Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 18 NOVEMBER 2004

14:00 PI1A.001 The spheromak confinement device

Thomas Jarboe (University of Washington)

15:00 PI1B.001 High-Accuracy, Implicit Solution of the Extended-MHD Equations using High-Continuity Finite Elements

Stephen C. Jardin (Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory)

15:30 PI1B.002 Simulation study of the effect of the lower-hybrid drift instability on the onset of magnetic reconnection

Paolo Ricci (Dartmouth College, Hanover NH)

16:00 PI1B.003 Simulation of Spheromak Evolution and Energy Confinement

Bruce I. Cohen (Univ. California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:30 PI1B.004 3D MHD simulations of the HIT-SI spheromak experiment

V.A. Izzo (University of Washington)

14:00 PI2.001 Anomalous reduced coupling in indirectly-driven laser targets

D. E. Hinkel (University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:30 PI2.002 Kinetic Electrostatic Electron Nonlinear Waves in Laser

Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc.)

15:00 PI2.003 Recent Advances in the Turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Guy Dimonte (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:30 PI2.004 The nature of blast-wave-driven interfacial instabilities – important implications for modeling supernovae explosions

Aaron Miles (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:00 PI2.005 Implosion Hydrodynamics of Fast Ignition Targets

R.B. Stephens (General Atomics)

16:30 PI2.006 Super-penetration Experiment using Ultra-intense Lasers

Takeshi Matsuoka (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Yamada-oka 2-6, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan)

14:00 PO1.001 Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy Studies of Hydrogen Retention on Flire

W. Olczak, R. Stubbers, D.N. Ruzic (Plasma-Material Interaction Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:12 PO1.002 Validating Experimental and Theoretical Langmuir Probe Analyses

Lawrence Stuart Pilling, Dale Carnegie (University of Waikato)

14:24 PO1.003 Metal Etch Rate Stability in an ICP Chamber

Eric Luckowski, Arturo Martinez, Shahid Rauf, Peter Ventzek (Freescale Semiconductor)

14:36 PO1.004 Development of a Laboratory Edge Localized Mode Plasma Source for the Study of Plasma-Diverter Interaction

T.K. Gray, B.C. Masters, P.W. Brenner, R. Stubbers, D.N. Ruzic (Plasma-Material Interaction Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:48 PO1.005 3D Finite Element Trajectory Code with Adaptive Meshing

Lawrence Ives, Thuc Bui, William Vogler (Calabazas Creek Research, Inc.), Andy Bauer, Mark Shephard (Scientific and Computational Research Center), Mark Beal (Simmetrix, Inc.), Hien Tran (Center for Research in Scientific Computation)

15:00 PO1.006 Radiation reaction in fusion plasmas

R. D. Hazeltine, S. M. Mahajan (University of Texas)

15:12 PO1.007 Bremsstrahlung radiation as a new energy limit for runaway electrons in Tokamaks

M. Bakhtiari, M. Takechi, H. Tamai, Y. Yoshino, Y. Miura, Y. Kusama, Y. Kamada (Naka Fusion Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), G.J. Kramer (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

15:24 PO1.008 Sheared \mathbfE\times\mathbfB flow and plasma turbulence viscosity in a Reversed Field Pinch

N. Vianello, V. Antoni, E. Spada, M. Spolaore, G. Serianni, G. Regnoli, M. Zuin^1, R. Cavazzana (Consorzio RFX, Euratom-ENEA Association Padova Italy), H. Bergsåker, M. Cecconello, J.R. Drake (Alfvén Laboratory, Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

15:36 PO1.009 Trapped electron stabilization of ballooning modes in low aspect ratio toroidal plasmas

C. Z. Cheng, N. N. Gorelenkov (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

14:00 PO3.001 Mass ablation, charge state and instabilities in linear arrays

Min Hu, Bruce Kusse (Lab of Plasma Studies, Cornell University)

14:12 PO3.002 Wire ablation scaling in Z pinches

Edmund Yu, Daniel Sinars, Tom Mehlhorn (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185), Bryan Oliver (Mission Research Corporation, Albuquerque, NM 87110)

14:24 PO3.003 Multi-Dimensional Radiation Transport in Dense Z-pinch Wire Array Plasmas

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

14:36 PO3.004 Effect of trailing mass on scaling of X-ray power in wire array Z-pinches

S. V. Lebedev (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College), D. A. Hammer (Cornell University), M. E. Cuneo, D. B. Sinars (Sandia National Laboratories)

14:48 PO3.005 X-ray yield enhancement by the m=1 instability in Z-pinches after stagnation.

