Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 16 NOVEMBER 1998

09:20 B1I1.01 Electron Thermal Transport and Barriers in Reversed Shear Plasmas in TFTR

M.C. Zarnstorff (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543.)

09:50 B1I1.02 Electron Heat Transport in Improved Confinement Discharges in DIII--D

B.W. Stallard (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

10:20 B1I1.03 Transport in Alcator C-Mod H-modes

Martin Greenwald (MIT - Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center)

10:50 B1I1.04 Fusion Plasma Studies on JET

P.J. Lomas (JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxon, UK)

11:20 B1I1.05 Recent Progress in High Performance and Steady-state Experiments on JT-60U with W-shaped Divertor

Yoshinori Kusama (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Naka-machi, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken, 311-0193, Japan)

11:50 B1I1.06 MHD Limits in Spherical Tokamaks

T C Hender (UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB, UK (UKAEA/EURATOM Fusion Association))

09:20 B1I2.01 Kinetic Effects Linking the Onset and Evolution of Parametric Instabilities in RPP (Random Phase Plate) Laser Beams

Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Associates, Livermore, CA)

09:50 B1I2.02 Observation of Collimated Electron Flows and \gamma-ray Beams From Ultraintense Laser Pulse Interactions With Solids

Peter Norreys (Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom)

10:20 B1I2.03 PIC Simulations of Ultra Intense Laser Pulses Propagating Through Overdense Plasma for Fast-Ignitor and Radiography Applications

Barbara F. Lasinski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

10:50 B1I2.04 Observation of non linear modification of laser-plasma interaction processes under crossed laser beams irradiation

Christine Labaune (LULI, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France)

11:20 B1I2.05 Laser-Plasma Interactions in NIF Direct-Drive-Scale Plasmas

S.P. Regan* (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

11:50 B1I2.06 Observation of Resonant Energy Transfer Between Identical-Frequency Laser Beams

K.B. Wharton (LLNL)

09:20 B1E.01 Electromagnetic Strong Plasma Turbulence: Spectra and Statistics.

Fredrick Jenet (California Institute of Technology), Andrew Melatos (University of California, Berkeley)

09:44 B1E.02 Group theoretical laws, Geometrical phase and Photon acceleration during relativistic self-focusing of a laser beam

Dantu Subbarao, R. Uma (Center for Energy Studies Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)

09:56 B1E.03 Long-range Perturbations Associated with a Localized Packet of Ion-acoustic Waves

Maurizio Lontano (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, C.N.R., EURATOM-ENEA-CNR Association, Milan, Italy), Dmitri Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, U.S.A.)

10:08 B1E.04 Properties of Extreme Plasmas

F. Curtis Michel (Rice Univ.)

10:20 B1E.05 Absorption and Emission Measurements of High Temperature Plasmas

Marilyn B. Schneider, Keith L. Wong, P.T. Springer, M.E. Foord, C. A. Iglesias, B. A. Wilson, W. H. Goldstein (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:32 B1E.06 Collisionless transport parallel to the magnetic field in a toroidally confined plasma

R. D. Hazeltine (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

10:44 B1E.07 Turbulence without pressure in d dimensions.

S.A. Boldyrev (Princeton University)

10:56 B1E.08 On Resonance Absorption and Continuum Damping

André Jaun (Alfvén Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

11:08 B1E.09 Experimental Observation of the Zero-frequency Magnetic Mode in a Plasma: The "Picket Fence" or "Free Streaming" mode.

J.R. Hoffman, P Muggli, T.C. Katsouleas (USC), W.B. Mori, C. Joshi (UCLA)

11:20 B1E.10 Current Sheets in Magnetic Configurations with X-lines

Anna G. Frank, S.Yu. Bogdanov, N.P. Kyrie, V.S. Markov (General Phys.Inst.RAS, Moscow, Russia)

11:32 B1E.11 Nonlinear Electromagnetic Pulse Superwide in Frequency Space

Alexej M. Egorov, Vasili I. Maslov (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, 310108, Kharkov, Ukraine)

09:20 B1F.01 Long Implosion Time Aluminum K-shell Radiation Scaling Experiments

C.A. Coverdale, C. Deeney, R.B. Spielman, D. Jobe, K. Struve, J. McGurn (Sandia National Labs), J. Riordan, J. Levine, Y. Song, B. Failor, B. Whitton (Maxwell Physics International), J.W. Thornhill, J.P. Apruzese, K.G. Whitney, J. Davis (Naval Research Lab)

09:32 B1F.02 Filamentation Dynamics of Multiple Wire Arrays

R. E. Terry, J. Davis (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), A. L. Velikovich (Berkeley Research Associates)

09:44 B1F.03 Plasma evolution in linear arrays of tungsten wires during prepulse.

