Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 17 NOVEMBER 2004

09:30 HI1.001 Marshall Rosenbluth and the Beginning of Monte Carlo Simulations for the Physical Sciences

James E. Gubernatis (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:00 HI1.002 Applications of the Low-Frequency Kinetic-MHD Energy Principle to Wall Modes

R. Betti (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U of Rochester)

10:30 HI1.003 The Four-Wave Paradigm for ITG Turbulent Transport in Tokamaks

Roscoe White (Princeton University)

11:00 HI1.004 Contributions to the Theory of Plasma Turbulence by Marshall N. Rosenbluth

P.H. Diamond (University of California, San Diego)

11:30 HI1.005 ANGULAR MOMENTUM REDISTRIBUTION AT ALL SCALES IN THE UNIVERSE

Bruno Coppi (MIT)

12:00 HI1.006 Review of progress in Fast Ignition

Max Tabak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:30 HI2.001 Measurement of ultrafast dynamics in the interaction of intense laser pulses with gases, clusters, and plasma waveguides

K. Y. Kim (Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

10:00 HI2.002 High quality electron bunches from a plasma channel guided laser wakefield accelerator

Cameron Geddes (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:30 HI2.003 Formation of clean single beams through Optical Injection in a Plasma Channel

John R. Cary (University of Colorado and Tech-X Corporation)

11:00 HI2.004 Laser generated particle beams : A new tool for science

Victor Malka (LOA/CNRS/ENSTA/X)

11:30 HI2.005 MONO-CHROMATIC LASER-ACCELERATED MULTI-MEV ION BEAMS

B. Manuel Hegelich (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:00 HI2.006 Simulating Electron Clouds in Heavy-Ion Accelerators

Ronald H. Cohen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Heavy Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory)

09:30 HO1.001 NIF as a platform for high pressure equation of state measurements

P.M. Celliers, G.W. Collins, D.K. Bradley, S.J. Moon, D.G. Braun, J.H. Eggert, D.G. Hicks, M.J. Eckart, C.A. Haynam, S.N. Dixit, B.J. MacGowan, E.W. Ng, R.J. Wallace (LLNL), P.W. Watts, R.M. Malone (Bechtel Nevada, Los Alamos, NM)

09:42 HO1.002 Experimental Investigation of a Radiation Dominated Decaying Shock wave

C. A. Back, J. H. Hammer, J. I. Castor, S. A. Maclaren, O. A. Hurricane, C. Constantin, O. L. Landen, T. R. Dittrich, M. D. Rosen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:54 HO1.003 X-ray Preheating of Embedded Layers

S. G. Glendinning, T. R. Dittrich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:06 HO1.004 Diagnosing Shock-Heated, Direct-Drive Plastic Targets with Spectrally Resolved X-Ray Scattering

H. Sawada, S.P. Regan, T.R. Boehly, I.V. Igumenshchev, V.N. Goncharov, F.J. Marshall, B. Yaakobi, T.C. Sangster, D.D. Meyerhofer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), G. Gregori, D.G. Hicks, S.H. Glenzer, O.L. Landen (LLNL)

10:18 HO1.005 Radiation transport measurements by X-ray scattering

Gianluca Gregori, J. Hammer, E. Dewald, S.H. Glenzer, O.L. Landen (LLNL)

10:30 HO1.006 Dynamic EXAFS Probing of Laser-Driven Shock Waves and Crystal Phase Transformations

D.D. Meyerhofer, B. Yaakobi, T.R. Boehly, T.J.B. Collins (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), H. Lorenzana, B.A. Remington, P.G. Allen, S.M. Pollaine (LLNL), J.J. Rehr (U. of Washington), R.C. Albers (LANL)

10:42 HO1.007 Shock generation of velocity fluctuations at a grain boundary

Nelson Hoffman (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:54 HO1.008 Possible Novel Carbon Structures Synthesized by Laser-Induced Shock Waves

S. N. Luo (LANL), O. Tschauner (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas), T. E. Tierney, D. C. Swift (LANL), P. D. Asimow (Caltech)

11:06 HO1.009 Absorption Measurements in Spherical Implosions on OMEGA

W. Seka, C. Stoeckl, V.N. Goncharov, R.E. Bahr, T.C. Sangster, R.S. Craxton, J.A. Delettrez, A.V. Maximov, J. Myatt, A. Simon, R.W. Short (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

11:18 HO1.010 High-Gain, Direct-Drive Foam Target Designs for the National Ignition Facility

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

11:30 HO1.011 Propagation of Strong Shock in Low-Density Foams

I.V. Igumenshchev (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

11:42 HO1.012 Polar-Direct-Drive Experiments on OMEGA

J.M. Soures, F.J. Marshall, J.A. Delettrez, R. Epstein, R. Forties, V.Yu. Glebov, J.H. Kelly, T.J. Kessler, J.P. Knauer, P.W. McKenty, S.P. Regan, W. Seka, V.A. Smalyuk, C. Stoeckl (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), J.A. Frenje, C.K. Li, R.D. Petrasso, F.H. Séguin (PSFC, MIT)