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

15:00 PO3.006 Seeded Perturbations in Wire Array Z-Pinches

B. Jones, C. Deeney, J. McKenney, C. Garasi (Sandia National Laboratories), S. Bland, S. Lebedev, J. Chittenden, S. Bott (Imperial College), V. Kantsyrev, A. Safronova (University of Nevada, Reno), J. Maxwell (Los Alamos National Laboratories)

15:12 PO3.007 Z-pinch power scaling and ICF-radiation pulseshaping with short implosion time wire arrays

M.E. Cuneo, D.B. Sinars, E.M. Waisman, W.A. Stygar, D.E. Bliss, J.L. Porter, R.A. Vesey, R.W. Lemke, M.E. Savage, T.J. Nash, M.G. Mazarakis (Sandia), D.G. Schroen (Schafer), J.P. Chittenden, S.V. Lebedev (Imperial College)

15:24 PO3.008 Investigation of transparent mode operation during dynamic-hohlraum nested wire-array implosions

T. W. L. Sanford, M. E. Cuneo, T. J. Nash, D. E. Bliss, W. A. Stygar, E. M. Waisman, R. C. Mock, R. J. Leeper, T. A. Mehlhorn (SNL), D. L. Peterson (LANL), J. P. Chittenden (Imperial College)

15:36 PO3.009 Experiments with lighter load masses and shorter implosion times give higher peak radiated power and suggest quadratic load current dependence.

Michael Mazarakis, Michael Cuneo, Henry Harjes, William Stygar, Daniel Sinars, Christofer Deeney, Thomas Nash, Kenneth Struve, Dillon McDaniel (SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES)

15:48 PO3.010 Trans-sonic Radiation Transport in Foams as a Radiation Power Diagnostic on Z

Robert Peterson, Robert Chrien, George Idzorek, Darrell Peterson, Robert Watt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), M. Lopez, John Porter (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:00 PO3.011 Magnetic Field Measurements in Z-Pinches Using Optical Zeeman Spectroscopy

J.J. Moschella, E.J. Yadlowsky, R.C. Hazelton, C.C. Klepper, M. Keitz (HY-Tech Research Corp.), B.V. Weber, R.J. Commisso (NRL)

16:12 PO3.012 Possible evidence for non-thermal electron energy distributions in Z-pinch plasmas

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

16:24 PO3.013 Electron and Ion Beam Generation in Plasma Pinches

Y. S. Dimant, S. A. Pikuz, T. A. Shelkovenko, D. A. Hammer (Cornell University)

16:36 PO3.014 Modeling of Neutron Production in Multiple Shell Gas Puff Deuterium Implosions on Z

J. Davis, R. W. Clark, A. L. Velikovich (Naval Research Laboratory), C. Deeney, C. A. Coverdale (Sandia National Laboratories)

14:00 PM2.001 High Power Experiments in VX-10

Jared Squire, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Gonzalo Araya-Chacon, Verlin Jacobson, Tim Glover, Greg McCaskill, Jerry Vera (Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/JSC), Wally Baity, Mark Carter, Rick Goulding (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:25 PM2.002 Observation of Ion Cyclotron Heating in a Fast-flowing Plasma for an Advanced Plasma Thruster

Akira Ando, Motoi Hatanaka, Masaki Shibata, Hiroyuki Tobari, Kunihiko Hattori, Masaaki Inutake (Dept. of Electrical Eng., Tohoku University)

14:45 PM2.003 Power flow estimates during ICRF experiments in VX-10

Roger Bengtson, Ella Sciamma, Charles Lee (University of Texas at Austin), Franklin Chang-Diaz, Laurie Carrillo, Jose Castro-Nieto, Tim Glover, Verlin Jacobson, Jim McCoy, Jared Squire, Scott Winter (Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/JSC), Mark Carter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:05 PM2.004 Ion Velocity Phase Space Studies of the VASIMR Engine Exhaust Plasma

III Bering (University of Houston), F.R. Chang-Diaz, J. Squire, V. Jacobson, A. Tarditi (Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory (ASPL), NASA/JSC), R.D. Bengtson (University of Texas at Austin), T.W. Glover (ASPL, NASA/JSC), M. Brukardt (University of Houston), G.E. McCaskill (ASPL, NASA/JSC)

15:25 PM2.005 Momentum flux measurements using an impact thrust stand

Greg Chavers (Propulsion Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Franklin Chang-Diaz (Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory), Boris Breizman, Roger Bengtson (University of Texas at Austin)

15:45 PM2.006 Factors Affecting the Efficiency of Krypton Hall Thrusters

Richard Hofer, Peter Peterson (QSS Group, Inc.), David Manzella, David Jacobson (NASA Glenn Research Center)

16:05 PM2.007 Performance Comparison of a Hall Thruster Operating with Krypton and Xenon

Jesse Linnell, Alec Gallimore (PEPL, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan)

16:25 PM2.008 Improved Analysis of Electron Conductivity in Hall Thrusters

John McVey (Pratt amp; Whitney), Yuri Yashnov (Consultant), Edward Britt (Pratt amp; Whitney)

16:45 PM2.009 Experimental Studies of Anode Sheath Phenomena in a Hall Thruster

Leonid Dorf, Yevgeny Raitses, Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

17:00 PM2.010 Electron cross-field transport in a 100 W cylindrical Hall thruster

Artem Smirnov, Yevgeny Raitses, Nathaniel J. Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

17:15 PM2.011 RF micro-discharge thruster

Alexander Dunaevsky (Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University), Nathaniel Fisch (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University)

17:30 PM2.012 Plasma flow in a high-power thruster with anode layer

Michael Keidar, Iain Boyd (University of Michigan)

17:45 PM2.013 The Plume in the Hall Thruster

Amnon Fruchtman (Holon Academic Institute of Technology, P. O. Box 305, Holon 58102, Israel)

