Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 19 NOVEMBER 1997

14:00 lWepT.01 Beam Dynamics in Laser Driven Plasma Based Accelerators

Wim Leemans (Center for Beam Physics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

14:40 lWepT.02 The RFP: Plasma Confinement with a Reversed Twist.

John S. Sarff (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

15:20 lWepT.03 Vacuum Arc Deposition of Thin Films and Coatings

Raymond L. Boxman (Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory, Tel Aviv University)

14:00 lWepO1.01 Effects of Flow Shear on L-mode Plasma Confinement

S.D. Scott, S. Batha, D. Mikkelsen, TFTR Team (Princeton University), C. Petty (General Atomics)

14:12 lWepO1.02 Unification of Confinement Trends in TFTR Supershots

D.R. Ernst (MIT), TFTR Group

14:24 lWepO1.03 Measurements of Short Wavelength Fluctuations in Enhanced Reversed Shear Plasmas in TFTR

K. L. Wong, N. L. Bretz, G. L. Schmidt, T. S. Hahm, E. Synakowski (Princeton U.)

14:36 lWepO1.04 Alpha Particle Confinement in TFTR DT Plasmas with Reversed and Monotonic Magnetic Shear

M.H. Redi, D.S. Darrow, S.S. Medley, M.P. Petrov, R.B. White, M.C. Zarnstorff, S.J. Zweben, TFTR Team (Princeton U.), S.H. Batha, R.V. Budny, D.S. Darrow, F.M. Levinton, D.C. McCune, S. vonGoeler

14:48 lWepO1.05 MHD-Induced Alpha Loss in TFTR

S.J. Zweben, Z. Chang, D.S. Darrow, E.D. Fredrickson, W. Park, E. Ruskov, J.D. Strachan, H. Takahashi, R.B. White (Princeton University)

15:00 lWepO1.06 Beam ion loss in TFTR reversed shear plasmas

E. Ruskov, R. Budny, S. Medley, M. Redi, S. Scott, E. Synakowski, S. Von Goeler, S. Zweben (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

15:12 lWepO1.07 Ion Berstein Wave Experiments on TFTR

J. H. Rogers, R. E. Bell, S. Bernabei, J. C. Hosea, B. LeBlanc, R. Majeski, R. Nazikian, M. Ono, C. K. Phillips, G. Schilling, G. Taylor, J. R. Wilson (Princeton University), D. A. D'Ippolito, J. R. Myra (Lodestar Corp.), C. Bush, G. Hanson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), T. Intrator (Univ. Wisconsin), F. Paoletti (Columbia University), R. Cesario (Associazione Euratom-ENEA)

15:24 lWepO1.08 Effects of ICRF waves on plasma rotation in TFTR

C.K. Phillips, R. Bell, S. Bernabei, C. Bush, J. Hosea, B. LeBlanc, R. Majeski, M. Ono, J. Rogers, G. Schilling, E. Synakowski, J.R. Wilson (Princeton U.), P.H. Diamond (U.C.S.D.), C.K. Phillips

15:36 lWepO1.09 Mode conversion experiments in deuterium - tritium plasmas in TFTR

R. Majeski, R. Bell, D. Darrow, S. Von Goeler, J. Hosea, B. LeBlanc, M. Ono, C. K. Phillips, J. H. Rogers, G. Schilling, E. Synakowski, G. Taylor, J. R. Wilson, S. Zweben (Princeton U.), C. Bush (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), M. Bettenhausen, T. Intrator, J. Scharer (U. Wisconsin)

15:48 lWepO1.10 DOLLOP: Improved plasma performance using a new concept for mitigating the plasma-wall interaction in fusion devices

D.K. Mansfield, D.W. Johnson, H.K. Kugel, C.H. Bush, R.V. Budny, D. Jassby, A. Ramsey, K. Hill (Princeton U.)

16:00 lWepO1.11 Integration of Enhanced Stability and Limiter Power Handling in TFTR

S.A. Sabbagh, F. Paoletti (Columbia U.), E. Fredrickson, D. Mansfield, M.G. Bell, K. Hill, H.K. Park, C. Bush (Princeton U.)

16:12 lWepO1.12 Temperature Predictions for the TFTR Radiating Mantle and Sheared Flow Experiments

D.R. Mikkelsen, S.H. Batha, G.W. Hammett, K.W. Hill, S.D. Scott, M.G. Bell, R.E. Bell, C.E. Bush, B. LeBlanc, F.M. Levinton, D. Mueller, H.K. Park, A.T. Ramsey, E.J. Synakowski, G. Taylor (Princeton U.), J. Ongena (LPP/ERM-KMS)

14:00 lWepO2.01 A new renormalization scheme for turbulent transport

Eric Vanden Eijnden (ULB)

14:12 lWepO2.02 Shell-Model Simulations of Viscoelastic Turbulence: Magnetospheric Plasma Connected to a Dissipative Ionosphere

