Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 21 NOVEMBER 1997

09:15 sFraI1.01 D-T Plasmas in JET: Behaviour and Implications

A. Gibson (JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxon, UK)

09:45 sFraI1.02 Recent Progress in JT-60U Experiments with W-shaped Divertor Configuration

Hiroshi Shirai (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Naka-machi, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken, 311-01, Japan)

10:15 sFraI1.03 Experimental Constraints on Transport from Dimensionless Parameter Scaling Studies

C. C. Petty (General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Deigo, California 92186-5608)

10:45 sFraI1.04 Predicting Temperature and Density Profiles in Tokamaks

Glenn Bateman (Lehigh University, Physics Department, Bethlehem, PA 18015)

11:15 sFraI1.05 Current Transport in Tokamak Plasmas with Neutral Beam Driven Currents

C.B. Forest (University of Wisconsin, Madison and General Atomics, San Diego, California)

11:45 sFraI1.06 ICRF Heating, Current Drive and Flow Generation in D-T Plasmas

J. Randall Wilson (Princeton Univ.)

09:15 sFraI2.01 Laser Wakefield experiments at LULI

J.R. Marquès (LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau (France))

09:45 sFraI2.02 Alight A Beam and Beaming Light -- A Theme With Variations

Swapan Chattopadhyay (LBNL)

10:15 sFraI2.03 A Commercial Use of Plasmas: Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

Richard R. Freeman (Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis and Laser Programs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:45 sFraI2.04 A Technique to Eliminate External Transport Barriers and Stabilize Fiscal Instabilities

Robert F. Heeter (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and JET Joint Undertaking)

11:15 sFraI2.05 Using the Internet for Plasma Physics Education with Interactivity and Real-Time Data

Andrew Post-Zwicker (Science Education Program, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

sFraP1.01 Direct drive laser imprinting in CH foils on the Omega laser

D. H. Kalantar, B. A. Remington, S. V. Weber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. Boehly, J. Knauer, D. Meyerhofer, V. Smalyuk (Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

sFraP1.02 Transient x-ray diffraction used to diagnose shock compressed solids on the Nova laser

D. H. Kalantar, E. A. Chandler, J. D. Colvin, R. Lee, B. A. Remington, S. V. Weber, L. G. Wiley (LLNL), B. H. Failor, A. Hauer (LANL), J. S. Wark (University of Oxford), M. Meyers (UCSD), G. Ravichandran (CalTech)

sFraP1.03 A design for a direct drive low temperature Rayleigh-Taylor instability laser experiment

J. Kane, D. Kalantar, B. A. Remington, S. V. Weber (LLNL), T. Boehly (U. Rochester)

sFraP1.04 Analysis of x-ray diffraction from hohlraum-shocked crystals

J.S. Wark, A. Loveridge (University of Oxford), D.H. Kalantar, E.A. Chandler, J.D. Colvin, R. Lee, B.A. Remington, S.V. Weber, L.G Wiley (LLNL), A. Hauer, B. Failor (LANL), M. Meyers (UCSD), G. Ravichandran (CalTech)

sFraP1.05 The Excitation of Slow Electron Soliton by Cold Electron Beam

V.I. Lapshin, V.I. Maslov (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, 310108 Kharkov, Ukraine)

sFraP1.06 The Excitation of Slow Electron Soliton by Cold Electron Beam

V. Maslov, V. Lapshin (NSC Institute of Physics and Technology,Ukraine)

sFraP1.07 Modulation Instability of Electron Waves in Magnetized Plasma

V. Lapshin, V. Maslov (NSC Institute of Physics and Technology,Ukraine)

sFraP1.08 Double Layer as a Plasma Lens for Focising of Charged Particle Beams

V.I. Maslov (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, 310108 Kharkov, Ukraine)

sFraP1.09 Thomson Scattering Measurements of the Laser Heated Plasma

K. Zhai, S.S. Han, X.X. Li, X.D. Yang, F.C. Zhong, X.Y. Song, Z.Q. Zhang, Z.Z. Xu (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, PRC)

sFraP1.10 Flow Shear vs. Flow Curvature in Suppression of Turbulence

S. Sen (Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

sFraP1.11 Possible Mechanism of Generating the Anode Material High-Energy Ions in Plasma Focus Experiments

V.A. Rantsev-Kartinov (INF RRC "Kurchatov Institute", 123182, Moscow, Russia)

sFraP1.12 Three Dimensional Heterogeneous Filamented Helical Magnetoplasma Structures in Plasma Focus Experiments

A.B. Kukushkin, V.A. Rantsev-Kartinov, A.R. Terentiev (INF RRC ``Kurchatov Institute'', 123182, Moscow, Russia)

sFraP1.13 Mitigation of 2D Rayleigh-Taylor Instability In an Imploding Wire Array With the Introduction of 3D Features

