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Session PP8: Poster Session VI: Shocks, Flows, Dusty and Complex Plasmas; Z Pinches, X Pinches, EOS, and HEDP; Stellarator; FRC’s, Flow Pinch, HBT-EP, Helimak and LDX

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Room: Rosen Centre Hotel Grand Ballroom, 2:00pm - 5:00pm





PP8.00001: SHOCKS, FLOWS, DUSTY AND COMPLEX PLASMAS


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 PP8.00002: Heating and cooling in dusty plasmas
Y. Feng , J. Goree , Bin Liu

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 PP8.00003: Dispersion relation of Dust-acoustic waves in three-dimensional complex plasmas under microgravity
Silvia V. Annibaldi , A.V. Ivlev , U. Konopka , S. Ratynskaia , H. Thomas , G. Morfill , A. Lipaev , V. Molotkov , O. Petrov , V. Fortov , J. Drake

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 PP8.00004: Dust Impact Studies in Regard to Dust/Wall Interactions in Fusion Research
James Creel , Jorge Carmona-Reyes , Mike Cook , Jimmy Schmoke , Truell Hyde

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 PP8.00005: Complex Plasma Studies on Ferromagnetic Dust
Jorge Carmona , Matthew Benesh , Chelsea Chan , Jimmy Schmoke , Michael Cook , Truell Hyde

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 PP8.00006: Sensitivity Analysis on Boundary Conditions for Continuum Regime Probe
H.L. Rappaport

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 PP8.00007: Complex Plasma with Multiple Distinct Particle Sizes
Bernard Smith , Truell Hyde , Mike Cook , Jimmy Schmoke

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 PP8.00008: Dispersion relation for the dust-acoustic wave in a Lorentzian plasma
Myoung-Jae Lee , Taejoon Kim , Kyu-Sun Chung , Hyun-Jong Woo

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 PP8.00009: Dispersion properties of the dust-acoustic waves in a Lorentzian plasma containing elongated dust grains.
Taejoon Kim , Myoung-Jae Lee , Kyu-Sun Chung

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 PP8.00010: Oblique dust density waves
Alexander Piel , Oliver Arp , Kristoffer Menzel , Markus Klindworth

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 PP8.00011: Observations of dust acoustic waves driven at high frequencies
Ross Fisher , Robert Merlino , Edward Thomas

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 PP8.00012: Vertically propagating driven dust acoustic waves in a dc glow discharge dusty plasma
E. Thomas , J. Williams , L. Marcus , R. Merlino

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 PP8.00013: Preliminary measurement of ion heating in a weakly-coupled complex (dusty) plasma
Jeremiah Williams , Edward Thomas , Lydia Marcus

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 PP8.00014: Floating potential and collisionless ion drag force on a spherical grain under weakly magnetized conditions
Leonardo Patacchini , Ian H. Hutchinson

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 PP8.00015: Observation of melting in a heated, two-dimensional complex plasma
T.E. Sheridan

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 PP8.00016: Ionosphere Dusty Plasma in the Laboratory
Scott Robertson , Gregor Bano , Ward Handley , Mihaly Horanyi , Zoltan Sternovsky

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 PP8.00017: Theoretical and experimental studies of dust particle charging in the presence of a magnetic field
Chris Fichtl , Gian Luca Delzanno , Su-Hyun Kim , Robert Merlino , Giovanni Lapenta

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 PP8.00018: 0-D and 2-D LIF Measurements of Small Coulomb Crystals in a Linear RF Trap
Mitsutoshi Aramaki , Akihiro Kono

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 PP8.00019: Crystallization in mass and charge asymmetric bilayers
Michael Bonitz , Patrick Ludwig , Alexei Filinov , Yurii Lozovik , Heinrich Stolz

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 PP8.00020: Breathing Mode in Complex Plasmas
K. Fujioka , C. Henning , P. Ludwig , M. Bonitz , A. Melzer , S. Vitkalov

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 PP8.00021: Measurement of emission from a radiatively collapsed shock
A. Visco , R.P. Drake , M.J. Grosskopf , N. Gjeci , R.S. Gillespie , J.D. Shultz , D.A. Campbell , J. Human