11:54 HO1.013 Numerical Investigation of X-Ray Core Images from OMEGA Implosions Driven with Controlled Polar Illumination

R. Epstein, R.S. Craxton, J.A. Delettrez, F.J. Marshall, J.A. Marozas, P.W. McKenty, P.B. Radha, V.A. Smalyuk (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

12:06 HO1.014 Evolution of the Laser-Deposition Region on Polar-Direct-Drive Simulations on the National Ignition Facility (NIF)

J.A. Marozas, P.B. Radha, T.J.B. Collins, P.W. McKenty, S. Skupsky (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

12:18 HO1.015 Plasma Photonic Devices for High Energy-Density Science

Ryosuke Kodama (ILE Osaka University)

12:30 HO1.016 Numerical Simulations of Laser-Irradiated Plastic Planar Targets with Gold Overcoats

J. W. Bates, A. J. Schmitt, D. Columbant, M. Karasik (Laser Plasma Branch, Plasma Physics Division), J. H. Gardner (Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)

09:30 HM2.001 The interaction of hydromagnetic waves and ions in space plasmas

Martin Lee (Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire)

10:00 HM2.002 Efficient Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Shocks

Don Ellison (North Carolina State University)

10:30 HM2.003 Stochastic acceleration via novel wave-particle interactions

James Miller (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

11:00 HM2.004 TRANSPORT AND MODULATION OF COSMIC RAYS IN THE SOLAR WIND

John Bieber (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)

11:30 HM2.005 Cosmic-ray propagation in strongly turbulent magnetized plasmas

Benjamin D. G. Chandran (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Iowa), Naoki Bessho (Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire), Jason Maron (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Iowa, Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Rochester)

12:00 HM2.006 Pitch angle scattering in three-dimensional “critical balance” MHD turbulence.

Miriam Forman (Stony Brook University), Sean Oughton (University of Waikato), Tim Horbury (Imperial College)

HP1.001 Fluid, Gyrokinetic, and Kinetic Plasma Simulation

HP1.002 The PPPL TRANSP Code: Status and Plans

Douglas McCune, Robert Andre, Eliot Feibush, K. Indireshkumar, Scott Klasky, Christiane Ludescher-Furth, Lew Randerson (Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory)

HP1.003 Computational Study of Pellet Ablation

Ryuichi Ishizaki, Noriyoshi Nakajima (National Institute for Fusion Science), Paul B. Parks (General Atomics)

HP1.004 Lattice Boltzmann Explicit Schemes for 3D MHD on Non-Uniform Grids

C. Schleif, G. Vahala (William amp; Mary), L. Vahala (Old Dominion University), A. Macnab (CSCAMM, University of Maryland), M. Soe (Rodgers State University), J. Carter (NERSC)

HP1.005 Unconditionally Stable Explicit Difference Scheme for 1D MHD with arbitrary transport coefficients

G. Vahala (William amp; Mary), J. Yepez (Air Force Research Lab.), L. Vahala (Old Dominion University)

HP1.006 A High Resolution Scheme for Multi-Dimensional Two-Fluid Plasma Equations

Ammar Hakim, Uri Shumlak, John Loverich (University of Washington, Aerospace and Energetics Research Program, Seattle, WA)

HP1.007 MTF Investigations with MACH2: Compression of an FRC by a Deforming and Imploding Solid Liner

Michael H. Frese, Sherry D. Frese (NumerEx), Jr. Craddock (SAIC), James Degnan (Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate), Norman F. Roderick (University of New Mexico)

HP1.008 Equation free projective integration and its applicability for simulating plasma

Michael A. Shay, James F. Drake, William Dorland, Marc Swisdak (University of Maryland)

HP1.009 MHD-Style Particle Simulation

Jim T. Peoble, Scott E. Parker (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)

HP1.010 Two-fluid applications of NIMROD

D. C. Barnes (University of Colorado at Boulder), NIMROD Team

HP1.011 Resistive Wall Simulations in ITER and NSTX

H. Strauss (NYU), W. Park, G. - Y. Fu, J. Breslau, S. Jardin (PPPL), L. Sugiyama (MIT)

HP1.012 Conclusions of the M3D/NIMROD Cross-Code Benchmark

J. Breslau, W. Park, S. Jardin (PPPL), H. Strauss (NYU), D. Schnack, A. Pankin (SAIC)

HP1.013 Plasma Simulation Studies using the M3D code

W. Park, J. Breslau, J. Chen, G.Y. Fu, S.C. Jardin, S. Klasky, J. Menard (PPPL), H.R. Strauss (NYU), L.E. Sugiyama (MIT)

HP1.014 Performance Tuning of the 3D Particle-in-Cell code GTC on the CRAY X1 and Earth Simulator parallel-vector computers