M.S. Derzon, T.J. Nash (Sandia National Laboratories), D.D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.)

sFraP1.14 Optimization of the total radiation with array mass and radius, wire size and number, and length on the "Z" accelerator

C. Deeney, R.B. Spielman, G.A. Chandler, T.J. Nash, M.R. Douglas, D. Fehl, T.W.L. Sanford (SNL), D.L. Peterson (LANL)

sFraP1.15 Zero-Thermal-Emittance Model of Intense Nonneutral Beam Propagation through a Periodic Solenoidal Focusing Field

Ronald C. Davidson, Peter H. Stoltz (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab), Chiping Chen (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

sFraP1.16 Enhancement of the Space-Charge Limiting Current by Ion Density

H.S. Uhm (Naval Surface Warfare Center), E. Choi, J. Ko, H. Shin, Y. Seo, G. Cho (Kwangwoon University)

sFraP1.17 Corona Discharge Plasmas and their Density Profiles

H.S. Uhm (Naval Surface Warfare Center), W.M. Lee (Ajou University)

sFraP1.18 Transverse Electromagnetic Instability Driven by Energy Anisotropy in Intense Nonneutral Beams

Han S. Uhm (Naval Surface Warfare Center, Bethesda, MD), R.C. Davidson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

sFraP1.19 Energy Deliverty to Reactor Chamber for Corona Discharge Plasmas

H.S. Uhm (Naval Surface Warfare Center), W.M. Lee (Ajou University)

sFraP1.20 Spherical Stellarators and Stellarator-Hybrids

P.E. Moroz (University of Wisconsin-Madison.)

sFraP1.21 Tearing mode analysis in cylindrical tokamaks, revisited

Y. Nishimura, C.C. Hegna, J.D. Callen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

sFraP1.22 Stability of macroscopic internal modes in low to medium q_95 plasmas

S. Migliuolo, B. Coppi, F. Bombarda (M.I.T.)

sFraP1.23 Numerical Study of the Propagation of Ionization Processes in an Oxygen Z-pinch Plasma

S.H. Kim, K.T. Lee, D. Kim, T.N. Lee

sFraP1.24 WITHDRAWN - Smoothing of Deuterium-Tritium Ice in ICF-Scale Geometries by Electrical Heating of the Saturated Vapor

E.R. Mapoles (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. Sater (Schafer Corporation, Livermore, California), J. Pipes (Allied Signal, Inc., Livermore, California)

sFraP1.25 Study of Compact Toroid Configurations in MRX-CT

M. Yamada, H. Ji, P. Heitzenroeder (PPPL)

sFraP1.26 Engineering Considerations of the MRX-CT Device

H. Ji, M. Yamada, P. Heitzenroeder, R. Woolley, F. Dahlgren, P. Bonanos (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

sFraP1.27 Robustness of FRC and the MRX-CT Project

H. Himura, M. Yamada, H. Ji, P. Heitzenroeder (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

sFraP1.28 Operation of a 3MW, 140 Ghz Gyrotron with a Coaxial Cavity

R Advani, J.P Hogge, K Kreischer, R Temkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M Read (Physical Sciences Inc.)

sFraP1.29 Application of a grid-free characteristic method to the SOL plasma simulation

Alla A. Batishcheva (MIT), Alexander S. Kholodov (MPTI), Oleg V. Batishchev (Lodestar/MIT/Keldysh)

sFraP1.30 Assessment of Adaptive Mesh Algorithms for SOL Plasmas Modeling

O. Batishchev (Lodestar/MIT/Keldysh), B. Braams (NYU), D. Knoll (LANL), T. Rognlien, M. Rensink (LLNL), S. Krasheninnikov, A. Batishcheva (PSFC MIT)

sFraP1.31 Ion confinement in NBI heated START plasmas

N. J. Conway (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland), M. R. Tournianski (University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK), P. G. Carolan, R. J. Akers, M. P. S. Nightingale, C. M. Roach (UKAEA Fusion, Culham, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, UK. (UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association)), M. J. Walsh (Walsh Scientific Ltd, OX14 3DB,UK)

sFraP1.32 Femtosecond Electron Bunches from Colliding Laser Pulses in Plasmas.

ERIC Esarey, R.F. Hubbard, A. Ting, P. Sprangle (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), W.P. Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), B. Hafizi (Icarus Research, Inc.)

sFraP1.33 LASNEX simulations of supernova-residual gas shocks on the Nova laser

Kent Estabrook, Bruce Remington, Gail Glendinning, W.E. Alley, D.H. Munro, L.J. Suter, J.H. Harte, G.B. Zimmerman, D.S. Bailey, Jave Kane, Russel Wallace, R.A. London, A.M. Rubenchik (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), R.Paul Drake (U.Michigan), R. McCray (U.Colorado)

sFraP1.34 Parametric Interaction Between Langmuir and Lower-Hybrid Waves in the Moderatly Magnetized Auroral Ionosphere.