J.E. Borovsky (), H.O. Funsten (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:24 lWepO2.03 Collisional Instabilities in a Dusty Plasma with Recombination and Ion Drift Effects

R. Singh, P. Kaw (Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar - 382 428, INDIA)

14:36 lWepO2.04 Suspension of Dust Particles Near an Electrode

J.X. Ma, Jinyuan Liu (Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, P.O. Box 4, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China)

14:48 lWepO2.05 Influence of Vacuum Space on the Electric Potential caused by Plasma Sheath

H.S. Uhm (Naval Surface Warfare Center)

15:00 lWepO2.06 A Magnetic Nozzle to Promote 3-body Recombination

S.A. Cohen, Jaeyoung Park (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), V. Malkin (Institute for Advanced Studies), A. Smits, R. Yetter (Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University)

15:12 lWepO2.07 Electron Energization by the Lower Hybrid Waves: Consequences for the Problem of X-ray Emission from Different Space Environment

V.D. Shapiro (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319), R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11, OQX, UK), J.M. Dawson (Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024)

15:24 lWepO2.08 New Computational Approach to Solve Non-Equilibrium Plasma Systems using Fluid Element/Particle-In-Cell Method

W. B. Bateson, J. W. Shon, D. W. Hewett (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP1.01 Using ECE to Improve EFIT Results for NCS Discharges in DIII--D

M.E. Austin, G. Cima (University of Texas), R.F. Ellis (University of Maryland), T.C. Luce (General Atomics)

lWepP1.02 Study of Tearing Modes on DIII-D By ECE Data Analysis

C. Ren, J.D. Callen, G. McKee, M. Jakubowski, R.J. Fonck (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M.E. Austin (University of Texas, Austin), E.D. Fredrickson (PPPL), R.J. La Haye (General Atomics)

lWepP1.03 Comparison of Experimental Diagnostic Signals with Numerical Predictions

K.\ Comer (University of Wisconsin - Madison), A.\ D.\ Turnbull (General Atomics.)

lWepP1.04 Effect of Helical Field Perturbations on Fast-Ion Confinement in the DIII--D Tokamak

E.M. Carolipio, W.W. Heidbrink (University of California, Irvine), C.B. Forest (University of Wisconsin, Madison), R.B. White (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

lWepP1.05 Neutral Particle Measurements of the Pitch-Angle Scattering Rate, Beam-Ion Transport, and Radial Electric Field

W.W. Heidbrink, E.M. Carolipio, T. Tran (University of California, Irvine), K.H. Burrell (General Atomics)

lWepP1.06 Growth Rate of Knock-on Runaway Electron Generation in Tokamaks

S.C. Chiu, V.S. Chan (General Atomics), M.N. Rosenbluth (ITER JCT, San Diego), R.W. Harvey (CompX)

lWepP1.07 Comparisons of Runaway Electron Production in DIII--D with the CQL3D Model

R.W. Harvey (CompX), V.S. Chan, S.C. Chiu, T.E. Evans (General Atomics), D.G. Whyte (University of California, San Diego), M.N. Rosenbluth (ITER JCT, San Diego)

lWepP1.08 High Power Operation of Tunerless Fast Wave Current Drive Antenna Systems on DIII--D

R.I. Pinsker, D.A. Phelps, R.W. Callis, W.P. Cary, J.S. deGrassie, C.P. Moeller, R.C. O'neill, C.C. Petty (General Atomics), F.W. Baity (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

lWepP1.09 The 110~GHz Gyrotron Installation on DIII--D: Status and Experimental Results

John Lohr, Dan Ponce, R.W. Callis (General Atomics), L. Popov (Gycom, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), M. Zerbini (ENEA, Frascati, Italy), P. Cahalan (CPI, Palo Alto, Ca.)

lWepP1.10 Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive Experiments in the DIII--D Tokamak

T.C. Luce, J.S. deGrassie, C.C. Petty, R. Prater, J.M. Lohr, R.I. Pinsker (General Atomics), M.E. Austin (University of Texas, Austin), S. Bernabei (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

lWepP1.11 Plasma Current Ramp-up and Sustainment with Bootstrap Current

P.A. Politzer, H.E. St. John, R.L. Miller (General Atomics), C.C. Forest (U. Wisconsin), W.M. Nevins, L.D. Pearlstein (LLNL)

lWepP1.12 Toroidal Velocity and RF Power in DIII--D

J.S. deGrassie, D.R. Baker, K.H. Burrell, S.C. Chiu, H. Ikezi, J. Lohr, Y.R. Lin-Liu, C.C. Petty, R.I. Pinsker, R. Prater (General Atomics), B.W. Rice (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP1.13 Trapped Electron Corrections to Ohkawa Current in General Tokamak Equilibria

Y.R. Lin-Liu, F.L. Hinton (General Atomics)

lWepP1.14 A Wide-Bandwidth Multichannel Radiometer Diagnostic for Disruptions and Other Transient Phenomena on DIII--D