D. Mosher, J.R. Boller, D.D. Hinshelwood, B.G. Moosman, M.C. Myers, P.F. Ottinger, S.J. Stephanakis (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

09:56 B1F.04 3D resistive MHD simulations of wire array Z-pinches

J.P. Chittenden, A.R. Bell, S.G. Lucek, S.V. Lebedev, R. Aliaga-Rossel, I.H. Mitchell, S.N. Bland, M.G. Haines (Imperial College)

10:08 B1F.05 Two-dimensional Simulations of Liner Performance at Atlas Parameters

Rhon Keinigs, Walt Atchison, Rickey Faehl, R. James Trainor (LANL)

10:20 B1F.06 The Experimental Results on the Implosion of Homogeneous Pre-ionized Ar Liner in the Presence of a Crossed Magnetic Field

A. G. Russkikh, R. B. Baksht, A. V. Fedunin, A. Yu. Labetsky, A. V. Shishlov (HCEI, Tomsk, Russia)

10:32 B1F.07 Long-Living Filamentation of Electric Current and Formation of a Large-Scale "Stocking" in Dense Z-Pinch Plasmas

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

10:44 B1F.08 2-D Modeling of a Staged Z-Pinch

Paul Ney, H. U. Rahman (UC Riverside), F. J. Wessel, N. Rostoker (UC Irvine)

10:56 B1F.09 Frozen Deuterium Cylindrical Target System for PBFA Z and Shiva Star

E.L. Ruden (Air Force Research Laboratory, KAFB), D.G. Gale (Maxwell Technologies, Inc.), H.U. Rahman (UC, Riverside)

11:08 B1F.10 Fast Bz stabilization for uniform fill z-pinch: theoretical study

Eduardo Waisman (Maxwell Technologies), M.R. Douglas (Sandia National Laboratories), D.E. Parks, P.G. Steen (Maxwell Technologies)

11:20 B1F.11 Report on the Progress of the VSX and SPX Radiation Sources

Fushun Wu, Wen-Chieh Tang, Jianguo Zhao, K. Wirpszo, Emilio Panarella (Advanced Laser and Fusion Technology, Inc. 189 Deveault St., No. 7, Hull, P.Q., J8Z 1S7, Canada)

11:32 B1F.12 Ionization Waves in a Shielded Capillary Discharge in the Presence of Runaway Electrons

I. Rutkevich, M. Mond, I. Kaufman (Ben-Gurion University, Israel), P. Choi (Ecole Polytechnique, France), M. Favre (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

B1M.01 Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays and Particle Acceleration

Yoshiyuki Takahashi (Dept. of Physics, The University of Alabama in Huntsville)

B1M.02 Gamma Ray Bursts and Particle Acceleration

Toshi Tajima (Dept. of Physics, Univ.of Texas at Austin), Yoshiyuki Takahashi (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville)

B1M.03 Magnetohydrodynamic Origin of Astrophysical Jets

Richard V.E. Lovelace (Cornell University)

B1M.04 Global Dynamics and MHD of the Solar Tachocline

Peter A. Gilman (High Altitude Observatory/NCAR*)

B1M.05 The Magnetic Topology of Solar Activity

Spiro K. Antiochos (E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Lab)

B1M.06 Theory of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)

James Chen (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

B1P.01 A Detector for Low Yield D-T Fusion Neutron Energy Spectrum Measurement

Shu-huai Wen, Zheng-yuan Tang, Juan-lun Yang, Gen-xing Wang, Yu-zhi Guo (Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, PO Box 525, Chengdu 610003, PR China)

B1P.02 Calculations into the Development of an ICF Burn History Diagnostic for NIF*

T.J. Ognibene, R.A. Lerche (LLNL)