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 PP8.00022: Plasma Formation on an Aluminum Surface Driven by MG Fields
Stephan Fuelling , Bruno Bauer , Richard Siemon , Tom Awe , Volodymyr Makhin , Tasha Goodrich , Andrew Oxner , Radu Presura

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 PP8.00023: Numerical Modeling of Megagauss Fields on Aluminum Rods
Volodymyr Makhin , Thomas Awe , Bruno Bauer , Irvin Lindemuth , Richard Siemon , Walt Atchison , Thomas Tierney , Michael Frese , Sherry Frese , Michael Desjarlais , Thomas Haill , Rickey Faehl , Sergey Garanin

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 PP8.00024: Interaction of laser-produced plasmas with large magnetoplasmas
Christoph Niemann , Carmen Constantin , Andrew Collette , Shreekrishna Tripathi , Patrick Pribyl , Erik Everson , Alexandre Gigliotti , Stephen Vincena , Radu Presura , Stephan Neff , Christopher Plechaty , Walter Gekelman

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 PP8.00025: Observation of Thermal Effects for Shock Wave Acceleration in Glow Discharge Plasma
Nirmol K. Podder , Anastasia V. Tarasova , Ralph B. Wilson IV

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 PP8.00026: Self similar nonlocal electron heat flow
Jean-Pierre Matte

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 PP8.00027: Modeling the influence of interelectrode spacing in the Pulsed Discharge Nozzle
Jerome Remy , Bart Broks , Wouter Brok , Joost v.d. Mullen , Abdessamad Benidar , Ludovic Biennier , Farid Salama

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 PP8.00028: Experimental Characterization of Plasma Flow in Reconnection Scaling Experiment.
L. Dorf , X. Sun , T. Intrator , J. Hendryx , G. Wurden

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 PP8.00029: Measuring 3D plasma flow in compact toroids
Setthivoine You , Alexander Balandin , Yasuchi Ono

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 PP8.00030: Evaluation of Kinematic Viscosity of Rotating Cylindrical Plasmas Using Flow Velocity Profile Measurements
Shinji Yoshimura , Masayoshi Tanaka

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 PP8.00031: Dynamics of Magnetic Flux Ropes in a Laboratory Plasma
Eric Lawrence , Walter Gekelman

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 PP8.00032: Ultracold Plasma Expansion in Magnetic Field
Xianli Zhang , Robert Fletcher , Steven Rolston

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 PP8.00033: Models of low-beta plasma expansion across magnetized vacuum
D.V. Rose , D.R. Welch , T.C. Genoni

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 PP8.00034: Numerical Modeling of a Magnetic Nozzle
Mikhail Tushentsov , Boris Breizman , Alexey Arefiev

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 PP8.00035: Ambipolar acceleration of ions in a magnetic nozzle
Alexey Arefiev , Boris Breizman

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 PP8.00036: Plume Narrowing in a Cylindrical Hall Thruster
Nathaniel Fisch , Amnon Fruchtman , Yevgeny Raitses , Jean Marcel Rax

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 PP8.00037: Z PINCHES, X PINCHES, EOS, AND HEDP


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 PP8.00038: Time dependent VISAR current diagnostic for pulsed power loads
Kyle Peterson , Raymond Lemke

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 PP8.00039: Validation of an ablation model for simulating wire array z-pinches
R.W. Lemke , E.M. Waisman , E.P. Yu , D.B. Sinars , T.A. Haill , T.A. Brunner , H.L. Hanshaw , M.E. Cuneo , M.P. Desjarlais , T.A. Mehlhorn

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 PP8.00040: Two-Dimensional Radiation MHD Modeling of Gas Puff Z-Pinch Implosions
J.W. Thornhill , J.L. Giuliani , Y.K. Chong , J. Davis , A. Dasgupta , R.W. Clark , K.G. Whitney , C. Deeney

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 PP8.00041: Lumped-state CRE Modeling of the Ionization Dynamics of O- and N-like Krypton
K.G. Whitney , A. Dasgupta , J.W. Thornhill , J. Davis

