Session TP8 : Poster Session VII: Reconnection and Non-Neutral II; High Power Microwave and Laser Driven Sources; NSTX Spherical / General Torus; Simulation: HEDP/Plasma Accelerator/Space

Rosen Centre Hotel - Grand Ballroom, 9:30am - 12:30pm

TP8.00001 : RECONNECTION AND NON-NEUTRAL II

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TP8.00002 : Hamiltonian Structure of a Collisionless Reconnection Model for High and Low $\beta$ Plasmas
P.J. Morrison, E. Tassi, F. Waelbroeck

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TP8.00003 : Fast magnetic reconnection regime in double tearing modes
Y.X. Long, Z.Z. Mou, W.X. Qu

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TP8.00004 : Effects of a toroidal shear flow on magnetic reconnection
Jiaqi Wang

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TP8.00005 : Current-sheet formation in compressible MHD
David Rollins, Bhimsen Shivamoggi

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TP8.00006 : Identification of a Two-scale Diffusion Layer During Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma
M. Yamada, Y. Ren, Hantao Ji, S. Gerhardt, B. McGeehan, C. Jacobson, J. Baumgaertel, R. Kulsrud, S. Dorfman

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TP8.00007 : Investigation of the 3-D profile of the reconnection layer with and without a guide field
B. McGeehan, M. Yamada, Hantao Ji, S. Gerhardt, C. Jacobson, J. Baumgaertel, S. Dorfman

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TP8.00008 : Study of the Effects of Guide Field on Reconnection in MRX
C. Jacobson, M. Yamada, Hantao Ji, S. Gerhardt, B. McGeehan

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TP8.00009 : Active Perturbations in the Outflow Region of the MRX Current Sheet
J. Baumgaertel, S. Dorfman, B. McGeehan, S. Gerhardt, Hantao Ji, M. Yamada

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TP8.00010 : Anomalous Resistivity in a Slab Geometry
William Tang, S. Dorfman, Hong Qin, Hantao Ji, M. Yamada

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TP8.00011 : Fully Kinetic Simulations of Driven Magnetic Reconnection with Boundary Conditions Relevant to MRX
S. Dorfman, W. Daughton, V. Roytershteyn, Hantao Ji, M. Yamada, W. Tang

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TP8.00012 : New results on the perpendicularly propagating electromagnetic lower hybrid drift instability (LHDI)
Yansong Wang, R. Kulsrud, Hantao Ji

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TP8.00013 : Global Two-Fluid Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection
Nicholas Murphy, C.R. Sovinec

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TP8.00014 : Current Sheet Dynamics in TS-4 Tokamak Reconnection Experiment
Yasushi Ono, Tomoki Hayashi, Heizo Imanaka

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TP8.00015 : Mass dependence of impurity ion temperature in a reconnecting laboratory plasma
M.R. Brown

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TP8.00016 : Experiment on two RMF-driven FRCs' magnetic reconnection
Tian-Sen Huang, Yuri Petrov, Xiaokang Yang

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TP8.00017 : Coalescence of magnetic flux ropes in a 3D reconnection experiment
X. Sun, T.P. Intrator, L. Dorf, G. Lapenta

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TP8.00018 : Scaling of Reconnection and Stability of Current Sheets in Large Systems
A. Bhattacharjee, H. Yang, N. Bessho

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TP8.00019 : Nonlinear evolution of the Resistive Kink Mode and its Nonlinear Stabilization
K. Germaschewski, A. Bhattacharjee

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TP8.00020 : Investigation of Current Sheet Instabilities Using a GKE/FKI Particle Simulation Model
Yu Lin, Xueyi Wang, Liu Chen, Zhihong Lin, Wenlu Zhang

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TP8.00021 : Lower-hybrid-drift instabilities in current-sheet equilibriumin in presence of a guide field
Wenlu Zhang, Zhihong Lin, Liu Chen, Yu Lin, Xueyi Wang

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TP8.00022 : Development of an ion source and plasma injection system for a non-neutral plasma using radioactive ions
Bryan G. Peterson, David K. Olson, Kellen M. Giraud, Grant W. Hart