18:00 PM2.014 Experimental Investigation of Thruster Cathode Physics

Mark Crofton (The Aerospace Corporation)

18:15 PM2.015 Time-resolved analysis of Hall effect thruster radiations: New insights into heavy particle transport phenomena

Stéphane Mazouffre (Laboratoire d'Aérothermique, CNRS, France), Daniel Pagnon (LPGP Laboratory, University of Paris-Sud, France), Vanessa Vial (GREMI Laboratory, University of Orléans, France), Damien Gawron (Laboratoire d'Aérothermique, CNRS, France), Mathieu Prioul (SNECMA Moteurs, Site de Villaroche Nord, France), André Bouchoule (GREMI Laboratory, University of Orléans, France)

19:00 PM2.016 Models of Plasma Processes in Electrostatic Ion Thrusters

Ira Katz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

19:20 PM2.017 2-D Modeling of Ring Cusp Ion Thruster Discharge Plasma

Richie Wirz (Caltech/JPL)

19:35 PM2.018 Computational Modeling of NEXT 2000-hour Wear Test Results

Shane Malone, George Soulas (NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135)

19:50 PM2.019 RF and Plasma Modeling for VASIMR.

M. D. Carter, R. D. Moore (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A. V. Ilin, F. R. Chang-Diaz, J. P. Squire (ASPL, NASA Johnson Space Center)

20:10 PM2.020 Understanding Pulsed Plasma Jets with Advanced Simulations, Ground and Space Experiments

Nikolaos Gatsonis (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

20:30 PM2.021 Space tether current collection: an advanced kinetic model

Jean-Marie Deux, Oleg Batishchev, Manuel Martinez-Sanchez (MIT)

20:45 PM2.022 Effects of Boundary Conditions on Near Field Plasma Plume Simulations

Iain Boyd (University of Michigan)

21:05 PM2.023 High Isp Hall Thruster Simulations and Experiments

James Szabo (Busek)

21:25 PM2.024 Fully Kinetic Modeling of a Hall-Effect Thruster with Central Cathode

Justin Fox, Shannon Cheng, Oleg Batishchev, Manuel Martinez-Sanchez (MIT)

21:40 PM2.025 Self-Similarity in Hall Plasma Discharge. Applications to Particle Models.

Francesco Taccogna (University of Bari (Italy)), Savino Longo, Mario Capitelli (University of Bari (Italy) and IMIP-CNR, sect. Bari), Ralf Schneider (Max Planck Institute für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald (Germany))

PP1.001 NSTX II: Startup, Fast Ions and Diagnostics, MAST, PEGASUS, CDX-U and Other ST

PP1.002 Real-time equilibrium reconstruction and isoflux control of plasma shape and position in NSTX

Tim Stevenson, Dave A. Gates, Dennis Mueller (PPPL), John R. Ferron (GA)

PP1.003 A solenoid-free current start-up scenario utilizing outer poloidal field coils*

W. Choe, J. Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), M. Ono, J. Menard, C. Neumeyer, J. R. Wilson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), the NSTX team

PP1.004 Simulation of Non-Solenoidal Current Rampup in NSTX

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

PP1.005 Pitch angle resolved measurements of neutral beam ion loss from NSTX

D. Darrow (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

PP1.006 Compressional Alfvén eigenmodes in NSTX help to explain anomalous ICRH driven fast ion energy diffusion

M.V. Gorelenkova (TRINITI, Troitsk, Russia), N.N. Gorelenkov, N.J. Fisch, E. Fredrickson (PPPL, Princeton University)

PP1.007 Effect of Modification of the Fast-ion Distribution Function on the Nonlinear Evolution of Alfvenic Instabilities

E. Ruskov, W.W. Heidbrink (UC Irvine), E.D. Fredrickson, D. Darrow, S. Medley, N. Gorelenkov, R. White, J.R. Wilson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

PP1.008 Status of the High-k Scattering System on NSTX

D.R. Smith, E. Mazzucato, T. Munsat, H. Park, D. Johnson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), L. Lin, C.W. Domier, M. Johnson, Jr. Luhmann (Department of Applied Science, University of California)

PP1.009 Solid State Neutral Particle Analyzer Array on NSTX

D. Liu (UC Irvine), K. Shinohara (JAERI), D. S. Darrow, A. L. Roquemore, S. S. Medley (PPPL), F. E. Cecil (Colo. School of Mines), W. W. Heidbrink (UC Irvine and the NSTX Research Team)

PP1.010 Study of Uncertainties in NSTX Thomson Scattering Data

David Johnson, Ronald Bell, Benoit LeBlanc (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08543)

PP1.011 High \beta electron micro-stability in Spherical Tokamaks

N. Joiner, D. Applegate (Imperial College), S. Cowley (UCLA), W. Dorland (University of Maryland), C. Roach (UKAEA)

PP1.012 Overview of Results from MAST

G. Cunningham (Euratom/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, U.K.), MAST Team

PP1.013 The role of magnetic equilibria in determining ECE in MAST

J. Preinhaelter (IPP, Czech Academy), V. Shevchenko, M. Valovic, H. WIlson (UKAEA, Culham), J. Urban, P. Pavlo (IPP, Czech Academy), L. Vahala (Old Dominion Univ.), G. Vahala (William amp; Mary), MAST Team