Stephane Ethier (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Zhihong Lin (University of California Irvine)

HP1.015 Transport Simulations with a Gyrokinetic Turbulence Kernel

William Dorland (Dept of Physics, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD)

HP1.016 Kinetic Alfven Wave Turbulence Simulations

Kate Despain, W. Dorland (University of Maryland)

HP1.017 Statistical Characteristics from ETG/ITG Gyrofluid Simulations

Taro Matsumoto (Naka Fusion Research Establishment, JAERI, Japan), Yasuaki Kishimoto (Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto Univ., Japan), Jiquan Li (Southwestern Institute of Physics, China)

HP1.018 Ion Acceleration Via Ultra Intense Laser Interactions with Over and Underdense Plasmas

J. Fahlen, C. Ren, F.S. Tsung, M. Tzoufras, W.B. Mori (University of California, Los Angeles), M. Marti, R.A. Fonseca, J.R. Davies, L.O. Silva (GoLP/Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal), T. Katsouleas (University of Southern California)

HP1.019 Particle-in-cell simulations of magnetically confined deuterium plasmas produced by laser irradiation of clusters

D. V. Rose, D. R. Welch (Mission Research Corp., Albuquerque, NM), T. Ditmire (Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX), T. A. Mehlhorn, J. L. Porter (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)

HP1.020 Plasma physics of photoionized gases by short x-ray pulses

Dmitri Romanov (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), V. Bychenkov (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia), W. Rozmus, C. E. Capjack, R. Fedosejevs (University of Alberta)

HP1.021 Tunneling ionization and Wigner transform diagnostics in OSIRIS

S. Martins, R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva (GoLP/IST, Portugal), S. Deng, T. Katsouleas (University of Southern California), F. Tsung, W. B. Mori (University of California Los Angeles)

HP1.022 EM-PIC Simulations of Beat-Wave Excited KEEN Modes

C. Joshi, F. S. Tsung, B. J. Winjum, W. B. Mori (UCLA)

HP1.023 Space-Charge-Limited Emission Models for Particle Simulation

J. P. Verboncoeur (University of California - Berkeley), K. L. Cartwright, T. Murphy (Air Force Research Laboratory - Kirtland)

HP1.024 Particle-particle interactions in the Complex Particle Kinetics Method

David Larson, Dennis Hewett (LLNL)

HP1.025 Hybrid Particle-Fluid modeling of Plasmas

A.E. Schulz, A.D. Greenwood, K.L. Cartwright, P.J. Mardahl (Air Force Research Laboratory)

HP1.026 Simulation of space-charge-dominated particle beams

Alex Friedman (LLNL and Heavy Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory)

HP1.027 Nonlocal Electron Transport in Inertial Confinement Fusion

Atsushi Sunahara (Institute for Laser Technology), Kunioki Mima (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

HP1.028 Simulations of Nonlinear Ponderomotive Effects in an Inductively Coupled Plasma Slab

D. Y. Sydorenko, A. I. Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N5E2, Canada), V. A. Godyak (OSRAM SYLVANIA, 71 Cherry Hill Drive, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915)

HP1.029 Parallel Implicit Kinetic Simulation with PARSEK

Markidis Stefano, Lapenta Giovanni (LANL)

HP1.030 Transport Analysis of the Kinetically Stabilized Tandem Mirror

J. Pratt, J.-H. Kim, W. Horton, H. V. Wong (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin), T. K. Fowler (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley)

HP1.032 Field Reversed Configurations and Spheromaks

HP1.033 Density profile of a field-reversed configuration's n=2 rotational instability via tomographic inversion of FRX-L's multichord optical interferometer data

Edward Ruden (Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate), Shouyin Zhang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

HP1.034 Progress and Plans for plasma studies on the FRX-L Field Reversed Configuration experiment

G.A. Wurden, T.P. Intrator, I.G. Furno, S.C. Hsu, J.Y. Park, W.J. Waganaar, S.Y. Zhang (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J.H. Degnan, D.G. Gale, C. Grabowski, E.L. Ruden, W. Sommars (Air Force Research Laboratory)

HP1.035 Formation of target Field-Reversed Configuration plasma for Magnetized Target Fusion in FRX-L

Shouyin Zhang, G.A. Wurden, T.P. Intrator, W.J. Waganaar, Richard Renneke, J.M. Taccetti, I. Furno, S. Hsu, E.M. Tejero (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Chris Grabowski, E. Ruden (Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM 87117)

