burning Plasmas

M.A. Mahdavi, R.J. Groebner, A.W. Leonard, T.H. Osborne (General Atomics), G.D. Porter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

KP1.023 Comparison of the H-Mode Pedestal Structure in the JET and DIII-D Tokamaks

T.H. Osborne, A.W. Leonard, M.A. Mahdavi, P.B. Snyder (General Atomics), G.D. Porter, M.E. Fenstermacher (LLNL), A. Loarte, G. Saibene (JET)

KP1.024 Study of Toroidal Flow Shear Effects on Intermediate to High-n MHD Stability

P.B. Snyder, M.S. Chu (GA), H.R. Wilson, A.J. Webster (EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre)

KP1.025 Investigation of Transport in the DIII-D Edge Pedestal

W.M. Stacey (Georgia Tech), R.J. Groebner (GA)

KP1.026 Spatial Structure of SOL Current Observed Concurrently with ELMs in DIII-D Tokamak

H. Takahashi, E.D. Fredrickson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M.J. Schaffer (Affiliatio), T.E. Evans, L.L. Lao (GA), M.E. Austin (U. Texas), J.G. Watkins (SNL)

KP1.027 Dynamics of Pedestal Perturbations by ELMs and Edge Harmonic Oscillations in DIII-D

L. Zeng, G. Wang, E.J. Doyle, T.L. Rhodes, W.A. Peebles (UCLA), K.H. Burrell (GA), G.R. McKee (U. Wisc.), J.A. Boedo, R.A. Moyer (UCSD)

KP1.028 High Time Resolution L-H Transition Studies on DIII-D

G. Wang, T.L. Rhodes, E.J. doyle, L. Zeng, W.A. Peebles (UCLA), K.H. Burrell, R.J. Groebner, T.E. Evans, M.A. Mahdavi (GA), G.R. McKee (U. Wisc.), R.A. Moyer, D.L. Rudakov (UCSD)

KP1.029 Edge Radial Electric Field Structure in Quiescent H-Mode Plasmas in the DIII-D Tokamak

K.H. Burrell, R.J. Groebner, P. Gohil (General Atomics), W.M. Solomon (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

KP1.030 Advancing the Parameter Space for QH-mode Operation in DIII-D

P. Gohil, K.H. Burrell, W.P. West (General Atomics), L.R. Baylor, T.C. Jernigan (ORNL), E.J. Doyle (UCLA)

KP1.031 Pedestal and Scrape-Off Layer Characteristics of QH Plasma Compared With ELMing H-mode for an Expanded Database

C.J. Lasnier, W.P. West, K.H. Burrell, J.S. deGrassie, C.M. Greenfield (General Atomics), E.J. Doyle (UCLA)

KP1.032 Equilibrium Solution Variations Using Edge Kinetic Profiles and the Self-Consistent Bootstrap Current

W.H. Meyer, T.A. Casper, M.E. Fenstermacher, L.L. LoDestro, L.D. Pearlstein (LLNL), A.W. Leonard, T.H. Osborne, W.P. West (GA)

KP1.033 Edge Profiles during Quiescent H-mode on DIII-D

W.P. West, K.H. Burrell, P.B. Snyder, A.D. Turnbull (General Atomics), E.J. Doyle, L. Zeng (UCLA), T.A. Casper, C.J. Lasnier (LLNL)

KP1.034 A Refinement of Power Measurements on the DIII-D Gyrotron System

Y.A. Gorelov, J. Lohr, R.W. Callis, W.P. Cary, D. Ponce, J.L. Doane (GA), F.W. Baity (ORNL)

KP1.035 Measurements and Thermal Simulation of the ECH Launcher Mirror in DIII-D

K. Kajiwara (ORISE), C.B. Baxi, J. Lohr, Y.A. Gorelov, M. Green, D. Ponce, R.W. Callis (GA)

KP1.036 Operational Experience With the DIII-D 110 GHz ECH System

J. Lohr, Y.A. Gorelov, K. Kajiwara, D. Ponce, J.L. Doane, J. Peavy, J.F. Tooker (General Atomics)

KP1.037 Heating and Current Drive

KP1.038 Large scale parallel computation of rf interactions in tokamak and stellarator plasmas

E. F. Jaeger, L. A. Berry, D. B. Batchelor, E. F. D'Azevedo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), J. R. Myra (Lodestar Research Corporation)

KP1.039 Numerical simulation of ICRF heating in plasmas with non-Maxwellian species

C.K. Phillips, A. Pletzer (PPPL), D.B. Batchelor, L.A. Berry, M.D. Carter, E. D'Azevedo, E.F. Jaeger (ORNL), R.J. Dumont (CEA-Cadarache), P.T. Bonoli, J.C. Wright (PSFC-MIT), D.N. Smithe (MRC), R.W. Harvey (CompX)

KP1.040 Practical use of Gaussian Wave-packet Basis Sets for Full-Wave Solutions

David Smithe (Mission Research Corporation), Cynthia Phillips, Alexander Pletzer (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

KP1.041 The Effect of Field Gradients, Curvatures, and Collisions on RF Wave Tunneling and Mode Conversions.

