Thursday afternoon, 9 November 1995

Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 9 NOVEMBER 1995

Session 8IA. SPACE AND ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor East

8IA.01 Fast Magnetic Reconnection and Sudden Enhancement of Current Sheets Due to Inward Boundary Flows
Xiaogang Wang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242)
8IA.02 Very Thin Current Layers in Magnetic Equilibria of the Solar Corona
D.W. Longcope (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720)
8IA.03 Bifurcation and Stability of Solar Coronal Magneto-Plasma
Kanya Kusano (Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University)

Session 8E. HOHLRAUM PHYSICS AND X-RAY DIAGNOSTICS.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Carroll/Ford, 2nd Floor East

8E.01 Energetics of gas-filled hohlraums
T.J. ORZECHOWSKI, R.L. KAUFFMAN, R.K. KIRKWOOD, H.N. KORNBLUM, B.J. MACGOWAN, D.S. MONTGOMERY, L.V. POWERS, G.F. STONE, L.J. SUTER, R.J. WALLACE (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, Livermore, CA 94551), D. DESENNE, A.G. DULIEU, D. JURASZEK, A.L. RICHARD (CEA-lIMEIL, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France )
8E.02 GAS-HOHLRAUM INTERFACE-MOTION MODELING
T.D. SHEPARD, T.J. ORZECHOWSKI, T.J. MURPHY, L.J. SUTER (LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY ), N.D. DELAMATER (LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY ), A.L. RICHARD (CENTRE d'ETUDES de LIMEIL-VALENTON ), J.M. FOSTER, P.A. ROSEN (AWE, ALDERMASTON )
8E.03 LASNEX Calculated NIF and NOVA Hohlraum Plasma Conditions Correlated with NOVA SBS and SRS Measurements.
B.H. Wilde, J.A. Cobble, N.D. Delamater, J.C. Fernandez, W.J. Krauser, E.L. Lindman (Los Alamos National Laboratory ), D.S. Montgomery (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )
8E.04 Cylindrical Lithium-Beam Heated Hohlraum Experiments on PBFAII
G.A. Chandler, M.S. Derzon, R.J. Dukart, A.R. Moats, D.L. Fehl, C.L. Ruiz, R.J. Leeper (Sandia National Laboratories )
8E.05 Time Dependent Symmetry in Vacuum and Gas-filled Hohlraums
G.R. Magelssen, N.D. Delamater, E.L. Lindman, A.A. Hauer, M.R. Clover, J.L. Collins, C.W. Cranfill, W.J. Powers (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 )
8E.06 Drive symmetry measurements in gas-filled hohlraums
S.G. Glendinning, L.V. Powers, O.L. Landen, B.A. Hammell, R.A. Kauffman, L.J. Suter, A.L. Richard, G. Stone (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )
8E.07 Symmetry Experiments in Gas Filled Hohlraums at NOVA
N. D. Delamater, A. A. Hauer, E. L. Lindman, G. R. Magelssen, B. H. Wilde, R. Chrien (Los Alamos National Laboratory), T. J. Murphy, R.L. Kauffman, L. V. Powers, S.M. Pollaine, L. J. Suter, M. B. Nelson, M. D. Cable, J. B. Moore (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), K. Gifford (General Atomics), A.L. Richard (Centre D'Etudes De Limeil-Valenton)
8E.08 Modeling of Drive-Symmetry Experiments in Gas-Filled Hohlraums
E. L. Lindman, G. R. Magelssen, N. D. Delamater, A. A. Hauer, B. H. Wilde (Los Alamos National Laboratory), S. M. Pollaine, T. J. Murphy, L. V. Powers, L. J. Suter, R. L. Kaufman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
8E.09 Application of X-ray Laser Interferometry to Study High- density, Laser-produced Plasmas
A. S. Wan, L. B. Da Silva, Jr. Barbee, R. Cauble, P. Celliers, C. Decker, S. B. Libby, R. A. London, J. C. Moreno, J. E. Trebes, F. Weber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )
8E.10 X-ray Laser Interferometry of Exploding X-ray Laser Foils
R. Cauble, Jr. Barbee, P. Celliers, L. B. Da Silva, C. Decker, R. A. London, J. C. Moreno, J. E. Trebes, A. S. Wan, F. Weber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA )
8E.11 SIMULATIONS OF X-RAY LASER PROBING OF HOHLRAUMS
R.A. LONDON, C. DECKER, L.V. POWERS, J.A. HARTE, J.E. TREBES, R. CAUBLE, A.S. WAN, L.B. Da SILVA (LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY )
8E.12 X-RAY LASER PROBING OF HOHLRAUMS
J.E. TREBES, JR. BARBEE, R. CAUBLE, P. CELLIERS, L. DA SILVA, C. DECKER, R. LONDON, J.C. MORENO, D. RESS, A.S. WAN, F. WEBER (LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY )

Session 8P. DIII-D DIVERTOR, H-MODE PHYSICS, AND CURRENT DRIVE.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Archibald/Cochran, 3rd Floor Tower