D.S. Gray, S. Luckhardt, D.G. Whyte, J. Zhang (Fusion Energy Research Program, UC San Diego), T.E. Evans, D.A. Humphreys, A.W. Hyatt, A.G. Kellman, R.L. Lee, J.A. Leuer, P.L. Taylor (General Atomics), T.C. Jernigan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

lWepP1.15 Argon K\alpha Measurement Technique on DIII--D

R.T. Snider, N.H. Brooks (General Atomics), N. Bogatu (Weizmann Institute)

lWepP1.16 Development of a New System for Transport Simulation and Analysis at General Atomics

H.E. St. John, Q. Peng, J. Freeman (General Atomics), J. Crotinger (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP1.17 Remote Experimentation on DIII--D: Operations and Concepts

T.A. Casper, D.N. Hill, W.H. Meyer, J.M. Moller, B.W. Stallard, R.D. Wood (LLNL), J.T. Scoville, B.B. McHarg and the Operations Group, Operations Group (GA), R.J. Colchin, D. Greenwood (ORNL), S. Davis (PPPL), S. Bly (Consultant)

lWepP1.18 Synthetic Experimental Diagnostics in the Corsica Plasma Simulation Code

J.A. Hawreliak (University of California at Berkeley), T.A. Casper, B.I. Cohen, L.L. LoDestro, W.H. Meyer (Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory.)

lWepP1.19 Impurity Killer Pellet Plasma Termination and Disruption Mitigation Physics in the DIII--D Tokamak

T.E. Evans, A.G. Kellman, P.L. Taylor, P.B. Parks, D.A. Humphreys, M.J. Schaffer, A.W. Hyatt, R.L. Lee, S.C. Chiu (General Atomics), D.G. Whyte, S. Luckhardt (UC, San Diego), T.C. Jernigan, L.R. Baylor (ORNL), S. Jardin, G.L. Schmidt (PPPL), R.W. Harvey (CompX)

lWepP1.20 Hardware Advances in Disruption Mitigation by Pellet Injection on DIII--D

T.C. Jernigan, L.R. Baylor, S.K. Combs, S.L. Milora (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), T.E. Evans, P.B. Parks (General Atomics)

lWepP1.21 Database Analysis of Disruption Frequency in DIII--D

A.W. Hyatt, P.L. Taylor, A.G. Kellman (General Atomics), A. Reiman (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

lWepP1.22 Theoretical Considerations for Liquid Jet Injection into Tokamak Plasmas

P.B. Parks (General Atomics), M.N. Rosenbluth (ITER San Diego Joint Work Site), W.D. Sessions (Tennessee Technological University), E. Geskin (New Jersey Institute of Technology), S.C. Jardin (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

lWepP1.23 Runaway Electron Diagnostic for Disruptions in DIII--D

P.L. Taylor, R.L. Lee, T.E. Evans, D.A. Humphreys, A.W. Hyatt, A.G. Kellman, M.J. Schaffer (General Atomics), D.S. Gray, S. Luckhardt, D.G. Whyte, J. Zhang (University of California, San Diego), T.C. Jernigan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

lWepP1.24 Coupled Resonant Error Field Mode Components and the Low Density Locked Mode Threshold

J.T. Scoville, R.J. La Haye (General Atomics)

lWepP1.25 Bounce Averaged Drifts of Trapped Particles in Tokamaks

M.S. Chu, R.L. Miller (General Atomics)

lWepP1.26 MHD Stability in Tokamak Discharges with High Squareness

J.R. Ferron, C.M. Greenfield, E.J. Strait, R.J. La Haye, G.L. Jackson, T.H. Osborne (General Atomics), B.W. Rice, B.W. Stallard (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP1.27 Study of the Resistive Wall Mode in DIII--D

A.M. Garofalo, M.E. Mauel, G.A. Navratil, S.A. Sabbagh (Columbia University), E.J. Strait, R.J. La Haye, A.D. Turnbull, DIII--D Team (General Atomics), B.W. Rice (LLNL)

lWepP1.28 Edge Instabilities and Termination of DIII--D High Performance Discharges with an H-mode Edge

L.L. Lao, V.S. Chan, M.S. Chu, J.R. Ferron, R.L. Miller, T.H. Osborne, E.J. Strait, T.S. Taylor, A.D. Turnbull (General Atomics), B.W. Rice (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), S.A. Sabbagh (Columbia University)

lWepP1.29 Ballooning Mode Stability for Self-Consistent Pressure and Current Profiles at the H--mode Edge of Tokamaks

R.L. Miller, Y.R. Lin-Liu, T.H. Osborne, T.S. Taylor (General Atomics)

lWepP1.30 High Performance Plasmas with a Pumped and Baffled Divertor in DIII--D

C.M. Greenfield, J.R. Ferron, A.W. Hyatt, M.J. Schaffer, D.P. Schissel (General Atomics), S.L. Allen, T.A. Casper, B.W. Rice, B.W. Stallard (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), E.A. Lazarus, R. Maingi, M.R. Wade (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), DIII--D Team

lWepP1.31 A Study of "Intelligent Shell" Feedback

T.H. Jensen (General Atomics)

lWepP1.32 Prospects for Advanced Tokamak Scenarios of High Performance Tokamak Regimes