HP1.036 Magnetized Target Fusion collaboration

Thomas Intrator (Los Alamos National Laboratory), MTF Collaboration

HP1.037 Plasma-Jet Magnetized-Target Fusion Dynamics and Stability Issues

John F. Santarius (Univ. of Wisconsin), Paul B. Parks (General Atomics), Y.C. Francis Thio (U.S. DOE)

HP1.038 Liner compression of a hard-core diffuse z pinch

V. Makhin, R. E. Siemon, T. J. Awe, B. S. Bauer, T. E. Cowan, S. Fuelling, T. S. Goodrich, I. R. Lindemuth (University of Nevada, Reno), R. E. Reinovsky, W. L. Atchison, R. J. Faehl, D. W. Scudder, T. Taylor (LANL), J. H. Degnan (AFRL), D. D. Ryutov (LLNL)

HP1.039 Characteristics of FRC plasmas sustained in quasi-steady state by Rotating Magnetic Field in the FIX apparatus

Katsuhisa Kitano, Michiaki Inomoto, Takeshi Fukuda, Shigefumi Okada, Takamitsu Higashikozono, Seiichi Goto (Science and Technology Center for Atoms, Molecules and Ions Control, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, JAPAN)

HP1.040 Effect of the toroidal magnetic field on the plasma current in Rotamak

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

HP1.041 Electron temperature and ion rotation features in Rotamak

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

HP1.042 Ion heating in a large aspect ratio field-reversed configuration by rotating magnetic fields

Alexandra Landsman, Sam Cohen (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab), Alan Glasser (Los Alamos National Lab)

HP1.043 Overview of the Helicity Injected Torus Program

B.A. Nelson, T.R. Jarboe, W.T. Hamp, V.A. Izzo, R.G. O'Neill, A.J. Redd, P.E. Sieck, R.J. Smith (University of Washington)

HP1.044 Overview of HIT Diagnostic Systems

T.R. Jarboe, W.T. Hamp, V.A. Izzo, B.A. Nelson, R.G. O'Neill, R. Raman, A.J. Redd, P.E. Sieck, R.J. Smith, A.E. Askren, A. Siirilla (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

HP1.045 Results of Recent Upgrades to the HIT-SI Spheromak Experiment

P. E. Sieck, W. T. Hamp, V. A. Izzo, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson, R. G. O'Neill, A. J. Redd, R. J. Smith (University of Washington)

HP1.046 Flux Surface Quality in HIT-SI Taylor States

George Marklin

HP1.047 Measurement of Velocity and Density of Plasma Jet Flow

Gunsu Yun, Setthivoine You, Paul M. Bellan (Caltech)

HP1.048 Density Buildup by Accelerator-Region Gas Puffing on CTIX

Robert Horton, Stephen Howard, David Hwang, Sam Brockington, Alex Graf, Russell Evans (UC Davis/LLNL), Michael Rogers (UC Santa Cruz)

HP1.049 Fast Optical Imaging of Accelerated Compact Toroid Interacting with Transverse Magnetic Field

D.Q. Hwang (Dept of Applied Science, UC Davis/Livermore, Livermore Ca 94550), S.J. Brockington (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UC Davis), R.W. Evans (Dept. of Applied Science, UCDavis/Livermore,Livermore,Ca 94550), A. Graf (Dept. of Physics, UC Davis), R.D. Horton, S. Howard, J. Johnson, G.H. Rodrigue (Dept. of Applied Science, UCDavis/Livermore,Livermore,Ca 94550), M. Rogers (NUF Student from UC Santa Cruz)

HP1.050 Deformable contact liner implosion performed using 8 cm diameter electrode apertures.

J. H. Degnan, D. Amdahl, G. F. Kiuttu, F. M. Lehr, J. D. Letterio, Jr. Peterkin, E. L. Ruden, W. Tucker, P. J. Turchi (Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, USA), A. Brown, S. K. Coffey, G. G. Craddock, M. H. Frese, S. D. Frese, B. Guffey (NumerEx, Albuqerque, NM, USA), T. Cavazos, D. Gale, T.C. Grabowski, W. Sommars (SAIC, Albuquerque, NM, USA), N. F. Roderick (Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA), R. E. Siemon (University of Nevada Reno, Nevada, USA)

HP1.051 Effect of charge and mass number of atoms on field-reversed configuration plasma

Masanori Okada, Taichi Inoue, Hiroshi Gota, Masahiro Watanabe, Tomohiko Asai, Tsutomu Takahashi, Yasuyuki Nogi

HP1.052 The Pulsed High Density (PHD) FRC Experiment

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

HP1.053 Progress on the Construction of the Pulsed High Density (PHD) FRC Experiment

Samuel Andreason, John Slough (University of Washington)

HP1.054 Ion Ring injection into a Mock FRC

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

HP1.055 Ion Ring and Plasma Diamagnetic Measurements

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

HP1.056 Plasma heating and flow in Ion Ring Experiments

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

HP1.057 FRC Studies via Spheromak Merging in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment

S.P. Gerhardt, M. Yamada, H. Ji, E. Belova, D. Mikkelsen, S. Zweben, R.C. Davidson, R. Kaita (Princeton Plasma Physics Labratory)

HP1.058 Doublet CT Studies at SSX-FRC

M. R. Brown, C. D. Cothran, S. C. Chang, Z. A. Michielli, R. H. Varney (Swarthmore College), M. J. Schaffer (GA), Elena Belova (PPPL)

HP1.059 Lower Hybrid Heating of FRC Plasmas

Erik Trask, William Heidbrink, Eusebio Garate, Roger McWilliams (Univerity of California, Irvine)

HP1.060 Conducting shell and energetic beam ion stabilization of the MHD modes in the FRC

E. V. Belova, R. C. Davidson, H. Ji, M. Yamada (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

HP1.061 TCS Upgrade

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

HP1.062 Inductive Flux Build-Up of RMF Formed FRCs

Alan Hoffman, Richard Milroy (University of Washington)

HP1.063 Rotating Magnetic Quadrupole Current Drive for FRCs

Richard Milroy, H.Y. Guo (University of Washington)

HP1.064 Tomographic Observation of FRC Rotational Modes and Stabilization by Various RMF Antenna Geometries in TCS

G.R. Votroubek, H.Y. Guo (Redmond Plasma Physics Laboratory, University of Washington)

HP1.065 Overview of Experiments on the SSPX

R.D. Wood, D.N. Hill, B.I. Cohen, H.S. McLean, E.B. Hooper, B.W. Stallard, SSPX Team

HP1.066 A Comparison of Magnetic Field Generation Methods in SSPX

D.N. Hill, H.S. McLean, C.T. Holcomb, B.I. Cohen, R.D. Wood (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), S. Woodruff

HP1.067 Magnetic Fluctuations and Confinement in the SSPX Spheromak with edge current

H.S. McLean, D.N. Hill, E.B. Hooper, R.D. Wood, R. Bulmer, B.I. Cohen, J.M. Moller, B.W. Stallard, M. Umansky, S. Woodruff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

HP1.068 Evidence for reconnection and closed flux in the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment

C.T. Holcomb, D.N. Hill, R.D. Wood, E.B. Hooper

HP1.069 Measurements of cathode pattern drifts using high-speed imaging in SSPX

C.A. Romero-Talamãs, P.M. Bellan (Caltech), SSPX Team

HP1.070 Reconnection in NIMROD and SSPX during spheromak formation

E.B. Hooper, T.A. Kopriva, B.I. Cohen (LLNL), SSPX Sovinec (U. Wisconsin)

HP1.071 Spectroscopic measurements of plasma rotation and ion temperatures in SSPX

C.L. Brabec, R.D. Wood, H.S. McLean, SSPX Team

HP1.072 Ion temperature measurements at SSPX for turbulence study

Ephrem Mezonlin, Kyron Williams, Nirmol Podder, Brandon Alexander, Joseph Johnson III (CeNNAs-FAMU), David Hill, Harry McLean, Bick Hopper, Reg Wood (SSPX-LLNL)

HP1.073 Plasma injector to initiate breakdown in SSPX

J.E. Coleman, E.C. Morse (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, University of California at Berkeley), H.S. McLean, E.B. Hooper, D.N. Hill, R.D. Wood (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

HP1.074 Numerical Simulation of Electrostatic Current Drive in Spheromaks and Spherical Tori

C.R. Sovinec, G.A. Cone (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

HP1.075 Evolution of Closed Flux Surfaces in Decaying Spheromaks

Giovanni A. Cone (Affiliation), Carl R. Sovinec (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

HP1.076 Spheromak Plasma Density Measurement Using a Quadrature Phase Interferometer

Deepak Kumar, Paul Bellan (Caltech)

HP1.077 Laser Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Spheromak Plasmas

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

HP1.078 Evidence for MHD Pumping, Filling and Collimation of Current-carrying Magnetic Flux Tubes

Setthivoine You, Paul M. Bellan, Gunsu Yun (Caltech)

HP1.079 Z Pinches, X Pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus

HP1.080 Observations of an X pinch driven by a microsecond capacitor*

Richard Appartaim, Bulmuo Maakuu (Dept. of Physics, Florida Aamp;M University)

HP1.081 Time-resolved Cu X-ray spectra from 4-wire Manganin X pinches

Katherine Chandler, T.A. Shelkovenko, S. A. Pikuz, M.D. Mitchell, D.A. Hammer (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853 USA)

HP1.082 Using the X-pinch x-ray source to Cross Calibrate new X-ray films with DEF from 1 - 10 keV

T.A. Shelkovenko, K.M. Chandler, S.A. Pikuz^1, M.D. Mitchell, D.A. Hammer (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853 USA), J. Knauer, D. Meyerhofer (Laboratory of Laser Energetics, University of Rochester), B. Carpenter (Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM)