8P.01 Progress in Radiative Divertor Design for DIII-D
S.L. Allen, M.E. Fenstermacher, D.N. Hill, A.W. Hyatt, B. Johnson, C.J. Lasnier, A.W. Leonard, R. Maingi, M.A. Mahdavi, T.W. Petrie, G.D. Porter, M.E. Rensink, T. Rognlien, M.J. Schaffer, J.P. Smith, R.D. Stambaugh, T.S. Taylor, W.P. West, R.D. Wood (General Atomics )
8P.02 Plasma Pressure Balance in the Scrape-off Layer of Radiative Divertor Discharges in DII-D
T.W. Petrie, D. Buchenauer, J.W. Cuthbertson, R.A. Jong, J. Kim, R. Maingi, S.L. Allen, T.E. Evans, M.E. Fenstermacher, D.N. Hill, C.J. Lasnier, A.W. Leonard, G.D. Porter, W.P. West, D.G. Whyte, R.D. Wood (General Atomics )
8P.03 Characterization of Divertor Plasma Detachment in DIII-D
D. Buchenauer, T.W. Petrie, C.J. Lasnier, D.N. Hill, S.L. Allen, A.W. Leonard, J.W. Cuthbertson, R. Maingi (General Atomics )
8P.04 MHD Equilibrium, Pfirsch-Schlüter Currents and Tokamak Divertor Detachement
M.J. Schaffer, A.V. Chankin, R.D. Monk (General Atomics )
8P.05 Neon Impurity Profiles During Radiative Divertor Experiments
R.D. Wood, S.L. Allen, M.E. Fenstermacher, D.N. Hill, C.J. Lasnier, A.W. Leonard, T.W. Petrie, M.R. Wade, W.P. West, D.G. Whyte (General Atomics )
8P.06 Ion Temperature Measurements in the Dlll-D Divertor During Experiments with Strong Gas Puffing
N.H. Brooks, S.N. Tugarinov, A.A. Oleinicov (General Atomics )
8P.07 1D Simulation of Impurity Emission in the DIII-D Divertor
C.C. Klepper, R.C. Isler, S.P. Hirshman, W.P. West (ORNL )
8P.08 Multifluid 1D Modeling of the Low Z Impurity Distributions in ASDEX-Upgrade and Dlll-D Scrape-off-layer and Divertor Plasmas
W.P. West, C.C. Klepper, N.H. Brooks, S. Hirshman, D.G. Whyte, R. Campbell, A. Kallenbach, T. Field, K. Krieger (General Atomics )
8P.09 Factors Controlling Heat Flux Distribution in Double-Null Discharges
C.J. Lasnier, S.L. Allen, D.N. Hill, R.A. Jong, A.W. Leonard, T.W. Petrie (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )
8P.10 Evolution of Scrape-Off-Layer Plasmas in VH-mode Plasmas in DIII-D
R.A. Jong, G.D. Porter, R.J. Groebner, C.J. Lasnier, D.M. Thomas, GA Thomson Team (General Atomics )
8P.11 ELMs on DIII-D
T.H. Osborne, K.H. Burrell, M.S. Chu, E.J. Doyle, J.R. Ferron, P. Gohil, R.J. Groebner, D.N. Hill, G.L. Jackson, L.L. Lao, E.A. Lazarus, A.W. Leonard, C.J. Lasnier, M.A. Mahdavi, T.W. Petrie, G.D. Porter, C.L. Rettig, R.D. Stambaugh, G.M. Staebler, E.J. Strait, A.D. Turnbull, M.R. Wade, W.P. West (General Atomics )
8P.12 Characterization of ELM Effects on DIII-D Edge Plasma Via Lithium Beam Diagnostic
D.M. Thomas, D.M. Blackford (General Atomics )
8P.13 Erosion in the DIII-D Divertor Measured by Colorimetry
G.L. Jackson, F. Weschenfelder, N.H. Brooks, W.P. West, D.G. Whyte, J. Winter (General Atomics )
8P.14 Radiative Cooling Scenarios for ITER
M.A. Mahdavi, G.M. Staebler (General Atomics )
8P.15 Simulation of Radiative Divertor Operation in DIII-D with UEDGE and DEGAS
M.E. FENSTERMACHER, G.D. PORTER, M.E. RENSINK, C.J. LASNIER, A.W. LEONARD, W.H. MEYER (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )
8P.16 Coupled UEDGE/DEGAS2 Simulation of Divertor Plasmas in DIII-D
M.E. RENSINK, M.E. FENSTERMACHER, C.F.F. KARNEY, G.D. PORTER, T.D. ROGNLIEN, D.P. STOTLER (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )
8P.17 Neutral Pressure Dependence on Divertor Plasma Parameters and Geometry on DIII-D
L.W. Owen, R. Maingi, M.A. Mahdavi, J.T. Hogan, T.W. Petrie, J.W. Cuthbertson, D.A. Buchenauer (General Atomics )
8P.18 Intrinsic Carbon Transport Studies in DIII-D Plasmas Using the Mointe-Carlo Impurity (MCI) Code
T.E. Evans, G.T. Sager, M.E. Fenstermacher, D.G. Whyte, M.A. Mahdavi, G.D. Porter, W.P. West (General Atomics )
8P.19 Development and Benchmarking of the MCI Code
G.T. Sager, T.E. Evans, M.E. Fenstermacher, D.G. Whyte, M.A. Mahdavi, G.D. Porter, G.M. Staebler, W.P. West, A.W. Leonard (General Atomics )
8P.20 Parallelization of the FPET Fokker-Planck Edge Transport Code: Coupled Electron-Ion Distributions
R.W. Harvey, O. Sauter, K. Kupfer (General Atomics )
