Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 17 NOVEMBER 2004

14:00 JI1A.001 Overview of the US Fusion Materials Sciences Program

Steven Zinkle (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:00 JI1B.001 Density Profile Control in a Large Diameter, Helicon Plasma

B. P. Cluggish (Archimedes Technology Group, San Diego)

15:30 JI1B.002 Electron-Wall Interactions in Hall Thrusters

Yevgeny Raitses (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08543)

16:00 JI1B.003 Potential Industrial Applications of the One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP) Operating in Ambient Air

J. Reece Roth (University of Tennessee)

16:30 JI1B.004 Air Boring and Non-Vacuum Electron Beam Welding with a Plasma Window

Ady Hershcovitch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:00 JI2.001 A Truck, a Plasma and a Pickle: On the Road with MIT's Traveling Plasma Lab

Paul Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:30 JI2.002 Hands and Feet of Physics Demonstration Equipment

A. Nagy (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

15:00 JI2.003 Impact of Impurity Sedimentation on Cooling of White Dwarfs

Jerome Daligault (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:30 JI2.004 Edge Localized Mode Control with an Edge Resonant Magnetic Perturbation

R.A. Moyer (University of California, San Diego)

16:00 JI2.005 Toroidal Rotation and 3D Nonlinear Dynamics in the Peeling-Ballooning Model of ELMs

P.B. Snyder (General Atomics)

16:30 JI2.006 Measurement of Edge Currents in DIII-D and Their Effect on the Pedestal

D.M. Thomas (General Atomics)

14:00 JO1.001 Nonlinear Ablative Rayleigh--Taylor Instability

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

14:12 JO1.002 Simulations and Experiments on Adiabat Shaping by Relaxation

K. Anderson, R. Betti, J.P. Knauer, V.N. Goncharov (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

14:24 JO1.003 Nonlinear Bell--Plesset Istability

C. Zhou, J. Sanz, R. Betti (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

14:36 JO1.004 Effects of the Temporal Density Variation and Convergent Geometry on Nonlinear Bubble Evolution in Classical Rayleigh--Taylor Instability

D. Li, V.N. Goncharov (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

14:48 JO1.005 Measurements of Imprinting with Laser Beams at Various Angles of Incidence in Planar CH Foils

V.A. Smalyuk, V.N. Goncharov, T.R. Boehly, D. Li, J.A. Marozas, D.D. Meyerhofer, S.P. Regan, T.C. Sangster (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

15:00 JO1.006 Transition from Classical RM Instability at Embedded Material Interface to Ablative RT Growth

A. L. Velikovich, A. J. Schmitt, J. H. Gardner (Naval Research Laboratory), N. Metzler, Y. Aglitskiy (Science Applications International Corporation)

15:12 JO1.007 Observation of Classical RM Instability Feeding Ablative RT Growth in Planar Plastic Targets

Y. Aglitskiy, N. Metzler (Science Applications International Corporation), M. Karasik, V. Serlin, S. P. Obenschain, A. J. Schmitt, A. L. Velikovich (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), J. H. Gardner (LCPamp;FD, Naval Research Laboratory), J. Varadarajan, T. Walsh (Schafer Laboratories)

15:24 JO1.008 Measurements of hydrodynamic stability in ICF targets with localized boundary-like fabrication purtubations

Andrew Mostovych, Dennis Brown, John Gardner, Max Karasik, Victor Serlin (US Naval Research Laboratory), Yefim Aglitskiy (SAIC)

15:36 JO1.009 High Growth-Factor Rayleigh-Taylor Experiments on NIF First Cluster

David Braun, David Bradley, Gilbert Collins, Lawrence Sutter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:48 JO1.010 Highly-resolved 2D Perturbation Simulation Studies of NIF Ignition and Omega double-shell targets

Jose Milovich, Peter Amendt, Michael Marinak, Harry Robey (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:00 JO1.011 Stabilization Effect of Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability by Modulation of Cut-off surface

T. Sakaiya, H. Azechi, A. Sunahara (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University), N. Ohnishi (Department of Aeronautics and Space Engineering, Tohoku University), K. Shigemori, Mitsuo Nakai, H. Shiraga, H. Nagatomo, Y. Izawa (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

16:12 JO1.012 Mixing in thick-walled and pulse-shaped directly driven ICF capsule implosions

D.C. Wilson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), F.J. Marshall, P.W. McKenty, V. Yu Glebov, C. Stoeckl (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), C.K. Li, D.G. Hicks, F.H. Séguin, R.D. Petrasso (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT), C.W. Cranfill, G.D. Pollak, W.J. Powers (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:24 JO1.013 Reshock of a Convergent, Unstable System

Steven H. Batha, N. D. Delamater, J. R. Fincke, R. M. Hueckstaedt, N. E. Lanier, G. R. Magelssen, J. M. Taccetti (Los Alamos National Laboratory), K. W. Parker, S. D. Rothman, C. J. Horsfield (AWE Aldermaston)

16:36 JO1.014 Double-shell defect experiments on Omega

G. R. Magelssen, J Fincke, N. E. Lanier, S. H. Batha, N. D. Delamater, R. M. Hueckstaedt, J. M. Taccetti (Los Alamos National Laboratory), K. W. Parker, C. J. Horsfield, S. D. Rothman (AWE, Aldermaston, United Kingdom)

16:48 JO1.015 Cylindrically Convergent Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Growth

J. R. Fincke, N. E. Lanier, S. H. Batha, R. M. Hueckstaedt, G. R. Magelssen, N. D. Delamater (Los Alamos National Laboratory), K. M. Parker, C. J. Horsfield, S. D. Rothman (AWE)

17:00 JO1.016 Dependence of the Rayleigh-Taylor Froude number on the density ratio

Praveen Ramaprabhu, Guy Dimonte (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:00 JO2.001 Self-consistent simulation of electron cyclotron radiation transport and suprathermal electron kinetics in tokamak plasmas

K.V. Cherepanov, A.B. Kukushkin (RRC ``Kurchatov Institute'', Moscow, Russia)

14:12 JO2.002 A quasi-particle approach to the modulational instability of broadband drift mode turbulence coupled to zonal flows

Robert Bingham, Raoul Trines (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon), Luis Silva, Jose Mendonca (Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa), Padma Shukla (Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum), Warren Mori (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles)