A.D. Turnbull, T.S. Taylor, J.R. Ferron, R.J. La Haye, Y.R. Lin-Liu, R.L. Miller, E.J. Strait, M.S. Chu, C.M. Greenfield, L.L. Lao (GA), B.W. Rice (LLNL), E.A. Lazarus (ORNL)

lWepP2.01 Simulation of Plams SOL Kinetic Effects with a 2D Fokker- Planck Code

A. Batishcheva, M. Shoucri, I. Shkarofsky, H. Pacher, O. Batishchev, S. Krasheninnikov, D. Sigmar (Centre Canadien de Fusion Magnetique)

lWepP2.02 Multilevel Iterative Methods in Nonlinear Computational Plasma Physics

D.A. Knoll, J.M. Finn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

lWepP2.03 Turbulence and transport due to the neutral-driven collisional interchange mode

Daniel McCarthy (Southeastern Louisiana University), Sergei Krasheninnikov, Peter Catto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

lWepP2.04 Use of Octagonal Grid in Thermo-Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Turbulence

Pavol Pavlo (Czech Academy of Sciences), George Vahala (William & Mary), Linda Vahala (Old Dominion University), Min Soe (William & Mary)

lWepP2.05 3D Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Turbulence in the Divertor

Linda Vahala (Old Dominion University), George Vahala, Darren Wah (William & Mary), Pavol Pavlo (Czech Academy of Sciences), Nicos Martys (N.I.S.T), Hudong Chen (Exa Corp.)

lWepP2.06 Filtered Vlasov simulations of warm plasmas using velocity-scaled symmetrically-weighted Hermite expansion functions

James Paul Holloway, Joseph W. Schumer (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan)

lWepP2.07 Collisional \delta f method and application in the nonlinear evolution of the Toroidicity Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes

Yang Chen, Roscoe White (PPPL, Princeton University)

lWepP2.08 Thermostated \df.

John A. Krommes (Princeton U.)

lWepP2.09 Progress in parallelizing XOOPIC

Peter Mardahl, J. P. Verboncoeur (Dept. EECS, Univ. of Cal., Berkeley, CA 94720-1772, USA)

lWepP2.10 Hybrid Simulations of Large-Orbit Plasmas

Y.A. Omelchenko, R.N. Sudan (Cornell University)

lWepP2.11 Multiscale electromagnetic PIC simulation of plasmas.

Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

lWepP2.12 3-D Particl-in-Cell Simulations of Transport Driven Currents

F. S. Tsung, J. M. Dawson (Department of Physics, UCLA)

lWepP2.13 Charge Emission Models in the 3D Cartesian PIC Code, ICEPIC, using Divided Cells to Model Curved Boundaries

G. Sasser, J. Havranek, J. Luginsland (AFRL), J. Watrous (NumerEx)

lWepP2.14 The Dynamics of Small-Scale Turbulence Driven Flows

M.\ A. Beer, G.\ W. Hammett (PPPL)

lWepP2.15 Dynamics of ExB flows, Poloidal and Toroidal Rotations in Tokamak Plasmas

S. V. Novakowski, C. S. Liu, R. Z. Sagdeev (Institute for Plasma Research, UMD, College Park, MD, 20742), M. N. Rosenbluth (UCSD, La Jolla, CA)

lWepP2.16 Poloidal Flows Driven by ITG Turbulence in Tokamaks

F.L. Hinton (General Atomics), M.N. Rosenbluth (ITER-JCT)

lWepP2.17 Effects of sheared toroidal rotation on kinetic ion-temperature-gradient-driven instabilities

Hideo Sugama (National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-52, Japan), Wendell Horton (IFS, University of Texas)

lWepP2.18 Ion Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulence Calculations on the CRAY T3E

V.E. Lynch, J.N. Leboeuf, B.A. Carreras (ORNL), J.D. Alvarez, L. Garcia (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

lWepP2.19 Full torus Landau fluid calculations of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence

J.N. Leboeuf, V.E. Lynch, B.A. Carreras (ORNL), L. Garcia (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

lWepP2.20 Nonlinear Interaction of Fluctuations and Flows in Tokamak Plasma

T.S. Hahm, Z. Lin, M.A. Beer, B.H. Fong, G.W. Hammett, W.W. Lee (Princeton University)

lWepP2.21 Role of Nonlinear Cross Phase Dynamics in CTEM Turbulence.