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 PP8.00042: Wire Ablation Plasma Source Studies at Sandia National Laboratories
M.D. Johnston , K. Hahn , B.V. Oliver , T.A. Mehlhorn , D.W. Droemer , R.L. Starbird , Y. Maron , E. Klodzh , E. Stambulchik

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 PP8.00043: Investigations of stagnated plasma conditions and opacity for K-shell x-ray sources at the Z Accelerator
C.A. Coverdale , C. Deeney , J.P. Apruzese , B. Jones , P.D. LePell

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 PP8.00044: Quantitative investigation of mass ablation rates of wire arrays at current levels from 80kA to 1MA
S. Bott , D. Haas , F. Beg , U. Ueda , Y. Eshaq , D. Hammer , B. Kusse , J. Greenly , T. Shelkovenko , S. Pikuz , I. Blesener , R. McBride , J. Douglass , K. Bell , P. Knapp , J. Chittenden , S. Lebedev , S. Bland , G. Hall , F. Suzuki Vidal , A. Marocchino , A. Harvey-Thompson

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 PP8.00045: Quantitative Measurements of Ablation in Wire Array Z-Pinches
A. Harvey-Thompson , S.V. Lebedev , S.N. Bland , J.P. Chittenden , G.N. Hall , J.B.A. Palmer , F. Suzuki-Vidal , S.C. Bott

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 PP8.00046: Mitigation of end-effects in wire array z-pinches through hardware modification
D.J. Ampleford , C.A. Jennings , B. Jones , J.P. Chittenden , S.V. Lebedev , S.N. Bland , S.C. Bott

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 PP8.00047: Relative Timing of Coronal Plasma Formation for Individual Wires in a Wire Array Z-Pinch
Patrick Knapp , D.A. Chalenski , J.D. Douglass , J.B. Greenly , R.D. McBride , S. Pikuz , T. Shelkovenko , D.A. Hammer , B.R. Kusse

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 PP8.00048: Time Evolution of the Magnetic Field Topology of Cylindrical Wire Array Z-Pinches
Matthew Martin , John Greenly , Charles Seyler

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 PP8.00049: Studies of the Dynamics of Ablation Stream development in Wire Arrays on COBRA
John Greenly , Matthew Martin , Charles Seyler

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 PP8.00050: Studies of Hot Spots in Wire-Array Z-Pinches and X-Pinches
Kate Bell , Tatiana Shelkovenko , Sergey Pikuz , David Hammer , Jonathan Douglass , Ryan McBride , John Greenly

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 PP8.00051: X-pinch Wire-number Scan at 1 MA
D.B. Sinars , M.E. Cuneo , D.F. Wenger , J.D. Douglass , R.D. McBride , S.A. Pikuz , J.B. Greenly , D. Chalenski , T.A. Shelkovenko , A. Mingaleev , D.A. Hammer , B.R. Kusse , J.P. Chittenden

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 PP8.00052: Quantification of axially correlated ablation in z-pinch wire arrays.
Jacob Zier , T. Strickler , M.R. Gomez , R. Gilgenbach , Y.Y. Lau , W.W. Tang , D.A. Hammer , B.R. Kusse , J. Greenly , J. Douglass , R. McBride , D. Chalenski , K. Bell , P. Knapp , W. Syed

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 PP8.00053: A higher-dimensional theory of electrical contact resistance
Wilkin Tang , Y.Y. Lau , M. Gomez , R.M. Gilgenbach , J. Zier , M. Haworth , E. Yu , M. Cuneo , T.A. Mehlhorn

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 PP8.00054: Study of Wire Contact Resistance in Single and Multi-wire Z-Pinch Experiments
M.R. Gomez , J. Zier , W. Tang , D.M. French , R.M. Gilgenbach , Y.Y. Lau , M.E. Cuneo , M.D. Johnston , M.G. Mazarakis , T.A. Mehlhorn

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 PP8.00055: Designs and Plans for MAIZE: a 1 MA LTD-Driven Z-Pinch
R.M. Gilgenbach , M.R. Gomez , J. Zier , W. Tang , D.M. French , B.W. Hoff , N. Jordan , E. Cruz , Y.Y. Lau , T. Fowler-Guzzardo , J. Meisel , M.G. Mazarakis , M.E. Cuneo , M.D. Johnston , T.A. Mehlhorn , A.A. Kim , V.A. Sinebryukhov