14:24 JO2.003 Comparison of Trident Experiments Using PIC and RPIC Simulations

Joseph Kindel, Bandel Bezzerides, William Daughton, Evan Dodd, Donald DuBois, Lin Yin (LANL), Hoanh Vu (UC San Diego)

14:36 JO2.004 Electrical double layers in heliospheric plasma: Observations and theory

Li-Jen Chen, Donald A. Gurnett, William S. Kurth (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

14:48 JO2.005 Numerical MHD Modeling of Laboratory Simulations of Astrophysical Jet Collimation

Mayya Tokman (University of California, Berkeley), Scott C. Hsu (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Paul M. Bellan (Caltech)

15:00 JO2.006 Radio wave propagation in the interstellar medium with non-Gaussian electron density fluctuations

Stanislav Boldyrev (University of Chicago)

15:12 JO2.007 Survey of dispersive Alfven waves and associated nonlinear effects

Padma Shukla (Institut /fir Theoretische Physik IV and Excellence Centre foi Plasma Science and Astrophysics, Fakultat fur Physik and Astronomie, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, D-4.4 780 Bochum, Germany), Robert Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon), Lennart Stenflo (Umea University, Department of Plasma Physics, 90187 Umea, Sweden)

15:24 JO2.008 MHD turbulence in galaxies and clusters

Alexander Schekochihin (University of Cambridge), Steven Cowley (UCLA), Gregory Hammett (PPPL), Jason Maron (American Museum of Natural History), James McWilliams (UCLA), Samuel Taylor (Princeton University)

15:36 JO2.009 MHD dynamos at low magnetic Prandtl number

Y. Ponty (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France), P. Mininni (NCAR, Boulder, CO), D.C. Montgomery (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH), J.-F. Pinton (CNRS amp; Ecole Normale Supereiure de Lyon, France), H. Politano (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France), A. Pouquet (NCAR, Boulder, CO)

15:48 JO2.010 ULF Waves Triggered by Cloud to Ground Lightning above Mesoscale Convective Systems

Gianfranco Sorasio (GoLP/IST, Portugal; www.ISCAT.com, Saluzzo, Italy), P. K. Shukla (Rhur University, Bochum, Germany), Gian Luca Delzanno (Burnig Plasma Group, Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

16:00 JO2.011 Ion and electron physics in slow-mode shocks

D. Winske, L. Yin, W. Daughton (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:12 JO2.012 Macro-scale instability of the ion shell distribution function in the divergent solar wind

Valentin Shevchenko, Vitaly Galinsky (University of California, San Diego), Roald Sagdeev (University of Maryland), Dan Winske (Los Alamos National laboratory)

16:24 JO2.013 Axisymmetric Equilibria of Thin Plasma Accretion Disks

G. Bertin (Un. Milano), B. Coppi (MIT)

14:00 JO3.001 Overview of Alcator C-Mod Research

E. Marmar (MIT PSFC)

14:12 JO3.002 Error-field Correction Allowing 2 MA Plasma Current on Alcator C-Mod

I.H. Hutchinson, R.S. Granetz, S.M. Wolfe, J. Irby (MIT PSFC)

14:24 JO3.003 Rotation, Scrape-off Layer Flows and the Topology Dependence of the H-Mode Threshold

G. Greenwald, A. Hubbard, B. Labombard, J. Rice (MIT PSFC)

14:36 JO3.004 New Results from C-Mod Internal Transport Barrier Studies

C.L. Fiore, P.T. Bonoli, D.R. Ernst, A.E. Hubbard, M.J. Greenwald, E.S. Marmar, J.E. Rice, S.M. Wolfe, K. Zhurovich (MIT PSFC), M.H. Redi (PPPL)

14:48 JO3.005 Turbulence associated with the control of internal transport barriers in Alcator C-Mod plasmas

N.P. Basse, E.M. Edlund, D.R. Ernst, C.L. Fiore, A.E. Hubbard, J.H. Irby, L. Lin, Y. Lin, E.S. Marmar, M. Porkolab, J.E. Rice, S.M. Wolfe, S.J. Wukitch (MIT PSFC), G.J. Kramer, D.R. Mikkelsen (PPPL), A.G. Lynn, P.E. Phillips (UT FRC)

15:00 JO3.006 Comparisons of Measurements and Gyrokinetic Simulations of Turbulence and Transport in Alcator C-Mod EDA H-Mode Discharges.

M. B. Sampsell, R. V. Bravenec (Fusion Research Center, University of Texas at Austin), J. Candy (General Atomics), D. R. Ernst (MIT PSFC), Alcator C-Mod Team Nevins (LLNL)

15:12 JO3.007 Experimental and computational evaluation of neutrals in the Alcator C-Mod edge pedestal

J.W. Hughes, D. Mossessian, B. LaBombard, J. Terry (MIT PSFC)

15:24 JO3.008 Comparisons of Edge/SOL Turbulence in L- and H-mode Plasmas of Alcator C-Mod

J.L. Terry, B. LaBombard, M. Greenwald, B. Veto (MIT-PSFC), S. Zweben (PPPL), O. Grulke (MPI-IPP, Germany)

15:36 JO3.009 ICRF loading studies on Alcator C-Mod

A. Parisot, S.J. Wukitch, P.T. Bonoli, J.W. Hughes, B. Labombard, Y. Lin, R. Parker, M. Porkolab, A. Ram (MIT PSFC)

15:48 JO3.010 Validation of 3D/1D Analysis of ICRF Antennas

D. Milanesio, V. Lancellotti, V. Kyrytsya, R. Maggiora, G. Vecchi (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy), A. Parisot, S.J. Wukitch (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139 USA)

16:00 JO3.011 Rotation in DIII-D Without Auxiliary Momentum Input

J.S. deGrassie, K.H. Burrell, J. Lohr (General Atomics), L.R. Baylor (ORNL), W.M. Solomon (PPPL), DIII-D National Team

16:12 JO3.012 Flux conversion and evidence of relaxation in a high-beta plasma formed by high-speed injection into a mirror confinement structure

H.Y. Guo, A.L. Hoffman, K.E. Miller, L.C. Steinhauer (University of Washington)

16:24 JO3.013 Electrostatic-Dipole (ED) Fusion Confinement Studies

George H. Miley, Prajakti J. Shrestha, Yang Yang, Robert Thomas (Univ. of Illinois, U-C Campus, 103 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana IL 61801)

16:36 JO3.014 Tunable, Resonant Heterodyne Interferometer for Tokamak Neutral Measurements

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

16:48 JO3.015 Study of m=1 Oscillation (Sawtooth) via 2-D ECE Imaging System on TEXTOR

H. Park, E. Mazzucato, T. Munsat (PPPL), C.W. Domier, M. Johnson, N.C. Luhmann Jr., J. Wang, Z.G. Xia (UC Davis), I. Classen, A.J.H. Donne, M. van de Pol (FoM-Rijnhuizen)

14:00 JM2.001 Electron energization during magnetic reconnection

J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, W. Thongthai (University of Maryland)

14:30 JM2.002 Are solar flare emissions and CME acceleration related via magnetic reconnection?