Brent Goode, John R. Cary (Center for Integrated plasma studies and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0390), L. A. Berry (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8071)

KP1.042 Analysis of Linear Conversion to Two Modes

Alain J Brizard (St Michael's College), Andre Jaun (Royal Institute of Technology), Allan N Kaufman (LBNL and UCBerkeley), Eugene R Tracy (College of William amp; Mary)

KP1.043 Calculation of Ion Velocity-Space Diffusion Coefficients Due to Full-Wave ICRF Fields in Toroidal Geometry

R.W. Harvey, A.P. Smirnov, N.M. Ershov (CompX, Del Mar, CA), P. Bonoli, J.C. Wright (MIT, Cambridge, MA), F. Jaeger, D.B. Batchelor, L.A. Berry, M.D. Carter (ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN), D.N. Smithe (Mission Research Corp., Newington, VA)

KP1.044 Current Drive by Electron Bernstein Waves in Spherical Tori

J. Decker, A. K. Ram, A. Bers (Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center, M.I.T.), Y. Peysson (CEA Cadarache, F-13108 St. Paul-lez-Durance, France)

KP1.045 Electron Bernstein Wave Heating Scenarios for QPS

M. D. Carter, D. B. Batchelor, T. S. Bigelow (ORNL)

KP1.046 Delta-f simulations of electron Bernstein modes using VORPAL

Chet Nieter, John Cary (University of Colorado at Boulder)

KP1.047 ECWGB: a beam tracing 3D code for EC current drive

D. Farina, S. Nowak, G. Ramponi (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, CNR, EURATOM-ENEA-CNR Assoc., via Cozzi 53, Milano, Italy)

KP1.048 Current Drive in a Ponderomotive Potential with Sign Reversal

N.J. Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J.M. Rax (LPTP, Ecole Polytechnique, France), I.Y. Dodin (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

KP1.049 The effect of neutral pressure and magnetic field on RF breakdown

C.H. Castano Giraldo, D.N. Ruzic (Plasma-Material Interaction Group, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), J. B. O. Caughman, A. Virshup, F.W. Baity, D.W. Swain, D.A. Rasmussen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

KP1.050 Suppression of MHD by Modulated LHW and IBW on HT-7 Tokamak

J. S. Mao, J. Y. Zhao, X. Gao, J. R. Luo, L. Q. Hu (Affiliation), Y. D. Li (Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O.box 1126,Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China), Perry Phillips (Fusion Research Center, C1510 Univ. of Texas at Austin. TX 78712 USA), HT-7 Team

KP1.051 Low Temparture Plasmas

KP1.052 Electron-impact excitation of xenon

Arati Dasgupta (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), Klaus Bartschat (Deapartment of Physics and Astronomy, Drake University, Des Moines, IA 50311), Drake University Collaboration

KP1.053 Litization of FTU tokamak vacuum vessel by using a Li limiter

Giuseppe Mazzitelli, Maria Laura Apicella (ENEA, Frascati, Italy), Vladimir Lazarev, E.A. Azizov, S.V. Mirnov, Vladimir Petrov (Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Fusion Research, Troitsk, Moscow Reg., Russian Federation), Alexei Vertkov, V.A. Evtikhin, I.E. Lyublinski (State Enterprise «Red Star» - «Prana-Center» Co, Moscow, Russian Federation), ENEA Collaboration, Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Fusion Research Collaboration, State Enterprise «Red Star» Collaboration

KP1.054 Investigation of Electrical Breakdown Characteristics between Two Cylindrical Electrodes

Li Shouzhe, Uhm Han S. (Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, San 5 Wonchon-Dong, Paldal-Gu, Suwon 442-749, Korea)

KP1.055 Collisional sheath dynamics in the low RF frequency regime

Nong Xiang, Frank Waelbroeck (Institute for fusion studies, University of Texas at Austin)

KP1.056 Experimental evidence for a radially localized electromagnetic mode and an electron trapping electrostatic mode in helicon discharges