8P.21 A Divertor Reflectometer System for DIII-D
T.L. Rhodes, K.W. Kim, E.J. Doyle, J.L. Doane, W.A. Peebles (IPFR and EE Dept., UCLA )
8P.22 A New X-Point Probe Diagnostic for the DIII-D Divertor Reflectometry on DIII-D
J.G. Watkins, R.A. Moyer, G. Gunner, D.N. Hill, J. Hunter, R. Lehmer, P. Luong, M. Mascaro, J. Robinson, R.T. Snider, M. Ulrickson (Sandia National Laboratories )
8P.23 Divertor Triple Langmuir Probe for High Time Resolution Measurements in DIII-D
J.W. Cuthbertson, S. Luckhardt, R.A. Moyer (University of California, San Diego ), D.A. Buchenauer (Sandia National Laboratories ), D.G. Whyte (INRS-Energie et Materiaux, Varennes, Quebec )
8P.24 Towards a Complete Theory of the H-mode
G.M. Staebler, K.H. Burrell, R.J. Groebner, F.L. Hinton, J. Kim, C. Wiley (General Atomics )
8P.25 Evolution of Main Ion Pressure Gradient and Poloidal Rotation Across L-H Transition in DIII-D
J. Kim, K.H. Burrell, R.J. Groebner, G.M. Staebler, P. Gohil, R.P. Seraydarian (General Atomics )
8P.26 A Fast CCD Detector for Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy on the DIII-D Tokamak
R.P. Seraydarian, K.H. Burrell, R.J. Groebner, P. Gohil, G. Phelps (General Atomics )
8P.27 The Role of Turbulent Transport in DIII-D Scrape-off Layer and Divertor Plasmas
R.A. Moyer, J. Cuthbertson, T.E. Evans, R. Lehmer, J.G. Watkins (University of California, San Diego )
8P.28 A Study of Edge Turbulence by Phase Contrast Imaging on DIII-D
S. Coda, M. Porkolab, K.H. Burrell (General Atomics )
8P.29 Investigation of Turbulence Asymmetries Across the L to H Transition on DIII-D
E. J. Doyle, K.H. Burrell, W.A. Peebles, C.L. Rettig, T.L. Rhodes (UCLA )
8P.30 Development of a Fast-Sweep FM Reflectometer for Measuring Fast Density Profile Changes on DIII-D
K.W. Kim, E.J. Doyle, T.L. Rhodes, G.R. Hanson, Jr. Luhmann, W.A. Peebles, C.L. Rettig, J.B. Wilgren (UCLA )
8P.31 Performance of the Long-Pulse FWCD Antennas on DIII-D
F.W. BAITY (ORNL ), J. DEGRASSIE (General Atomics, San Diego, CA 92186 ), R.H. GOULDING, D.J. HOFFMAN (ORNL ), R.I. PINSKER, C.C. PETTY (General Atomics, San Diego, CA 92186 )
8P.32 Direct Electron Heating with Directional Fast Wave Launch on DIII-D
R.I. Pinsker, F.W. Baity, S.C. Chiu, J.S. deGrassie, C.B. Forest, I. Ikezi, M. Murakami, C.C. Petty, R. Prater, The DIII-D Group (General Atomics )
8P.33 ELM Driven Variation in the Fast Wave Antenna Loading on DIII-D and Techniques for Transmitter Protection
J.S. deGrassie, F.W. Baity, S.W. Ferguson, C.B. Forest, R.H. Goulding, H. Ikezi, R.I. Pinsker (General Atomics )
8P.34 Fast Wave Electron Power Depostion Measurements Using the ECE Radiometer on DIII-D
J.B. Wilgen, J.M. Lohr, F.W. Baity, G.L. Bell, J.S. DeGrassie, C.B. Forest, M. Murakami, C.C. Petty, R.I. Pinsker (ORNL, GA )
8P.35 Calculations of the Current Drive in DIII-D with the GENRAY Ray Tracing Code
A.P. Smirnov, R.W. Harvey (General Atomics )
8P.36 Fast Wave and Mode Conversion Current Drive Modeling on the DIII-D Tokamak
E.F. JAEGER, M. MURAKAMI, M.D. CARTER, D.C. STALLINGS, C.Y. WANG, J.D. GALAMBOS, D.B. BATCHELOR, F.W. BAITY (ORNL ), S.C. CHIU, J.S. deGRASSIE, C.B. FOREST, K. KUPFER, C.C. PETTY, R.T. PINSKER, R. PRATER (General Atomics )
8P.37 Fast Wave Electric Field Profiles Determined Via Reflectometry on DIII-D
J.H. Lee, T.L. Rhodes, W.A. Peebles, E.J. Doyle, Jr. Luhmann, S.C. Chiu, H. Ikezi, C.C. Petty, R.I. Pinsker, E.F. Jaeger (IPFR and EE Dept., UCLA )
8P.38 Edge Reflectometry on DIII-D
G.R. Hanson, J.B. Wilgen, M. Murakami, F.W. Baity, M.D. Carter, E.J. Doyle, D.J. Hoffman, K.W. Kim, P.M. Ryan, D.C. Stallings, D.W. Swain (ORNL )
8P.39 Interaction Between Energetic Ions and Fast Waves
S.C. Chiu, R.W. Harvey, J.S. deGrassie, V.S. Chan, Y.R. Lin-Liu, R.D. Stambaugh, T.K. Mau (General Atomics )
8P.40 Designs for the Conversion of an ICH Antenna to a Traveling Wave Antenna on the DIII-D Tokamak
H. Ikezi, J.S. deGrassie, D.A. Phelps (General Atomics )
8P.41 A High RF Power Density Combline for JFT-2M and Relevance to ITER
D.A. Phelps, C.P. Moeller (General Atomics )