E. A. Fedutenko, M. V. Goldman, D. L. Newman (CIPS, Campus Box 390, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)

sFraP1.35 Relativistic Laser Pulse Channeling

M. D. Feit, J. C. Garrison (LLNL), A. M. Komashko, S. L. Musher (Institue of Automation and Electrometry), A. M. Rubenchik (LLNL), S. K. Turitsyn (Institue of Automation and Electrometry)

sFraP1.36 The Free Electron Laser as a Driver for a Two Beam Accelerator

J. Gardelle, J. Labrouche, T. Lefevre, G. Marchese, M. Padois, J.L. Rullier, P. Le Taillandier (CEA/Centre d'Etudes Sientifiques et Techniques d'Aquitaine), J.T. Donohue (Cente d'Etude Nucleaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan), Ph. Gouard (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique)

sFraP1.37 Rayleigh-Taylor growth of ablation front modulations in indirectly-driven Be/Cu planar foils.

S.G. Glendinning , G.W. Collins , M.M. Marinak , S.W. Haan , B.A. Remington , R.J. Wallace , S.V. Weber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), C. Cherfils, D. Galmiche, A. Richard (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique/Limeil-Valenton)

sFraP1.38 The density effect on the ionization balance in a carbon plasma and on the gain of C VI H_\alpha line(18.2nm)

D. Kim, Ki-Tae Lee (Postech, Korea)

sFraP1.39 The Macroscopic Thermoelectric Field in a Colisionless Non-Equilibrium Plasmas

V.P. Krainov (Physical Technical Institute, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700, Russia), V.A. Rantsev-Kartinov (INF RRC "Kurchatov Institute", 123182, Moscow, Russia), E.E. Trofimovich (International University for Nature, Society and Man of the Dubna, Universitetskaya 19, Dubna, Moscow region, 141980 Russia)

sFraP1.40 Nonlocal Inward Flux of Heat in a Tokamak: Integral Equation Approach vs. Observed Fast Nonlocal Transport

A.B. Kukushkin (INF RRC "Kurchatov Institute", 123182, Moscow, Russia)

sFraP1.41 Biochemical Applications of the One Atmosphere Glow Discharge

Mounir Laroussi (Microwave & Plasma Laboratory, The Univ. of Tennessee), Gary Sayler (Univ.TN. Center for Env. Biotechnology), Battle Glascock (General Thermal Inc.)

sFraP1.42 Diagnostics for KSTAR, the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research Project

S.G. Lee, S.M. Hwang, G.S. Lee, H.Y. Chang, H.K. Park (Korea Basic Science Institute), S.S. Medley, K.M. Young (Princeton University)

sFraP1.43 Design Study of an X-ray Crystal Spectrometer for the HANBIT Mirror Machine

S.G. Lee, S.M. Hwang (Korea Basic Science Institute), M.L. Bitter (Princeton University)

sFraP1.44 Nonlinear dynamics of spatially bounded ultrashort laser pulses in a normal dispersive medium.

A.G. Litvak, V.A. Mironov (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science)

sFraP1.45 Microwave Discharge on Dielectric Surface in Vacuum.

A.G. Litvak (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science)

sFraP1.46 Observation of Super Fast Thermal Front in Experiments on Interaction of=20 \~1019 W/cm2 Laser Radiation with Glass Slide

A. Maksimchuk (Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), G.S. Sarkisov, V.Yu. Bychenkov, V.T. Tikhonchuk (Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), S.Y. Chen, R. Wagner, D. Umstadter, G. Mourou (Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

sFraP1.47 Influence of Parameters of Magnetized Plasma-Filled Slow-Wave Structure with Electron Beam on Modulation Instability of High-Frequencq Waves on Electron Time Scale

V.I. Maslov (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, 310108, Kharkov, Ukraine)

sFraP1.48 2-D Edge Plasma Transport Calculations for NSTX

P. Mioduszewski, R. Maingi, M. Peng, D. Strickler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), S. Kaye, N. Pomphrey (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

sFraP1.49 A Spectral Theory of MHD using Taylor States

E. C. Morse (University of California, Berkeley)

sFraP1.50 CRAMD modeling of the discrete-to-continuum (D-C) transition in Balmer spectra for Alcator C-Mod divertor plasmas