B1P.03 Early-Time Extreme-UV Emission from OMEGA Plasmas

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

B1P.04 Chirped pulse reflectivity in laser driven shock experiments

Alessandra Benuzzi, Michel Koenig, Bernard Faral (Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Unité mixte CNRS-CEA-Ecole Polytechnique-Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Ecole Polytechnique, France), Dimitri Batani, Francesca Scianitti, Domenico Di Santo (University of Milan, Italy), Tom Hall (University of Essex, UK)

B1P.05 Development of K-alpha Absorption Diagnostics for Radiation-Driven Ablator Experiments on the OMEGA Laser

D.H. Cohen (Prism Computational Sciences and University of Wisconsin, Madison), J.J. MacFarlane (Prism Computational Sciences), P.A. Jaanimagi (University of Rochester/LLE), O.L. Landen (Livermore), J.A. Oertel (Los Alamos), R.E. Olson (Sandia), P. Wang (Prism Computational Sciences), T.J. Murphy, G.R. Magelssen, N.D. Delamater (Los Alamos), R.J. Leeper (Sandia)

B1P.06 Recent \rhoR Measurements on OMEGA Using the MEDUSA Scintillator Array

V.Yu. Glebov, J.P. Knauer, F.J. Marshall, P.W. McKenty, D.D. Meyerhofer, N.S. Rogers, C. Stoeckl (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), M.D. Cable, R.E. Turner (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

B1P.07 Numerical Simulation of Indirect-Drive Tracer Diagnostic Experiments

J. J. MacFarlane, D. H. Cohen, P. Wang (Prism Computational Sciences, Madison, WI), P. Jaanimagi (University of Rochester), C. A. Back, O. L. Landen, R. E. Turner (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. A. Oertel (Los Alamos National Laboratories), T. J. Nash (Sandia National Laboratories)

B1P.08 X-ray Streak Diagnostics on Nike Laser Experiments

V. Serlin, S. P. Obenschain, J. D. Sethian, A. N. Mostovych, J. P. Dahlburg, A. J. Schmitt (Plasma Physics Division), J. H. Gardner (Laboratory for Computational Physics, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C.), T. Lehecka (Science Applications International)

B1P.09 Comparison of Absolutely Calibrated CCD and Film Images

Gregory Pollak, Norman Delamater, Allan Hauer (LANL), Luis DaSilva (LLNL)

B1P.10 Spatially Resolved Electron Temperature Measurements of a Laser-Generated Plasma Using Collective UV Thomson Scattering

J. F. Camacho (UC Davis amp; LLNL), S. M. Cameron (SNL), J. S. DeGroot (UC Davis)

B1P.11 Multi-electron Line Broadening in Hot, Dense Plasmas Including Detailed Line Shift Calculations

Gwyneth C. Junkel, M.A. Gunderson, D.A. Haynes Jr., C.F. Hooper Jr. (University of Florida), D.K. Bradley, J.A. Delettrez, P.A. Jaanimagi, S.P. Regan (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Universtity of Rochester)

B1P.12 A Generalized Unified Theory of Electron Line Broadening

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

B1P.13 X-ray spectroscopic measurements of capsule implosion with low modal non-uniformity

Y. Ochi, K. Fujita, I. Niki, H. Nishimura, A. Sunahara, M. Heya, H. Shiraga, N. Miyanaga, H. Azechi, H. Takabe, K. Mima (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)

B1P.14 High-Gain Pellet Designs for Direct-Drive Laser Fusion

Andrew Schmitt, Stephen E. Bodner (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Lab), John H. Gardner (LCPamp;FD, Naval Research Lab)

B1P.15 A concept of high plasma compression by the ponderomotive force of an annularly focused laser beam

G. S. Sarkisov (Department of Physics, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, USA), V. Yu. Bychenkov, V. T. Tikhonchuk (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)

B1P.16 Requirements for low-mode asphericity on ignition targets for the National Ignition Facility

G.L. Strobel, T.R. Dittrich, S.W. Haan, M.M. Marinak, S.M. Pollaine (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