Derek Baver, P.W. Terry, E. Fernandez (University of Wisconsin--Madison), A.S. Ware (University of Montana at Missoula)

lWepP2.22 Equations for Fluctuations and Transport in Flux-Tube Geometries

J. J. Martinell (ICN-National University of Mexico), P. N. Guzdar, A. B. Hassam (Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland)

lWepP2.23 Transport Scaling for Tokamak Plasmas via Global Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation

J. C. Cummings (Los Alamos National Laboratory), W. W. Lee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), R. A. Santoro (Naval Research Laboratory)

lWepP2.24 Global gyrokinetic simulations with general geometry equilibria

Zhihong Lin, W.W. Lee, W.M. Tang, R.B. White (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

lWepP2.25 Global and Local Scale Interaction Effects from a Nonlinear Toroidal Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation Model

R.D. Sydora, V.K. Decyk, J.M. Dawson, O. Hurricane, S.C. Cowley (University of California, Los Angeles)

lWepP2.26 Progress on Cyclone: A Gyrokinetic Simulator's Perspective

Scott Parker (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)

lWepP2.27 Progress on Gyrokinetic Simulation of Tokamak Turbulence

Charlson Kim, Scott Parker (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)

lWepP2.28 Numerical Studies of Effects of Electrons on Drift-Wave Turbulence

Igor Manuilskiy, Harry E. Mynick, Scott E. Parker (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

lWepP2.29 Electromagnetic Gyrofluid Simulation of Turbulence and Transport

P. B. Snyder, G. W. Hammett, M. A. Beer (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

lWepP2.30 The Kinetic Stability of Shaped Tokamak Plasmas

Aaron J. Redd, Arnold H. Kritz, Glenn Bateman, Joshua Lifton (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), G. Rewoldt (PPPL, Princeton, NJ)

lWepP2.31 Automated Search of Kinetic Instabilities in Tokamak Plasmas

Joshua Lifton, Aaron J. Redd, Arnold H. Kritz, Glenn Bateman (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), G. Rewoldt (PPPL, Princeton, NJ)

lWepP2.32 Elongation and Isotope Scaling in Tokamak Transport Simulations

Arnold H. Kritz, Glenn Bateman, Aaron J. Redd (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), Jon E. Kinsey (General Atomic, San Diego, CA)

lWepP2.33 On Attempts to Explain Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport

M.W. Kissick, J.D. Callen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Z. Chang, E.D. Fredrickson (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab), C.C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin-Madison), J.E. Kinsey (Lehigh University), D.P. Schissel (General Atomics)

lWepP2.34 Flora and Fauna of the Vlasov Equation

Russell Cottam (NYMA/NASA-Lewis Research Center)

lWepP3.01 Confinement at Tight Aspect Ratio in START

M. J. Walsh (Walsh Scientific Ltd, OX14 3DB,UK), R. J. Akers, L.C. Appel, P.G. Carolan, N.J. Conway, M. Gryaznevich, I Jenkins, R Martin, MPSN Nightingale, A. Sykes (UKAEA Fusion, Culham, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, UK. (UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association)), M. R. Tournianski (University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK)

lWepP3.02 Overview of CDX-U Spherical Torus Research

W. Choe, J. Menard, T. Munsat, R. Kaita, E. Lo, R. Majeski, M. Ono, J.R. Wilson (Princeton University), D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins University), T. Seki (NIFS-Japan), Y. Petrov (Ioffe-Russia)

lWepP3.03 High-Harmonic Fast Wave Coupling and Heating Experiments in CDX-U

J.E. Menard, R. Majeski, M. Ono, W. Choe, T. Munsat (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins University), T. Seki (NIFS-Japan)

lWepP3.04 Observations of resistive MHD activity in CDX-U spherical torus

M.J. May, D. Stutman, V. Soukhanovskii, M. Finkenthal, S.P. Regan, H.W. Moos (Johns Hopkins University), CDX-U Group (Princeton University)

lWepP3.05 Development of the CDX-U Multichannel Thomson Scattering System

T.L. Munsat, B. LeBlanc, W. Choe, B. Grek, R. Kaita, E. Lo, R. Majeski, J. Menard, M. Ono (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins University)

lWepP3.06 Status of National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)

M. Ono, NSTX Team (Princeton University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Washington, and Columbia University)

lWepP3.07 Plasma and Fusion Science Investigations of Interest to NSTX

Y.-K.M. Peng, Scientists Contributing to NSTX Physics (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Washington, and Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, University of California at San Diego, University of Texas at Austin etc.)