Session 8Q. SPACE AND ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Archibald/Cochran, 3rd Floor Tower

8Q.01 Electrostatic Measurements of Whistler Waves and Mode-Converted Lower Hybrid Waves
S. Rosenberg, W. Gekelman (Department of Physics, University of California, Log Angeles, Los Angels, CA 90095)
8Q.02 Laboratory Study of Alfvén Wave Interaction with Plasma Ions
S. Vincena, W. Gekelman, R.A. Stern
8Q.03 Experimental Observations of Alfvén Waves at Large Amplitudes
W. Gekelman, S. Vincena, D. Leneman (Physics Department, University of California Los Angles, L.A. 90025)
8Q.04 Behavior of Kinetic Alfvén Waves in the Presence of Non Uniform Electron Temperature
D. Leneman, J. Maggs, S. Vincena, W. Gekelman (UCLA, Department of Physics )
8Q.05 Current Sheet Formation at 3D Magnetic Configurations
Anna Frank, Sergey Bogdanov, Victoria Burilina (General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
8Q.06 Wave-Induced Chaotic Radial Transport of Energetic Electrons in a Laboratory Terrella Experiment
M.E. Mauel, D. Brennan, S. Taormina (Columbia University), H.P. Warren (Naval Research Laboratory)
8Q.07 Laboratory Observation of the Dust-acoustic Mode
A. BARKAN, R.L. MERLINO, N. D'ANGELO (U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. )
8Q.08 Ion Acoustic (IA) Waves in Dusty Plasmas
N. D'ANGELO, A. BARKAN, R.L. MERLINO (U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA )
8Q.09 The Kelvin-helmholtz (K-H) Instability in a Plasma with Negative Ions
T. AN, N. D'ANGELO, R.L. MERLINO (U. Of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. )
8Q.10 Charged Dust Orbits in a Spherical Electrostatic Trap
D. ALEXANDER, C. SMETANA, S. ROBERTSON (Department of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 80309.), K. VILKAITIS, R. WALCH (Department of Physics, Univesity of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639)
8Q.11 Spectral Variation of High Power Microwave Pulse Propagating in a Selp-Generated Plasma
E. Koretzky, J. Kim, S.P. Kuo (Weber Research Institute, Polytechnic University, Route 110, Farmingdale, NY 11735)
8Q.12 Macroscopic Parameters of Laboratory Ion Concics: Experiment, Theory and Applications
M. ZINTL, R. MCWILLIAMS (Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine )
8Q.13 Velocity-Shear Experiments in the WVU Q Machine
III CARROLL, M.E. KOEPKE, C.A. SELCHER, A.C. BROWN, M.W. ZINTL (West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506 )
8Q.14 Simulations of a supernova-relevant hydrodynamic instability experiment on the Nova laser
J. KANE, D. ARNETT, B.A. REMINGTON, D. DEARBORN, A. RUBENCHIK, J. CASTOR, S. WOOSLEY, M. WOOD-VASEY, E.P. LIANG, R. LONDON (Univ. of Arizona, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, UC-Davis, UC-Santa Cruz, Harvey Mudd College, Rice University)
8Q.15 A supernova-relevant hydrodynamic instability experiment on the Nova laser.
M. WOOD-VASEY, B.A. Remington, J. KANE, D. ARNETT, D. DEARBORN, A. RUBENCHIK, S.G. GLENDINNING, K.S. BUDIL, J. CASTOR, S. WOOSLEY, E.P. LIANG, R. LONDON (Harvey Mudd College, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona, UC-Davis, UC-Santa Cruz, Rice University)
8Q.16 Ozone Generation in a Nanosecond Microwave Discharges
A. Vikharev, O. Ivanov, A. Litvak (Institute of Applied Physics, N. Novgorod, Russia )
8Q.17 Spectral Effect of Ionospheric Irregularities on Scintillation of Transionspheric Signals
Ruthie Lyle, S.P. Kuo, J. Haung (Weber Reserach Institute, Polytechnic University, Route 110, Farmingdale, NY 11735)
8Q.18 X-mode suppression of the Broad Upshifted Maximun
Craig A. Selcher (West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506 ), Paul Bernhardt (Plasma Physics Div. Naval Research Lab. Washington D.C. 23075), Len Wagner (Information Technology Div. Naval Research Lab. Washington D.C. 23075), Joe Goldstein (Information Technology Div. Naval Research Lab., Washington D.C. 23075), Vladimir Frolov (Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia ), Evgeny N. Sergeev (Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia )
8Q.19 Propagation of Ordinary Mode Electromagnetic Wave in the Ionosphere
S.N. ANTANI, D.J. KAUP (Edgewood College, Madison, WI )
8Q.20 STRONG LANGMUIR TURBULENCE IN ARTIFICIAL IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES
J.P. SHEERIN (Eastern Michigan Univ. )
8Q.21 Nonlinear & Nonlocal Dynamics of the Equatorial Spread--F
S. Migliuolo (Phillips Laboratory)
8Q.22 The Planetary Electric Generator and Thunderstorms in Global Electric Circuit
P.A. BESPALOV, YU.V. CHUGUNOV (Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhy Novgorod, Russia ), V. STEFAN (Tesla Laboratories, Inc., La Jolla, Ca )
8Q.23 Parametric Instabilities of Lower Hybrid Waves in the Topside Auroral Ionosphere
K. Y. Sanbonmatsu, M. V. Goldman, D. L. Newman (University of Colorado at Boulder)
8Q.24 Acceleration of Ionospheric Ions by the Lower-hybrid Auroral Turbulence
V.D. SHAPIRO, G.I. SOLOVIEV (Physics Department, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093)
8Q.25 Selective Acceleration of Ions in the Polar Ionosphere
A.Y. WONG, B. SONG, R.F. WUERKER (University of California, Los Angeles )
8Q.26 Partide Acceleration by Lower-Hybrid Cavitons
V.N. Tsytovich, J.J. Su, R. Bingham, J.M. Dawson, V. Shapiro
8Q.27 Pick-up Ion Energization by Shock-Surfing
M.A. LEE (Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824), V.D. SHAPIRO (Physics Department And California Space Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093), R.Z. SAGDEEV (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
8Q.28 Acceleration of Electrons and Ions at Perpendicular Shocks
J.J. Su (National Central University, Taiwan ), R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK ), J.M. Dawson (UCLA, USA ), V.D. Shapiro (UCSD, USA ), V. Shevchenko (UCSD, USA )
8Q.29 Modeling of Nonlinear MHD Wave Excitation Upstream of Planetary Bow Shocks
V.L. Galinsky, V.I. Shevchenko, S.K. Ride, M. Baine (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093- 0407)
8Q.30 Wave Activity Near Pluto
V.I. Shevchenko, S.K. Ride, M. Baine (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093- 0407)
8Q.31 MHD Waves, Reconnection, and Plasma Transport at the Dayside Magnetopause\thanksThis work supported by DoE contract No.\ DE--AC02--76--CHO--3073.
Jay Johnson, C. Z. Cheng (Princeton University)
8Q.32 Acoustic Gravity Waves as a Trigger for Magnetospheric Plasma Maser.
O.N. SAVINA (Technical University, Nizhy Novgorod, Russia ), P.A. BESPALOV, V. STEFAN (Tesla Laboratories, Inc., La Jolla, Ca )
8Q.33 SUBSTORM DYNAMICS BASED ON LOW-DIMENSIONAL ENERGY CONSERVING STATE SPACE MODEL.
I. DOXAS, W. HORTON (Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.)
8Q.34 Pulse-generated Alfven Resonance Cone Ringing
P.M. BELLAN (Caltech )
8Q.35 On the Interaction Between the Shocked Solar Wind and Planetary Ions in the Mantle Region of Non-Magnetic Planets
K.B. QUEST, V.D. SHAPIRO, S.K. RIDE (Physics and Electrical Computer Engineering Depts. and California Space Institute, Univ. of California, San Diego), K. SZEGO (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary)
8Q.36 Chaotic Electron Motion Driven by Whistler Waves in the Magnetopshere
James Faith, S.P. Kuo, Joe Huang (Weber Research Institute, Polytechnic University, Route 110, Farmingdale, NY 11735)
8Q.37 DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION SIGNATURES OF THE GLOBAL TOPOLOGY OF THE QUIET-TIME MAGNETOTAIL
D.L. HOLLAND, D.J. KING (Illinois State University, Department of Physics. )
8Q.38 Angular momentum transfer in magnetized accretion disks.
G. SVOLOS (M.I.T)
8Q.39 The Resonant Particle Effect on the Nonlinear Alfvén Wave Dynamics.
M.V. MEDVEDEV, P.H. DIAMOND (Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0319)
8Q.40 Spiral Density Wave Scattering to Lower Arm Number.^\ast
T.B. Mitchell (Los Alamos National Laboratory), N. Mattor (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
8Q.41 Relativistic Equilibria of Magnetized Plasmas Around Black Holes
G.M. Tarkenton (UT Austin ), T.T. Tajima
8Q.42 Nonlinear Small-Scale Field Dynamo
A.V. GRUZINOV, P.H. DIAMOND (Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319)
8Q.43 Genartion of the Magnetic Fluxes by the "Tilting" Instability
D.T. KATT, P.H. DIAMOND, M.N. ROSENBLUTH, V.D. SHAPIRO (Physicis Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA)