B1P.17 Direct- and Indirect-Drive Flyer Plate Designs for the TRIDENT Laser

R. A. Kopp, A. C. Forsman, A. A. Hauer, G. A. Kyrala, D. L. Paisley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

B1P.18 Multi-layered flyer accelerated by laser induced shock waves

Norimasa Ozaki (Department of Engineering, Osaka University), K.A. Tanaka, M. Nakano, M. Hara, Y. Sasatani (Department of Engineering, Osaka University), M. Yoshida (National Institute of materials and Chemical Research), H. Takenaka (NTT Advanced Technology Co.), K. Nishihara (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University), S.I. Anisimov (L.D.landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy o f Sciences), K. Kondo (Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technol ogy)

B1P.19 Experiments with Single and Reflected Shocks in Liquid Deuterium

A. N. Mostovych, J. Dahlburg, V. Serlin, J. Sethian (Laser Plasma Branch, Plasma Physics Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), J. Gardner (LCP, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Y. Chan, T. Lehecka (SAIC), A. Velikovich (Berkely Research Associates)

B1P.20 D and T Mixing Imbalance and Inhomogeneity in ICF Pellet

S. Kawata, K. Fujita, T. Kikuchi, M. Yazawa, D. Takahashi (Nagaoka University of Technology)

B1P.21 Comparison of Optical Beam Smoothing by SSD and ISI

R. H. Lehmberg (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), J. E. Rothenberg (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

B1P.22 Novel Small Scale Accelerator for Fusion Experiments

A. Y. Wong (NID), G. Howes, G. Rosenthal (UCLA)

B1P.23 Evaluation of B_4C and SS409 for the National Ignition Facility First Wall

R. P. Seraydarian, A. K. Burnham, B. L. Doyle, R. Doerner, A. Grossman, S. C. Luckhardt, F. C. Sze (Fusion Energy Research Program - UC San Diego)

B1P.24 Modeling Issues and Results for Hydrogen Isotopes in NIF Materials

Arthur A. Grossman, R.P. Doerner, S.C. Luckhardt, R. Seraydarian, D. Sze (UCSD), A. Burnham (LLNL.)

B1P.25 National Ignition Facility Focal Spot Size Specifications

Stephen Pollaine, S. Haan, J. Rothenberg, S. Dixit, B. MacGowan, L. Suter, W. Williams (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

B1P.26 Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities Of An Accelerated Thin Shell

B. R. Suydam, R. L. Morse (P. O. Box 1416, Los Alamos, NM 87544)

B1P.27 Magnetically Suspended Pellet amp;#8211; Application to a Fusion Experiment Chamber -

Hiroki Yoshida, Yukio Sakagami, Kozo Hirose, Yasuhiro Yamashita (Gifu University, Japan)

B1P.28 Optical Forces for Magnetically Suspended Pellet amp;#8211;In Wide Range Pressure-

Aki Shimamura, Hiroki Yoshida, Yukio Sakagami (Gifu University, Japan)

B1P.29 Magnetically Suspended Pellet - Coating, Characterization, Charge-and-Supply -

Yukio Sakagami, Hiroki Yoshida, Aki Shimamura, Masahide Ichikawa, Saori Ojika, Tetsuzi Hattori, Satoshi Nakamoto (Gifu University, Japan)

B1P.30 Cryogenic System Development for Liquid Deuterium EOS Measurements on Z

David Hanson, Robert Johnston, James Asay, Kevin Fleming, Clint Hall, Kathleen Holland, Brian Clark, Colleen Wakefield (Sandia National Laboratories), Michael Bernard, Terrance Gilliland, Barbara Lewis (Ktech Corporation), Geoff Hassall, Steven Rothman (AWE, Aldermaston, UK)

B1P.31 The Production of CxH1-x Film Using Plasma CVD

Wei-dong Wu, Jiang-shan Luo, Zhan-wen Zhang, Hua Xu, Chao-yang Wang, Dang-zhong Gao, Yuan-qong Liu, Yong-ming Zheng (Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, PO Box 525, Chengdu 610003, PR China)

B1Q.01 Interaction Between a Pair of Dust Particulates*

Osamu Ishihara (Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 79409-3102)

B1Q.02 Wake Potential of Dust Grains in a Flowing Collisional Plasma

W. R. Shanahan, M. S. Murillo, D. Winske (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

B1Q.03 Influence of negative C60 ions on the potential relaxation instability in a Q-machine plasma

Daniela Strele, Roman Schrittwieser, Carsten Winkler (Department of Ion Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)

B1Q.04 Charging and confinement of silica particles in argon dusty plasmas

Edward Thomas Jr., Michael Watson, Kent Wallace, Cleon Barnett, Gregory Lampkin (Fisk University)

B1Q.05 Interaction of Moving and Stationary Objects with Dusty Plasmas

C. Thompson, R. L. Merlino, N. D'Angelo (University of Iowa)

B1Q.06 Initial Lattice Boltzmann Ion Flow Simulations of the Fisk Dusty Plasma Experiment

Michael Watson, Edward Thomas Jr., Kent Wallace, Gregory Lampkin, Kai Jackson (Fisk University)

B1Q.07 Dusty Plasma Experiments Relating To Polar Mesospheric Clouds

Scott Robertson, Mihaly Horanyi (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

B1Q.08 Wave Propagation in 2-fluid Dusty Plasma System

T. Takaishi (Hiroshima-DIT), K. Kusano (Hiroshima Univ.)

B1Q.09 Pair Correlations in Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas

Xiaogang Wang, A. Bhattacharjee (The University of Iowa)

B1Q.10 A Unified Model of Acoustic and Lattice Waves in a One-Dimensional Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasma

Niels F. Otani, A. Bhattacharjee, Xiaogang Wang (The University of Iowa)

B1Q.11 Self--Organization in Dusty Plasmas

Sadruddin Benkadda (Equipe Turbulence Plasma, Centre de Saint--Jérôme, Case 321, Avenue Escadrille Normandie--Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France), Sergey Popel (Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres, Leninsky prospekt 38, Building 6, Moscow 117979, Russia), Vadim Tsytovich (General Physics Institute, Vavilova 38, Moscow 117942, Russia)

B1Q.12 Laser-cooled non-neutral plasma experiments at NIST

B.M. Jelenkovi\'c, T.B. Mitchell, J.J Bollinger, X.-P. Huang, W.M. Itano, A.S. Barton, D.J. Wineland (NIST, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303)

B1Q.13 Operation of a second generation positron accumulator

S.J. Gilbert, C.M. Surko, R.G. Greaves, H. Gao (University of California, San Diego)

B1Q.14 Positronium beam for transport studies in fusion plasmas

R.G. Greaves, J. Bayless (First Point Scientific, Inc.), C.M. Surko (UCSD)

B1Q.15 Fluid and Particle Calculations for POPS

R.A. Nebel, D.C. Barnes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

B1Q.16 Charge Exchange Effects in IEC Fusing Plasmas

John DeMora, Brian Jurczyk, Robert Stubbers, George H. Miley (Fusion Studies Lab, U of IL, Urbana, IL 61801)

B1Q.17 Diocotron Instabilities of Finite Length Nonneutral Plasmas

A. J. Cole, J. M. Finn, D. C. Barnes (LANL)

B1Q.18 Influence of Profile Shape on the Diocotron Instability in a Nonneutral Plasma Column

Gian Marco Felice, Ronald C. Davidson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

B1Q.19 Background Neutral Pressure Effects on the m=1 Diocotron Mode

Stephen F. Paul, Edward H. Chao, Ronald C. Davidson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

B1Q.20 Plasma Expansion in a Malmberg-Penning Trap due to Collisions with Background Neutral Gas

Edward H. Chao, Stephen F. Paul, Ronald C. Davidson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. --)

B1Q.21 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Nonneutral Plasma Modes

Roy W. Gould, Nathan Jones (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.)

B1Q.22 Simulation and Theory of Finite-length Non-neutral Plasma Modes

Ross L. Spencer (Brigham Young University)

B1Q.23 Development of a source for a ^7Be non-neutral plasma

Bryan G. Peterson, Grant W. Hart (Brigham Young University), Dewey A. Murdick (Andrews University)

B1Q.24 Verification of Solitons Grown from Normal Modes

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

B1Q.25 Energy, Free Energy and Entropy for Charged Bilayer Liquids

Hongbo Zhao (Boston College), V. Valtchinov, G. Kalman (Boston College)

B1Q.26 The Electric Microfield Gradient Joint Probability Distribution Function for Dense Plasmas

David P. Kilcrease, Michael S. Murillo (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

B1Q.27 Dielectric Screening and Stopping Power of a Test Charge Moving in a Plasma

P. Mulser (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany), B.K. Shivamoggi (University of Central Florida)

B1S.01 Transition radiation by photons and neutrinos at a plasma boundary

J.T. Mendonca (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa , Portugal), P.K. Shukla (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany), R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, U.K.), N.L. Tsintsadze (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa , Portugal)

B1S.02 Vacuum Acceleration by Coherent Dipole Radiation

A.L. Troha, J.R. Van Meter, E.C. Landahl, F.V. Hartemann (University of California, Davis and ILSA at LLNL)

B1S.03 Optimization of a GHz UV Laser System for a High Gradient X-band PWT

E. Landahl, K. Li, R. Alvis, J.P. Heritage, F. Hartemann, H.A. Baldis (University of California, Davis and ILSA at LLNL), N.C. Luhmann Jr. (University of California, Davis Department of Applied Science), E. Unterberg (University of Tennessee), D. Yu (DULY Research), J. Rosenzweig, C. Pellegrini (UCLA)

B1S.04 Generation of High Average Power Ultra Broadband Radiation and its Application for Active Remote Sensing

J. Qiu (NRC/NRL Postdoc.), A. Ting, H. Burris, R. Hubbard, P. Sprangle (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), C. Manka (Research Support Instruments Inc.), K. Krushelnick (Plasma Physics Group, Imperial College, London)

B1S.05 Laser Synchrotron Source for Tunable Monochromatic X-rays

M. Baine (UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA), A. Ting, R. Fischer, C.I. Moore, R. Burris (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.), R. Elton (University of Maryland, College Park, MD), B. Hafizi (ICARUS Research Inc.), P. Sprangle (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.), S.K. Ride (UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA), Plasma Physics Division (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 2037)

B1S.06 Models of \gamma-Ray Sources for RadiographyDriven by Ultra-Intense Lasers

S.P. Hatchett, B.F. Lasinski, T.W. Phillips, S.C. Wilks, M.D. Perry (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

B1S.07 Measurements of MeV Photon Flashes in Petawatt Laser Experiments

M.J. Moran, C.G. Brown, T.E. Cowan, S.P. Hatchett, A.W. Hunt, M.H. Key, D.M. Pennington, M.D. Perry, T.W. Phillips, T.C. Sangster, J.A. Sefcik, R.A. Snavely, M.S. Singh, S.C. Wilks (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

B1S.08 Plasma harmonic emission from super-critical density plasmas

R. Ondarza Rovira (Physics Department, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nuclear, Mexico DF. 06100, Mexico), T.J.M. Boyd (Physics Department, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK)

B1S.09 Observation of \protect\gamma-rays in short-pulse laser interactions by photoneutron reactions

M. Santala, E. Clark, M. Zepf, I. Watts, F. N. Beg, K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor (Imperial College), X. Fang, P. Graham, T. McCanny, R. Singhal, K. Ledingham (University of Glasgow), A. Creswell, D. Sanderson (Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre), J. Magill (Institute for Transuranic Elements), A. Machacek, J. Wark (University of Oxford), R. Allott, B. Kennedy, D. Neely, P. Norreys (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

B1S.10 Harmonic Generation from Solid Targets - Optmization of Source Parameters

Matthew Zepf, I.F. Watts, A.E. Dangor (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK), P.A. Norreys (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK), D.M. Chambers, A. Machacek, J.S. Wark (Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), G.D. Tsakiris (Max-Plank Institut f"ur Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany)

B1S.11 Table-top transient collisional excitation x-ray lasers

James Dunn, Albert L. Osterheld, Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev, Yuelin Li, Joseph Nilsen, Stephen Moon (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

B1S.12 X-ray Laser Satellites and Prospects for Inversionless Raman X-ray Laser

G. Ma, A. Maksimchuk, D. Umstadter (Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), S. A. Pikuz (P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, 117924 Moscow), I. Yu. Skobelev, A. Ya. Faenov (VNIIFTRI, Russia)

B1S.13 A Variational Principle Approach to the Study of Short-Pulse Laser Plasma Instabilities

B.J. Duda, W.B. Mori (UCLA Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering)

B1S.14 Measurements of energetic ion emission from intense laser interactions

Karl Krushelnick, E. Clark, A. E. Dangor, Z. Najmudin, M. Salvati, M. Santala, M. Tatarakis (Imperial College), V. Malka, F. Amiranoff (LULI), D. Gordon, C. Joshi (UCLA), G. Malka (LPGP, University of Orsay), D. Neely, R. Allott, C. Danson (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

B1S.15 Experimental observation of photon acceleration in relativistic ionization fronts

N. C. Lopes, G. Figueira, J. M. Dias, J. T. Mendonca (Grupo de Laser e Plasmas - Instituto Superior Tecnico - Av. Rovisco Pais - 1096 Lisboa Codex - Portugal), L. Oliveira Silva (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles California 90095), P. Balcou (LOA, ENSTA/Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS, 91120 Palaiseau, France), Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas Team, LOA ENSTA/Ecole Polytechnique Collaboration, Department of Physics and Astronomy Collaboration

B1S.16 Design for a 1 GeV Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at SLAC

R. Assmann, S. Chattopadhyay, P. Chen, C. Clayton, F.J. Decker, M. Hogan, R. Iverson, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas, S. Lee, W. Leemans, K. Marsh, W. Mori, P. Raimondi, T. Raubenheimer, S. Rokni, R.H. Siemann, D. Walz, S. Wang, D. Whittum (E-157 Collaboration: UCLA/USC/LBL/SLAC)

B1S.17 Plasma Physics with GeV Electron Beams

T. Katsouleas (USC Department of Electrical Engineering), C. Clayton, W. Mori, C. Joshi (UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering)

B1S.18 Meter Long Plasma Sources for Advanced Accelerator Applications

K. Marsh, P. Muggli, C. Clayton, S. Wang, C. Joshi (UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering)

B1S.19 Beam Dynamics in the Hollow Plasma Channel Accelerator

C. B. Schroeder, J. S. Wurtele (UCB/LBNL), D. H. Whittum (SLAC)

B1S.20 Theory of Laser Wakes in Plasma Channels

Xiaohu Li, Gennady Shvets (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

B1S.21 Numerical Studies of Wake Excitation in Plasma Channels

B. A. Shadwick, J. S. Wurtele (Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley and Center for Beam Physics, LBNL)

B1S.22 Guided Propagation of TW Laser Pulses in Microcapillary Tubes

B. Cros (LPGP, CNRS-Université Paris XI, Bat 210, 91405 Orsay Cedex France), C. Courtois, G. Matthieussent (LPGP, CNRS-Université Paris XI, France), F. Dorchies, J.R. Marquès, S. Rebibo, P. Audebert, J.P. Geindre, T. Velikoroussov, F. Amiranoff (LULI-CNRS-CEA-Ecole Polytechnique-Université Paris VI, France), N. Andreev (HEDRC, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), L. Gorbunov (LPI, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), G. Hamoniaux (LOA, ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

B1S.23 Guiding and Distortion of Intense Laser Pulses in Hollow Plasma Channels

R. F. Hubbard, P. Sprangle, A. Ting, C. Moore (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), A. Zigler, D. Kaganovich (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel), B. Hafizi (Icarus Research, Inc., Bethesda, MD)

B1S.24 Studies of Intense Laser Pulses Propagating in Plasma Channels

T Antonsen, Z Bian, Yu Jiang, H Milchberg (University of Maryland, College Park MD, 20742), P Mora (Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France)

B1S.25 Propagation of Intense Laser Pulses in Gas-Jet Targets

K Koyama, M Tanimoto, N Saito (Electrotechnical Laboratory), H Hazama (Scence University of Tokyo)

B1S.26 High Beam Quality Electron Acceleration in Vacuum by Using Two Intersecting Ultrashort, High-Intense Laser Pulses

Ya Cheng, Zhizhan Xu (Laboratory for High Intensity Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China)

B1S.27 Intensity Effects on the Inverse Bremsstrahlung Electron Accelerator

Renato Pakter (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

B1S.28 Representative Electrons and Energy Exchange in the Strong Laser Fields

G.M. Fraiman, V.A. Mironov, A.A. Balakin (IPP, Novgorod, RUSSIA)