HP1.083 Investigation of the spatial and temporal behavior of L- and M- shell X-pinch plasma x-ray sources using a time-gated transmission grating spectrometer

D.A. Fedin, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Safronova (University of Nevada, Reno), M.D. Mitchell, K.M. Chandler, D.A. Hammer, L.M. Maxon (LPS, Cornell University), S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko (Lebedev Inst. Moscow and Cornell University)

HP1.084 Modeling of K-shell and L-shell X-ray spectra from nichrome and conichrome X pinch plasmas

N.D. Ouart, A.S. Safronova (University of Nevada, Reno), K.M. Chandler, M.D. Mitchell (Cornell University), V.L. Kantsyrev, D.A. Fedin (University of Nevada, Reno), S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko (Lebedev Inst. Moscow and Cornell University)

HP1.085 MHD simulation of plasma dynamics at the crossing point of x-pinches

Andrey Esaulov, Vladimir Ivanov, Victor Kantsyrev, Alla Safronova (University of Nevada, Reno)

HP1.086 Observation of the Faraday and Kerr effects in Water Discharges

G.S. Sarkisov (Ktech Corp., Albuquerque, NM, USA), J.R. Woodworth, J.E. Maenchen (SNL, Albuquerque, NM, USA), J. Blickem (Ktech Corp., Albuquerque, NM, USA)

HP1.087 Liquid metal wires for z-pinches

Nino Pereira (Ecopulse, Inc, Springfield, VA)

HP1.088 Exploding wire dynamics from a single wire with closely spaced return current

M.D. Mitchell (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University), S.V. Lebedev (Physics Department, Imperial College, London, UK), S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko^2, K.M. Chandler, D.A. Hammer, Min Hu (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University)

HP1.089 Initial Wire Array Experiments on COBRA Including Measuring Current Through Individual Wires

Jonathan D. Douglass (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University), David A. Hammer, Bruce R. Kusse

HP1.090 Correlations Between Wire Morphology and Plasma Instability Development in Single and Multiwire Z-Pinches

T. S. Strickler, M. D. Johnston, R. M. Gilgenbach, Y. Y. Lau, M. C. Jones (University of Michigan), T. A. Mehlhorn, M. E. Cuneo (Sandia National Laboratories), University of Michigan Team, Sandia National Laboratories Collaboration

HP1.091 Investigation of Regimes of Wire Array Implosion on the 1-MA “Zebra” Generator

V.V. Ivanov, V. Kantsyrev, A. Safronova, V. Sotnikov, D. Fedin, A. Astanovitskiy, B. LeGolloudec, S. Batie, D. Brown, V. Nalajala, N. Quart, S. Pokala, I. Shrestha, F. Yilmaz, A. Clinton, M. Jonson, T.E. Cowan (University of Nevada, Reno), B. Jones, C. A. Coverdale, C. Deeney (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM), P.D. LePell (Ktech Corp., Albuquerque, NM), Reno Team University of Nevada, Sandia National Laboratories Team, Ktech Corp. Team

HP1.092 Plasma ablation and precursor formation in wire array z-pinches

S.C. Bott, S.V. Lebedev, D.J. Ampleford, S.N. Bland, J.P. Chittenden, G.N. Hall, C. Jennings (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London)

HP1.093 Implosion dynamics and X-ray production in wire array z-pinches

G.N. Hall, S.N. Bland, S.V. Lebedev, D.J. Ampleford, S.C. Bott, J.P. Chittenden, J. Rapley (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London), S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko (Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University)

HP1.094 The effect of radial electric field on plasma formation in wire array z-pinches

S.N. Bland, S.V. Lebedev, J.P. Chittenden, D.J. Ampleford, S.C. Bott, G.N. Hall (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London), J.A. Gómez, I.H. Mitchell (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

HP1.095 Effects of precursor plasma bombardment on on-axis targets in wire array z-pinches

J.B.A. Palmer (AWE Plc. Aldermaston, UK), D.J. Ampleford, S.N. Bland, S.C. Bott, J.P. Chittenden, G.N. Hall, S.V. Lebedev, J. Rapley (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK)

HP1.096 IDEAL AND NON-IDEAL MHD REGIMES OF WIRE ARRAY IMPLOSION, OBTAINED IN 3D HYBRID SIMULATIONS AND OBSERVED DURING EXPERIMENTS AT NTF

V.I. Sotnikov, V. Ivanov, V. Kantsyrev, A. Safronova, D. Fedin, T.E. Cowan (UNR, Dept. of Physics, Reno, NV 89557), J.N. Leboeuf (UCLA, Dept. of Physics, Los Angeles, CA 90095), B.V. Oliver (ATK-Mission Research Corp., Albuquerque, NM 87110), T.A. Mehlhorn, C. Coverdale, B. Jones, C. Deeney (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87123), P.D. LePell (Ktech Corp., Albuquerque, NM 87123), P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, V. Fiala (IAP, Prague 4, Czech Republic)