Session 8R. PINCHES, X-RAY LASERS, AND LASER PLASMA RADIATION GENERATION.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Archibald/Cochran, 3rd Floor Tower

8R.01 High Velocity Uniform-Fill Kr Z-Pinch Implosions*
Rick B. Spielman, John S. McGurn, Thomas J. Nash, Lawrence E. Ruggles, Johann F. Seamen, Kenneth W. Struve, Terrance L. Gilliland, Daniel Jobe (Sandia National Laboratories)
8R.02 Dynamics of Aluminum-Wire z-pinch Implosions on Saturn
T.W.L. Sanford, T.J. Nash, B.M. Marder, R. Humphreys, C. Deeney, R.B. Spielman, J.F. Seamen, R.C. Mock, J.S. McGurn, D. Jobe, T.L. Gilliland, M. Vargas, K. Struve, W.A. Stygar (Sandia National Laboratories ), J.H. Hammer, J.L. Eddleman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ), J.S. DeGroot (University of California-Davis ), D. Mosher, K.G. Whitney, J.P. Apruzese, P. Pulsifer (Naval Research Laboratory ), Y. Maron (Weizmann Institute )
8R.03 INVESTIGATION OF THE RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY IN SATURN Z-PINCH IMPLOSIONS
M. DOUGLAS, R.B. SPIELMAN, C. DEENEY (SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES ), N. RODERICK (UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ), P. SPRINGER, K. WONG (LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY )
8R.04 Pegasus II, a High Current Driver for Weapons and Basic Physics
D. W. Scudder, J. C. Cochrane, J. S. Shlachter, W. L. Coulter, J. F. Benage (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
8R.05 Aluminum wire array implosion experiments on GIT-8 inductive sotrage generator
I.M. DATSKO (High Current Electronics Institute, Tomsk, Russia )
8R.06 Neon PRS and POS/PRS Coupling Experiments on Hawk
G.G. PETERSON, R.J. COMMISSO, P.J. GOODRICH, J.C. KELLOGG, D. MOSHER, S.J. STEPHANAKIS, B.V. WEBER, F.C. YOUNG (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Researach Laboratory, Washington DC)
8R.07 Use of microwave gas discharge for gas puff shell preparation
A. ROUSSKIKH (High Current Electronic Institute, Tomsk, Russia )
8R.08 Observation of High temperature titanium plasmas on the Double-EAGLE generator at Physics International
P.D. LEPELL, B.H. FAILOR, C. COVERDALE, J.C. RIORDAN (Physics International Co. ), J.W. THORNHILL, K.G. WHITNEY, J. DAVIS (Naval Research Lab. )
8R.09 Dynamics of wire array plasma radiation sources on Double-EAGLE
B.H. FAILOR, C. DEENEY, J.C. RIORDAN, P.D. LEPELL, C.A. COVERDALE (Physics International Co. ), J.P. APRUZESE, J. DAVIS, J.W. THORNHILL, K.G. WHITNEY (NRL )
8R.10 First Results From A Compact-Toroid-Initiated Dense Plasma Focus Experiment
G.F. Kiuttu, J.H. Degnan, S.K. Coffey, D.G. Gale, J.D. Graham (High Energy Plasma Division, Phillips Laboratory )
8R.11 Measurement of High-Frequency Electric Fields in Plasma Focus Discharge.
F. Begay (Science & Technology Office ), I.R. Lindemuth (Applied Theoretical & Computational Division ), D.W. Forslund (Advanced Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory), E. Boggasch (GSI-Darmstadt ), R.A. Hess (Goddard Space Flight Center ), D. Weidmann (Naval Surface Weapons Center ), A.W. DeSilva, H.R. Griem, M-J. Rhee (Laboratory for Plasma Research, University of Maryland )
8R.12 Pre-Pulse and Gas Puff Breakdown in the Phoenix Simulator
R.E. Terry (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375 )
8R.13 Effect of Lower Hybrid Instabilities on Radiating Z-Pinches*
J.L. Eddleman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J.S. DeGroot (University California, Davis), R.B. Spielman (Sandia National Laboratory), C.W. Hartman, M. Gee, J.H. Hammer, K.G. Estabrook, W.B. Bateson, D.W. Hewett (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
8R.14 Filtered pinhole photographs as a diagnostic of plasma conditions in a wire-array implosion
P.E. PULSIFER, J.P. APRUZESE, J.W. THORNHILL, K.G. WHITNEY (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), C. DEENEY, R. SPIELMAN, T. NASH, J. MCGURN, D. JOBES (Sandia National Laboratories)
8R.15 Stable implosions of strucutred gas-puff loads from large radii
F.L. Cochran, J. Davis, A.L. Velikovich (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC )
8R.16 X-RAY EMISSION FROM A KRYPTON GAS PUFF IMPOLDING ONTO A TITANIUM WIRE
J. Davis, J. Rogerson, R.W. Clark, J Giuliani (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375)
8R.17 The Continous Flow Pinch Revisted
L. JOHN PERKINS, CHARLES W. HARTMAN, JAMES L. EDDLEMAN (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Ca 94550 ), URI SHUMLAK (University of Washington )
8R.18 The Flying Radiation Case
J. Brownell, R. Bowers (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
8R.19 Radiative Collapsing Force-free Fields as a Mechanism for Hot Spots
J.Julio E. Herrera (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, MEXICO)
8R.20 Modeling of Hollow Z-Pinch Implosions
D. L. Peterson, R. L. Bowers, J. H. Brownell, W. Matuska, G. Idzorek, H. Oona, J. Stokes (Los Alamos National Laboratory), N. F. Roderick (Univerisity of New Mexico)
8R.21 Sub-Megajoule Liner Implosion Of A Closed Field Line Configuration
R.P. Drake, J.H. Hammer, C.W. Hartman, L.J. Perkins, D.D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Lab )
8R.22 Numerical Models of Pressure Pulse Generation by Imploding Metal Liners
Stanley Humphries (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico ), Carl Ekdahl (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico )
8R.23 Z Pinch Stability in the Nonlinear Kinetic Ion Regime
Anthony G. Sgro, Peter T. Sheehey (Los Alamos Natl. Lab.)
8R.24 Hydrogenic Fibre Dense Z-Pinch Experiments on the MAGPIE Generator
I.H. Mitchell, R. Aliaga-Rossel, J.M. Bayley, J.P. Chittenden, A. Lorenz, M. Tatarakis, J.F. Worley, A.E. Dangor, M.G. Haines (The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London. )
8R.25 A novel cryogenic fibre maker device
R. Aliaga-Rossel, J. Bayley (The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.)
8R.26 UCI Staged Z-Pinch
A. Van Drie (Univ. of CA, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA 92717), H.U. Rahman (University of California, Riverside ), N. Rostoker, F.J. Wessel (Univ. of CA, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA 927 17)
8R.27 Thermonuclear Ignition in a Staged Z-pinch
P. NEY, H. U. RAHMAN, F. J. WESSEL, N. ROSTOKER (IGPP, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 )
8R.28 X-Ray Backlighter for the UCI Staged Z-Pinch
B. MOOSMAN, V.M. BYSTRITSKII, F.J. WESSEL (Univ. of CA, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA 92717)
8R.29 Electron Beam, Gas-Valve/Nozzle Imaging Diagnostic
Y.S. SONG, T. TIERNEY, F.J. WESSEL (Univ. of CA, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA 9271 7), A. Fisher (Naval Research Laboratories, Washington, DC 20375 )
8R.30 A Fiber Extrusion System with a Closed-Cycle Refrigeration
H.U. Rahman, K. Strohmair, P. Ney, E. Ruden, F.J. Wessel (Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside California, 92521)
8R.31 Experiment on the Conversion of dc Electric Field to Radiation by Successive Discharges
J.T. Faith, Joe Huang, S.P. Kuo (Weber Reserach Institute, Polytechnic University Route 110, Farmingdale, NY 11735)
8R.32 Multiple Frequency Conversion of an Electromagnetic Wave Interacting with a Rapidly Created Periodic Plasma
Joe Huang, S.P. Kuo, James Faith (Weber Research Institute, Polytechnic University Route 110, Farmingdale, NY 11735)
8R.33 Frequency Shift of an Electromagnetic Wave Interacting with a Rapidly Created Periodic Plasma
S.P. Kuo, James Faith, Joe Huang (Weber Reserach Institute, Polytechnic University Route 110, Farmingdale, NY 11735)
8R.34 Using Fluorine-like Line Emission to Diagnose L-shell Ionization Dynamics
K.G. WHITNEY, A. DASGUPTA, P.E. PULSIFER (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory )
8R.35 Rotating Mode Coaxial Infrared Grating Laser
J.L. HIRSHFIELD (Yale University ), B. HAFIZI (Icarus Research ), A.K. GANGULY (Omega-P, Inc. )
8R.36 THEORETICAL AND MODELING STATUS FOR X-RAY LASERS DRIVEN BY ULTRASHORT PULSE OPTICAL LASERS
D.C. EDER, C.D. DECKER, R.A. LONDON, S.J. MOON (LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY )
8R.37 Spherical IEC device as a tunable x-ray source,
Y. GU, G.H. MILEY (Fusion Studies Laboratory, U. of Illinois )
8R.38 Helical Cerankov Effect with Non-Monoenergetic Electrom Beams
J. SOLN (Army Research Laboratory )
8R.39 LASER TARGET GENERATED X-RAYS
R.W. CLARK, J. DAVIS, J. GIULIANI (PLASMA PHYSICS DIVISION, NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, WASHINGTON, DC 20375)
8R.40 X-RAY GENERATION AND OPTICAL DAMAGE EXPERIMENTS ON THE PHAROS LASER
R.F. HUBBARD, A. FISHER, R.C. ELTON, J. GRUN, K. EVANS, H.R. BURRIS, C.K. MANKA, R.W. CLARK, J. DAVIS (NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY )
8R.41 Gas Puff Debris Shield
A. Fisher, E. Evans, R. Hubburd, J. Grun, C. Manka (Naval Research Laboratory)
8R.42 Laboratory Simulations of the Coupling of Blast Waves into Solid Surfaces
C. Manka, J. Grun, A. Fisher, R. Burris (Naval Research Laboratory), J. Hurley (Berkley Scholars, Inc.)
8R.43 EXTREME SPECTRAL BROADENING OF OPTICAL LIGHT
P. SPRANGLE, J. KRALL, E. ESAREY, B. HAFIZI (PLASMA PHYSICS DIVISION, NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY )
8R.44 NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF EXTREME SPECTRAL BROADENING
J. KRALL, P. SPRANGLE, E. ESAREY, B. HAFIZI (PLASMA PHYSICS DIVISION, NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY )
8R.45 Enhancement of Short-Pulse Recombination-Pumped Gain by Soft X-Ray Photoionization of the Ground State
J.P. APRUZESE (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory ), D. UMSTADTER (Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences, University of Michigan)
8R.46 Scaling of A1-wire array K-shell yield with diameter and mass for GIT-4 inductive storage generator
R.B. BAKSHT (High Current Electronics Institute, Tomsk, Russia )