Martin Panevsky, Roger Bengtson (Fusion Research Center, University of Texas at Austin)

KP1.057 Initial Results from the ASTRAL Helicon Plasma Source

Robert Boivin (Department of Physics, Auburn University, 211 Allison Laboratory, Auburn, AL, 36849-5311)

KP1.058 Monte Carlo model of ion mobility and diffusion for low and high electric fields

Scott Robertson, Zoltan Sternovsky (Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0390)

KP1.059 Ponderomotive force in warm plasma

D. Y. Sydorenko, A. I. Smolyakov, Y. O. Tyshetskiy (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada), V. A. Godyak (OSRAM SYLVANIA, 71 Cherry Hill Drive, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915)

KP1.060 Thermodynamic Performance of an Audio Frequency, Atmospheric Pressure Coaxial Dielectric Barrier Discharge

Travis Gray, Brian Bures, Mohamed Bourham (Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University)

KP1.061 Three Dimensional Numerical Analysis on Discharge Properties

kenji Takaishi, Makoto Katsurai (The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

KP1.062 Ion collection by cylindrical probes in weakly collisional plasmas:

Zoltan Sternovsky, Scott Robertson (Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0390), Martin Lampe (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5346)

KP1.063 Integration of the I-V characteristic second derivative for the electron energy distribution function by regularization methods.

Cesar Gutierrez-Tapia, Hector Flores-Llamas (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico.)

KP1.064 Molecular Dynamics Calculation of Hydrogen Reflection and Sputtering Yields on Lithium Surfaces

Hua-Tan Qiu, D.A. Alman, D.N. Ruzic (Plasma-Material Interaction Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

KP1.065 Plasma Accelerators

KP1.066 Dynamics of 28.5 GeV Positron Beams in a Meter-long Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Patric Muggli (USC), B.E. Blue, C.E. Clayton (UCLA), S. Deng (USC), F.-J. Decker, M.J. Hogan (SLAC), C. Huang (UCLA), R. Iverson (Affiliation), C. Joshi (UCLA), T. Katsouleas, S. Lee (USC), W. Lu, K.A. Marsh, W.B. Mori (UCLA), C.L. O'Connell, P. Raimondi, R. Siemann, D. Walz (SLAC), E-162 Collaboration

KP1.067 Experiments and Simulations of Positron Beam Propagation Through Meter Long Plasma Channels

K.A. Marsh, M. Zhou, B.E. Blue, C. E. Clayton, C. Joshi, W. B. Mori (UCLA), F.-J. Decker, M.J. Hogan, R.H. Iverson, C. O'Connell, R.H. Siemann, D. Walz (SLAC), T. Katsouleas, S. Lee, P. Muggli (USC)

KP1.068 Quasi-static Modeling of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Using QuickPIC

C. Huang, M.-M. Zhou, D. K. Johnson, Lu Wei, C. E. Clayton, C. Joshi, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori (UCLA), C.E. Barnes, C. O'Connell, F. J. Decker, P. Emma, M. J. Hogan, R. H. Iverson, P. Krejcik, R. H. Siemann, D. Walz (SLAC), S. Deng, T. Katsouleas, P. Muggli, E. Oz (USC)

KP1.069 Physics of Beam Propagation and Wake Generation in Self-ionized Plasmas

Suzhi Deng, Tom Katsouleas (USC), E164 Collaboration

KP1.070 Nonlinear Theory for Plasma Wakes in the Blow out Regime in PWFA and Scaling Law

Wei Lu, Huang Chengkun, W.B. Mori, Chan Joshi, C.E. Clayton, D.K. Johnson, K.A. Marsh, M.M. Zhou (Electrical Engineering Dept. UCLA), S. Deng, T. Katsouleas, P. Muggli, E. Oz (USC), C.E. Barnes, C.O Connell, F.-J. Decker, P. Emma, M.J. Hogan, R.H. Iverson, P Krejcik, R.H.e Siemann, D. Walz (SLAC), UCLA Collaboration, USC Collaboration, SLAC Collaboration

KP1.071 Field Ionization of a Neutral Lithium Vapor using a 28.5 GeV Electron Beam

C. L. O'Connell, C. Barnes, F.-J. Decker, P. Emma, M. Hogan, R. Iverson, P. Krejcik, R. Siemann, D. Walz (SLAC), S. Deng, T. Katsouleas, P. Muggli, E. Oz (USC), C. Clayton, C. Huang, D. Johnson, C. Joshi, W. Lu, K. Marsh, W. Mori (UCLA), H. Schlarb (DESY)