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 PP8.00056: Measurements of plasma conditions in precursor plasmas at the 1-MA Zebra facility
N.D. Ouart , C.A. Coverdale , A.S. Safronova , V.L. Kantsyrev , K.M. Williamson , I. Shrestha , G.C. Osborne , C. Deeney

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 PP8.00057: Implosion Dynamics and X-Ray Production in Cylindrical Wire Arrays 1-16 mm in Diameter
Abdelmoula Haboub , Vladimir Ivanov , Vladimir Sotnikov , Alexey Astanovitskiy , Alexey Morozov , Sara Altemara , Chris Thomas , Vidya Nalajala , Steve Batie

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 PP8.00058: Effect of an axial wire on wire array z-pinch dynamics
R. Presura , D. Martinez , S. Wright , C. Plechaty , S. Neff , L. Wanex , D. Ampleford

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 PP8.00059: Investigation of particle beams in 1-MA wire array z-pinches by Faraday cups
A.A. Morozov , A. Haboub , V.V. Ivanov , V.I. Sotnikov , R. Presura , A.L. Astanovitskiy , T. Jarrett , V. Nalajala , S.D. Altemara , C.M. Thomas

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 PP8.00060: Plasma Formation from a Single Solid Conductor Carrying a Multi-Magaampere Current
Milena Angelova , Bruno Bauer , Irvin Lindemuth , Volodymyr Makhin , Richard Siemon

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 PP8.00061: Radiography using a dense plasma focus device as a source of pulsed X-rays
Julio Herrera , Ferm\'in Castillo , Isabel Gamboa , Jos\'e Rangel

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 PP8.00062: Reconstruction of Neutron and Deuteron Energy Spectra in Z-pinch Experiments
Karel Rezac , Daniel Klir , Pavel Kubes , Josef Kravarik

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 PP8.00063: Characteristics of extreme ultraviolet radiation from laser triggered vacuum spark discharge plasma
Masato Watanabe , Nozomu Kishi , Eiki Hotta

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 PP8.00064: Soft X-ray emission from plasma channel created by wire explosion in water
Vaclav Prukner , Karel Kolacek , Jiri Schmidt , Oleksandr Frolov , Jaroslav Straus

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 PP8.00065: Improved EOS for Describing Off-Hugoniot States in Epoxy/Foam IC Targets
Roberta Mulford , Nicholas Lanier , Damian Swift , Shane Walton , Ian Tregillis , Jonathan Workman , Peter Graham , Alastair Moore

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 PP8.00066: Preheat Measurements for Supernova Hydrodynamics Experiments
Christine Krauland , Carolyn Kuranz , Paul Drake , Mike Grosskopf , Duncan Campbell

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 PP8.00067: Exploration of Plasma-Jet Magneto-Inertial Fusion Burn Dynamics
John F. Santarius

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 PP8.00068: EMHD Calculations of Plasma Jet Acceleration
Thomas Hughes , Carsten Thoma , Jin-Soo Kim , Sergei Galkin

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 PP8.00069: Plasma jets merging simulation
S.A. Galkin , I.N. Bogatu , J.S. Kim , F.D. Witherspoon , M.W. Phillips , T.P. Hughes , D.R. Welch , I. Golovkin , J. MacFarlane

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 PP8.00070: Dense Hypervelocity Plasma Jets
Andrew Case , F. Douglas Witherspoon , Sarah Messer , Richard Bomgardner , Michael Phillips , David van Doren , Raymond Elton , Ilker Uzun-Kaymak

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 PP8.00071: Probe Measurements on the HyperV Plasma Gun
S.J. Messer , F.D. Witherspoon , R. Bomgardner , A. Case , M.W. Phillips , D. Van Doren

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 PP8.00072: Laser-Driven Magnetic-Flux Compression Experiments on the OMEGA Laser
O.V. Gotchev , N.W. Jang , J.P. Knauer , D.D. Meyerhofer , R. Betti