lWepP3.08 NSTX Physics Design Update

Stanley Kaye, NSTX Physics Group (PPPL, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 08543)

lWepP3.09 High Harmonic Fast Wave heating and current drive for NSTX

J. A. Robinson, R. Majeski, J. Hosea, J. Menard, M. Ono, C. K. Phillips, J. R. Wilson, J. Wright (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. B. Batchelor, M. D. Carter, E. F. Jaeger, P. Ryan, D. Swain (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), T. K. Mau (University of California, San Diego), S. C. Chiu (General Atomics), D. Smithe (Mission Research Corporation)

lWepP3.10 Physics Basis for NSTX Antenna Design

M.D. Carter, E.F. Jaeger, P.M. Ryan, D.J. Strickler (ORNL), R. Majeski (PPPL)

lWepP3.11 HHFW Current Drive and Heating for Spherical Tokamak Operation

T.K. Mau (UC-San Diego), S.C. Chiu (General Atomics)

lWepP3.12 Baseline Diagnostics for the National Spherical Torus Experiment

R. Kaita, W. Choe, R. Hatcher, D. Johnson, and the NSTX and CDX-U TEAMS (Princeton University), Y.-S. Hwang (KAIST-Korea)

lWepP3.13 Plans for Upgrading Diagnostic Capability on NSTX

D. Johnson, B. Grek, R. Kaita, M. Ono (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Peng (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

lWepP3.14 Design of the ultra soft X-ray imaging system for NSTX

D. Stutman, M. Finkenthal, S.P. Regan, M.J. May, V. Soukhanovskii, H.W. Moos (Johns Hopkins University), R. Kaita (Princeton University)

lWepP3.15 Heavy Ion Beam Probe Poloidal Field Measurement for the National Spherical Torus Experiment

F. H. Mull, T. P. Crowley, K. A. Connor, P. M. Schoch (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180)

lWepP3.16 A novel use of a Heavy Ion Beam Probe for measuring the magnetic field of NSTX

F.C. Jobes, M. Peng (Princeton University)

lWepP3.17 Current Profile Measurements on NSTX via FIR Polarimetry

Y. Roh, C.W. Domier, W.R. Geck, Jr. Luhmann (University of California at Davis), H. Park (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

lWepP3.18 Energetic Particle Orbits in Spherical Tokamaks

R.J. Akers (UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Centre), D.R. Mikkelsen, R.B White, S.M. Kaye, D.C. McCune, J.E. Menard (Princeton U.)

lWepP3.19 Magnetic Equilibrium and Stability Simulations of the National Spherical Torus Experiment Plasmas

F. Paoletti, S. Sabbagh, A. Garofalo (Columbia University), R. Kaita, S. Kaye, R. Hatcher (Princeton University), L. Lao, E. Lazarus, A. Turnbull (General Atomics), NSTX Team

lWepP3.20 Status of the PEGASUS Extremely Low-Aspect Toroidal Experiment

R. Fonck, T. Intrator, B. Lewicki, A. Sontag, T. Thorson, K. Tritz, C. Wilson, G. Winz, J. Callen, C. Hegna, S. Kruger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

lWepP3.21 Design and Capabilities of the PEGASUS Experimental Facility

T. Thorson, R. Fonck, T. Intrator, B. Lewicki, A. Sontag, K. Tritz, C. Wilson, G. Winz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

lWepP3.22 Diagnostic Overview and Equilibrium Studies for the PEGASUS Toroidal Experiment

K. Tritz, R. Fonck, T. Intrator, B. Lewicki, A. Sontag, T. Thorson, C. Wilson, G. Winz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

lWepP3.23 High Harmonic Fast Magnetosonic Wave Startup and Heating Using Novel Antenna Designs in PEGASUS Tokamak

T. Intrator, R. Fonck, B. Lewicki, A. Sontag, T. Thorson, K. Tritz, C. Wilson, G. Winz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

lWepP3.24 Startup and MHD Stability of the MEDUSA Spherical Tokamak

G.D. Garstka, R.J. Fonck (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

lWepP3.25 Helicity-driven Relaxation and Sustained Current Profiles in the HIST Spherical Torus

M. Nagata, P. Gu, S. Kano, N. Yagi, N. Yuasa, N. Fukumoto, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology), A.K. Martin (Osaka University)

lWepP3.26 The HIT--II Experiment

B.\ A. Nelson, T.\ R. Jarboe, R. Ewig, C. Hoffman, K.\ J. McCollam (University of Washington), G. Fiksel, J. Sarff, D. J. Den Hartog (Sterling Scientific Inc.)

lWepP3.27 Equilibrium Studies on HIT--II

R. Ewig, C. Hoffman, T.\ R. Jarboe, K.\ J. McCollam, B.\ A. Nelson (University of Washington)

lWepP3.28 Spectrographic and Density Studies on the HIT--II Experiment

K.\ J. McCollam, T.\ R. Jarboe, B.\ A. Nelson, J. Xie (University of Washington), D. J. Den Hartog (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

lWepP3.29 Multi-point Thomson Scattering on the HIT--II Experiment

C. Hoffman, T.\ R. Jarboe, B.\ A. Nelson, K.\ J. McCollam (University of Washington), P. Phillips (University of Texas--Austin)

lWepP3.30 Confinement at Low Aspect Ratio

M. Kotschenreuther, William Dorland, Q.P. Liu (IFS)

lWepP4.01 X-ray measurements of laser energy deposition in NOVA hohlraums

B. H. Failor, N. D. Delamater, E. L. Lindman, G. R. Magelssen (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

lWepP4.02 Spectrally-resolved albedo measurements from Nova hohlraum targets

C.A. Back, O.L. Landen, R.E. Turner, J.A. Koch, B.A. Hammel (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J.J. MacFarlane, D. Cohen (University of Wisconsin), T.J. Nash (Sandia National Laboratory)

lWepP4.03 Drive symmetry experiments with phased beams on Nova.