KP1.072 Plasma Light Diagnostic for the PWFA at SLAC

Erdem Oz, e-164x Collaboration

KP1.073 The UCLA/NICADD Plasma Density Transition Trapping Experiment

Matthew Thompson, James Rosenzweig, Gil Travish, Michael Schneider (University of California, Los Angeles), Nikolai Barov (Northern Illinois University)

KP1.074 Colliding laser pulses in plasmas: Nonlinear waves and electron acceleration

E. Esarey, G. Fubiani, C. Schroeder, W.P. Leemans (LBNL), J.R. Cary, R. Giacone, C. Nieter (U CO, Boulder), D. Bruhwiler, D. Dimitrov (Tech-X Corp.)

KP1.075 Generation of a Single Pulse Particle Beam in the Laser Plasma Wake Field Accelerator

Rodolfo Giacone, John Cary, Chet Nieter (Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado), David Bruhwiler (Tech X Corporation), Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans (Center for Beam Physics, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley)

KP1.076 Optical Injection in a Laser Wake Field Accelerator

D. Kaganovich, A. Ting, D. Gordon, T. G. Jones, E. Eldridge, R. Hubbard, P. Sprangle (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375)

KP1.077 Energetic electron beam production from a plasma produced by an intense laser pulse

E. MIURA, K. KOYAMA, Y. KAWADA, M. ADACHI, S. KATO, T. NAKAMURA, N. SAITO, M. TANIMOTO (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))

KP1.078 Controlled Ion Acceleration in Two Crossed Laser Beams Propagating in Plasmas

J.A. Tataronis (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706), V. Petr\vzÍlka, L. KrlÍn (PALS amp; Association Euratom/IPP.CR, Prague, Czech Rep.)

KP1.079 Laser Propagation and Radiation Sources

KP1.080 Direct Characterization of Femtosecond Laser Filaments in Air

A. Ting, D. Gordon, I. Alexeev, E. Briscoe, J. Penano, P. Sprangle (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375)

KP1.081 Multiphoton Ionization via an Intermediate State for Laser Propagation in the Atmosphere

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

KP1.082 Slow electromagnetic solitons in a collisionless plasma with two counter-propagating laser pulses

H. J. Lee, J. B. Kim, C. Kim, G.-H. Kim, J.-U. Kim, H. Suk (Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon, S. Korea), Center for Advanced Accelerators Team

KP1.083 Nonlinear Laser Synchrotron Source Experiment for Tunable, Monochromatic X-rays

R.P. Fischer, A. Ting, D. Gordon, I. Alexeev, E. Briscoe, P. Sprangle (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375)

KP1.084 Ultrashort x-ray source by nonlinear laser-electron scattering

A. Valenzuela, S. Banerjee, R. Shah, K. Korbiak, K. Ta Phuoc, A. Maksimchuk, D. Umstadter (FOCUS Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099)

KP1.085 3D Time and Frequency Domain Calculations of Chirped X-Ray Pulse Generation through Thomson Scattering

Winthrop Brown, Fred Hartemann (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

KP1.086 Three-Dimensional Theory of Nonlinear Compton Scattering

Fred Hartemann, Winthrop Brown, Scott Anderson (LLNL), Jeremy Brown (Bates College, PPPL (NUF)), John Crane, Dave Gibson, Aaron Tremaine (LLNL), Advanced Accelerators amp; Light Sources Team

KP1.087 Charge Exchange Recombination X-Ray Laser in a Non-Equilibrium Plasma due to an Interaction of Ultra-Short Pulse Laser and Cluster

Shinichi Namba (Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University), Noboru Hasegawa, Tetsuya Kawachi, Maki Kishimoto, Kouta Sukegawa, Keisuke Nagashima (Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishiment,Japan Atomic Energy Reseach Institute), Ken Takiyama (Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University)

KP1.088 Coherent transition radiation from a self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator generated electron beam

Carl Schroeder, Eric Esarey, Jeroen van Tilborg, Wim Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

KP1.089 Amplification of Short Laser Pulses by Resonant Raman Scheme in a Gas Jet Plasma

Yuan Ping, Weifeng Cheng, Szymon Suckewer (Princeton University), Daniel Clark, Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

KP1.090 Radiation from Interaction between Short Pulse and Ultra High Power Laser and Magnetized Plasma

Noboru YUGAMI, Davoud Dorranian, Homaira Parchamy, Masanori Aoyagi, Hiroaki Ito, Yasushi Nishida (Utsunomiya University)