C. Z. Cheng, G. S. Choe (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J. Qiu (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Y. Ren (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Y. J. Moon (Korea Astronomy Observatory)

15:00 JM2.003 Energetic particle studies in a laboratory plasma experiment

C. D. Cothran, M. R. Brown (Swarthmore College)

15:30 JM2.004 Test particle energization on short timescales by MHD turbulence

Pablo Dmitruk (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware)

16:00 JM2.005 Mechanisms of Auroral Particle Acceleration

Yan Song, Robert Lysak (University of Minnesota)

16:30 JM2.006 A two stage model of electron acceleration in solar flares

Eric G. Blackman, Robert Selkowitz (University of Rochester)

JP1.001 NSTX I: Stability, Transport and Turbulence, RF, Edge and Divertor

JP1.002 National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) Facility/Diagnostic Overview

Masayuki Ono (Princeton University), The NSTX Team

JP1.003 Recent Results and Plans in NSTX Research Aimed at High Beta, Long Pulse Scenarios

E.J. Synakowski (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), NSTX Team

JP1.004 NSTX Physics Progress toward Sustained High-Performance Plasmas of CTF

Y.-K. M. Peng (ORNL), E. Synakowski, C. Kessel, C. Neumeyer (PPPL), NSTX Team

JP1.005 Passive Stabilization at High Beta in NSTX

S.A. Sabbagh, A.C. Sontag, W. Zhu, J. Bialek (Columbia U.), R.E. Bell, M.G. Bell, D.A. Gates, B.P. LeBlanc, J.E. Menard, D. Mueller (PPPL), L.L. Lao (General Atomics), Z. Cheng (IPPCAS)

JP1.006 Initial Results from the Motional Stark Effect Diagnostic on NSTX

Fred Levinton (Nova Photonics, Inc.)

JP1.007 Initial NSTX Lithium Pellet Injection

H.W. Kugel, M. Bell, R. Bell, T. Biewer, D. Gates, S. Jardin, R. Kaita, B. LeBlanc, S. Paul, R. Samtaney, C.H. Skinner (PPPL), R. Raman (U Wa), C. Bush, R. Maingi (ORNL), V. Soukhanovskii (LLNL), N. Nishino (Hiroshima U.), K.C. Lee (UC Davis), D. Stutman (JHU)

JP1.008 Confinement and Transport Trends in NSTX L- and H-mode Plasmas

Stanley Kaye, Michael Bell, Ron Bell, Benoit LeBlanc (PPPL), Steve Sabbagh (Dept. of Applied Physics, Columbia Univ, N.Y., N.Y. 10027), NSTX Team

JP1.009 Experimental Exploration of Electron Confinement in NSTX

B.P. LeBlanc, R.E. Bell, T.M. Biewer, J.C. Hosea, C.K. Phillips, J.R. Wilson (PPPL), S.A. Sabbagh (Columbia U.), D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins U.)

JP1.010 Power balance accounting for neutral-beam heated H-mode plasmas in NSTX

Stephen Paul (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA), Rajesh Maingi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA), Stanley Kaye (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA), Henry Kugel (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA), NSTX Research Team

JP1.011 Global confinement time and HHFW power absorption in NSTX with He and D2 with various kT

S. Bernabei, J.C. Hosea, C.K. Phillips, J.R. Wilson (PPPL), P. Ryan, D. Swain (ORNL), S. Sabbagh (Columbia U.)

JP1.012 Electron Energy Confinement During HHFW Heating and Current Drive on NSTX

J. C. Hosea, S. Bernabei, B. LeBlanc, C. K. Phillips, J. R. Wilson (PPPL), D. Stutman (JHU), P. Ryan, D. W. Swain (ORNL)

JP1.013 Full Wave Modeling of High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating in NSTX

C.K. Phillips, S. Bernabei, J. Hosea, B. LeBlanc, J.R. Wilson, P.T. Bonoli (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J.C. Wright (MIT), E.F. Jaeger, P. Ryan, D. Swain (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

JP1.014 Evidence of Parametric Decay during HHFW Heating on NSTX

S. Diem, T. Biewer, B. LeBlanc, J. Hosea, M. Ono, C. Phillips, J. Wilson (PPPL)

JP1.015 Modeling of HHFW Current Drive Discharges on NSTX with Kinetic and Ray Tracing Codes

T.K. Mau (UC-San Diego), R.W. Harvey (CompX), C.K. Phillips (PPPL), P.M. Ryan, D.W. Swain (ORNL), NSTX Team

JP1.016 Relativistic Effects in Electron Bernstein Wave Heating and Current Drive

A. K. Ram, J. Decker (Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center, M.I.T.), D. E. McGregor, R. A. Cairns (University of St.\ Andrews, Fife, Scotland), C. N. Lashmore-Davies, M. O'Brien (Culham Science Centre, UKAEA, Abingdon, U.K.)

JP1.017 High Harmonic Electron-Bernstein Wave Mode Conversion Calculations for NSTX.

M. D. Carter, E. F. Jaeger (ORNL), G. Taylor (PPPL)

JP1.018 Low Frequency Gyrotron Development for Electron Bernstein Wave Experiments at NSTX

M.A. Shapiro, R.J. Temkin (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge MA 02139), G. Taylor (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton NJ 08543), K. Felch, P. Borchard, S. Cauffman, T.S. Chu (Communications and Power Industries, Palo Alto CA 94303)

JP1.019 Turbulence Radial Correlation Length Measurements in the Core of NSTX

S. Kubota, W.A. Peebles, N.A. Crocker, X.V. Nguyen (UCLA), D.R. Mikkelsen, R.E. Bell, S.M. Kaye, B.P. Leblanc, A.L. Roquemore (PPPL), J. Candy, R.E. Waltz (General Atomics), M. Gilmore (UNM)

JP1.020 Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in NSTX

D.R. Mikkelsen, R.E. Bell, S.M. Kaye, B.P. LeBlanc (Princeton U.), S.A. Sabbagh (Columbia U.), J. Candy, R.E. Waltz (General Atomics), S. Kubota, N.A. Crocker, W.A. Peebles (UCLA)

JP1.021 Tearing Parity Microturbulent Drift Modes on NSTX

M. H. Redi, J. A. Baumgaertel, S. Ethier, S. M. Kaye, D. R. Mikkelsen, G. Rewoldt (PPPL), W. Dorland (U. MD)

JP1.022 Edge turbulence studies at the L-H transition in NSTX using reflectometry and gas puff imaging

N.A. Crocker, W.A. Peebles, S. Kubota, X.V. Nguyen (UCLA), S. Zweben, T. Munsat (PPPL), R.J. Maqueda (Nova Photonics), NSTX Team

JP1.023 NSTX Boundary Density Fluctuation Measurement by FIReTIP System with USN/LSN Configurations*

K. C. Lee, C. W. Domier, M. Johnson, Jr. Luhmann (University of California at Davis), H. Park, S. Zweben (Princeton University)

JP1.024 Results and analysis of Gas Puff Imaging experiments in NSTX: turbulence, L-H transitions, ELMs and other phenomena

R. J. Maqueda (Nova Photonics), S. J. Zweben, T. Munsat, T. Biewer (PPPL), C. Bush, R. Maingi (ORNL), J. Boedo (UCSD), N. A. Crocker, S. Kubota, N. V. Nguyen, W. A. Peebles (UCLA), NSTX Team

JP1.025 Applications of the Photron fast CMOS Camera to turbulence and ELMS in the Divertor region of NSTX

A.L. Roquemore, Ted Biewer, S.J. Zweben (PPPL), N. Nishino (Hioshima University), C.E. Bush, Rejesh Maingi (ORNL)

JP1.026 Impurity Flow, Turbulence, and Behavior of the Edge Plasma of NSTX

C.E. Bush, R. Maingi, J.B. Wilgen (ORNL), S.J. Zweben, R.E. Bell, T. Biewer, H.W. Kugel, B.P. LeBlanc, E.D. Fredrickson, R. Kaita, S.M. Kaye, T. Munsat, A.L. Roquemore, E.J. Synakowski (PPPL), S. Kubota, W.A. Peebles, N.A. Crocker (UCLA), R.J. Maqueda (Nova Photonics), N. Nishino (Hiroshima U), D. Stutman, K. Tritz (JHU), V.A. Soukhanovskii (LLNL), NSTX Team Collaboration

JP1.027 NSTX edge plasma asymmetry simulations with UEDGE

A.Yu Pigarov, J. Boedo, S. Krasheninnikov (UCSD), R. Bell, H. Kugel, S. Paul, D. Stotler (PPPL), T. Rognlien, V. Soukhanovskii (LLNL), R. Maingi, C. Bush (ORNL)

JP1.028 Three-Dimensional Simulations of Neutral Pressure Measurements on NSTX and Alcator C-Mod

D.P. Stotler, H.K. Kugel (PPPL), B. LaBombard (MIT), R. Maingi (ORNL), R. Raman (U. Wash.), V.A. Soukhanovskii (LLNL)

JP1.029 Deposition Measurements in NSTX

C.H. Skinner, H.W. Kugel (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J.T. Hogan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), W.R. Wampler (Sandia National Laboratory), NSTX Team

JP1.030 Development of ``multi-color'' optical soft X-ray arrays for MHD and transport diagnostic in fusion experiments

L.F. Delgado-Aparicio, D. Stutman, K. Tritz, M. Finkenthal, G. Suliman (The Johns Hopkins University), R. Kaita, L. Roquemore, D. Johnson (PPPL)

JP1.031 Characterization of ELMs and Their Effects on NSTX Using Multi-color Ultrasoft X-ray Imaging

K. Tritz, D. Stutman, L. Delgado-Aparicio, M. Finikenthal (The Johns Hopkins University), R. Maingi (ORNL), NSTX Team

JP1.032 Divertor regimes in NBI-heated plasmas of NSTX -

V.A. Soukhanovskii (LLNL), R. Maingi, C.E. Bush (ORNL), J. Boedo, A. Pigarov (UCSD), R. Raman (U. WA), R. Bell, T. Biewer, D.A. Gates, H.W. Kugel, R. Kaita, B.P. LeBlanc, J. Menard, S.F. Paul, A.L. Roquemore (PPPL), G.D. Porter, N.S. Wolf (LLNL), NSTX Team

JP1.033 Magnetohydrodynamics and Stability

JP1.034 Overview and Recent Results from the ZaP experiment

R. P. Golingo, U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, S. L. Jackson, A. M. Madson, T. L. Shreve, D. J. Den Hartog, ZaP Research Team ((Aerospace and Energetics Research Program, University of Washington)

JP1.035 Two-Dimensional Z-Pinch Plasma Structure Measured using Photo Diode Arrays and Tomography

A.M. Madson, U. Shumlak, B.A. Nelson, R.P. Golingo, K.T. Yirak, J.C. Morrow, M.R. Attia (Aerospace and Energetics Research Program, University of Washington)

JP1.036 Electron Density Characteristics of the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch

Stuart Jackson, Uri Shumlak, Brian Nelson, Raymond Golingo, Edward Crawford, Theodore Shreve (Aerospace amp; Energetics Research Program, University of Washington)

JP1.037 End Loss Particle Flux as an Indicator of Quiescence in a Flowing Z-Pinch

P.C. Norgaard, U. Shumlak, B.A. Nelson, R.P. Golingo, S.L. Jackson (Aerospace and Energetics Research Program, University of Washington)

JP1.038 MHD stability properties of a line-tied linear screw pinch plasma

William Bergerson (graduate student), C.B. Forest (P.I.), G. Fiksel, B. Grierson, D. Hannum, C. Hegna, R. Kendrick, S. Oliva, J. Sarff, S. Stambler (University of Wisconsin)

JP1.039 Equilibrium Profile Measurements of Rotating Wall Machine Plasmas

David Hannum, W. Bergerson, G. Fiksel, C.B. Forest, B. Grierson, C. Hegna, R. Kendrick, S. Oliva, J. Sarff, S. Stambler (UW-Madison)

JP1.040 Instability Issues in Liner-Imploded MTF

Rickey Faehl, Brian Albright (LANL), I.R. Lindemuth, Richard Siemon (UNR)

JP1.041 A Lumped Parameter Model for Feedback Studies in Tokamaks

M. S. Chance (PPPL), M. S. Chu (General Atomics), M. Okabayashi (PPPL), A. H. Glasser (LANL)

JP1.042 Numerical analysis of ideal MHD stability of tokamak edge plasma with Newcomb equation

Nobuyuki Aiba (Grad. Univ. for Adv. Studies), Shinji Tokuda (JAERI), Tomoko Ishizawa (RIST), Masao Okamoto (NIFS)

JP1.043 MHD Suppressions with Active Feedback of Modulating LHCD on HT-7 a Superconducting Tokamak

J. S. Mao, J. R. Luo, Y. Zhao, B. Shen, H. Wang, J.F. Shan, H.D. Xu (Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), P.E. Phillips (Fusion Research Center, Univ. of Texas), HT-7 Team

JP1.044 Plasma Equilibrium Reconstruction with New Internal Magnetic Constraints

Cheng Zhang (Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Lang Lao (General Atomics, USA)

JP1.045 A Logical, Physically Motivated Formulation of Magnetic Helicity and Its Evolution,

M.J. Schaffer (GA)

JP1.046 Plasma response to m/n=3/1 helical perturbation fields generated by the Dynamic Ergodic Divertor on TEXTOR

H. R. Koslowski, TEXTOR team (Institut für Plasmaphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Assoc. EURATOM-FZJ, TEC, D-52428 Jülich, Germany)

JP1.047 Kinetic stabilization of resistive wall mode

Bo Hu, R. Betti (Lab for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), J. Manickam (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

JP1.048 Stability of resistive wall modes with plasma rotation and thick wall in ITER scenario

L.J. Zheng, M. Kotschenreuther (Institute for Fusion Studies, Univ. of Texas - Austin), M. Chu, M. Chance, A. Turnbull (General Atomics, San Diego, CA)

JP1.049 Effect of mode coupling on nonlinear resistive wall mode in cylindrical tokamaks

Masahiko Sato, Noriyoshi Nakajima (National Institute for Fusion Science)

JP1.050 Neoclassical Dissipation and Resistive Wall Modes in Tokamaks

K. C. Shaing (University of Wisconsin)

JP1.051 Plasma Stability in the Hall-MHD Model

Eliezer Hameiri, Roberto Torasso (Courant Institute-NYU)

JP1.052 Ballooning Mode Stability within the Hall-MHD Model

Roberto Torasso, Eliezer Hameiri, Harold Weitzner (Courant Institute-NYU)

JP1.053 Influence of pressure-gradient and shear on ballooning stability in stellarators

Stuart Hudson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Chris Hegna (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Noriyoshi Nakajima (National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan), Andrew Ware (University of Montana, Missoula)

JP1.054 NTCC Module for Saturated Tearing Mode Magnetic Island Widths in Tokamaks

F. Halpern, G. Bateman, A.H. Kritz (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA)

JP1.055 Nonlinear Magnetic Island Physics with Sheared Toroidal Flow

C. C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin)

JP1.056 The Effects of Energetic Ions on Magnetic Islands in Toroidal Plasmas

Xinzheng Liu, Chris Hegna (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

JP1.057 Role of external background plasma and non-MHD effects for kink stability of line tied screw pinch^*

V.V. Mirnov, C.B. Forest, C.C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin and Center for Magnetic Self-Organization)

JP1.058 Modeling the Magnetorotational Instability in Nearly Inviscid Systems

W. Andrew Tillotson, W. Dorland, Yi-Min Huang, Daniel P. Lathrop, Nicolás Mujica, Daniel R. Sisan (University of Maryland (IREAP))

JP1.059 Axisymmetric equilibria with flows in a collisionless fluid formulation.

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

JP1.060 FLR-assisted Velocity Shear Stabilization of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Sheung-Wah Ng, A.B. Hassam (IREAP, University of Maryland, College Park)

JP1.061 Radial electric field shear formation and its effect on Hanbit mirror plasmas

Sang Gon Lee, Jun-Gyo Bak (Korea Basic Science Institute)

JP1.062 Partial Sawtooth Collapse in Configurations with Three q=1 Resonant Magnetic Surfaces

Andreas Bierwage (Dept. Fundamental Energy Science, Kyoto Uni., Gokasho, Uji, 611-0011 Kyoto, Japan), Satoshi Hamaguchi (School/Graduate School of Engineering, STAMIC, Osaka Uni., 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan), Masahiro Wakatani (Dept. Fundamental Energy Science, Kyoto Uni., Gokasho, Uji, 611-0011 Kyoto, Japan), Xavier Leoncini, Sadruddin Benkadda (PIIM-UMR 6633 CNRS-Universite de Provence, Centre Univ St Jerome, case 321, 13397 Marseilles Cedex 20, France)

JP1.063 MHD Stability Analysis Consistent to Transport Properties for Strongly Reversed Shear Plasmas

Takahisa Ozeki, Nobuhiko Hayashi, Shinji Tokuda (JAERI), Nobuyuki Aiba (Grad. Univ. for Adv. Studies)

JP1.064 Plasma Confinement in Snakes

P.C. Snax, K.C. Shaing (University of Wisconsin)

JP1.065 2- and 3-D Linearized Equilibrium Equations (LEE)

Leonid Zakharov (Princeton University, PPPL)

JP1.066 Parallelism in Behavior of a Coupled Van der Pole Oscillators and MHD Perturbations in Tokamak

Igor Semenov (Kurchtov inst.), Eric Fredrickson (PPPL), Sergey Mirnov (TRINITI), Oleg Semenov (MSTU), TRINITI Collaboration

JP1.067 Determination of general toroidal plasma equilibria by perturbation theory

Allen H. Boozer (Columbia University, New York, New York 10027), Carolin Nührenberg (IPP-Euratom Association, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Teilinstitut Greifswald, 17491 Greifswald, Germany)

JP1.068 Error-field Penetration Thresholds in a Two-fluid Model

Andrew Cole (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712)

JP1.069 Discrete Alfvén Eigenmodes Excited by Energetic Particles in High-\beta Tokamaks

Shuanghui Hu, Liu Chen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine)

JP1.070 Pressure anisotropy along field lines in the low collisionality regime.