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TP8.00023 : Modeling the FTICR-MS signal of a $^{7}$Be Ion Plasma
M. Takeshi Nakata, Grant W. Hart, Bryan G. Peterson, Ross L. Spencer

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TP8.00024 : Finite temperature m=0 upper-hybrid modes in a non-neutral plasma, theory and simulation.
Grant W. Hart, M. Takeshi Nakata, Ross L. Spencer

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TP8.00025 : Collisional Damping of Plasma Waves on a Pure Electron Plasma Column.
M.W. Anderson, T.M. O'Neil

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TP8.00026 : Collisional and Radiative Relaxation of Antihydrogen.
E.M. Bass, D.H.E. Dubin

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TP8.00027 : Theory and Simulation of Field Error Transport.
D.H.E. Dubin

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TP8.00028 : Spatial Landau Damping of Diocotron Modes in Nonneutral Disc Plasmas.
J.C. Quinn, D.H.E. Dubin

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TP8.00029 : Nonlinear Coupling of Plasma Waves Modified by Separatrix Dissipation
A.A. Kabantsev, C.F. Driscoll, T.M. O'Neil

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TP8.00030 : Phase-Coherent Measurement of Particle Distributions in Electron Acoustic Waves.
C.F. Driscoll, F. Anderegg, R.B. Lynch

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TP8.00031 : Frequency Variability of Electron Acoustic Waves.
F. Anderegg, D.H.E. Dubin, T.M. O'Neil, C.F. Driscoll

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TP8.00032 : Antihydrogen Trapping with the ALPHA apparatus
Niels Madsen

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TP8.00033 : HIGH POWER MICROWAVE AND LASER DRIVEN SOURCES

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TP8.00034 : Magnetic Priming at the Cathode and Anode of a Relativistic Magnetron
B.W. Hoff, R.M. Gilgenbach, Y.Y. Lau, N. Jordan, J. Zier, M.R. Gomez, E. Cruz, K.L. Cartwright, M. Haworth, P.J. Mardahl, T.A. Spencer, D. Price

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TP8.00035 : Recent Advances in Magnetron Phase Locking: Effects of Frequency Chirps and Locking of Multiple Magnetrons
E. Cruz, P. Pengvanich, Y.Y. Lau, R.M. Gilgenbach, J.W. Luginsland, Edl Schamiloglu

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TP8.00036 : Metal-Oxide-Junction, Triple-Point Cathodes for High Current Vacuum Electron Devices
N. Jordan, R.M. Gilgenbach, Y.Y. Lau, B.W. Hoff, P. Pengvanich

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TP8.00037 : Electric field and electron orbits near a triple point
N. Jordan, Y.Y. Lau, R.M. Gilgenbach, P. Pengvanich

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TP8.00038 : Electric field distribution on knife-edge field emitters
Ryan Miller, Y.Y. Lau, John Booske

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TP8.00039 : Effect of Random Circuit Fabrication Errors on Small Signal Gain and Phase in Helix Traveling Wave Tubes
P. Pengvanich, D.P. Chernin, Y.Y. Lau, J.W. Luginsland, R.M. Gilgenbach

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TP8.00040 : Two-Dimensional Axisymmetric Child-Langmuir Scaling Law
Benjamin Ragan-Kelley

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TP8.00041 : Effect of abrasive surface roughening on the secondary yield of various metals
Timothy Graves

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TP8.00042 : Formation of regular filamentary plasma arrays generated by a 1.5 MW, 110 GHz gyrotron
Y. Hidaka, E.M. Choi, I. Mastovsky, M.A. Shapiro, J.R. Sirigiri, R.J. Temkin

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TP8.00043 : Initial Operation of a Wideband 140 GHz, 1kW Confocal Gyro-Traveling Wave Amplifier
Colin Joye, M.A. Shapiro, R.J. Temkin , J.R. Sirigiri, Antonio Torrezan