PP1.014 ECW/EBW heating and current drive experiments on the TST-2 spherical tokamak

Y. Takase, A. Ejiri, Y. Kamada, H. Kasahara, H. Nozato, S. Ohara, S. Shiraiwa, T. Yamada (U. Tokyo), K. Esaki, K. Hanada, M. Hasegawa, H. Hoshika, H. Idei, N. Imamura, A. Iyomasa, M. Kitaguchi, K. Nakamura, M. Sakamoto, K. Sasaki, K.N. Sato, H. Zushi (Kyushu U.), O. Mitarai (Kyushu Tokai U.), N. Nishino (Hiroshima U.)

PP1.015 Stability Studies at High Field Utilization in the \sc Pegasus Toroidal Experiment

E.A. Unterberg, D.J. Battaglia, S.P. Burke, N.W. Eidietis, R.J. Fonck, G.D. Garstka, M.P. Kozar (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.016 Soft X-Ray and Radiated Power Measurements on \sc Pegasus

M.P. Kozar, D.J. Battaglia, S.P. Burke, R.J. Fonck, M.L. Reinke, G.R. Winz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.017 Impurity Spectroscopy and Wall Conditioning on \sc Pegasus

D.J. Battaglia, R.J. Fonck, M.P. Kozar, M.L. Reinke, G.R. WInz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.018 Control, Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems on the \sc Pegasus ST

S.P. Burke, M.L. Reinke, M.W. Bongard, R.J. Fonck (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.019 Facility and Programmable Power Supply Development for the \sc Pegasus ST

B.T. Lewicki, D.J. Battaglia, S.P. Burke, N.W. Eidietis, B.A. Ford, R.J. Fonck, G.D. Garstka, M.P. Kozar, J.C. Quinn, E.A. Unterberg, G.R. Winz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.020 Fueling and Plasma Initiation Tests with a Plasma Gun on the \sc Pegasus Toroidal Experiment

N.W. Eidietis, S.P. Burke, G. Fiksel, R.J. Fonck, G.D. Garstka, E.A. Unterberg, G.R. Winz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.021 Potential Electron Bernstein Wave Heating Experiments on \sc Pegasus

G.D. Garstka, R.J. Fonck, E.A. Unterberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison), P.C. Efthimion, G. Taylor (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

PP1.022 The HIT-II Spherical Torus: Physics and Key Experimental Results

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

PP1.023 Internal Magnetic Probing of HIT-II CHI Plasmas

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

PP1.024 Far Infrared Interferometry and Ion Doppler Spectroscopy on the HIT Program

R.G. O'Neill, R.J. Smith, A.J. Redd, T.R. Jarboe (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

PP1.025 CHI during an ohmic discharge in HIT-II

Dennis Mueller (Princeton Univ.), Brian A. Nelson, Aaron J. Redd, William T. Hamp (Washington Univ.)

PP1.026 Pressure-driven instabilities of high-beta ST in TS-3 reconnection heating experiment

Kotaro Umeda (Graduate school of Frontier Science, the University of Tokyo), Yasushi Ono (High Temperature Plasma center, the University of Tokyo)

PP1.027 Investigations of Low and Moderate Harmonic Fast Wave Physics on CDX-U

J. Spaleta, R. Majeski, C. K. Phillips, L. Zakharov, R. Kaita (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

PP1.028 Design and Testing of a Supersonic Gas Injector on CDX-U.

Timothy Gray, Richard Majeski, Geoffrey Gettelfinger, Robert Kaita, Henry Kugel, Vlad Soukhanovskii (PPPL), S. Zaidi (MAE Dept. - Princeton U.)

PP1.029 Recent Liquid Lithium Limiter Experiments in CDX-U

R. Kaita, R. Majeski, T. Gray, S. Jardin, H. Kugel, P. Marfuta, J. Spaleta, J. Timberlake, L. Zakharov (PPPL), V. Soukhanovskii (LLNL), M. Finkenthal, D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins U.), G. Antar, R. Doerner, S. Luckhardt, R. Seraydarian (UCSD), R. Maingi (ORNL), S. Angelini (Columbia U.), M. Frost (Kent State U.), C. Wolfe (Kutztown U.)