A.L. García-Perciante, J.D. Callen, K.C. Shaing, C.C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

JP1.071 HED Physics, Diagnostics and Plasmas

JP1.072 Material dynamics at extreme pressures and strain rates

B. A. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

JP1.073 Laser-Driven Quasi-Isentropic Compression of Samples in the Solid-State

D. D.-M. Ho, S. M. Pollaine, B. A. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

JP1.074 Laser driven shocks on pre-compressed targets : applications to Equation Of State studies

Alessandra Benuzzi-Mounaix, Emeric Henry, Michel Koenig, Alessandra Ravasio, Tommaso Vinci, Sebastien Le Pape, Norimasa Ozaki, Gael Hüser, Marc Rabec Le Gloahec (Laboratoire LULI, Unité Mixte CNRS - CEA - Ecole Polytechnique - Université Paris VI, 91128 Palaiseau, France), Paul Loubeyre, Stéphanie Brygoo (CEA, Centre DAM, BP 12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, FRANCE)

JP1.075 Laser Driven Shock Experiments on the Properties of Deuterium near 100 GPa Pressures

Jaechul Oh (Research Support Instruments), Andrew Mostovych (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

JP1.076 In-situ diffraction studies of shock -compressed single-crystal iron

Daniel H. Kalantar, J. D. Colvin, J. Eggert, H. Lorenzana, J. Stolken (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. Hawreliak, K. Rosolankova, J. S. Wark (University of Oxford), M. A. Meyers, M. Schneider (University of California at San Diego)

JP1.077 X-ray radiography of multi-Mbar shock waves for absolute equation-of-state studies

Damien Hicks, Freddy Hansen, David Bradley, Peter Celliers, Jon Eggert, Gilbert Collins (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Thomas Boehly, David Meyerhofer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Univ. Rochester)

JP1.078 Measurement and Analysis of Inner-Shell K\alpha Transitions in Solid-Density Ti

Stephanie Hansen, Kevin Fournier (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Anatoly Faenov, Tania Pikuz (VNIIFTRI, Multicharged Ions Spectra Data Center), Hui Chen, James Hunter, Yuan Ping, Klaus Widmann, Ronnie Shepherd (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Gilliss Dyer, Todd Ditmire (University of Texas, Austin)

JP1.079 Spatially resolved VISAR measurements of shocked single crystals

Huw Davies (AWE Plc, Aldermaston UK), James Hawreliak, Katarina Rosolankova, Justin Wark (Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford), Daniel Kalantar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

JP1.080 Investigation of M-band and L-band Gold Spectra in Hot Halfraums at OMEGA and in EBIT plasmas

M.J. May, R.H. Heeter, M. Schneider, S. Terracol, D. Hinkel, B. Wilson, K.B. Fournier, P. Beiersdorfer (LLNL)

JP1.081 Results from a radiation transfer experiment

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

JP1.082 Observation of DT fusion gamma rays with a streak camera-based gas Cherenkov detector

C. R. Christensen, R. R. Berggren, S. E. Caldwell, S. C. Evans, R. S. King, D. K. Lash, J. M. Mack (Los Alamos National Laboratory), C. S. Young (Sumner Associates), R. L. Griffith, R. A. Lerche (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), V. Yu. Glebov (Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

JP1.083 Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Electric Fields in the Plasma of Current Sheets

Valeri Gavrilenko, Natalya P. Kyrie, Anna G. Frank (A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Moscow, Russia), Eugene Oks (Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA)

JP1.084 Analysis methods of optical spectroscopy data for temperature measurements of re-shocked liquid deuterium

Greg Dunham (Ktech Corp.), J. E. Bailey, M. D. Knudson, M. P. Desjarlais (Sandia National Laboratories)

JP1.085 Effects of Photocathode and Bias Angle Variation on DQE and MTF Measurements of Microchannel Plate Detectors

E.C. Harding, R.P. Drake, P.J. Susalla (U. Michigan), J.L. Weaver (Naval Research Laboratory), P.M. Bell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

JP1.086 Calibrating current mode diamond neutron detectors

T.W. Phillips, G.J. Schmid, J.A. Koch, M.J. Moran (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), V. Glebov, T.C. Sangster, C. Stoeckl (Laboratory fo Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester), S.A. Wender (Los Alamos National Laboratory), E.C. Morse (University of California)

JP1.087 Detecting Charged Particles Using Charge Injection Devices

K. A. Fletcher, B. Apker, S. Hammond, J. Punaro, G. Surman (SUNY Geneseo), F. J. Marshall, J. Laine (University of Rochester)

JP1.088 X-ray diagnostics for laser plasma interaction of the LIL (Ligne d'Intégration Laser). X-ray calibration of the time resolved crystal spectrometer

C. Reverdin, A. S. Morlens, B. Angelier, Jean Luc Bourgade, J.Y. Boutin, M. Briat, G. Charles, A. Estadieu, D. Gontier, J.P. Le Breton, G. Lidove, B. Marchet, R. Marmoret, P. Millier, C. Remond, R. Rosch, G. Soullie, P. Stemmler, P. Troussel, B. Villette, R. Wrobel, B. Zaïno (CEA-DIF BP12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Chatel, France)

JP1.089 Utilization of X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging in ICF and HEDP Experiments

David S. Montgomery (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

JP1.090 Development of a 9 keV x-ray backlighter for the Z accelerator

M. R. Lopez, J. L. Porter, G. R. Bennett, L. E. Ruggles, W. W. Simpson, D. F. Wenger, I. C. Smith, K. V. Cone (Sandia National Laboratories)

JP1.091 Developement of an X-ray Diagnostic Raytrace Postprocessing Code for Unstructured ASC codes

Gregory Pollak, Robert Clark (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

JP1.092 Development of the Passive Shock Breakout diagnostic for the laser-plasma interaction.