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TP8.00044 : A Cusp Gun Gyro-TWA with Helical Waveguide Interaction Region
Craig Robertson, David Rowlands, Colin Whyte, Alan Young, Wenlong He, Adrian Cross, Alan Phelps

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TP8.00045 : A High Power High Frequency Maser Based on a Two-Dimensional Structure
Lorna Fisher, Ivan Konoplev, Adrian Cross, Alan Phelps

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TP8.00046 : Development of Multi-Frequency (105-140) GHz Gyrotron
Grigoriy Denisov, Vadim Myasnikov, Vadim Nechiporenko, Evgenii Tai, Vladimir Zapevalov

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TP8.00047 : Vortex structures in relativistic magnetrons
John Davies, Jing Zhou, Chiping Chen

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TP8.00048 : Small-Signal Gain Theory of a Planar Magnetron
Jing Zhou, Chiping Chen

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TP8.00049 : RF Modes in the Saturated Stage of a Magnetron
D.J. Kaup

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TP8.00050 : Phase-matched even harmonic generation in relativistic ionization fronts
Frederico Fiuza, Ricardo Fonseca, Luis Silva

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TP8.00051 : Interaction of intense lasers with nanostructured plasmas
Joana Martins, F. Peano, Luis Gargate, Ricardo Fonseca, Luis Silva

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TP8.00052 : Soft X-ray radiation measured by four-segment vacuum photodiode
Jiri Schmidt, Karel Kolacek, Oleksandr Frolov, Vaclav Prukner, Jaroslav Straus

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TP8.00053 : Fast capillary discharge facility CAPEX-U as a source of the soft X-ray radiation
Oleksandr Frolov, Karel Kolacek, Jiri Schmidt, Vaclav Prukner, Jaroslav Straus

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TP8.00054 : Possibility of an H-like N recombination laser at 13.39 nm excited by capillary discharge
Yusuke Sakai, Shunsuke Takahashi

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TP8.00055 : Relic crystal lattice effects on Raman compression of powerful x-ray pulses in plasmas
Nathaniel Fisch

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TP8.00056 : High Power Picosecond Laser Pulse Recirculation for Compton Scattering
S. Anderson, C. Brown, S. Betts, J. Hernandez, M. Johnson, I. Jovanovic, D. McNabb, J. Pruet, A. Tremaine, F. Hartemann, C. Siders

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TP8.00057 : Evolution of FEL-produced plasma with photoionized electron two-stream instability
I.A. Andriyash, V. Bychenkov, W. Rozmus

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TP8.00058 : Commissioning of a high-brightness photoinjector for Compton scattering x-ray sources
Scott Anderson, A. Tremaine, F. Hartemann, C. Siders, Hristo Badakov, Pedro Frigola, Brendan O'Shea

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TP8.00059 : Design and Initial Operation of a Tunable Compton-Scattering Based Gamma-Ray Source
Scott Anderson, S. Betts, M. Johnson, D. McNabb, J. Pruet, A. Tremaine, F. Hartemann, C. Siders

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TP8.00060 : NSTX SPERICAL TORUS

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TP8.00061 : Overview of NSTX Research Facility and Recent Experimental Results.
Masayuki Ono

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TP8.00062 : Effects of Evaporated Lithium Coatings on Plasma-Facing Surfaces in NSTX
M.G. Bell, R.E. Bell, R. Kaita, H.W. Kugel, B.P. Leblanc, R. Majeski, D. Mansfield, J.E. Menard, S.F. Paul, H. Schneider, C.H. Skinner, J. Timberlake

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TP8.00063 : NSTX conditioning experiment using injected lithium powder
D. Mansfield

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TP8.00064 : Effects of Lithiumization of Electron Temperature and Density Profiles
B.P. Leblanc

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TP8.00065 : Measurements of radiated power during LiTER operation in NSTX
S.F. Paul

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TP8.00066 : Spectroscopy of NSTX Plasmas During Lithium Wall Conditioning Experiments
S.F. Paul, R.E. Bell, C.H. Skinner