HP1.097 Linear and non-linear analysis of unstable pinch modes with small Hall parameter

B.V. Oliver, T.C. Genoni (Mission Research Corp. Albuquerque, NM), V.I. Sotnikov (Univ. of Neveda, Reno, NV), T.A. Mehlhorn (Sandia Natl. Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)

HP1.098 Linear Analysis of the Kink Instability in the Presence of Nonideal MHD Effects*

L. F. Wanex, V. I. Sotnikov (University of Nevada, Reno), J. N. Leboeuf (University of California, Los Angeles)

HP1.099 Investigations of Instabilities in Large Diameter Stainless Steel Wire Arrays

C.A. Coverdale, C. Deeney, B.M. Jones, D.E. Bliss, S.E. Rosenthal (Sandia National Labs), P.D. LePell (Ktech Corporation), R.W. Clark, J. Davis, J.W. Thornhill (Naval Research Lab), K.G. Whitney (Berkeley Research Associates)

HP1.100 Detailed Radiation Modeling of Nested Stainless Steel Wire Arrays on Z

Robert Clark, Jack Davis, Paul Kepple (Naval Research Laboratory), Christine Coverdale, Christopher Deeney (Sandia National Laboratories)

HP1.101 Ion Temperature Measurements on the Z-Accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories

P. David LePell, Chris Deeney, Christine Coverdale, Brent Jones (Sandia National Laboratories), Charles Meyer (Ktech Corporation), John Apruzese (Naval Research Laboratory)

HP1.102 Comparison of a copper foil to copper wire-array z-pinch implosion on Z

Tom Nash (Sandia National Lab), C. Deeney, D.B. Sinars, M.E. Cuneo, E.M. Waisman, W.A. Stygar, D. Wenger, R.J. Leeper, J.F. Seaman, J. McGurn, J. Torres, D. Bliss, G. Sarkisov, K. Keller, D. Jobe, T. Gillliland, D. Nielsen, R. Hawn, T. Moore, T.C. Wagoner, P.D. LePell, J. Lucas, D. Schroen, C. Russell, M. Kernaghan (Sandia National Laboratories)

HP1.103 Heating of the On-Axis Plasma in Long-Implosion Plasma Radiation Sources

A. Chuvatin (Ecole Polytechnique, France), L. I. Rudakov (Berkeley Scholars), A. L. Velikovich, J. Davis, R. W. Clark (Naval Research Laboratory)

HP1.104 A Radiative Performance Investigation of the PLIF Experimental and Theoretical Large Diameter Argon Gas Puff Nozzle Profiles on DQ

Y. K. Chong, J. W. Thornhill, J. Davis (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), N. Qi (Titan Pulsed Sciences Division, San Leandro, CA), M. H. Frese, S. D. Frese (NumerEx)

HP1.105 Designing Shell-on-fill Implosions to Maximize Kilovolt X-ray Output on the ZR Generator

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

HP1.106 Gas Dynamic calculations of supersonic nozzle jets and comparison to experimental data

Sophie Chantrenne, Thomas Haill, Thomas Mehlhorn, Eduardo Waisman (Sandia National Laboratory)

HP1.107 X-ray yields simulations of gas puff experiments with ALEGRA

Thomas Haill, Sophie Chantrenne, Thomas Mehlhorn, Eduardo Waisman (Sandia National Laboratory)

HP1.108 Review of Results from the FN-II Dense Plasma Focus Machine

Fermín Castillo, Julio Herrera, Isabel Gamboa, José Rangel (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM), Guillermo Espinosa, José I. Golzarri (Instituto de Física, UNAM)

HP1.109 Microwaves and FELs

HP1.110 Effects of a Finite Axial Magnetic Field and of the AC Space Charge on the Beam Loading on a Cavity

Richard Kowalczyk, Y. Y. Lau, Ronald M. Gilgenbach (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

HP1.111 Amplification in a Resonant TWT Controlled by its Guide Magnetic Field

Mikhail Fuks, Edl Schamiloglu (University of New Mexico)

HP1.112 1.5 MW, 110 GHz Gyrotron with a Depressed Collector

Eunmi Choi, James Anderson, Michael Shapiro, Sirigiri Jagadishwar, Richard Temkin (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT)

HP1.113 Cathode Priming of a Relativistic Magnetron Using Projection Ablation Lithography Cathodes*

M.C. Jones, R.M. Gilgenbach, V.B. Neculaes, W.M. White, Y.Y. Lau, P. Pengvanich, N.M. Jordan (Univeristy of Michigan), T.A. Spencer (Air Force Research Laboratory), D. Price (Titan Corp.)