Session 8S. EDUCATION AND OUTREACH.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, ,

Session 8IP. REVIEW AND INVITED POSTERS FROM PREVIOUS HALF-DAY SESSION.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Exhibit Area, 2nd Floor EAST

Session 8IB. CORE TRANSPORT BARRIER AND CURRENT DRIVE.

Thursday afternoon, 15:30, Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor East

8IB.01 MODE-CONVERTED ION-BERNSTEIN WAVES FOR HEATING AND CURRENT DRIVE
A.K. Ram (Plasma Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A.)
8IB.02 Rotational and Magnetic Shear Stabilization of MHD Modes and Turbulence in DIII-D High Performance Discharges
L.L. Lao (General Atomics, San Diego, California )
8IB.03 Gyrokinetic Simulation Studies of Sheared Toroidal Rotation and Transport Barriers
Scott E. Parker (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University )

Session 8T. SUPPLEMENTAL.

Thursday evening, 19:00, Archibald/Cochran, 3rd Floor Tower

8T.01 Ponderomotive Force Description of Neutrino Coupling with Dense Supernova Plasmas
R. Bingham, J.M. Dawson, H.A. Bethe, J.J. Su, V. Tsytovich
8T.02 Density and Potential Fluctuation Measurements of ECH and NBI Heated Plasmas on the Advanced Toroidal Facilty (Using a Heavy Ion Beam Probe)
S. C. Aceto (InterScience, Inc., Troy, NY), K. A. Connor (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)
8T.03 ON RELATIVISTIC LASER PULSE SELF-FOCUSING
M.D. Feit (Lawrence Livermore National laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 ), A.M. Komashko, S.L. Musher (Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Novosibirsk,630090,Russia), A.M. Rubenchik (Lawrence Livermore National laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 ), S.K. Turitsyn (Institute of Automation and Electrometry Novosibirsk,630090,Russia)
8T.04 Higher Temperature Hohlraums Using Laser Beam Smoothing
William L. Kruer, Scott C. Wilks (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
8T.05 Beam-Plasma Mechanism of Ion-Acoustic Soliton Excitation by Double Layer
V.I. MASLOV, H. SCHAMEL (National Scientific Centre "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Kharkov 310108, Ukraine, University Bayreuth)
8T.06 Ion acceleration in Collective Fields at Electrom Beam Injection from Spacecraft in Experiment "APEX"
V.I. MASLOV, V.V. ORAEVSKY, Yu.Ya. RUZHIN (National Scientific Centre "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Kharkov 310108, Ukriane: IZMIRAN)
8T.07 ON FAILURE OF CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS TO ACCOUNT WHOLLY FOR EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; PART II
KEITH L. MCDONALD (P.O.BOX 2433, SALT LAKE CITY, UT. )
8T.08 On Failure of Classical Electrodynamics To Account Wholly For Earth's Magnetic Field: Part I
K.L. McDONALD (P.O.Box 2433, Salt Lake City, UT. )
8T.09 Higher-Order Nonlinear Evolution Equations for Plasma Waves
Yuriy G. Rapoport (Kiev University, Kiev, Ukraine), Vasiliy P. Lukomsky (Institute for Physics, Kiev, Ukraine)
8T.10 Strain Measurements of Shock Compressed Solids at the Lattice Scale
N.C. Woolsey (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA 94550), A. Asfaw (Department of Physics, Howard University, Washington, D.C. ), C.A. Back, R. Cauble, S. Glenzer, E. Hsieh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA 94550), J.S. Wark (Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, OX1 3PU, U.K.), R.W. Lee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA 94550)
8T.11 Nonlinear Evolution of Prepulsed Electron beams
H.S. Uhm (Naval Surface Warfare Center )
8T.12 Energy Modulation of Prepulsed Electron Beam at the Injection Point and its Influence on Propagation in Downstream
H.S. Uhm (NSWC ), S. Ahn, J.J. Choi (NRL )
8T.13 SYMMETRIC SIMPLE MAP FOR SINGLE-NULL DIVERTOR TOKAMAK
H. Ali, M. Watson, C. Meyer, A. Punjabi, A. Boozer (Center for Fusion Research and Training, Hampton University, Hampton, Va 23668)
8T.14 Experimental and Mathematical Modeling Of Gas-Discharge Methods for Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) Destruction in Troposphere
G.A. ASKAR'YAN, G.M. BATANOV, S.I. GRITSININ (General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), I.A. KOSSYI, V.P. SILAKOV, V. STEFAN (Tesla Laboratories, Inc., La Jolla, Ca )
8T.15 THE LOWER HYBRID COUPLER FOR TPX.
S. BERNABEI, G. BELL, T. BIGELOW, P. GORANSON, N. GREENOUGH, D. SWAIN (PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY, PRINCETON, NJ. )
8T.16 The Issue of Internal Modes in Ignition Experiments
B. Coppi (MIT), P. Detragiache (E.N.E.A., Italy), S. Migliuolo (MIT)
8T.17 Global Strongly Nonlinear Structures in Nonuniform Magnetized Plasma - Beam Systems
E. Fedutenko, V. Lapshin (Kharkov State University, Kharkov, Ukraine )
8T.18 Photoinjector-Driven Chirped-Pulse Free-Electron Maser
F.V. Hartemann, G. P. LeSage, S.N. Fochs, H.X.C. Feng, L. Laurent, S.A. Rosenau, Jr. Luhmann (DAS, UC Davis )
8T.19 Fast Wave Current Drive Feasibility for the PEGASUS Ultra Low Aspect Ratio Tokamak
T. INTRATOR, R. FONCK, R. DURST, J. TATARONIS, G. GARSTKA, K. TRITZ (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison )
8T.20 Studies of Pseudospark Discharge Phenomena.
K.K. JAIN, D. SRIRAM (Institute for Plasma Research, India )