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 PP8.00073: Development and benchmarking of radiation transport models in LSP.
Igor Golovkin , Joseph MacFarlane , Pamela Woodruff , Peter Hakel , Roberto Mancini , Thomas Hughes , Dale Welch , Carsten Thoma , Bob Clark , Chris Mostrom , F. Douglas Witherspoon , Mike Phillips , N.I. Bogatu , Jin-Soo Kim , Sergei Galkin

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 PP8.00074: Configuration based Collisional-Radiative Model including configuration interaction
Michel Busquet

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 PP8.00075: Benchmarking algorithms for the solution of Collisional Radiative Model (CRM) equations.
Marcel Klapisch , Michel Busquet

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 PP8.00076: M-shell transmission measurements of gadolinium in LTE at 30 eV
Robert Heeter , Brian Wilson , Scott Anderson , John Castor , Kevin Fournier , Carlos Iglesias , Steve Maclaren , Marilyn Schneider

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 PP8.00077: STELLARATOR


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 PP8.00078: Overview of HSX Results and Experimental Program Plan
D.T. Anderson

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 PP8.00079: Transport Studies in HSX at 1 Tesla
J. Lore , D.T. Anderson , J.M. Canik , K.M. Likin , J.N. Talmadge , K. Zhai

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 PP8.00080: Modeling of Anomalous Transport in ECRH Plasmas at HSX
W. Guttenfelder , D.T. Anderson , J.M. Canik , K.M. Likin , J. Lore , J.N. Talmadge , W. Dorland , M. Barnes

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 PP8.00081: Measurement of the Pfirsh-Schl\"{u}ter and Bootstrap Currents in HSX
J.C. Schmitt , J.N. Talmadge , D.T. Anderson , P.H. Probert

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 PP8.00082: ECRH at 0.5 and 1 Tesla in the Helically Symmetric Experiment
Konstantin Likin , David Anderson , Simon Anderson , Chuanbao Deng , Huijuan Lu , Jerahmie Radder , Joseph Talmadge , Kan Zhai

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 PP8.00083: 5-D Kinetic Modeling of ECRH Plasmas in the HSX Stellarator
J.W. Radder , J.N. Talmadge , K.M. Likin , D.T. Anderson , S. Murakami

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 PP8.00084: Alfv\'{e}nic Modes in HSX Stellarator
C. Deng , D.L. Brower , D.A. Spong , B.N. Breizman , A.F. Almagri , D.T. Anderson , F.S.B. Anderson , W. Guttenfelder , K. Likin , J. Lore , J. Lu , S. Oh , J.W. Radder , J. Schmitt , K. Zhai

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 PP8.00085: Wall Conditioning for 1T Operation in HSX
A. Herr , C. Clark , F.S.B. Anderson , D.T. Anderson

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 PP8.00086: Ion Temperature Measurements and Impurity Radiation in HSX
A.R. Briesemeister , K. Zhai , F.S.B. Anderson

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 PP8.00087: Overview of Recent Results from HSX and the Planned Experimental Program
K. Zhai , A. Briesemeister , F.S.B. Anderson

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 PP8.00088: Simulation and Implementation of HIBP Electric Field Measurements for the HSX Stellarator
C. Clark , D.T. Anderson , J. Hillesheim , M. Bingham , K. Connor , D. Demers , A. Dunckle , P. Schoch

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 PP8.00089: Stability of Current-Driven Discharges in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid Experiment
S.F. Knowlton , G.J. Hartwell , J.D. Hanson , J. Peterson , J. Shields , B.A. Stevenson

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 PP8.00090: Vacuum Magnetic Field Mapping of the Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH)
J.T. Peterson , J. Hanson , G.J. Hartwell , S.F. Knowlton , C. Montgomery , J. Munoz

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 PP8.00091: Soft X-Ray Tomography and Temperature Measurements on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH) Experiment
G. Hartwell , S. Knowlton , J. Peterson , B.A. Stevenson , J. Hanson

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 PP8.00092: Density Measurements of Compact Toroidal Hybrid Plasmas and Design of an Interferometer-Polarimeter Diagnostic
B.A. Stevenson , G. Hartwell , S. Knowlton , J. Shields

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 PP8.00093: Triple probe measurements of edge plasma parameters in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid torsatron
M. Cianciosa , E. Thomas , G. Hartwell , S. Knowlton

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 PP8.00094: Calculated Refraction and Cotton-Mouton Effect for a Millimeter-wave Interferometer/Polarimeter on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH) Experiment
J. Shields , S. Knowlton , B.A. Stevenson , J. Hanson , G. Hartwell

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 PP8.00095: Fast Particle Loss-Cone Measurements by the Novel Angular-Resolved Multi-Sightline Neutral Particle Analyzer (ARMS-NPA) on Large Helical Device.
Evgeny Veshchev , Tetsuo Ozaki , Pavel Goncharov , Shigeru Sudo

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 PP8.00096: Calculation of a stable path to high beta for the LHD stellarator
Benjamin Carreras , Katsuji Ichiguchi

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 PP8.00097: Quasi-linear fluxes in heliotron configurations
Osamu Yamagishi , Masayuki Yokoyama , Hideo Sugama

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 PP8.00098: Shear Alfv\'{e}n spectrum and mode structures for 3D configurations
D.A. Spong , Y. Todo

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 PP8.00099: Magnetic islands and confinement in the H-1NF heliac
Santhosh T. A. Kumar , Boyd D. Blackwell , Michael G. Shats , John Howard , Jeffrey H. Harris

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 PP8.00100: A Preconditioned Newton-Krylov Code for Calculating 3D MHD Equilibria with Magnetic Islands
Daniel Raburn , Allan Reiman , Donald Monticello , Ravi Samtaney

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 PP8.00101: V3FIT: Three-Dimensional MHD Equilibrium Reconstruction
James D. Hanson , John Shields , S.P. Hirshman , E.A. Lazarus , L. Lao , S.F. Knowlton

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 PP8.00102: Studies of the neoclassical transport for CNT
Bernhard Seiwald , Viktor V. Nemov , Thomas Sunn Pedersen , Winfried Kernbichler

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 PP8.00103: Progress in NCSX Construction
G.H. Neilson , J.H. Chrzanowski , P.J. Heitzenroeder , M. Kalish , J.F. Lyon , B.E. Nelson , M.E. Viola , M.C. Zarnstorff

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 PP8.00104: Magnetic Flexibility of NCSX.
M.C. Zarnstorff , S. Hudson , L. Maingi , D. Mikkelsen , N. Pomphrey

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 PP8.00105: Status of the QPS Project
J.H. Harris , J.F. Lyon

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 PP8.00106: FRC'S, FLOW PINCH, HBT-EP, HELIMAK, AND LDX


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 PP8.00107: Summary of the Magnetized Target Fusion physics demonstration
T.P. Intrator , G.A. Wurden , P.E. Sieck , R.M. Renneke , W.W. Waganaar , L.A. Dorf , S.C. Hsu , M. Kostora , R.E. Siemon , T. Awe , A.G. Lynn , M. Gilmore , J. Degnan , C. Grabowski , E.L. Ruden

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 PP8.00108: Toroidal Field and Magnetic Helicity in a Translating, High-Density Field Reversed Configuration
P.E. Sieck , T.P. Intrator , G.A. Wurden

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 PP8.00109: Guide and Mirror Magnetic Field Diffusion Calculations for the FRC Compression Heating Experiment (FRCHX) at AFRL
Matthew Domonkos , David Amdahl , James Degnan , Michael Frese , Donald Gale , Chris Grabowski , Robin Gribble , Thomas Intrator , Gerald Kiuttu

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 PP8.00110: FRC Adiabatic Compression Heating Experiments
J.H. Degnan , M.H. Frese , D.J. Amdahl , M. Babineau , J.F. Camacho , S.K. Coffey , M. Domonkos , S.D. Frese , D. Gale , C. Grabowski , J.V. Parker , D. Ralph , E.L. Ruden , W. Sommars , T.P. Intrator , G.A. Wurden , P. Sieck , P.J. Turchi , W.J. Waganaar , R.E. Siemon , T.J. Awe , B.S. Bauer , A. Oxner , A.G. Lynn , N.F. Roderick

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 PP8.00111: FRC Rotation in Extended MHD Modeling
Michael H. Frese , Sherry D. Frese , Edward L. Ruden , James H. Degnan , Norman F. Roderick

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 PP8.00112: Power Balance on a High-Density Field Reversed Configuration
Richard Renneke , Tom Intrator , Chan Choi , Glen Wurden , Scott Hsu , Theodore Grabowski , Ed Ruden , William Waganaar

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 PP8.00113: Progress on the Colorado FRC Experiment
A.D. Light , C.L. Ellison , T. Munsat , J.M. Nuger , W. Willcockson , S.E. Wurzel

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 PP8.00114: Diagnostics for the Colorado FRC Experiment
T. Munsat , C.L. Ellison , A.D. Light , J.M. Nuger , W. Willcockson , S.E. Wurzel

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 PP8.00115: Compression of compact tori by use of efficient drivers
Simon Woodruff , Angus Macnab

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 PP8.00116: Spectroscopic Diagnostics of the Irvine FRC
J.M. Little , E.P. Garate , W.S. Harris , W.W. Heidbrink , R. McWilliams , T. Roche , E. Trask

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 PP8.00117: Triple Probe Array on Irvine FRC
E. Trask , E.P. Garate , W.S. Harris , W.W. Heidbrink , R. McWilliams , T. Roche

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 PP8.00118: Ion Energy Distribution Function Measurements in the Irvine FRC
W.S. Harris , E.P. Garate , W.W. Heidbrink , R. McWilliams , T. Roche , E. Trask , Y. Zhang

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 PP8.00119: Irvine FRC Magnetic Field Structure
T. Roche , E.P. Garate , W. Harris , W. Heidbrink , R. McWilliams , E. Trask

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 PP8.00120: Rotating Magnetic Field sustainment of hot FRCs at high zeta
Alan Hoffman , Houyang Guo , Richard Milroy

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 PP8.00121: Use of a Magnetized Cascade Arc Source in TCSU to Enable RMF Formation of High Temperature FRCs
Paul Melnik , Houyang Guo , Robert Brooks , Alan Hoffman , Kenneth Miller

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 PP8.00122: Density and Impurity Measurements on the TCSU Experiment
Chris Deards , George Vlases

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 PP8.00123: Two-fluid flowing equilibria of spherical torus sustained by coaxial helicity injection
Takashi Kanki , Loren Steinhauer , Masayoshi Nagata

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 PP8.00124: Comparison of Rotamak Plasma Discharges in Cylindrical and Spherical Devices
Xiaokang Yang , Yuri Petrov , Tian-Sen Huang

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 PP8.00125: Magnetic field structure evolution in RMF plasmas
Yuri Petrov , Xiaokang Yang , Tian-Sen Huang

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 PP8.00126: Studies of Inductively Sustained Compact Toroids in MRX
S.P. Gerhardt , E.V. Belova , M. Yamada , H. Ji , Y. Ren , B. McGeehan , C. Jacobson , M. Inomoto

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 PP8.00127: Occurrence of anomalous resistivity in the inductively current driven FRC
Eiichirou Kawamori , Yasushi Ono

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 PP8.00128: Overview and Recent Results from the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch
U. Shumlak , B.A. Nelson , C.S. Adams , D.M. Chahim , D.J. Den Hartog , R.P. Golingo , S.D. Knecht , R. Oberto , M. Sybouts , G. Vogman

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 PP8.00129: Thomson Scattering Measurements on the ZaP Experiment
R.P. Golingo , U. Shumlak , B.A. Nelson , D.J. Den Hartog

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 PP8.00130: Density Profile of the ZaP Flow Z-pinch Plasma using a 4-chord Interferometer
B.J. Chan , U. Shumlak , B.A. Nelson , R.P. Golingo

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 PP8.00131: Results of the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch Inner Electrode Upgrade
Sean Knecht , Uri Shumlak , Raymond Golingo , Brian Nelson

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 PP8.00132: HBT-EP Kink Mode Control Research: Progress and Future Plans
G.A. Navratil , B.A. Debono , J.M. Hanson , J.P. Levesque , K.D. Litzner , M.E. Mauel , D.A. Maurer , T.S. Pedersen , D. Shiraki , J. Bialek , A.H. Boozer , O. Katsuro-Hopkins , R. James , S.F. Paul