V. Serlin (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), R. Atkin (Tiger Innovations, Arlington, VA), C. Brown (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), E. McLean (RSI, Inc, Lanham, MD), B. Meyer (Commonwealth Technology Inc, Alexandria, VA), J. Stamper (RSI, Inc, Lanham, MD)

JP1.093 Enhancement of extreme ultraviolet emission from a large size continuous liquid-jet

Chirag Rajyaguru, Takeshi Higashiguchi, Wataru Sasaki, Shoichi Kubodera (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Photon Science Center, University of Miyazaki, Gakuen Kibanadai Nishi 1-1, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan)

JP1.094 EUV emission stimulated by use of dual laser pulses from continus liquid microjet targets

Takeshi Higashiguchi, Chirag Rajyaguru, Wataru Sasaki, Shoichi Kubodera (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Photon Science Center, University of Miyazaki, Gakuen Kibanadai Nishi 1-1, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan)

JP1.095 Stripping Cross Sections of Fast Ions in Ion-Atom

S. R. Kecskemeti, I.D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev, R. C. Davidson (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543)

JP1.096 Numerical models of beam impact ionization with the CMEE library

Peter Stoltz, Seth Veitzer (Tech-X Corporation), Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Ron Cohen, Art Molvik (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

JP1.097 Simulating reflected ion energy distributions in beam-wall collisions

Seth Veitzer, Peter Stoltz (Tech-X Corporation), Ron Cohen, Art Molvik (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

JP1.098 Plasma Interactions with a Liquid Metal

Greg Hahn, Elijah Martin, Mohamed Bourham (North Carolina State University)

JP1.099 Spatially Resolved, Absolutely Calibrated Soft X-ray Measurements at the Nike Laser Facility

U. Feldman, M. Klapisch, M. Busquet (ARTEP), J. L. Weaver, J. Seely, D. Colombant, A. Mostovych (NRL), C.A. Back, C. Constantin (LLNL), G. Holland (SFA Inc.), D. Fielding (CTI)

JP1.100 A Modified Accelerator for ICF Diagnostic Development

M. Canavan, J.A. Frenje, C.K. Li, J.R. Rygg, M. Falk, C. Chen, J.L. DeCiantis, F.H. Seguin, R.D. Petrasso (MIT)

JP1.101 Ultra Intense Laser Accelerations and Applications

JP1.102 Modeling tunnel ionization in plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) using QuickPIC

Miaomiao Zhou, Viktor Decyk, Frank Tsung, Chengkun Huang, Warren Mori (University of California, Los Angeles), Suzhi Deng (University of Southern California), E-164 Collaboration

JP1.103 Plasma Light and Optical Diagnostics for Plasma Wakefield Accelerators

Erdem Oz (University of Southern California), E-164X Collaboration

JP1.104 Ultra-relativistic wakefield driven by electron or laser beam in the blowout regime

Wei Lu, Chengkun Huang, Miaomiao Zhou, Warren B. Mori (UCLA), E164 Collaboration

JP1.105 Hybrid multi-wave model for relativistic plasma--wave interaction

Evstati Evstatiev, Wendell Horton, Philip Morrison (Dept. of Physics and IFS, University of Texas at Austin)

JP1.106 Trapping, wavebreaking, and dark current in nonlinear plasma waves

Carl Schroeder, Eric Esarey, Brad Shadwick, Wim Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

JP1.107 Blowout, wavebreaking and self-injection in laser wakefield in plasma channels

J. F. Vieira, R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva (GoLP/IST, Portugal), F. Tsung, W. B. Mori (University of California Los Angeles)

JP1.108 Side Thomson Scattering Diagnostic on a Plasma Wakefield Excited by a 50-fs Laser Pulse

C.V. Filip (University of Nevada, Reno), J. van Tilborg, K. Nakamura, C.S. Toth, C.G.R. Geddes, W.P. Leemans (LBNL)

JP1.109 Particle-in-Cell Simulations of THz Coherent Transition Radiation from Laser-Plasma Accelerators

D. Bruhwiler, P. Messmer, J.R. Cary (Tech-X Corp.), W.P. Leemans, E. Esarey, C. Schroeder, C. Geddes, J. van Tilborg, B. Shadwick (LBNL)

JP1.110 Self-modulation laser wakefield acceleration with a density transition

G. H. Kim, C. Kim, N. Hafz, H. Suk (Center for Advanced Accelerators, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon 641-120, Korea)

JP1.111 Electron Beam Generation from Self-Modulated Laser Wakefileld Accelerator

Changbum Kim, Guang-Hoon Kim, Nasr Hafz, Hyyong Suk (Center for Advanced Accelerators, KERI, Korea), In Soo Ko (Department of Physics, POSTECH, Korea)

JP1.112 Electron Injection into Laser Wakefields by the Two-Beam Colliding Pulse Scheme

K. Nakamura, P. Michel, C.S. Toth, C.G.R. Geddes, J. van Tilborg, G. Fubiani, C.B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, W.P. Leemans (LBNL), J.R. Cary, R. Giacone (University of Colorado, Boulder), D. Bruhwiler (TechX Corporation)

JP1.113 A 1 GeV Laser Wakefield Accelerator: Experimental Progress at the l'OASIS Facility of LBNL

W.P. Leemans, C.G.R. Geddes, C.S. Toth, J. van Tilborg, B. Nagler, P. Michel, K. Nakamura, E. Esarey, C.B. Schroeder (LBNL), A. Gonsalves, D.J. Spence, S.M. Hooker (Oxford University), C. Filip, T. Cowan (University Nevada Reno)

JP1.114 Nonlinear group velocity, pump depletion, and electron dephasing in laser wakefield accelerators

Eric Esarey, Carl Shcroeder, Brad Shadwick, Wim Leemans (Center for Beam Physics, LBNL)

JP1.115 A Photon-in-Cell Code for Laser Wakefield Accelerators

Raoul Trines, Robert Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon), Luis Silva, Jose Mendonca (Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa), Padma Shukla (Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum), Warren Mori (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles), Robert CAirns (University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9SS), Albert Reitsma (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G11XQ, Scotland)