8T.21 Recemt Results
R. Jones (Emporia State Univ. )
8T.22 X-ray backlit imaging of an implosion core to measure the in-flight pusher density of an indirect drive capsule
D.H. KALANTAR, K.S. BUDIL, B.A. HAMMEL, O.L. LANDEN, C.J. KEANE (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )
8T.23 A General Condition of Space Charge Limited Flows for both Thermionic and Field Emission
Y.F. Liu, Y.Y. Lau (Department of Nuclear Engineering, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104)
8T.24 Monochromatic X-Ray Imaging of Laser-Fusion Targets Using a Kirkpatrick-Baez X-Ray Microscope
F.J. MARSHALL (LLE, U. of Rochester ), A. HAUER, J. OERTEL, R. WATT (Los Alamos National Laboratory )
8T.25 Induced Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves by Plasma with Corrugated Distribution Function of Particles
V.I. MASLOV, I.N. ONISHCHENKO (National Scientific Centre "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Karkhov 310108, Ukraine)
8T.26 Connection of Wave Perturbation in Ionosphere with Phenomena on Earth's Surface
V.I. MASLOV (National Scientific Centre "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Kharkov 310108, Ukraine)
8T.27 Kinetic Shortening and Nondispersive Broadening of Wave Packet with Linear Dispersion Relation
V.I. MASLOV, A.S. BAKAI (National Scientific Centre "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Kharkov 310108, Ukraine)
8T.28 Diagnostics of Nonhomogeneous and Nonstationary Plasma by Chain of Ultrashort Electromagnetic Pulses
V.I. MASLOV, V.I. MURATOV, A.I. LUCHANINOV (National Scientific Centre "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Kharkov 310108, Ukraine, Kharkov State Univ.)
8T.29 Theory of Fractal Structure of Dielectric Dischagre
V.I. MASLOV, A.V. PASHCHENKO (National Scientific Centre "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Kharkov 310108, Ukraine)
8T.30 Reasonant and Stochastic Sterilization by Electromagnetic Radiation and by Plasma
V.I. MASLOV (National Scientific Centre "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Kharkov 310108, Ukraine)
8T.31 Mode structure around an X-point
N. MATTOR, R. H. COHEN (Lawrence Livermore National Lab )
8T.32 NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE EFFECT OF THE ExB DRIFT ON DIVERTOR PLASMA FLOWS
D.R. McCarthy (Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402 ), S.I. Krasheninnikov, D.J. Sigmar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Fusion Center, Cambrige, MA 02139)
8T.33 Multi-Pulse, Nitrogen Laser Diagnostic
B. MOOSMAN, V.M. BYSTRITSKII, F.J. WESSEL (Univ. of CA, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA 92717)
8T.34 Stellamak conception
PAUL MOROZ (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wi and Lodestar Research Corporation, CO,)
8T.35 High-frequency Instabilities and Transport Processes in Tokamaks
D.Kh. Morozov (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, MEXICO), V.S Tsypin, C.A. de Azevedo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL), V.A. Rantsev-Kartinov (Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, RUSSIA), A.S. de Assis (Univeridade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL)
8T.36 Stochastic Particle Motion in the Vicinity of A Magnetic Island Due to Electrostatic Drift Waves
Y. Nishimura, M. Azumi, J.D. Callen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
8T.37 Theoretical Modelling of a Gas-Puff Z-pinch Experiment.
W. Peter, L. Gregorian, G. Davara, V. Fisher, Y. Ralchenko, Y. Maron (Weizmann Institute of Science), A. Velikovich (Berkeley Scholars, Inc., Springfield, VA.)
8T.38 Interaction of Magnetosonic Solitons and Ion Beam
Yuriy G. Rapoport, Viktor N. Kotsarenko (Kiev University, Kiev, Ukraine)
8T.39 Tokamak Plasma Confinement by Electron Cyclotron Frequency Driver Pumps
V. STEFAN (Tesla Laboratories, Inc., La Jolla, Ca )
8T.40 PERFORMANCE OF THE START NEUTRAL BEAM INJECTION SYSTEM
C.C. Tsai, G.C. Barber, D.M. Codling, M.B. Hood, M.P.S. Nightingale, Y-K. M. Peng, D.E. Schechter, R.T.C. Smith, S.E.V. Warder (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN )
8T.41 An Analystical Description of Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Plasmas
H.S. Uhm (Naval Surface Warfare Center )
8T.42 A Self-Consistent Nonlinear Theory of Prepulsed Electron Beam Propagating Through a Helix-Loaded Waveguide
H.S. Uhm (NSWC ), H.P. Freund, R.K. Parker (NRL )
8T.43 Sawtooth modification of alpha particle distributions in ITER.
R.B. WHITE, Y. ZHAO, M. REDI (Princeton University )
8T.44 Spectroscopic Characterization Measurements of an Argon-Neon Plasma at Stagnation.*
K.L. Wong, P.T. Springer, J.H. Hammer, A. Osterheld (LLNL), C. Deeney (SNL)
8T.45 X-Ray Backlighting Imaging of Mixed Imploded Targets
B. YAAKOBI, D. SHVARTS, R. EPSTEIN (LLE, U. of Rochester ), Q. SU (Dept. Physics, Illinois State University )
8T.46 Evolution of the Radial Electric Field in Toroidal Plasma
P.N. YUSHMANOV, A.I. SMOLYAKOV, V.B. LEBEDEV, P.H. DIAMOND (Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319)
8T.47 Collisional ballooning mode theory in the banana regime
L. J. Zheng, M. Tessarotto (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Trieste)

Session 8U. POSTDEADLINE.

Thursday evening, 19:00, Archibald/Cochran, 3rd Floor Tower

8U.01 Plasma Opening Switches Operation Using Gas Injection and Plasma Guns Coupling
B. Cassany, P. Grua (CEA-CESTA, BP N^o2, 22114 Le Barp, France )
8U.02 Self-Consistent Undulator Radiation via Lienard-Wiechert Fields
L.R. Elias, M. Tecimer, I. Kimel (Center for Research and Education in Optics /& Lasers and Physics Dept., Uni. of Central Florida, Orlando FL 32826)
8U.03 Laser probing of a dense Z-pinch Plasma
M. Tatarakis, R. Aliago-Rossel, A.E. Dangor (The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London SW7 2BZ, UK)
8U.04 SBS pulse compression applied to a 10 ns Nd-YAG laser for z-pinch diagnostics
J.M. Bayley, R. Aliaga-Rossel (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW7 2BZ, UK)
8U.05 Nonlinear Dynamics of a Sideband Instability in Free Electron Lasers
S.K. Ride, V.I. Shevchenko, M. Baine (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093- 0407)
8U.06 Modeling of a Free Electron Laser with a Tapered Wiggler
M. Baine, S.K. Ride, V.I. Shevchenko (University of California, San Diego, la Jolla, CA 92093- 0407)
8U.07 Alfven Eigenmode Studies in JET
A. Fasoli, J. Lister (CRPP, Lausanne, Switzerland ), S. Sharapov, S. Ali-Arshad, G. Bosia, D. Borba, D.J. Campbell, N. Deliyanakis, J.A. Dobbing, C. Gormezano, H. Holties, G. Huysmans, J. Jacquinot (JET Joint Undertaking, UK ), A. Jaun (CRPP, Lausanne, Switzerland ), W. Kerner, P. Lavanchy, J.-M. Moret, L. Porte, A. Santagiustino (JET Joint Undertaking, UK ), L. Villard (CRPP Lausanne, Switzerland )

Session 8IF. SHORT-PULSE LASERS AND WAKEFIELDS.

Thursday evening, 20:00, Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor East

8IF.01 Impact of T^3 Lasers in Laser Acceleration
Gerard A. Mourou (University of Michigan, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099)
8IF.02 Laser Driven Electron Acceleration: Theory and Experiments
Phillip Sprangle (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory )
8IF.03 Challenge to a table-top high-energy laser wakefield accelerator
Kazuhisa Nakajima (National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305 Japan)
8IF.04 Laser Wake-Field "Photon Accelerator": Optical diagnostics for the Laser Wakefield Accelerator based on Longitudinal Interferometry
Michael C. Downer (The University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Physics, Austin, TX 78712)
8IF.05 The Breaking of Relativistic Electron Plasma Waves
A.E. Dangor (Imperical College, London, United Kingdom )