PP1.030 Effects of a Liquid Lithium Limiter on Edge Plasmas in CDX-U

Phil Marfuta, Richard Majeski, Robert Kaita (PPPL), Chris Wolfe (PPPL/KutztownU), Vlad Soukhanovskii, Tim Gray (PPPL), Ray Seraydarian (UCSD)

PP1.031 The Lithium Tokamak eXperiment

R. Majeski, T. Gray, R. Kaita, T. Kozub, H. Kugel, P. Marfuta, D. Rodgers, J. Timberlake, R. Woolley, L. Zakharov (PPPL), S. Krasheninnikov, S. Luckhardt (UCSD), R. Maingi (ORNL), V. Soukhanovskii, T. Rognlien (LLNL), M. Ulrickson (SNL)

PP1.032 Stellarators

PP1.033 Progress in NCSX Engineering

G. Neilson, T. Brown, P. Heitzenroeder, W. Reiersen, M. Zarnstorff (PPPL, Princeton, NJ 08543), M. Cole, P. Goranson, J. Lyon, B. Nelson, D. Williamson (ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

PP1.034 Finite Beta Boundary Magnetic Fields of NCSX

A. Grossman (UCSD), T. Kaiser (LLNL), P. Mioduszewski (ORNL)

PP1.035 Overview of the QPS Experiment

James Lyon (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

PP1.036 Design of the QPS Experiment

Brad Nelson, QPS Team (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

PP1.037 Control of Magnetic Islands and Deviation from Quasi-Symmetry in Compact Stellarators

D.J. Strickler, D.A. Spong, J.F. Lyon, S.P. Hirshman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

PP1.038 Initial Operation of the Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH)

S.F. Knowlton, G.J. Hartwell, J. Peterson, R. Kelly, C. Montgomery, J.D. Hanson (Auburn University)

PP1.039 Equilibrium Reconstruction in Stellarators: V3FIT

James D. Hanson, S. F. Knowlton (Auburn University), S. P. Hirshman, E. A. Lazarus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), L. L. Lao (General Atomics)

PP1.040 Overview of HSX Experimental Program

J.N. Talmadge, A. Abdou, A.F. Almagri, D.T. Anderson, F.S.B. Anderson, D.L. Brower, J.M. Canik, C. Deng (UCLA), S.P. Gerhardt, W. Guttenfelder, C.H. Lechte, K.M. Likin, J. Lu, S. Oh, J. Radder, V. Sakaguchi, J. Schmitt, K. Zhai (HSX Plasma Laboratory)

PP1.041 ECRH and ECE on HSX stellarator

Konstantin Likin, Abdulgader Almagri, David Anderson, Simon Anderson, Chuanbao Deng, Hui Juan Lu, Jerahmie Radder, Joseph Talmadge, Kan Zhai (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)

PP1.042 Profile Measurement of HSX Plasma Using Thomson Scattering

K. Zhai, F.S.B. Anderson, K. Willis, K. Likin, D.T. Anderson (HSX Plasma Laboratory)

PP1.043 Neoclassical Transport in HSX

J.M. Canik, D.T. Anderson, C. Deng ((UCLA)), S.P. Gerhardt, J.N. Talmadge, K. Zhai (HSX Plasma Laboratory)

PP1.044 Evidence for Alfvénic Fluctuations in Quasi-Helically Symmetric HSX Plasmas

C. Deng, D. Brower (Electrical Engineering Dept, UCLA), D. Spong (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A. Abdou, A.F. Almagri, D.T. Anderson, F.S.B. Anderson, S.P. Gerhardt, K.M. Likin, S. Oh, V. Sakaguchi, J.N. Talmadge, K. Zhai (HSX Plasma Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.045 Magnetic fluctuations measurements in the low beta HSX Stellarator

S. Oh, A. F. Almagri, D. T. Anderson, C. Lechte, K. M. Likin, J. N. Talmadge, J. Schmitt (HSX Plasma Laboratory, U. of Wisconsin-Madison), C. Deng (University of California, Los Angeles)

PP1.046 Edge Turbulence in Various Magnetic Configurations of HSX

W. Guttenfelder, D.T. Anderson, C. Lechte, J.N. Talmadge (HSX Plasma Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.047 Plasma Turbulence in the HSX Stellarator

C. Lechte, W. Guttenfelder, J.N. Talmadge, D.T. Anderson (HSX Plasma Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.048 Calculations of Neoclassical Viscous Damping Due to Magnetic Islands in the HSX Stellarator

J. Schmitt, S. P. Gerhardt, D. T. Anderson, J. N. Talmadge (HSX Plasma Laboratory, U. of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.049 Profile Characteristics of Edge Transport Barrier on CHS

Minami Takashi, Okamura Shoichi, Isobe Mitsutaka, Akiyama Tsuyoshi, Yoshimura Yasuo (Grad. Univ. Advanced Studies), Nakano Haruhisa, Nagaoka Kenichi, Fujisawa Akihide, Ida Katsumi, Shimizu Akihiro (Affiliation), Nishiura Masaki, Nishimura Shin, Toi Kazuo, Iguchi Harukazu, Nakamura Kiichiro, Ohish Tetsutaro (Tokyo University), Matsuoka Keisuke, Suzuki Chihiro, Takahashi Chihiro (National Institute for Fusion Science), CHS Group Team

PP1.050 Collisional ripple transport of neutral beam-injected energetic ions in low aspect ratio helical system CHS

Mitsutaka Isobe, Hiroyuki Matsushita, Yasuo Yoshimura, Kenichi Nagaoka, Takashi Minami, Tsuyoshi Akiyama, Chihiro Suzuki, Shin Nishimura (NIFS), Kazuo Toi (National Institute for Fusion Science), Keisuke Matsuoka, Shoichi Okamura (NIFS), Donald Spong (ORNL), Douglass Darrow (PPPL)

PP1.051 A new technique to optimize coil winding path for the arbitrarily distributed magnetic field and application to CHS-qa modular coils