B.A. Hammel , P. Amendt , B.D. Cline, R.B. Ehrlich , S.G. Glendinning , D.H. Kalantar , O.L. Landen , R.J. Wallace , T.W. Weiland (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A.L. Richard, E. Dattolo (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique/Limeil-Valenton)

lWepP4.04 Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport in Laser Driven Hohlraums

J. S. De Groot (Plasma Research Group, UC Davis and LLNL), K. G. Estabrook, S. H. Glenzer, W. L. Kruer (LLNL), and J. P. Matte (INRS Energie, Canada.)

lWepP4.05 Laser Plasma Physics for Advanced Hohlraums

E. M. Campbell, S. C. Wilks, C. D. Decker, W. L. Kruer, L. J. Suter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.06 3-D Simulations of Tetrahedral Hohlraums

Steve Pollaine, Marty Marinak, Dave Munro (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.07 Tetrahedral Hohlraum Visualization and Pointings

K.A. Klare, J.M. Wallace (Los Alamos National Laboratory), D. Drake (InterScience (Troy))

lWepP4.08 A Distributed Radiator, Heavy Ion Target with Realistic Ion Beams

Debra A. Callahan, Max Tabak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.09 Hohlraum Targets Driven by Cluster Ion Beams for Inertial Confinement Fusion

C. Deutsch, N.A. Tahir (LPGP, Universite Paris-Sud), O. Geb, J.A. Maruhn (Institut fur Theoretische Physik)

lWepP4.10 Spatial Temperature Profile Measurements of Z-pinch Driven Secondary Hohlraums

K. L. Baker, J. L. Porter, R. E. Olson, L. Ruggles, M. Vargas, G. A. Chandler, C. Deeney, D. L. Fehl, C. A. Hall, C. H. Konrad, R. Spielman, J. Torres (Sandia National Laboratory,)

lWepP4.11 Dynamic Hohlraum Results From Saturn and PBFA-Z Experiments

M.S. Derzon, G.O. Allshouse, G.A. Chandler, G. Cooper, C. Deeney, D. Fehl, T. Haill, R.J. Leeper, T.J. Nash, C.L. Ruiz, M.A. Sweeney (Sandia National Laboratories), W. Matsuka, D.L. Peterson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J.J. MacFarlane (University of Wisconsin-Madison), D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.12 Large-scale, Detailed Configuration Calculations for Non-LTE Modeling

Christopher J. Fontes, Jr. Abdallah, Robert E. H. Clark (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

lWepP4.13 Xenon L-shell Emission from Laser Heated Gas Targets on Trident

J Davis (Alme and Associates), S Letzring, G Kyrala (LANL), L Suter (LLNL)

lWepP4.14 Non-Lte Effects on X-ray Emission from Laser Irradiated Gold Shells

D.C. Wilson, C.J. Fontes, G.D. Pollak, J. Abdallah, P.D. Goldstone, J.A. Cobble (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

lWepP4.15 Experiments and modeling of ionization dynamics in gold plasmas

M.E. Foord, R.S. Thoe, P.E. Young, P.T. Springer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.16 Plasma Stagnation in Radiation-Driven Closing Slits

P A Rosen, J M Foster

lWepP4.17 Influence of frequency-group numbers on LTE and NLTE radiative-hydro simulations

Denis Colombant (Naval Research Laboratory), Marcel Klapisch (ARTEP Inc.)

lWepP4.18 Applications of a Generalized Unified Theory of Electron Broadening

Mark Gunderson, Gwyneth Junkel, Donald Haynes, Charles Hooper (University of Florida)

lWepP4.19 Dense Plasma Line Shift? Theory and Experiment

Gwyneth Junkel, Mark Gunderson, Donald Haynes, Charles Hooper (University of Florida)

lWepP4.20 Time \;\;Resolved \;\;X-ray \;\;Spectroscopy on OMEGA

R. Elton, E. J. Iglesias, H. R. Griem, S. Goldsmith (University of Maryland), J. Delettrez, R. Epstein, G. Pien, D. Bradley (University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

lWepP4.21 Space resolved XUV and NUV spectra from a KrF laser-produced plasma.