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TP8.00067 : XPS studies of NSTX tiles and in-situ analysis of Li exposed graphite simulating plasma-Li surface interactions.
A. Hassanein, J.P. Allain, S. Harilal, M. Nieto, M.R. Hendricks

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TP8.00068 : UEDGE Simulations of the NSTX Liquid Lithium Divertor Module
D.P. Stotler, R. Maingi, A.Yu. Pigarov, M.E. Rensink, T.D. Rognlien

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TP8.00069 : NSTX High-k Scattering System on NSTX: Status and Plan
H.K. Park, E. Mazzucato, D.R. Smith, S. Kaye, C.W. Domier, N.C. Luhmann, Jr.

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TP8.00070 : Investigation of electron gyroscale fluctuations in NSTX plasmas
D.R. Smith, R.E. Bell, J.C. Hosea, S. Kaye, B.P. Leblanc, E. Mazzucato, H.K. Park, C.W. Domier, N.C. Luhmann, Jr., F.M. Levinton, H. Yuh

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TP8.00071 : In-situ calibration of the high-k scattering system on NSTX
Woochang Lee, D.R. Smith, Hyeon Park, Moo-Hyeon Cho, C.W. Domier, N.C. Luhmann, Jr.

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TP8.00072 : Separation of momentum diffusion and pinch using n=3 non-resonant braking perturbations on NSTX
W. Davis, W.M. Solomon, S. Kaye, R.E. Bell, B.P. Leblanc, J.E. Menard, S.A. Sabbagh

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TP8.00073 : Beam Modulation Effects on NSTX Ion Power Balance
P.W. Ross, D.A. Gates, S.S. Medley, S. Kaye, R.E. Bell, B.P. Leblanc, D. Darrow, R.B. White, W.W. Heidbrink, M. Podesta, D. Liu, H. Yuh, F.M. Levinton

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TP8.00074 : Fast electron temperature, MHD and transport measurements on NSTX using a multi-energy SXR array
L. Delgado-Aparicio, D. Stutman, K. Tritz, M. Finkenthal, R.E. Bell, J.C. Hosea, S. Kaye, B.P. Leblanc, S.A. Sabbagh

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TP8.00075 : Time-dependent measurements of the B, C, N, and O Lyman-$\alpha$ emission
P. Beiersdorfer, M.F. Gu, M. Bitter, K.W. Hill, R. Kaita, H.W. Kugel, A.L. Roquemore

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TP8.00076 : The Motional Stark Effect Diagnostic on NSTX
F.M. Levinton, H. Yuh

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TP8.00077 : Millimeter-wave measurements of edge electron density profile and fluctuations during NSTX H-mode discharges
S. Kubota, W.A. Peebles, N.A. Crocker, X.V. Nguyen, R. Maqueda, R. Maingi, C.E. Bush, G.J. Kramer

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TP8.00078 : NSTX H-mode measurement in conjunction with gyrocenter shift via FIReTIP system
M. Johnson, C.W. Domier, K.C. Lee, N.C. Luhmann, Jr., P.W. Ross, R.E. Bell, H.K. Park

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TP8.00079 : Bandwidth Upgrade for the NSTX FIReTIP System
W-C. Tsai, C.W. Domier, K.C. Lee, N.C. Luhmann, Jr., H.K. Park

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TP8.00080 : Control of asymmetric magnetic perturbation in tokamaks by computation of ideal perturbed equilibria
Jong-kyu Park, J.E. Menard, Allen Boozer, M.J. Schaffer

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TP8.00081 : Nonlinear Study of Error Field Effects in NSTX
J.K. Park, Allen Boozer, W. Park, J.E. Menard

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TP8.00082 : MHD Induced Neutral Beam Ion Loss from NSTX
E.D. Fredrickson, N.N. Gorelenkov, A.L. Roquemore, Kouji Shinohara