M. Abe, T. Nakayama (Power and Industrial Systems Ramp;D Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan), S. Okamura, K. Matsuoka (NIFS, Toki, Gifu, Japa)

PP1.052 Impact of field line label and ballooning parameter on infinite-n ballooning stability in compact stellarators

A. S. Ware, D. Westerly (University of Montana), R. Sanchez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), L. A. Berry, S. P. Hirshman, J. F. Lyon, D. A. Spong, D. J. Strickler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), G. Y. Fu (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

PP1.053 Bootstrap Current compensation with Electron Bernstein Waves in Reactor-Size Stellarators

Sergi Ferrando i Margalet, W.Anthony Cooper, Laurie Porte (CRPP-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland), Francesco Volpe (UKAEA, Culham, UK), Francisco Castejon (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)

PP1.054 Controlling Chaos in 3D Magnetic FIelds

Ilon Joseph (Columbia University)

PP1.055 Edge Plasma Theory and Computation

PP1.056 On dust particle dynamics in tokamak edge plasmas

Sergei Krasheninnikov (University of California at San Diego, USA), T. K. Soboleva (UNAM, Mexico)

PP1.057 Blob modeling in the scrape of layer of tokamak with the NIMROD code

Alexei Pankin (SAIC, San Diego, CA 92121), Geoffrey Yu, Sergei Krasheninnikov (UCSD, San Diego, CA 92093), Scott Kruger (Tech-X, Boulder, CO 80303), Dalton Schnack (SAIC, San Diego, CA 92121)

PP1.058 Two Dimensional Modeling of Blob/ELM Dynamics in Edge Tokamak Plasmas

G. Q. Yu (UCSD), N. A. Gondarenko, P. N. Guzdar (UMD), S. I. Krasheninnikov (UCSD)

PP1.059 Coherent Structures in the SOL

A. Y. Aydemir (IFS)

PP1.060 Convective structures in edge plasmas

A.I. Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada), S.I. Krasheninnikov (University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA), T.K. Soboleva (UNAM, Mexico D.F., Mexico and Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia)

PP1.061 UEDGE simulations of helium plasma discharges on PISCES and NAGDIS-II

Sasha Pigarov, S. Luckhardt, R. Doerner, E. Hollmann, S. Krasheninnikov (UCSD), T. Rognlien (LLNL), D. Nishijima, N. Ohno, S. Takamura (Nagoya U.)

PP1.062 Density Limit due to SOL Convection

D.A. D'Ippolito, J.R. Myra, D.A. Russell (Lodestar Research)

PP1.063 Implications of blobs for reactors

J.C. Wiley, P. Valanju, M. Kotschenreuther, M. Pekker (IFS, University of Texas)

PP1.064 Inducing Alpha Particle Losses for Stable High-\beta Advanced Tokamak Reactors

M. Kotschenreuther, J.C. Wiley, P. Valanju, M. Pekker (IFS, University of Texas)

PP1.065 Coil Designs for Novel Magnetic Geometries to Cure the Divertor Heat Flux Problem for Reactors

M. Pekker, P. Valanju, M. Kotschenreuther, J.C. Wiley (IFS, University of Texas), D. Strickler (ORNL)

PP1.066 Novel Magnetic Geometries to Cure the Divertor Heat Flux Problem for Reactors

P. Valanju, M. Kotschenreuther, J.C. Wiley, M. Pekker (IFS, University of Texas)

PP1.067 Divertor-leg instability for finite beta and radially-tilted divertor plate

R.H. Cohen, D.D. Ryutov (LLNL)

PP1.068 Kinetic effects on parallel heat flow and ionization rate in divertor plasmas

Fabrice Allais (INRS-EMT, Varennes, QC), Chang-Geun Kim, Fathallah Alouani Bibi, Jean-Pierre Matte, Daren Stotler (PPPL), Thomas Rognlien (LLNL)

PP1.069 Non-Maxwellian ions and radial force balance equation in a diverted tokamak edge

Sunghoe Ku (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Choong-Seock Chang (Courant Institute-NYU)

PP1.070 Neoclassical polarization drift in a sheared radial electric field in tokamaks

Hoyoul Baek (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)), Choong-Seock Chang (Courant Institute-NYU), Sunghoe Ku (KAIST)

PP1.071 Comparative Study of Neutral Transport Models for Edge Plasmas

J. Mandrekas (Georgia Institute of Technology), M.V. Umansky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Dingkang Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology)

PP1.072 New developments in the TEP neutral transport methodology

Dingkang Zhang, J. Mandrekas, W.M. Stacey (Georgia Institute of Technology)

PP1.073 Effect of Divertors in NCSX

Thomas B. Kaiser, David N. Hill (University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

PP1.074 Effect of Transport Changes on the MARFE Density Limit in TEXTOR

Frederick Kelly, Michael Tokar (IPP, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Assoc. FZJ-Euratom)

PP1.075 Revisiting the BOUT simulation of Quasi-Coherent mode in Alcator C-Mod

M.V. Umansky, W.M. Nevins, T.D. Rognlien, X.Q. Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), J. Snipes (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