E. J. Iglesias, H. R. Griem, R. Elton, B. L. Welch (University of Maryland)

lWepP4.22 Wide-Dynamic-Range, Neutron Bang Time Detector on OMEGA

J.D. Zuegel, R.L. Kremens, K.J. Kearney, P.W. McKenty, C.P. Verdon (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), M.D. Cable (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.23 Characterisation of preheat in hohlraum-driven targets using interferometry

A M Evans, S D Rothman, P Graham, C C Smith (AWE Aldermaston, Reading, UK)

lWepP4.24 Framed monochromatic images of implosions taken with the joint LLE/LANL Gated Monochromatic X-ray Imager (GMXI)

John A. Oertel, Tom Archuleta (Los Alamos National Lab), Frederic Marshall, Matthew Allen, David Bradley (University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

lWepP4.25 Modeling Soft X-ray Tracer Emission from Aluminum Witness Plates in Nova Hohlraum Experiments

David H. Cohen, Joseph J. MacFarlane, Ping Wang (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Christina A. Back (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

lWepP4.26 Interferometric Study of Density Structure in Targets Irradiated by the Nike KrF Laser

John Stamper (Naval Research Laboratory), Tom Lehecka, Alban Deniz (Science Applications International Corporation), Ed McLean, Steve Obenschain (Naval Research Laboratory)

lWepP4.27 Opacity Effects on the Ar He-beta and Li-like Satellites Spectral Feature.

I. Golovkin, R.C. Mancini (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557)

lWepP4.28 Implementation of Neutron Temporal Diagnostic at OMEGA

T.J. Ognibene, R.A. Lerche, R.L. Griffith (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J.D. Zuegel, M.D. Cable (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)

lWepP4.29 Optical Spectroscopy System for use on OMEGA Long-Scale-Length Plasma Experiments

J.J. Carroll III, R.P. Drake, T.B. Smith, N.A. Maslov (University of Michigan), W. Seka, D.D. Meyerhofer, R.S. Craxton (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)

lWepP4.30 Spatial and temporal behavior of pulsed laser ablation in Ti and Zr

R. Castell, F. Lira (Dept. de Física. Universidad Simón Bolívar)

lWepP4.31 Further development of Nike X-ray monochromatic imaging system based on spherically bent crystals

Y. Aglitskiy, T. Lehecka (SAIC), S. Obenschain, S. Bodner, C. Pawley, K. Gerber, J. Sethian, C. Brown, J. Seely, U. Feldman (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C.), G. Holland (SFA Inc.)

lWepP4.32 Stark Broadening Analysis of Hot Dense Plasmas

Donald Haynes, Mark Gunderson, Gwyneth Junkel, Charles Hooper (University of Florida), David Bradley, Jacques Delettrez, Paul Jaanimagi (LLE, University of Rochester)

lWepP4.33 CH foam XUV radiation transfer measurements at PHEBUS with SPARTUVIX

P. Le Gourrierec, C. Reverdin, J.L. Bourgade, D. Bailleux, J. Bruneau, S. Gary, P. Renaudin, J.P. Thebault (CEA/LV F-94195 Villeneuve St-Georges Cedex), K. Eidmann (Max-Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany)

lWepP4.34 X-Ray CT for Inspection of Cryogenic NIF Target Capsules with Be Shells

F. H. Séguin, R. D. Petrasso, C. K. Li, D.G. Hicks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), G. Collins, T. P. Bernat, S. W. Haan, T. C. Sangster, T. W. Phillips, M. D. Cable (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), R. W. Falcone (University of California, Berkeley)

lWepP4.35 Physics Mission and Objectives of the Trident Upgrade Laser

K.F. Schoenberg, Cris W. Barnes, J.C. Fernández, A. Hauer, W.W. Hsing, R.A. Kopp, S.A. Letzring (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

lWepP4.36 A Proposed Upgrade to the Trident Laser

S Letzring, R Gibson, R Johnson (LANL)

lWepP4.37 Scattering of a Precision Electron Beam on the ICF Plasma: A Novel Diagnostic Technique

D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.38 Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Response to Neutrons and Gamma Rays from Omega

C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, F. H. Séguin, D. G. Hicks (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT), R. L. Kremens, J. P. Knauer, C. P. Verdon, P. W. McKenty, M. Shoup, F. Rister, L. Lund (LLE, University of Rochester), T. W. Phillips, M. D. Cable, T. C. Sangster (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.39 The Omega Charged-Particle Spectrometer

R. D. Petrasso, C. K. Li, D. G. Hicks, F. H. Séguin (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT), R. L. Kremens, J. P. Knauer, C. P. Verdon, P. W. McKenty, M. Shoup, F. Rister, L. Lund (LLE, University of Rochester), M. D. Cable, T. W. Phillips, T. C. Sangster (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

lWepP4.40 The Spectrum of DD Proton and DT Alpha Particle Emissions from Omega and Nova Targets

D. G. Hicks, R. D. Petrasso, C. K. Li, F. H. Séguin (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT), R. L. Kremens, R. L. Keck, W. Seka, P. W. McKenty, C. P. Verdon (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), T. W. Phillips, T. C. Sangster, M. D. Cable (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), P. Reyes, L. P. Mix, R. J. Leeper (Sandia National Laboratory)