HP1.114 Noise-reduction and fast-startup induced in magnetrons by magnetic priming

V.B. Neculaes, R.M. Gilgenbach, Y.Y. Lau, M.C. Jones, W.M. White (University of Michigan), J.W. Luginsland (NumerEX)

HP1.115 Rapid Kinematic Bunching and Parametric Instability in a Crossed-Field Gap with a Periodic Magnetic Field

P. Pengvanich, V. B. Neculaes, Y. Hidaka, Y. Y. Lau, R. M. Gilgenbach, W. White, M. C. Jones, H. Bosman (University of Michigan), J. W. Luginsland (NumerEx)

HP1.116 Long-Pulse High-Power Gyrotrons at 110 and 140 GHz

S. Cauffman, K. Felch, M. Blank, P. Borchard, P. Cahalan, T. S. Chu, H. Jory (Communications and Power Industries)

HP1.117 Non-Uniform Cathode Emission Studies of a MIG Gun

C. D. Marchewka, M. A. Shapiro, J. R. Sirigiri, R. J. Temkin (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 167 Albany St. Cambridge, MA 02139, USA)

HP1.118 Simulations of Secondary Electron Effects in Wave Guide Breakdown

Chet Nieter, Peter H. Stoltz, Peter Messmer, John R. Cary (Tech-X Corporation)

HP1.119 Self-Consistent Simulation of Multipactor Discharge at HPM Dielectric Windows

Chris Fichtl, Keith Cartwright (Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM), John Verboncoeur (Dept. NE, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1730)

HP1.120 CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL MATERIALS WITH VERY LOW SECONDARY ELECTRON EMISSION YIELD FOR USE IN HIGH-POWER MICROWAVE DEVICES

Tengiz Svimonishvili, Nathan Zameroski, Mark Gilmore, Edl Schamiloglu, John Gaudet, Lincan Yan (The University of New Mexico)

HP1.121 RF Priming Experiments and Simulations of Magnetic Priming in Relativistic Magnetrons

W.M. White, R.M. Gilgenbach, M.C. Jones, V.B. Neculaes, Y.Y. Lau, N. Jordan, P. Pengvanich, R. Edgar, B. Hoff (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), T.A. Spencer (Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB, NM), D. Price (Titan Corp. Pulse Sciences Div, San Leandro, CA)

HP1.122 Design of a 140 GHz, 100 W Gyroklystron Amplifier

Colin Joye, Michael Shapiro, Jagadishwar Sirigiri, Richard Temkin (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 167 Albany St., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA)

HP1.123 Photon acceleration of X-rays in a waveguide

Marta Fajardo, J. Tito Mendonça, João Mendanha Dias (GoLP/IST, Portugal)

HP1.124 Terahertz Radiation from Phase Matched Optical Rectification in Magnetized Plasmas and Crystals

Daniel Gordon, Phillip Sprangle, Antonio Ting (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), Christos Kapetanakos (LET Corporation, Washington DC), Ilya Alexeev (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), Eldridge Briscoe (Research Support Instruments, Lanham, MD 20706)

HP1.125 Modeling of the Princeton Raman Amplification Experiment

Min Sup Hur, Ryan Lindberg (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Wurtele (UC Berkeley/LBNL), W. Cheng, Y. Avitzour, Y. Ping, S. Suckewer, N.J. Fisch (Princeton Univ.)

HP1.126 Generation of Radiation from Interaction Between Ultra Short Pulse Ultra High Power Laser and Magnetized Plasma

Hajime Noda, Parchamy Homaira, Kobayashi Kazuhiro, Yugami Noboru (Utsunomiya University, Japan)

HP1.127 Laser driven instabilities at arbitrary intensities and broadband effects using the Wigner-Moyal formalism

J. P. Santos, L. O. Silva (GoLP/IST, Portugal), R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

HP1.128 Laser System for Compton X-Ray Source and Dynamic Diffraction Experiments

D.J. Gibson, C.P.J. Barty, S.M. Betts, J.K. Crane, F.V. Hartemann, I. Jovanovic (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

HP1.129 A Hilbert-space formulation of and variational principle for spontaneous wiggler radiation

Andrew E. Charman (Department of Physics, U.C. Berkeley), Gregg Penn (Center for Beam Physics, LBNL), Jonathan Wurtele (Department of Physics, U.C. Berkeley and Center for Beam Physics, LBNL)

HP1.130 Three-Dimensional Theory of Nonlinear Compton Scattering

Fred Hartemann, Winthrop Brown (LLNL, Physics and Advanced Technologies)

HP1.131 Generation of short X-ray pulses using harmonics and beam conditioning

J. Wurtele, W.M. Fawley, G. Penn, A. Sessler, J. Vinokurov, A. Wolski, A. Zholents (Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)