PP1.076 Testing an H-mode Pedestal Model Using DIII-D Data

A.H. Kritz, T. Onjun, G. Bateman (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), P.N. Guzdar (University of Maryland, College Park, MD), S.M. Mahajan (University of Texas, Austin TX), T. Osborne (General Atomics, San Diego, CA)

PP1.077 Calibration of ASTRA Model for H-mode Simulations

J. McElhenny, C. MacDonald, G. Bateman, A.H. Kritz (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), A.Y. Pankin (SAIC, San Diego, CA)

PP1.078 XGC Study of the Neoclassical Pedestal Scaling Law

Choong-Seock Chang (Courant Institute-NYU), Sunghoe Ku (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Harold Weitzner (Courant Institute-NYU)

PP1.079 Multi-dimensional structure of the electric field in tokamak H-mode

Naohiro Kasuya, Kimitaka Itoh (National Institute for Fusion Science), Yuichi Takase (School of Frontier Sciences, Univ. Tokyo)

PP1.080 Current Drive and RF

PP1.081 Electron cyclotron current drive near low order rational magnetic surfaces in tokamaks

Richard Kamendje (Intitut fuer Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Graz), Sergei V. Kasilov (Instiitute of Plasma Physics National Science Center "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology"), Winfried Kernbichler, Martin F. Heyn (Intitut fuer Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Graz)

PP1.082 ITER-ECRF TOP LAUNCHER OPTIMISATION STUDIES

Gabriella Ramponi, Daniela Farina, Silvana Nowak (IFP, EURATOM-ENEA-CNR Ass., Milano, Italy)

PP1.083 Kinetic Modeling of Electron Berstein Waves

John R. Cary (University of Colorado and Tech-X Corporation), D. C. Barnes, Nong Xiang (University of Colorado), Chet Nieter, Johan Carlsson (Tech-X Corporation)

PP1.084 Current Drive by Electron Bernstein Waves

J. Decker, A. Ram, A. Bers (Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center, M.I.T.)

PP1.085 Poloidal field effects in multidimensional mode conversion in tokamaks

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

PP1.086 Ion cyclotron heating of non-Maxwellian components in fusion plasmas

E. F. Jaeger, L. A. Berry (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), R. J. Dumont (Association EURATOM-CEA sur la Fusion, CEA/DSM/DRFC), C. K. Phillips (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. N. Smithe (ATK-Mission Research), R. W. Harvey (CompX)

PP1.087 Field Induced Chemistry to Prevent RF Breakdown in Fusion Applications

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

PP1.088 Nonlinear wave-particle interaction in helically symmetric stellarators with bumpy fields

JaeChun Seol, C. C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PP1.089 Velocity-Space Difffusion Coefficients Due to Full-Wave ICRF Fields in Toroidal Geometry

R.W. Harvey, A.P. Smirnov, N.M. Ershov (CompX), P. Bonoli, J.C. Wright (MIT), F. Jaeger, D.B. Batchelor, L.A. Berry, M.D. Carter (ORNL), D.N. Smithe (Mission Research Corp.)

PP1.090 Accurate calculation of shielding factor for high energy beam currents

W. A. Houlberg, S. P. Hirshman (ORNL)

PP1.091 Increasing Ion Temperature Using RF Power in Hanbit Mirror Device

K.-I. You, B. H. Park, W. H. Ko, D. C. Seo (Korea Basic Science Institute), Hanbit Heating Task Team

PP1.092 Dusty, Non-Neutral, and Strongly Coupled Plasmas

PP1.093 Langmuir Probe Interpretation for Plasmas with Secondary Electrons from the Wall

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

PP1.094 Particle and energy balance in low-density plasma discharges

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

PP1.095 Field Penetration and Ion Separation in Multispecies Plasmas

Nichelle Bruner, Dale Welch (ATK Mission Research), Thomas Mehlhorn (Sandia National Laboratories)

PP1.096 The Construction of the Columbia Non-neutral Torus

Jason Kremer, Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Remi Lefrancois, Quinn Marksteiner (Columbia University), Wayne Reiersen, Fred Dahlgren, Neil Pomphrey (PPPL)

PP1.097 Studies of non-neutral plasmas in the CNT stellarator

Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Allen H. Boozer, Jason P. Kremer, Remi G. Lefrancois, Quinn R. Marksteiner (Columbia University)

PP1.098 Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Single-Species Plasma Equilibria on Magnetic Surfaces

Remi G. Lefrancois, Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Allen H. Boozer, Jason P. Kremer, Quinn R. Marksteiner (Columbia University)

PP1.099 Plans to observe magnetic pumping transport in a toroidal electron plasma

M. R. Stoneking (Department of Physics, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI 54911)

PP1.100 Shear-Limited Test Particle Transport in 2D Plasmas.

F. Anderegg, C.F. Driscoll, D.H.E. Dubin, T.M. O'Neil (UCSD)

PP1.101 Thermal Fluctuations as a Non-destructive Temperature Diagnostic.

N. Shiga, F. Anderegg, C.F. Driscoll, D.H.E. Dubin (UCSD), R.W. Gould (Cal Tech)

PP1.102 Overview of Trapped-Particle-Mediated Transport and Damping Effects in NNPs.

C.F. Driscoll, A.A. Kabantsev, J.H. Yu (UCSD)

PP1.103 Trapped-Particle Mediated Asym\-etry-Induced Damp\-ing of Diocotron Modes.

A.A. Kabantsev, C.F. Driscoll (UCSD)

PP1.104 Motion of Guiding Center Drift Atoms in the Electric and Magnetic Field of a Penning Trap.

S.G. Kuzmin, T.M. O'Neil (UCSD)

PP1.105 De-Excitation of Guiding-Center Atoms.

E. Bass, D. Dubin (UCSD)

PP1.106 Electronic and Positronic Guiding Center Ions.

D. \mboxDubin (UCSD)

PP1.107 Screening Enhancement of Energy Equipartition in a Strongly Magnetized Nonneutral Plasma.

J. Bollinger (NIST), D. Dubin (UCSD)

PP1.108 Rapid heating of a strongly coupled plasma at the solid-liquid phase transition

M.J. Jensen, T. Hasegawa, J.J. Bollinger (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305), D.H.E. Dubin (Phys. Dept., UCSD, La Jolla CA 92093)

PP1.109 Stability of a Penning trap with a quadrupole rotating electric field

T. Hasegawa (University of Hyogo, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan), M.J. Jensen, J.J. Bollinger (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305)

PP1.110 Torque-balanced steady states of pure electron plasmas.

J. R. Danielson, C. M. Surko (University of California, San Diego)

PP1.111 A multicell trap for long-term confinement of large numbers of positrons.

C. M. Surko, J. R. Danielson (University of California, San Diego)

PP1.112 Temperature profile measurements and equilibrium calculations in a non-neutral plasma.

Grant W. Hart, Bryan G. Peterson (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT)

PP1.113 Comparison of Calculated Plasma Mode Frequencies with Experiment

Samuel Tobler, Bryan G. Peterson, Grant W. Hart (Brigham Young University)

PP1.114 Simulations of Trapped-Particle Diocotron Modes with Electrostatic and Magnetic Mirror Barriers

Grant W. Mason, Ross L. Spencer, Marshall S. Hart (Brigham Young University)

PP1.115 Do Magnetically Trapped Particles Play a Role in Asymmetry-Induced Transport?

D.L. Eggleston, K. McMurtry (Occidental College)

PP1.116 Ion resonance instability of the diocotron mode in the ELTRAP device

G. Bettega, F. Cavaliere, A. Illiberi, R. Pozzoli, M. Rome' (I.N.F.N., I.N.F.M., Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Milano, Italy), M. Cavenago (I.N.F.N., Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro, Italy)

PP1.117 Non-neutral Plasmas in Strong Quadrupole Fields

Joel Fajans, Korana Burke, Steve Chapman, David Rubin (U.C. Berkeley), Dirk van der Werf (University of Wales, Swansea)

PP1.118 Numerical simulations on phase space holes and synchronized BGK modes: comparisons with analytical and experimental results

Federico Peinetti (UC Berkeley and Politecnico di Torino), Will Bertsche, Joel Fajans, Jonathan Wurtele (UC Berkeley), Lazar Friedland (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

PP1.119 Pattern Formation by Passage Through Resonances in Pure Electron Plasmas

Lazar Friedland (Hebrew University , Jerusalem 91904, Israel)

PP1.120 NON-NEUTRAL PLASMA RESONANCES IN CROSSED FIELD DEVICES

D.J. Kaup (University of Central Florida)

PP1.121 Nonlinear structures and turbulence in the inhomogeneous dusty magnetoplasma

Leonid Rudakov (Berkeley Scholars Inc., P.O. Box, 852, Springfield VA 22150), Gurudas Ganguli (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

PP1.122 Rocket-born instrument to detect charged smoke and cloud particles in the mesosphere

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

PP1.123 High-frequency normal modes of a complex plasma disk

T. E. Sheridan (Department of Physics, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH)

PP1.124 Direct observation of microparticle gyromotion in a magnetized direct current glow discharge plasma

George Gatling (SFA Incorporated), William E. Amatucci, David N. Walker (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), Earl Scime (Department of Physics, West Virginia University)

PP1.125 A model for the condensation of a dusty plasma

Paul Bellan (Caltech)

PP1.126 Theory and Simulation of a Nonlinear Fluid Model for Void Formation in Dusty Plasmas

Z. W. Ma (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242), C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee (Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire), S. Hu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Irvine)

PP1.127 Initial application of stereoscopic particle image velocimetry to transport and boundary phenomena in dusty plasmas

Edward Thomas, Jeremiah Williams, Jennifer Silver (Auburn University)

PP1.128 Preliminary measurements of kinetic dust temperature using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry

Jeremiah Williams, Edward Thomas (Auburn University)

PP1.129 Effect of boundary condition on chaotic behavior of fluctuation excited in electron cyclotron resonance plasma

Mayuko Koga (EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University), Hayato Tsuchiya, Yoshinobu Kawai (Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences,Kyushu University)

PP1.130 Spatial Distribution of Cold Antihydrogen Formation

Niels Madsen (Department of Physics, University of Aarhus, Denmark)