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 PP8.00133: A Kalman Filter for Feedback Control of Rotating External Kink Instabilities in a Tokamak Plasma
J.M. Hanson , R. James , M.E. Mauel , D.A. Maurer , G.A. Navratil , T.S. Pedersen

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 PP8.00134: Kink Radial Eigenmode Structure Measurements Using a Hall Sensor Array on the HBT-EP Tokamak
D. Shiraki , J.M. Hanson , R. James , D.A. Maurer , M.E. Mauel , G.A. Navratil , T.S. Pedersen

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 PP8.00135: The Effects of Neutral Damping on Resistive Wall Mode Physics
R. James , K. Becker , J.M. Hanson , M.E. Mauel , D.A. Maurer , G.A. Navratil , T.S. Pedersen

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 PP8.00136: Design and Implementation of a Compact Lithium Evaporator to Minimize Edge Neutral Drag on the HBT-EP Tokamak
D.A. Maurer , D. Shiraki , J.M. Hanson , R. James , M.E. Mauel , G.A. Navratil , T.S. Pedersen

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 PP8.00137: Real-Time Plasma Rotation Diagnostic for Measuring Small Doppler Shifts on the HBT-EP Tokamak
Bryan DeBono , Jeremy Hanson , Royce James , David Maurer , Michael Mauel , Gerald Navratil , Thomas Pedersen , Steve Paul

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 PP8.00138: Thomson Scattering on the HBT-EP Tokamak
J.P. Levesque , K.D. Litzner , J.M. Hanson , R. James , D.A. Maurer , M.E. Mauel , G.A. Navratil , T.S. Pedersen

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 PP8.00139: Helimak Turbulence and Simulation
D. Miracle , J. Felkl , K. Lee , K.W. Gentle

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 PP8.00140: Control of SOL Turbulence
Kenneth Gentle , Jakub Felkl , Kevin Lee , Dylan Miracle

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 PP8.00141: Heavy Atom Neutral Beam Probe
Alvaro Garcia de Gorordo , Gary A. Hallock , Kenneth W. Gentle

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 PP8.00142: Drift-wave Turbulence in the Helimak
Kevin Lee , Jakub Felkl , Kenneth Gentle , Dylan Miracle

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 PP8.00143: Simulations of extended MHD Turbulence and Sheared flows in the Helimak Configuration
Russell B. Dahlburg , Jean C. Perez , Wendell Horton

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 PP8.00144: First Flight of the Levitated Dipole Experiment
D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel , A.C. Boxer , J.E. Ellsworth , J. Kesner

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 PP8.00145: Prospects for Driven Particle Convection Tests in LDX
M.E. Mauel , D.T. Garnier , A.C. Boxer , J.E. Ellsworth , J. Kesner

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 PP8.00146: Low Frequency Fluctuations in the Levitated Dipole Experiment
J. Kesner , A. Boxer , J.E. Ellsworth , D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel

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 PP8.00147: Density Profile Dynamics in the Levitated Dipole Experiment
A.C. Boxer , J. Kesner , J.L. Ellsworth , D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel

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 PP8.00148: Strong, Nonaxisymmetric Flows Driven in a Dipole Confined Plasma
M.W. Worstell , B.A. Grierson , M.E. Mauel

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 PP8.00149: Simulating Interchange Turbulence in a Dipole Confined Plasma
B.A. Grierson , M.W. Worstell , M.E. Mauel

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 PP8.00150: Linear Study of Electromagnetic Hot Electrons Instabilities in a Closed Field Line Plasma.
Natalia Krasheninnikova , Luis Chacon , Jay Kesner

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 PP8.00151: Improved Plasma Properties in RT-1 with a Levitated Coil
Haruhiko Saitoh , Zensho Yoshida , Yuichi Ogawa , Junji Morikawa , Sho Watanabe , Yoshihisa Yano , Junko Suzuki

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 PP8.00152: Wave-induced Helicity Current Drive by Helicon Waves
Manash Kumar Paul

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