JP1.116 Modeling of Electron Injection and Acceleration in NRL Laser Wakefield Accelerator Experiments

R. F. Hubbard, D. F. Gordon, J. H. Cooley, A. Ting, P. Sprangle, T. G. Jones (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), A. Zigler (Icarus Research, Inc., Bethesda, MD), D. Kaganovich (LET Corp., Washington, DC)

JP1.117 Coherent Transition Radiation From a Laser Wakefield Accelerator as an Electron Bunch Diagnostic

J. van Tilborg, C.G.R. Geddes, C. Toth, E.H. Esarey, C.B. Schroeder, Z. Hao, W.P. Leemans (LBNL)

JP1.118 Laser wakefield acceleration by petawatt ultra-short laser pulses

L. Gorbunov (P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Leninskii prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia), S. Kalmykov (The University of Texas at Austin), Patrick Mora (CPhT, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France)

JP1.119 Particle-in-Cell Simulation of LWFA Using 50 fs Pulses in Guided and Unguided Plasmas

W. B. Mori, F. S. Tsung, M. Tzoufras, C. Joshi (UCLA), R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva (IST)

JP1.120 Laser-triggered, free-discharge plasma channels for plasma accelerators

Nelson C. Lopes, G. Figueira, L. Cardoso, J. Wemans, J. M. Dias, J. Vieira, R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva, J. T. Mendonca (GoLP/IST, Portugal)

JP1.121 Direct Solution of the Vlasov--Maxwell Equations for Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions

B.A. Shadwick, G.M. Tarkenton, C.B. Schroeder, E.H. Esarey (Institute for Advanced Physics and Center for Beam Physics, LBNL)

JP1.122 Plasma Beatwave Accelerator Based on a Nonlinear Bistability of Relativistic Plasma Waves.

Gennady Shvets (Physics Department and Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin)

JP1.123 The undulator induced transparency of magnetized plasma for the accelerator applications

Mikhail Tushentsov, Gennady Shvets (The University of Texas at Austin), Mikhail Tokman, Andrey Kryahcko (Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

JP1.124 Electron aceleration in a plasma produced from a supersonic gas jet irradiated by an intense laser pulse

M. Adachi (Hiroshima University), E. Miura, K. Koyama, S. Kato (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), S. Masuda (National Institute of Radiological Sciences), M. Tanimoto (Meisei University)

JP1.125 Sub-femtosecond Electron Bunch Generation by Tightly Focused Gaussian Laser Pulse

Shinichi Masuda (National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan), Kazuhisa Nakajima (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan)

JP1.126 Modeling Plasma Afterburners

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

JP1.127 Ionization induced plasma channel evolution by an intense laser pulse

K. H. Pae, H. Suk (Center for Advanced Accelerators, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon 641-120, Republic of Korea)

JP1.128 Electrical Characterization of Femtosecond Laser Filaments

R.P. Fischer, A. Ting, D. Gordon, E. Briscoe, P. Sprangle (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), A.P. Baronavski, H.D. Ladouceur, P.G. Girardi (Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

JP1.129 Ultra-fast Thomson backscattered X-ray pulse production for high resolution dynamic diffraction experiments

Winthrop Brown, Scott Anderson, Christopher Barty, Shawn Betts, John Crane, David Fittinghoff, David Gibson, Frederic Hartemann, Edward Hartouni, Greg Le Sage, Dennis Slaughter, Paul Springer, Aaron Tremaine (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

JP1.130 Relativistic mirrors for THz radiation

J. M. Dias, N. C. Lopes, L. O. Silva, J. T. Mendonca (GoLP/IST, Portugal), D. A. Jaroszynski (Dept. Physics, U. Strathclyde, UK)

JP1.131 Electron acceleration from ``total reflection'' in ultra intense laser pulses

J.T. Mendonca, L.O. Silva (GoLP/IST, Portugal), R.A. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

JP1.132 Optical probing of under-dense plasmas with the Vulcan Petawatt laser

P. Nilson, S.P.D. Mangles, L. Willingale, A. Thomas, M. Tatarakis, Z. Najmudin, A.E. Dangor, K. Krushelnick (Plasma Physics Group, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK), R.J. Clarke, K. Lancaster, S. Karsch, C. Hernandez-Gomez, D. Neely (Central Laser Facility, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon., UK), J. Schreiber, M. Kaluza (MPI fur Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany), Y. Glinec, V. Malka (Laboratoire LOA, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

JP1.133 Measurements of electrostatic-potential changes and magnetic fields generated from ultra-high-intensity laser and thin-film target interaction by the observing angular distribution of fast electrons

Teh Lin, M. Rever, K. Flippo, A. Maksimchuk, S. Sepke, D. Umstadter (FOCUS Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

JP1.134 Generation of UV light by intense ultrashort laser pulses in air

Ilya Alexeev, Antonio Ting, Daniel Gordon (Naval Research Laboratory), Eldridge Briscoe (RSI Inc.), Joe Penano, Phillip Sprangle (Naval Research Laboratory)

JP1.135 Laser Guiding of a 100 TW Laser Beam in a Capillary Discharge

B. Nagler (LBNL), A. Gonsalves (Oxford University), C.S. Toth, C.G.R. Geddes, E. Esarey, W.P. Leemans (LBNL), D.J. Spence, S.M. Hooker (Oxford University), C. Filip, T. Cowan (University Nevada Reno)

JP1.136 Remote Underwater Laser Acoustic Source

T. G. Jones, A. Ting (Plasma Physics Div., Naval Research Laboratory), I. Alexeev (NRC-NRL Research Associate), E. Briscoe (Research Support Instruments, Inc., Lanham, MD), J. Penano, P. Sprangle (Plasma Physics Div., Naval Research Lab)

JP1.137 Collisionless shocks and the role of collisions

M. Marti, J. R. Davies, R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva (GoLP/IST, Portugal), J. Fahlen, M. A. Tzoufras, C. Ren, F. Tsung, W. B. Mori (University of California Los Angeles)

JP1.138 The role of anisotropic target electrons for e-e collisions in hot electron transport in dense matter

Jean-Pierre Matte, Fathallah Alouani Bibi (INRS-EMT, Un. du Québec, Varennes, QC, Canada), Magdi Shoucri (IREQ, Hydro-Québec, Varennes, QC, Canada)