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TP8.00083 : Neutral Particle Analyzer Vertically Scanning Measurements of MHD-induced Fast Ion Redistribution or Loss in NSTX
S.S. Medley, R. Andre, R.E. Bell, D. Darrow, C.W. Domier, E.D. Fredrickson, N.N. Gorelenkov, S. Kaye, B.P. Leblanc, K.C. Lee, F.M. Levinton, N.C. Luhmann, Jr., D. Liu, J.E. Menard, H.K. Park, D. Stutman, A.L. Roquemore, K. Tritz, H. Yuh

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TP8.00084 : Effect of halo neutrals on neutral particle measurements
D. Liu, W.W. Heidbrink, S.S. Medley, A.L. Roquemore, R.J. Akers

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TP8.00085 : Excitation of Beta-induced Alfven-acoustic eigenmodes and q-profile MHD spectroscopy in NSTX.
N.N. Gorelenkov, E.D. Fredrickson, H.L. Berk

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TP8.00086 : Nonlinear simulations of NBI driven GAE modes in NSTX
E.V. Belova, N.N. Gorelenkov

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TP8.00087 : Development of a Fast-Ion D-Alpha diagnostic for NSTX
Mario Podesta', W.W. Heidbrink, R.E. Bell, W.M. Solomon, V. Soukhanovskii

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TP8.00088 : Identification and Study of MHD modes on NSTX using Soft X-ray Images
C.E. Bush, E.D. Fredrickson, D. Stutman, K. Tritz

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TP8.00089 : Numerical Investigations of Instability-Induced Current Redistribution in a Spherical-Torus Plasma
Peter Norgaard, J.E. Menard, R.B. White, Yuriy Yakovenko, Clarence Rowley

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TP8.00090 : SOL width scale lengths in NSTX
J. Ahn, J.A. Boedo, R. Maingi, V. Soukhanovskii, H.W. Kugel, A.L. Roquemore

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TP8.00091 : Electrode Biasing Experiment for Local SOL Control In NSTX
A.L. Roquemore, S.J. Zweben, Charles Bush, R. Maqueda, Yevgeny Raitses, R.H. Cohen, D.D. Ryutov, M. Umansky

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TP8.00092 : Structure and evolution of ELMs in the edge and SOL of NSTX
R. Maqueda, R. Maingi, C.E. Bush, K. Tritz, J. Ahn, J.A. Boedo, S. Kubota, E.D. Fredrickson, S.J. Zweben

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TP8.00093 : Study of statistical properties of edge turbulence in NSTX with the GPI diagnostic
S.J. Zweben, P. Scarin, R. Maqueda, D.P. Stotler

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TP8.00094 : Reduced simulations of boundary turbulence in NSTX
D.A. Russell, J.R. Myra, D.A. D'Ippolito, R. Maqueda, V. Soukhanovskii, S.J. Zweben

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TP8.00095 : Modeling of Blob Formation in NSTX Edge Turbulence
T. Stoltzfus-Dueck, J.A. Krommes, S.J. Zweben

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TP8.00096 : Spectroscopic $T_e$ and $n_e$ measurements in a recombining divertor region and in MARFEs in NSTX using D~I and He~II high-$n$ series line emission.
V. Soukhanovskii, R.E. Bell, R. Kaita, A.L. Roquemore, R. Maqueda

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TP8.00097 : Recent observations of dust particle behavior in the NSTX
W.U. Boeglin, A.L. Roquemore, C.H. Skinner, R. Maqueda, N. Nishino, A.Yu. Pigarov, R.D. Smirnov, S.I. Krasheninnikov

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TP8.00098 : Upgrade of the NSTX Plasma Control System*
D. Mueller, D.A. Gates, M. Isaacs, J. Lawson, C. Ludescher-Furth, D. Matrovito, P. Sichta

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TP8.00099 : Model-Based Shape Control Design for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)
M. Alsarheed, E. Schuster, D.A. Gates, J.A. Leuer, M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys

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TP8.00100 : Supersonic gas jet fueling efficiency studies in NSTX.$^*$
D.P. Lundberg, V. Soukhanovskii, M.G. Bell, R.E. Bell, R. Kaita, H.W. Kugel, B.P. Leblanc, J.E. Menard, A.L. Roquemore, D.P. Stotler, R. Maingi, R. Raman

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TP8.00101 : HHFW Heating and Current Drive Progress on NSTX
P.M. Ryan, E.F. Jaeger, J.B. Wilgen, J.C. Hosea, J.R. Wilson, R.E. Bell, S. Bernabei, B.P. Leblanc, C.K. Phillips, L. Delgado-Aparicio, K. Tritz, S.A. Sabbagh, H. Yuh

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TP8.00102 : Numerical Modeling of High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating on NSTX
C.K. Phillips, J.C. Hosea, R.E. Bell, B.P. Leblanc, J.B. Parker, E.J. Valeo, J.R. Wilson, P.M. Ryan, E.F. Jaeger, J.B. Wilgen, S.A. Sabbagh, P.T. Bonoli, J.C. Wright, R.W. Harvey, R.J. Dumont

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TP8.00103 : Recent EBW Emission Results and Plans for a 350 kW, 28 GHz EC/EBW Heating System on NSTX
G. Taylor, S.J. Diem, R.A. Ellis, N. Greenough, J.C. Hosea, T.S. Bigelow, J.B.O. Caughman, D.A. Rasmussen, P.M. Ryan, J.B. Wilgen, R.W. Harvey, A.P. Smirnov, N.M. Ershov, J. Preinhaelter, J. Urban, A.K. Ram

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TP8.00104 : Investigation of collisional EBW damping and its importance to EBW emission from NSTX
J. Urban, Josef Preinhaelter, S.J. Diem, G. Taylor, Linda Vahala, George Vahala

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TP8.00105 : Mode conversion coupling to electron Bernstein waves
D.S. Boone, Jr., A.K. Ram

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TP8.00106 : Nonlinear Collisional Absorption of High-Harmonic Relativistic Electron Bernstein Modes in the Princeton Spherical Tokamak Plasma.
V. Stefan

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TP8.00107 : GENERAL SPHERICAL TORUS

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TP8.00108 : Overview of the Pegasus Experimental Program
A.C. Sontag, D.J. Battaglia, M.W. Bongard, N.W. Eidietis, M.J. Frost, G.D. Garstka, B.A. Kujak-Ford, M.B. McGarry, B.J. Squires, B.T. Lewicki, E.A. Unterberg, G.R. Winz

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TP8.00109 : Operations at High I$_{N}$ in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
E.A. Unterberg, D.J. Battaglia, M.W. Bongard, M.J. Frost, G.D. Garstka, A.C. Sontag

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TP8.00110 : Nonsolenoidal startup of Pegasus plasmas using DC helicity injection and poloidal field induction
B.J. Squires, N.W. Eidietis, G.D. Garstka, A.C. Sontag, G.R. Winz

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TP8.00111 : Global energy confinement studies on the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
D.J. Battaglia, M.J. Frost, G.D. Garstka, A.C. Sontag, E.A. Unterberg, G.R. Winz

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TP8.00112 : Initial Edge Stability Observations in the PEGASUS Toroidal Experiment
M.W. Bongard, D.J. Battaglia, G.D. Garstka, A.C. Sontag, E.A. Unterberg

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TP8.00113 : An Upgraded Soft X-ray Pinhole Camera for Current Profile Measurements on the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
M.B. McGarry, M.J. Frost, G.R. Winz, A.C. Sontag

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TP8.00114 : The Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX) - Status and Plans
R. Kaita, R. Majeski, L. Berzak, T. Gray, T. Kozub, H.W. Kugel, T. Strickler, J. Timberlake, J. Yoo, J. Ahn, R. Doerner, R. Maingi, V. Soukhanovskii

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TP8.00115 : Plasma Performance with Lithium PFCs in CDX-U and Projections to LTX
R. Majeski, R. Kaita, L. Berzak, T. Gray, H.W. Kugel, D. Mansfield, J. Spaleta, J. Timberlake, J. Yoo, G. Pereverzev, J. Ahn, R. Doerner, R. Maingi, V. Soukhanovskii

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TP8.00116 : Thomson Scattering Measurements on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX)
T. Strickler, B.P. Leblanc, R. Majeski, R. Kaita

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TP8.00117 : Effects of Liquid Lithium Plasma Facing Components in the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment
L. Berzak, R. Kaita, R. Majeski

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TP8.00118 : Building a Lyman-$\alpha$ detector for measurement of recycling rates in LTX
J. Yoo, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, J. Foley, Enrique Merino

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TP8.00119 : Recycling Coefficient Calculation for Discharges with Lithium Plasma-facing Surfaces in CDX-U
T. Gray, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, J. Spaleta, D.P. Stotler, J. Timberlake

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TP8.00120 : Spherical tokamak plasma startup by use of a washer gun
Ryosuke Morii, Makoto Nakagawa, Yasushi Ono

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TP8.00121 : 2-Dimensional Imaging Measurement for Pressure-Driven Instability in High Beta Spherical Tokamak
Heizo Imanaka, Yoshinori Hayashi, Eiitiro Kawamori, Yasushi Ono

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TP8.00122 : SIMULATION: HEDP/PLASMA ACCELERATOR/SPACE

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TP8.00123 : Computational Efficiency and Parallelization Issues in ICF Calculations
D. Fyfe

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TP8.00124 : DRACO Development for Modeling 3D Instabilities
Milad Fatenejad, T.J.B. Collins, Gregory Moses, Radha Bahukutumbi, P.W. McKenty, V.A. Smalyuk

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TP8.00125 : Experiments to validate self-consistent beam-gas-electron code
W.M. Sharp, M. Kireeff Covo, R.H. Cohen, A. Friedman, S.M. Lund, J.L. Vay, J.E. Coleman, P.K. Roy, P.A. Seidl

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TP8.00126 : Simulation of the Spectral Properties of Materials with PrismSPECT
Joseph MacFarlane, I. Golovkin, P. Woodruff, J.E. Bailey, T.A. Mehlhorn, G.A. Rochau

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TP8.00127 : Collision Models for Plasma Simulation of Thermonuclear Burn: Comparison of Models and Applications
Dan Winske, B.J. Albright, K. Bowers

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TP8.00128 : Tests for Krook model for nonlocal heat transport in laser produced plasmas
D. Colombant, W. Manheimer, M. Keskinen, V.N. Goncharov

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TP8.00129 : Generation of nonadiabatic laser pulse front from an overdense plasma
Min Sup Hur, Victor Kulagin, Hae June Lee, Jaehoon Kim, Hyyong Suk

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TP8.00130 : Plasma Heating by Intense Electron Beams in Fast Ignition
Nathan Sircombe, Robert Bingham

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TP8.00131 : Using Mixtures of Ion Species to Control Stimulated Brillioun Scattering
Richard Berger, S.H. Glenzer, M. Rosen, D.A. Callahan

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TP8.00132 : Mitigation of Ion Motion in future Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
Reza Gholizadeh, Tom Katsouleas, Patric Muggli

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TP8.00133 : Laser wakefield simulation using a speed-of-light frame envelope model
Ammar Hakim, Peter Messmer, Paul Mullowney, E. Esarey

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TP8.00134 : Numerical simulation of microwave transmission in the presence of an electron cloud
Kiran Sonnad, S. Veitzer, Peter Stoltz, Miguel Furman, J. Cary

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TP8.00135 : High order methods for electromagnetics simulation
John Loverich, Ammar Hakim

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TP8.00136 : Advances in electron emission from conformal boundaries in the VORPAL code
Chet Nieter, D.N. Smithe, Peter Stoltz, Paul Mullowney, J. Cary

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TP8.00137 : Benefits of Higher-Order Particle Shapes in the Electromagnetic PIC Code VORPAL
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TP8.00138 : Designing an RF thruster booster unit with TOPICA
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TP8.00139 : Numerical Model of a Spacecraft Shielding against High-Energy Particles
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TP8.00140 : Numerical Study of Energy Release in Magnetized Corona Driven by Continuous Footpoint Motions
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