A. Pigarov, J.L. Terry, B. Lipschultz (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

sFraP1.51 Linear Conversion of MHD Waves near Singular Points

Roberto Pozzoli (INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Milano, Milano, Italy), Daniela Farina (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma CNR, Milano, Italy), Marco Amoretti (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Torino, Torino, Italy)

sFraP1.52 Similarity Analysis of Experiments on SN 1987A Hydrodynamics

D. Ryutov (LLNL), J. Kane (Univ. of Arizona), B. Remington (LLNL)

sFraP1.53 Transport Coefficients in a Plasma Containing High-Z Ions and Hydrogren Ions

Dimitri D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

sFraP1.54 Parallel Flow and Core Confinement Improvement

S. Sen (Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

sFraP1.55 Self-Sustained Steady State NSTX Plasmas

Kerchung Shaing, A.Y. Aydemir (I.F.S.), M. Peng (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

sFraP1.56 Two-dimensional sampling-image x-ray streak camera for ultrafast imaging of ICF plasmas

H. Shiraga, M. Nakasuji, M. Heya, N. Miyanaga (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

sFraP1.57 Laser Remote Sensing Measurements of Upper Atmosphere

V.S. Stefan (Tesla Laboratories, Inc., La Jolla, Ca 92038)

sFraP1.58 Electron Beam Propagation with Premodulated Energy and Current

H.S. Uhm (Naval Surface Warfare Center)

sFraP1.59 ExB Shear Modification of the Cross Phase in Collisionless Trapped Electron Mode Turbulence

A. S. Ware (University of Montana), P. W. Terry, D. Baver (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

sFraP1.60 Localization of Lower Hybrid Current Drive through Ion Bernstein Waves Simultaneous Injection

F. Paoletti (Columbia University), A. Cardinali (Associazione Euratom-ENEA), S. Bernabei, W. Tighe, S. Von Goeler (Princeton University)

sFraP2.01 RF Heating, Poloidal Rotation Drive and Impurity Control in the LCT-2 Tokamak

Lothar Schmitz, Patrick Pribyl, Robert J. Taylor (University of California, Los Angeles)

sFraP2.02 Computational Studies on Primary Electron Orbits and Collisions in an Ion Source

Mieko Kashiwagi, Shunji Ido (Faculty of Engineering, Saitama University)

sFraP2.03 Experimental Study of an Inductively-Coupled Plasma Discharge

K. C. Leou, T. L. Lin, C. H. Tsai (Engineering and System Science Department, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC)

sFraP2.04 On the Radiation Guiding and High-Gain Free-Electron Lasers at Arbitrary Pump Strengths

I.H. Park (University of Inchon, Korea), Y. Seo (University of Maryland)

sFraP2.05 Progress on the CMTX (Colliding Micro-Tori eXperiment)

J.E. Brandenburg, John F. Kline (Research Support Instruments)

sFraP2.06 A Compuational Study of Fiber and Wire Array Z-Pinches

David B. Reisman, Jim H. Hammer, Charles W. Hartman, John S. De Groot (LLNL)

sFraP2.07 The Takens--Bogdanov Bifurcation in Long-wave Theory

Jean-Luc Thiffeault (Department of Physics and Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin), Neil J. Balmforth (Department of Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham)

sFraP2.08 Turbulent dynamo action in axisymmetric linear machine

A. A. Kabantsev (Columbia University), V.B. Reva, V.G. Sokolov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia))

sFraP2.09 Ion Thruster Plume Plasma Interactions in the Solar Wind

J. Wang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

sFraP2.10 Brominated CH Ablator Characterization Experiments on Nova: numerical simulations

E. de Sainte Claire, J.P. Jadaud, M.A. Blain (CEA/Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton 94195 Villeneuve Saint Georges CEDEX France), S.V. Weber, O.L. Landen, F. Ze, J. Koch (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

sFraP2.11 Proton Plasma in Host Metals for Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations

Heinrich Hora (School of Physics, U. of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia), Jak C. Kelly, James A. Patterson (CETI, Sarasota FL, 34234, USA)

sFraP2.12 Gyrotron Performance During Power Modulation Experiments on the DIII--D Tokamak

Marco Zerbini (ENEA, Frascati, Italy), Richard W. Callis, John \hboxLohr, Dan Ponce (General Atomics)

sFraP2.13 Parametric Investigations of an Atmospheric pressure Uniform Glow Discharge in helium

Rami Ben Gadri (Industrial Plasma Engineering Laboratory, University of Tennessee)

sFraP2.14 On the Glow Discharge Electron Gun and its Applications in Melting and Casting Technologies

E. Avram, C. Popovici (Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania)

sFraP2.14 On the Glow Discharge Electron Gun and its Applications in Melting and Casting Technologies

E. Avram, C. Popovici (Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania)