GI1: Direct Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion and Z Pinches

Chair: Craig Sangster, University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Rosen Centre Hotel - Junior Ballroom


Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 AM–10:00 AM

GI1.00001 : Performance of Direct-Drive Cryogenic Targets on OMEGA
Invited Speaker: V.N. Goncharov

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:00 AM–10:30 AM

GI1.00002 : OMEGA Experiments on the Shock-Ignition ICF Concept
Invited Speaker: W. Theobald

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:30 AM–11:00 AM

GI1.00003 : Time-Resolved Absorption in Cryogenic and Room-Temperature, Direct-Drive Imploding Targets
Invited Speaker: W. Seka

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:00 AM–11:30 AM

GI1.00004 : Monoenergetic Proton Radiography of Electromagnetic Fields and Areal Density in Implosions and in Laser-Plasma-Interaction Experiments$^{\ast ,\dag}$
Invited Speaker: R.D. Petrasso

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:30 AM–12:00 PM

GI1.00005 : Radiation energetics of inertial confinement fusion relevant wire-array z pinches
Invited Speaker: Daniel Sinars

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:00 PM–12:30 PM

GI1.00006 : Investigation of trailing mass in Z-pinch implosions and comparison to experiment
Invited Speaker: E. Yu

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GI2: Alternates

Chair: Simon Woodruff, Woodruff Scientific, LLC
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 3/4


Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 AM–10:00 AM

GI2.00001 : Extension of High-Ion-Temperature Regime in the Large Helical Device (LHD)
Invited Speaker: Masayuki Yokoyama

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:00 AM–10:30 AM

GI2.00002 : Theoretical and experimental studies of high-beta plasmas formed by odd-parity rotating magnetic fields
Invited Speaker: Samuel Cohen

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:30 AM–11:00 AM

GI2.00003 : Higher Temperature Steady-State FRCs Formed and Sustained by Rotating Magnetic Fields in the New TCS-Upgrade Device
Invited Speaker: Houyang Guo

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:00 AM–11:30 AM

GI2.00004 : Gyrokinetic simulations of plasma turbulence, transport and zonal flows in a closed field line geometry
Invited Speaker: Barrett Rogers

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:30 AM–12:00 PM

GI2.00005 : Magnetic Field Generation and Energy Confinement with T$_{e} >$ 500 eV in the SSPX Spheromak
Invited Speaker: B. Hudson

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:00 PM–12:30 PM

GI2.00006 : High confinement in fusion oriented plasmas with kV-order potential, ion, and electron temperatures with controlled radial turbulent transport in GAMMA 10
Invited Speaker: Teruji Cho

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GO3: DIII-D Tokamak

Chair: Earl Marmar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 9/10


Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

GO3.00001 : Overview of Recent DIII-D Experimental Results
C.M. Greenfield

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

GO3.00002 : Effects of Resonant Magnetic Perturbations on Edge Turbulence and Profiles in DIII-D
J.A. Boedo, D.L. Rudakov, I. Joseph, R. Moyer, G.R. McKee, D. Reiser, T.E. Evans, W.P. West, J.G. Watkins

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

GO3.00003 : Resistive Wall Mode and Plasma Stability at High $\beta $ and Slow Rotation
H. Takahashi, G.L. Jackson, R.J. Groebner, R.J. La Haye, E.J. Strait, Y. In, J. Kim, A.M. Garofalo, H. Reimerdes, M.J. Lanctot, M. Okabayashi

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

GO3.00004 : Plasma Initiation and Startup in DIII-D Simulating the ITER Scenario
G.L. Jackson, T.C. Luce, J.R. Ferron, A.W. Hyatt, T.W. Petrie, W.P. West, T.A. Casper, E.A. Lazarus, R. Moyer, D.L. Rudakov

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

GO3.00005 : High Performance Operation on DIII-D With Reduced Frequency of Wall Conditioning
W.P. West, N.H. Brooks, A.W. Hyatt, G.L. Jackson, C.M. Greenfield, P.A. Politzer, M.R. Wade, M. Groth

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

GO3.00006 : Observation of Carbon Dust in the DIII-D Divertor and SOL
D.L. Rudakov, A.Yu. Pigarov, R.D. Smirnov, J.H. Yu, W.P. West, C.P.C. Wong, M. Groth, M.E. Fenstermacher, W.M. Solomon

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

GO3.00007 : Extension of DIII-D Hybrid Plasmas Towards Operation with T$_{e}$ $\sim$ T$_{i}$ and Low Rotation
E.J. Doyle

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

GO3.00008 : Towards Demonstration of Steady-State High-Performance Scenarios in DIII-D
T.C. Luce, J.R. Ferron, P.A. Politzer, C.M. Greenfield, A.W. Hyatt, G.L. Jackson, T.W. Petrie, R.I. Pinsker, W.P. West, A.M. Garofalo, R. Reimerdes, T.A. Casper, C.T. Holcomb, M.A. Makowski, M. Okabayashi, M. Murakami, J.M. Park, E.J. Doyle

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

GO3.00009 : Integrated Scenario Modeling for Advanced Scenario Development in DIII-D
J.M. Park, M. Murakami, H.E. St. John, L.L. Lao, J.R. Ferron, R. Prater

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

GO3.00010 : Locked Neoclassical Tearing Mode Control on DIII-D by Electron Cyclotron Current Drive and Magnetic Perturbations
E.J. Strait, R. Prater, F. Volpe, R.J. La Haye

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

GO3.00011 : Local Turbulence Suppression and Flow Shear Dynamics During \textit{q}$_{min}$-Triggered Internal Transport Barriers
M.W. Shafer, G.R. McKee, D.J. Schlossberg, M.E. Austin, R.E. Waltz, J. Candy

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

GO3.00012 : Role of Pedestal in Hybrid Discharges in DIII-D
A.W. Leonard, T.H. Osborne, J.R. Ferron, A.W. Hyatt, P.A. Politzer, J.C. DeBoo, W.P. West, B.D. Bray, R.J. Groebner, C.F. Maggi, C.C. Petty

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

GO3.00013 : Effect of Reverse Shear Alfv\'{e}n Eigenmodes on Delivered Neutral Beam Torque
W.M. Solomon, R.V. Budny, G.J. Kramer, D. Mikkelsen, R. Nazikian, S.D. Scott, M.C. Zarnstorff, K.H. Burrell, J.S. deGrassie, C.C. Petty, M.A. Van Zeeland

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:06 PM–12:18 PM

GO3.00014 : DIII-D Quiescent H-mode Experiments With Co Plus Counter Neutral Beam Injection
K.H. Burrell, W.P. West, P. Gohil, T.H. Osborne, P.B. Snyder, M.E. Fenstermacher, W.M. Solomon

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:18 PM–12:30 PM

GO3.00015 : Prediction of Sawtooth Periods in Fast-Wave Heated DIII-D Experiments Using Extensions of the Porcelli Model
A.D. Turnbull, M. Choi, L.L. Lao, V.S. Chan, M.S. Chu, Y.M. Jeon, G. Li, Q. Ren, N.N. Gorelenkov

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GO6: ICF/HEDP Diagnostics

Chair: Yefim Aglitskiy, Naval Research Laboratory
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 5/6


Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

GO6.00001 : Magnetic Field Measurements in Wire-Array Z-Pinches using Magneto-Optically Active Waveguides
W. Syed, D.A. Hammer, Michal Lipson

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

GO6.00002 : Time-Gated X Pinch Backlighting of Imploding Wire Array Z Pinches Using MCP
I. Blesener, K. Bell, D.A. Chalenski, J.D. Douglass, P. Knapp, R.D. McBride, S. Pikuz, B.R. Kusse, Simon Bott, D. Haas, U. Ueda

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

GO6.00003 : Electron density determination in a MgFe dense plasma via Stark-broadening analysis
R.C. Mancini, J.E. Bailey, G.A. Rochau, P.W. Lake, Joseph Abdallah, Joseph MacFarlane, I. Golovkin

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

GO6.00004 : Experimental Stark widths of the 3p-3s transition of Ne VIII
Hans Kunze

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

GO6.00005 : Development of Compton radiography using multi-pulse high-Z backlighters
R. Tommasini, S. Hatchett, H-S. Park, P.K. Patel, Brian Maddox, S. Le Pape, M.H. Key, M. Tabak, J. Koch, O.L. Landen, N. Izumi, A.J. MacKinnon, J. Seely, G. Holland, L. Hudson, C. Szabo

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

GO6.00006 : Neutron-Induced Signal Measurements in Cables on OMEGA
V.Yu. Glebov, T.C. Sangster, C. Stoeckl, S. Roberts, W. Bittle, R.A. Lerche, J.L. Bourgade, J.L Leray

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

GO6.00007 : EMP Measurements on the Omega Laser System at LLE
Zaheer Ali, V.Yu. Glebov, W. Bittle, C. Stoeckl, Greg Pien, Thomas Hintermann, Mark Labuzeta, Timothy Duffy, T.C. Sangster, Alan Throop, Dave Eder, Joe Kinbrough, Charlie Brown, Joel Raimbourg

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

GO6.00008 : First Tests on OMEGA of a Bubble Chamber for Neutron Detection
M.C. Ghilea, D.D. Meyerhofer, T.C. Sangster, D.J. Lonobile, A. Dillenbeck, R.A. Lerche, L. Disdier

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

GO6.00009 : First Measurements of Neutron Spectra using the Magnetic Recoil Spectrometer (MRS) at OMEGA
J.A. Frenje, D. Casey, C.K. Li, J.R. Rygg, F.H. Seguin, R.D. Petrasso, V.Yu. Glebov, D.D. Meyerhofer, T.C. Sangster, K. Fletcher

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

GO6.00010 : Multiview observation and analysis of OMEGA direct-drive implosion cores
T. Nagayama, R.C. Mancini, L. Welser-Sherrill, R. Tommasini, J. Koch, J.A. Delettrez, S.P. Regan, V.A. Smalyuk, I. Golovkin

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

GO6.00011 : X-ray Thomson scattering on compressed Be plasmas
Hae Ja Lee, P. Neumayer, O.L. Landen, Roger Falcone

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

GO6.00012 : Low-Aberration Diffraction Mirror to Focus X-Rays
James Hawreliak

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

GO6.00013 : Characterization of High-Current Relativistic Electron Beam Transport Through Solid-Density Matter Using High-Resolution Imaging of Coherent Transition Radiation
M. Storm, J. Myatt, C. Stoeckl

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:06 PM–12:18 PM

GO6.00014 : Quasi-DC Terahertz Electrical Conductivity Measurements of Dense Aluminum Plasma
George Rodriguez, Balakishore Yellampalle, Antoinette Taylor, Ki-Yong Kim

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:18 PM–12:30 PM

GO6.00015 : Short pulse laser coupling efficiency to hot electrons for fast-ignition studies.
A.G. Macphee, C.D. Chen, D. Hey, I. Jovanovic, M.H. Key, T.W. Phillips, A.J. MacKinnon, R. Clarke, K. Akli, D. Offermann, A. Link, V. Ovchinnikov, L. Van Woerkom, R.R. Freeman, M. Wei, T. Ma, J. King, F. Beg, R.B. Stephens

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GO7: Laser Driven Electron and Ion Acceleration

Chair: Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 7/8


Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

GO7.00001 : Experimental Demonstration of 1 GeV Energy Gain and Stable Self Trapping in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
A. Gonsalves, K. Nakamura, Csaba Toth, E. Cormier-Michel, C.B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, Wim Leemans, S.M. Hooker, J. Cary, D. Panasenko

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

GO7.00002 : Stable electron bunches with low absolute momentum spread using plasma down ramp injection in a laser wakefield accelerator
K. Nakamura, Csaba Toth, E. Esarey, C.B. Schroeder, Wim Leemans, E. Cormier-Michel, J. Cary

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

GO7.00003 : Observation of large-angle quasi-monoenergetic electrons from a laser wakefield
Dmitri Kaganovich, Daniel Gordon, Antonio Ting, Natalie Milioutina, Phillip Sprangle

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

GO7.00004 : Electron Acceleration in Guiding and Non-Guiding Structures
C. Kamperidis, S.P.D. Mangles, S. Kneip, Karl Krushelnick, Z. Najmudin, T.P. Rowlands-Rees, A.J. Gonzalves, S.M. Hooker, E. Brunetti, J. Gallacher, D.A. Jaroszynksi, C.D.M. Murphy, F. Budde

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

GO7.00005 : Direct Acceleration of Electrons in a Corrugated Plasma Waveguide
John Palastro, Thomas Antonsen, Howard Milchberg

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

GO7.00006 : Evolution of Relativistic Plasma-Wave front in LWFA
Fang Fang, Christopher Clayton, Kenneth Marsh, Joseph Ralph, Arthur Pak, Nelson Lopes, C. Joshi

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

GO7.00007 : Laser acceleration with imploding plastic cylinder shell
Kazuki Tsuji, Kazuya Kimura, Kazuo Takeda, Syuji Fukumochi, Mamoru Kashihara, Tsuyoshi Tanimotoi, Takahiko Ishikura, M. Tampo, R. Kodama, K. Mima, K.A. Tanaka, Kiminori Kondo, Eisuke Miura

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

GO7.00008 : Photon acceleration and modulational instability during wakefield excitation using long laser pulses
Raoul Trines, Christopher Murphy, Robert Bingham, K.L. Lancaster, Oleg Chekhlov, Jose Tito Mendonca, Luis Silva, S.P.D. Mangles, C. Kamperidis, Alexander Thomas, Karl Krushelnick, Z. Najmudin

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

GO7.00009 : Control of laser-accelerated ions: Recent advances and preliminary results from the new Trident 250-TW laser
B.M. Hegelich, B.J. Albright, L. Yin, K.A. Flippo, Cort Gautier, S. Letzring, Roland Schulze, M. Schmitt, J.C. Fernandez

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

GO7.00010 : Proton acceleration: new developments for focusing and energy selection, and applications in plasma physics
P. Audebert

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

GO7.00011 : In-situ target preparation and characterization for mono-energetic laser driven ion sources
B.M. Hegelich, Cort Gautier, K.A. Flippo, Roland Schulze, B.J. Albright, L. Yin, J.C. Fernandez

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

GO7.00012 : Generation of Monoenergetic proton beams from double-layer foils by flat-top laser pulses..
P. Rousseau, Stephen Reed, V. Yanovsky, D. Litzenberg, Karl Krushelnick, A. Maksimchuk, Stepan Bulanov, Vladimir Chvykov, V. Bychenkov, G. Kalinchenko, A. Brantov, T. Matsuoka

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

GO7.00013 : ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO SESSION YP8.00079

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:06 PM–12:18 PM

GO7.00014 : Collimated High-Quality Proton Beam Generation in Laser Tailored-Target Interaction
M. Nakamura, R. Sonobe, N. Onuma, Y. Nodera, S. Miyazaki, T. Kikuchi

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GP8: Poster Session III: Turbulence, Transport, and NL Processes; Fast Ignition and Laser-Plasma Interactions; Divertors, Edge Physics and Fueling; MHD Theory, Heating and Current Drive; Simulation: MHD; Optimal Helicon Source Performance

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

GP8.00001 : TURBULENCE, TRANSPORT, AND NONLINEAR PROCESSES

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GP8.00002 : Fundamental Scalings of Zonal Flows in a Basic Plasma Physics Experiment
Vladimir Sokolov, Xiao Wei, Amiya K. Sen

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GP8.00003 : A Basic Experiment on the Production and Identification of ETG Modes
Xiao Wei, Vladimir Sokolov, Amiya K. Sen

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GP8.00004 : Edge turbulence scaling in RFX-mod with GPI diagnostic
P. Scarin

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GP8.00005 : ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

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GP8.00006 : Relaxation of weights in a $\delta f$ code
Allen Boozer

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GP8.00007 : Entropic Lattice Boltzmann Algorithms for Turbulence
George Vahala, Jeffrey Yepez, Min Soe, Linda Vahala, Brian Keating, Jonathan Carter

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GP8.00008 : Nonlinear Excitation of Damped Eigenmodes in GYRO Microturbulence Simulations
P.W. Terry, Bill Nevins

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GP8.00009 : Exponential Frequency Spectrum in a Magnetized Plasma--UCLA
David Pace, J.E. Maggs, G.J. Morales

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GP8.00010 : Thermal Waves in a Magnetized Plasma
David Pace, J.E. Maggs, G.J. Morales

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GP8.00011 : Basis function bispectral analysis in a cylindrical coordinate system
D.A. Baver, G.R. Tynan, S.H. Mueller, P.W. Terry

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GP8.00012 : Investigation of electrostatic and magnetic structures at small scale in the edge region of RFX
P. Scarin

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GP8.00013 : Nonlinear Dynamics of Fluctuations and Convective Blobs in the Presence of Sheared Flows in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma
L. Yan, M. Gilmore, C. Watts, S. Xie

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GP8.00014 : Observation of Chaos in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma under the Influence of Variable Biasing
S. Xie, C. Watts, M. Gilmore, L. Yan

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GP8.00015 : On the Statistical Properties of the Turbulent Reynolds Stress
Zheng Yan, G.R. Tynan, Jonathan Yu, C. Holland, Stefan Muller, Min Xu

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GP8.00016 : Microturbulence, shear and burstiness in basic experimental plasmas
C. Holland, G.R. Tynan, Min Xu, Zheng Yan, J.H. Yu, A. Fasoli, I. Furno, B. Labit, M. Podesta

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GP8.00017 : Experimental Study of Nonlinear Energy Transfer in Frequency Domain
Min Xu, C. Holland, Stefan Muller, G.R. Tynan, Zheng Yan, Jonathan Yu

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GP8.00018 : Fluctuations, turbulence and related transport in the TORPEX magnetised toroidal plasma
Stefan Muller, Mario Podesta', A. Fasoli, Ahmed Diallo, I. Furno, Davoud Iraji, B. Labit, Gennady Plyushchev, Francesca Poli, Paolo Ricci, Christian Teiler

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GP8.00019 : Onsager Regression in phase-space resolved ion fluctuations.
Fred Skiff

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GP8.00020 : Application of fractional diffusion to model perturbative transport experiments in JET
Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, P. Mantica, J. Rassmussen

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GP8.00021 : Numerical simulation of ETG fluid model in uniformly sheared $E\times B$ velocity
Juhyung Kim, George Chagelishvili, W. Horton

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GP8.00022 : Feedback of large-scale fluctuations on driving noise
Chang-Bae Kim

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GP8.00023 : Ion-Acoustic Turbulence in ECCD-driven TCV plasmas
Christian Schlatter, A. Karpushov, Timothy P. Goodman

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GP8.00024 : FACETS: Towards a flexible infrastructure for building coupled transport models
J. Cary, A.Y. Pankin, A. Pletzer, Ammar Hakim, Mahmood Miah, S. Vadlamani, Johan Carlsson

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GP8.00025 : Transport in two-fluid MHD turbulence
Ellen Kumar

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GP8.00026 : Turbulent resistivity in wavy 2D MHD turbulence
Shane Keating

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GP8.00027 : Numerical modeling of anisotropic 3D Drift-Alfven turbulence
J.C. Perez, S. Boldyrev

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GP8.00028 : Numerical Simulations of Strong MHD Turbulence
J. Mason, Fausto Cattaneo, S. Boldyrev

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GP8.00029 : A laboratory study of a nonlinear interaction between co-propagating kinetic Alfven waves
D.W. Auerbach, S.C. Cowley, B.T. Brugman, T.A. Carter

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GP8.00030 : Heating and background plasma modification associated with large amplitude kinetic Alfv\'{e}n wave launch in LAPD
T.A. Carter, D.W. Auerbach, B.T. Brugman

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GP8.00031 : Studies of nonlinear interactions between counter-propagating Alfv\'{e}n waves in the LAPD
D.W. Auerbach, J.C. Perez, T.A. Carter, S. Boldyrev

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GP8.00032 : Effect of ion composition on magnetosonic waves
Mieko Toida, Hiroyuki Higashino

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GP8.00033 : A non-linear 4-wave resonant model for non-perturbative fast ion interactions with Alfv\'{e}nic modes in burning plasmas
Liu Chen, Fulvio Zonca

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GP8.00034 : Positive and negative effective mass of relativistic particles in oscillatory and static fields
I.Y. Dodin, Nathaniel Fisch

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GP8.00035 : A water bag theory of autoresonant BGK modes
Pavel Khain, Lazar Friedland

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GP8.00036 : Nonlinear Wave and Soliton Excitations in Coasting Charged Particle Beams Using a Kinetic g-Factor Model
R.C. Davidson, Hong Qin

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GP8.00037 : KEEN Waves, Conformal Invariance and Connections to 2D Euler Turbulence Theory
B. Afeyan, M. Charbonneau-Lefort

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GP8.00038 : Destruction of transport barriers in a nontwist map model of a reversed magnetic shear tokamak with an ergodic magnetic limiter
Alexander Wurm

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GP8.00039 : FAST IGNITION AND LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS

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GP8.00040 : Hydrodynamic assembly for Fast Ignition
M. Tabak, Daniel Clark, S. Hatchett

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GP8.00041 : Fast Ignition with Ultra-High Intensity Lasers
J. Tonge, M. Tzoufras, F.S. Tsung, C. Ren, M. Marti, Luis Silva

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GP8.00042 : Observations of the Effect of Er-Hydride Targets on the Conversion Efficiency to Laser Accelerated Protons
D. Offermann, L. Van Woerkom, A.J. MacKinnon, Y. Ping, A.G. Macphee, N. Shen, M. Foord, J.J. Sanchez, C.D. Chen

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GP8.00043 : Proton Focusing in a FI Target Compatible Configuration
M. Tabak, S. Wilks, M. Wei, F. Beg, S. Chen, R.R. Freeman, J.A. King, K. Akli, D. Clark, L. Van Woerkom, D. Hey, R.B. Stephens, A.J. MacKinnon, S. Hatchett, M.H. Key, B.F. Lasinski, Bruce Langdon, P.K. Patel, M. Foord

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GP8.00044 : Capsule Design Studies for Mid-Z Ion-Driven Fast Ignition
B.M. Hegelich, K.A. Flippo, B.J. Albright, M. Schmitt, G.E. Cragg, J.C. Fernandez, N.M. Hoffman, G.R. Magelssen

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GP8.00045 : Liquid Cryogenic Target Development for Fast Ignition*
D.L. Hanson, C. Russell, D.G. Schroen, J.L. Taylor, C. Back, D. Steinman, A. Nikroo, J.L. Kaae, E. Giraldez, R.R. Johnston, K. Youngman

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GP8.00046 : PIC simulations of energetic electron transport in fast ignition
Xianglong Kong, R. Yan, C. Ren

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GP8.00047 : PIC simulations of energetic electron generation from laser-plasma interactions
R. Yan, Gang Li, C. Ren

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GP8.00048 : Laser channeling in mm-scale underdense plasmas of fast ignition
C. Ren, G. Li, R. Yan, T.L. Wang, J. Tonge

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GP8.00049 : Hot electron energy coupling in cone-guiding fast ignition
B. Chrisman, Yasuhiko Sentoku, T. Cowan

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GP8.00050 : Saturation and Long-Time Behavior of Weibel Instability and Electron Beam Transport in Dense Plasmas
Igor Kaganovich, Oleg Polomarov, Ge Wange, Gennady Shvets, Adam Sefkow

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GP8.00051 : The effect of laser intensity on fast electron beam divergence in solid density plasmas
T. Ma, V. Ovchinnikov, L. Van Woerkom, R.R. Freeman, J. Green, R.G. Evans, R. Heathcote, K.L. Lancaster, K. Akli, M.H. Key, A.J. MacKinnon, A.G. Macphee, F. Beg, J.A. King, R.B. Stephens, C. Bellei, Z. Najmudin, J. Waugh, H. Azechi, P. Nilson, W. Theobald, N.C. Lopes, R. Onofrei, J.R. Davies

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GP8.00052 : Measurement of Hot Electron Spatial Distribution Under the Presence of Laser Light Self-focusing in Over-dense Plasmas
K.A. Tanaka, Anle Lei, T. Yabuuchi, Kiminori Kondo, R. Kodama, K. Mima

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GP8.00053 : Simulation Studies on Fast Heating for FIREX-I project
H. Nagatomo, Hitoshi Sakagami, T. Nakamura, Atsushi Sunahara, Yasuyuki Nakao, K. Mima

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GP8.00054 : Optimization of Non-spherical Implosion for Fast Ignition
Hitoshi Sakagami, K. Mima, H. Nagatomo, T. Nakamura, Atsushi Sunahara

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GP8.00055 : Partial degeneracy effects in the stopping of relativistic electrons in supercompressed DT fuels
Konstantin Starikov, Claude Deutsch

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GP8.00056 : Measurements of Bremsstrahlung and K-shell Emission to Determine the Hot Electron Temperature and Conversion Efficiency in Short-pulse Laser Experiments
C.D. Chen, J.A. King, F. Beg, A.G. Macphee, M.H. Key, A.J. MacKinnon, L. Van Woerkom

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GP8.00057 : Enhanced harmonic generation by relativistic laser interaction with a nanostructured target
Xavier Lavocat-Dubuis, Jean-Pierre Matte

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GP8.00058 : Modeling High-Energy Backlighters Produced by Intense Laser-Matter Interaction
Gregory Pollak

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GP8.00059 : Development of a collisional PIC code for an analysis of cluster plasmas
Thomas Antonsen, Howard Milchberg

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GP8.00060 : PIC Simulations of Short-Pulse, High-Intensity Light Interacting with Cone Targets
B.F. Lasinski, Bruce Langdon, C.H. Still, M. Tabak

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GP8.00061 : Quasi-monoenergetic ions from laser-triggered multi-stage particle acceleration
V. Bychenkov, G.I. Dudnikova, W. Rozmus, R. Fedosejevs, A. Maksimchuk

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GP8.00062 : Energetic proton acceleration in ultra-intense laser interaction with super-low density targets
M. Tampo, R. Kodama, K. Higashi, K. Endo, K.A. Tanaka, T. Matsuoka, V. Yanovsky, M. Maksimchuk, G. Kalintchenko, Karl Krushelnick, R. Tezuka, H. Yokogawa, R.B. Stephens, T. Nakamura, K. Mima

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GP8.00063 : Preliminary high-energy x-ray measurements performed on the TRIDENT 250-TW laser
J.B. Workman, J. Cobble, K.A. Flippo, Cort Gautier, S. Letzring, M. Sherrill, E.S. Dodd

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GP8.00064 : Specular Reflection of Intense Laser Light Interacting with Solid Targets
L. Elberson, J. King, T. Ma, F. Beg, R. AkliClarke, A. Link, K. Akli, D. Offermann, V. Ovchinnikov, L. Van Woerkom, R.R. Freeman, H. Chen, I. Jovanovic, A.J. MacKinnon, A.G. Macphee, Y. Ping, R. Shepherd, S. Wilks, Cliff Chen

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GP8.00065 : Determination of Electron-Heated Target Temperatures in Petawatt Laser Experiments Using Soft X-Ray Diagnostics
T. Ma, F. Beg, A.G. Macphee, H.K. Chung, M.H. Key, A.J. MacKinnon, S. Hatchett, Richard Stephens, Kramer Akli, L. Van Woerkom, Bingbing Zhang

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GP8.00066 : Hot Electron Generation Using High Intensity Laser Pulses on Machined Conical Targets
T. Matsuoka, Stephen Reed, Stepan Bulanov, Vladimir Chvykov, A. Brantov, V. Bychenkov, G. Kalinchenko, C. McGuffey, P. Rousseau, V. Yanovsky, D. Litzenberg, Karl Krushelnick, A. Maksimchuk

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GP8.00067 : Implementation of a Stimulated Raman Amplifier/Compressor in Plasma
Nikolai Yampolsky, Nathaniel Fisch, Shuanglei Li, Anatoli Morozov, Jun Ren, Szymon Suckewer, E.J. Valeo, Ryan Lindberg, J. Wurtele

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GP8.00068 : X-ray polarization spectroscopy for oblique laser incidence relevant to fast igniter research
Y. Inubushi, H. Nishimura, T. Kai, T. Kawamura, D. Batani, A. Morace, R. Redaelli, C. Fourment, J. Santos, G. Malka, A. Boscheron, A. Casner, M. Koenig, S. Fujioka, T. Nakamura, H. Nagatomo, M. Mima, Y. Okano

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GP8.00069 : X-ray polarization spectroscopy to study energy transport in laser produced plasma at 10$^{18}$ W/cm$^{2}$
A. Casner, T. Nakamura, H. Nagatomo, K. Mima, M. Koenig, H. Nishimura, Y. Inubushi, Y. Okano, S. Fujioka, T. Kai, T. Kawamura, D. Batani, A. Morace, R. Redaelli, C. Fourment, J. Santos, G. Malka, A. Boscheron

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GP8.00070 : Magnetic field effects on moving one-dimensional laser envelope solitons
Poornakala Sethuraman

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GP8.00071 : Implications of different stopping power models on target heating simulations using HYDRA
E. Henestroza, Gary Kerbel, M.M. Marinak, S. Veitzer, Peter Stoltz, J.J. Barnard

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GP8.00072 : Ion beam driven warm dense matter experiments
Pavel Ni, M. Leitner, P.K. Roy, J.J. Barnard, M. Kireeff Covo, H. Yoneda

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GP8.00073 : Diagnostics for heavy ion beam driven Warm-dense-matter experiments.
Pavel Ni, M. Leitner, W.L. Waldron

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GP8.00074 : Measurement of ultra-fast material dependent heating from solid foils in high-intensity laser-plasma interaction experiments
R. Weber, E. Chowdhury, R.R. Freeman, J. Morrison, L. Van Woerkom, E. Garcia Saiz, F. Khattak, D. Riley, S. Rose, S. Glenzer, S. Hansen, S. Wilks, B. Barbrel, M. Koenig, A. Pelka, M. Roth, R.J. Clarke, M. Notley, D. Neely, G. Gregori

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GP8.00075 : DIVERTORS, EDGE PHYSICS AND FUELING

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GP8.00076 : Generation mechanisms of blobs in tokamak edge plasmas.
Kowsik Bodi, S.I. Krasheninnikov, Andrei Smolyakov

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GP8.00077 : Linear Analysis and Verification Suite for Edge Turbulence
J.R. Myra, D.A. D'Ippolito, D.A. Russell, M. Umansky

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GP8.00078 : Calculation of ion distribution functions and neoclassical transport in the edge of single-null divertor tokamaks
T.D. Rognlien, R.H. Cohen, X.Q. Xu

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GP8.00079 : Implementation of an anomalous radial transport model for continuum kinetic edge codes
S.I. Krasheninnikov, R.H. Cohen, T.D. Rognlien

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GP8.00080 : Simulation of turbulence in tokamak edge plasmas
M. Umansky, J.A. Boedo, B. Labombard, R. Maqueda, J.L. Terry, S.J. Zweben

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GP8.00081 : Kinetic XGC0 study of the 3D resonance magnetic perturbation effect on edge pedestal dynamics and the ELM onset boundary
G. Park, S. Ku, C.S. Chang, H. Strauss, I. Joseph, R. Moyer, P.B. Snyder

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GP8.00082 : Effects of Elongation on Stochastic Layer and Magnetic Footprint in Divertor Tokamaks
Hasina Wadi, Morgin Jones, Halima Ali, Alkesh Punjabi

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GP8.00083 : The DIII-D Map -- An Area-Preserving Map for Trajectories of Magnetic Field Lines in the DIII-D Tokamak
Alkesh Punjabi, Halima Ali, Allen Boozer, T.E. Evans

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GP8.00084 : Canonical Representations of the Simple Map
Alkesh Punjabi, Olivia Kerwin, Halima Ali, Allen Boozer

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GP8.00085 : Second Order Magnetic Barriers in Tokamaks, Noble Tori, and Topological Noise
Halima Ali, Alkesh Punjabi

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GP8.00086 : H-mode edge physics in NSTX and Alcator C-Mod
F. Kelly, R. Maqueda, R. Maingi

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GP8.00087 : Recent results on ELM-like plasma-surface interactions produced by a conical theta-pinch
T. Gray, Michael Williams, David Ruzic, Isak KonKashbaev

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GP8.00088 : Divertor and confinement issues for next-step devices.
M. Kotschenreuther, P. Valanju, S. Mahajan

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GP8.00089 : T$_{e}$ and n$_{e}$ profile measurements with HRTS during ELM mitigation experiments with external magnetic perturbation fields on JET
R. Pasqualotto, Alberto Alfier, M. Beurskens, M. Kempenaars, Claire Mckenna, E. Giovannozzi, Rudi Koslowski, Yunfeng Liang

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GP8.00090 : Two-dimensional structure of volume recombination in JT-60U detached divertor plasmas
Fujimoto Kayoko, Nakano Tomohide, Kubo Hirotaka, Sawada Keiji, Takizuka Tomonori, Kawashima Hisato, Shimizu Katsuhiro, Asakura Nobuyuki

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GP8.00091 : Flute instability in the divertor plasma
D.D. Ryutov, R.H. Cohen

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GP8.00092 : Effect of High Recycling Step-Wise Migration on ITER Co-deposition

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GP8.00093 : Initial results from Langmuir probe and thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) measurements in the Tritium Plasma Experiment (TPE)
Masashi Shimada, Phil Sharpe, Robert Kolasinski, Rion Causey

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GP8.00094 : MHD THEORY, HEATING AND CURRENT DRIVE

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GP8.00095 : Theory of Intermediate Nonlinear Ballooning Mode in a Tokamak
P. Zhu, C.C. Hegna

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GP8.00096 : Unified theory of resistive and inertial ballooning modes in three-dimensional configurations
Tariq Rafiq, C.C. Hegna, J.D. Callen

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GP8.00097 : Stabilization of the Vertical Mode in Tokamaks by Localized Nonaxisymmetric Fields
Allan Reiman

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GP8.00098 : Studies of ELMs and RMPs with M3D
H. Strauss, Bernhard Hientzsch, G. Park, C.S. Chang, L. Sugiyama

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GP8.00099 : Kinetic Effects of a Non-Maxwellian Distribution of Energetic Particles on 2/1 Stability
D.P. Brennan, C.C. Kim, A.D. Turnbull, R.J. La Haye

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GP8.00100 : Reduced energy principle for ideal/tearing modes in separatrix limited plasmas
Joshua Kallman

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GP8.00101 : A general MHD stability formulation for plasmas with flow and resistive walls
J.P. Freidberg, L. Guazzotto, R. Betti

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GP8.00102 : A Model for Coupled Turbulence and Resistive MHD Evolution
D.P. Brennan, C. Holland

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GP8.00103 : Extending the collisional fluid equations into the long mean-free-path regime in toroidal plasmas. IV. Banana Regime
K. Shaing

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GP8.00104 : A family of analytic equilibrium solutions for the Grad-Shafranov equation.
L. Guazzotto, J.P. Freidberg

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GP8.00105 : Free boundary three-dimensional anisotropic pressure equilibria
W.A. Cooper, J.P. Graves, M. Jucker, S.P. Hirshman, J. Kisslinger, P. Merkel, H. Wobig, Y. Narushima, S. Okamura, K.Y. Watanabe

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GP8.00106 : An Optimal Magnetic Coordinate system for High-Beta ST configurations
Janardhan Manickam

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GP8.00107 : 3DMAPTOR Code for mapping toroidal magnetic field lines in three dimensions
Julio Herrera, Esteban Chavez

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GP8.00108 : Fast Particle Losses due to NTMs and Magnetic Field Ripple
E. Strumberger, S. Guenter, E. Schwarz, C. Tichmann

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GP8.00109 : Supersonic drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas
Richard Fitzpatrick, F. Waelbroeck

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GP8.00110 : Nonlinear island dynamics in the presence of sheared toroidal flow
C.C. Hegna

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GP8.00111 : Plasma Rotation Effects on the Externally Driven Magnetic Island Formation
Andrei Smolyakov, Yasutomo Ishii

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GP8.00112 : Finite Ion Orbit Effects on Magnetic Islands in Toroidal Plasmas
Xinzheng Liu, C.C. Hegna

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GP8.00113 : Critical Toroidal Rotation Profile for Resistive Wall Modes in Tokamaks
K.C. Shaing, M.S. Chu, S.A. Sabbagh, M. Peng

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GP8.00114 : Toward incorporating the effects of a resistive wall in the linear stability spectrum of ideal MHD with arbitrary equilibrium flows
S.P. Smith, S.C. Jardin, L. Guazzotto, J.P. Freidberg

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GP8.00115 : AEGIS-GK: Gyrokinetic investigation of resistive wall mode stability
L.J. Zheng, M. Kotschenreuther, J.W. Van Dam

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GP8.00116 : Wall mode stabilization at slow plasma rotation
Bo Hu, R. Betti, Holger Reimerdes, Andrea Garofalo, Janardhan Manickam

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GP8.00117 : Stability analysis of resistive wall mode including effects of plasma rotation and error field.
M. Furukawa, Linjin Zheng

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GP8.00118 : Control of magnetohydrodynamic modes in RFPs with a resistive wall above the wall stabilization limit
Gian Luca Delzanno

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GP8.00119 : RF Sheath Models
D.A. D'Ippolito, J.R. Myra

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GP8.00120 : Electromagnetic high frequency gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulation of radio frequency waves in magnetically-confined plasmas.
Roman Kolesnikov, Hong Qin, W.W. Lee

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GP8.00121 : Relativistic effects in electron cyclotron resonance heating and current drive
A.K. Ram, J. Decker

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GP8.00122 : Progress in theoretical and numerical modeling of RF/MHD coupling using NIMROD
Thomas G. Jenkins, D.D. Schnack, C.C. Hegna, J.D. Callen, C.R. Sovinec, Eric Held

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GP8.00123 : Sheath boundary in 3-D time-domain edge plasma simulation
D.N. Smithe, Ammar Hakim, D.A. D'Ippolito, J.R. Myra, E.F. Jaeger, L.A. Berry

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GP8.00124 : Simulation of High Power ICRF Wave Heating in the ITER Burning Plasma
E.F. Jaeger, L.A. Berry, R.F. Barrett, E. D'Azevedo

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GP8.00125 : Full wave simulations of lower hybrid waves in toroidal geometry with non-Maxwellian electrons
J.C. Wright, E.J. Valeo, C.K. Phillips, P.T. Bonoli, Marco Brambilla

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GP8.00126 : Influence of the poloidal phase difference of antenna current on eigenmodes and power absorption in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies
Jong-Gu Kwak

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GP8.00127 : Design of the ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive Waveguide Transmission Line
T.S. Bigelow, D.A. Rasmussen, M.A. Shapiro, J.R. Sirigiri, R.J. Temkin , H. Grunloh, J. Koliner

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GP8.00128 : Modulated LHCD with Feedbak control to Active Suppress MHD m=2 on HT-7
J.R. Luo

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GP8.00129 : SIMULATION: MHD

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GP8.00130 : SIESTA: an Scalable Island Equilibrium Solver for Toroidal Applications
R. Sanchez, S.P. Hirshman, Vickie Lynch

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GP8.00131 : Results from the PSI-Center Interfacing Group
T.R. Jarboe, B.A. Nelson, C.C. Kim, A.I.D. Macnab, R.D. Milroy, J. Kesner, D.T. Garnier, C.R. Sovinec, M.R. Brown

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GP8.00132 : MHD Simulations with Self Consistent Boundary Conditions
G. Marklin, T.R. Jarboe

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GP8.00133 : The Effect of a Weak Toroidal Field on the n=2 Rotational Instability in an FRC
R.D. Milroy, A.I.D. Macnab, C.C. Kim, C.R. Sovinec

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GP8.00134 : Nonlinear MHD simulation of DC helicity injection in spherical tokamaks
R.A. Bayliss, C.R. Sovinec

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GP8.00135 : Impact of velocity space distribution on hybrid kinetic MHD simulation of the $(1,1)$ internal kink mode

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GP8.00136 : Nonlinear simulations of the m=0 instability development in z-pinch equilibria with axial sheared flows
Ioana Paraschiv, Bruno Bauer, Irvin Lindemuth, Volodymyr Makhin

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GP8.00137 : Time-dependent closures for plasma fluid equations
Eric Held, Michael Addae-Kagyah

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GP8.00138 : Comparing Reduced Fluid Models to the Two-Fluid Plasma System
Bhuvana Srinivasan, U. Shumlak

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GP8.00139 : Two-fluid simulations of sawteeth in a periodic boundary driven screw-pinch.
S.C. Jardin

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GP8.00140 : Toroidal Axisymmetric Extended-MHD Steady-States with Flow
S.C. Jardin, A.C. Bauer

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GP8.00141 : A New Code for Resistive Wall Mode Modeling with 3D Conducting Structures
Yueqiang Liu, R. Albanese, A. Portone, G. Rubinacci, F. Villone

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GP8.00142 : Simulations of NTM Stabilization using Current Drive Offset Relative to the ISLAND Center
Jennifer Woodby, E. Schuster, A.H. Kritz, A.Y. Pankin

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GP8.00143 : Numerical Studies of Linear Two Fluid Tearing Modes in Slab and Cylindrical Geometries
J.R. King, C.R. Sovinec, V.V. Mirnov

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GP8.00144 : Simulations of Decaying Kinetic Alfv\'en Wave Turbulence: Intermittent and Coherent Structures
Kurt Smith, P.W. Terry

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GP8.00145 : Kinetic excitation of Alfv\'{e}nic instabilities near the second ballooning stability boundary in a high-$\beta$ toroidal plasma
Andreas Bierwage, Liu Chen

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GP8.00146 : Large Eddy - Lattice Boltzmann (LES-LB) Simulations of Fluid and MHD Turbulence
Brian Keating, Min Soe, George Vahala, Linda Vahala, Jeffrey Yepez, Jonathan Carter

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GP8.00147 : Low Frequency Plasma Lagrangian
H.V. Wong

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GP8.00148 : Magnetohydrodynamics inside a rotating sphere.
David Montgomery, Pablo Mininni, Leaf Turner

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GP8.00149 : Plasma Wave Echoes in a Weakly Collisional Plasma
K. Germaschewski, C.S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee

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GP8.00150 : Driven, autoresonant three-oscillator interactions
Oded Yaakobi, Lazar Friedland, Zohar Henis

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GP8.00151 : MH4D Benchmarking and Atomic Physics Implementation
Eric Meier

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GP8.00152 : OPTIMAL HELICON SOURCE PERFORMANCE

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GP8.00153 : Cross-correlation diagnostics of electrostatic fluctuations in a helicon source
Michael Kraemer

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GP8.00154 : Slow wave measurement using the WVU 300 GHz collective scattering diagnostic
R.A. Hardin, Earl Scime, Alex Hansen

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GP8.00155 : Resonant power absorption experiments on the Radially Localized Helicon mode
Charles A. Lee, G. Chen, Dan Berisford, Roger Bengtson, T. Scarborough

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GM4: Mini-conference on Angular Momentum Transport in Laboratory and Nature I

Chair: Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 1/2


Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 AM–10:00 AM

GM4.00001 : The angular momentum cycle in tropical cyclones: transport, dissipation, and wave-mean flow interactions
David Nolan

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:00 AM–10:30 AM

GM4.00002 : Transport by Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks
Philip Marcus, Joe Barranco

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:30 AM–10:50 AM

GM4.00003 : Theory of momentum transport in rotating/stratified HD and MHD turbulence
N Leprovost

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:50 AM–11:10 AM

GM4.00004 : Angular Momentum Transport Studies Relevant to Astrophysical Accretion Disks with the Princeton MagnetoRotational Instability Experiment
Hantao Ji, M.J. Burin, Jeremy Goodman, E. Schartman, Mark Nornberg

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:10 AM–11:40 AM

GM4.00005 : Numerical simulations of magneto-rotational turbulence in cylindrical geometry.
Fausto Cattaneo, Paul Fischer, Aleksandr Obabko

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:40 AM–12:10 PM

GM4.00006 : Experimental results on the magnetorotational instability in helical magnetic fields
Frank Stefani, Thomas Gundrum, Gunter Gerbeth, Guenther Ruediger, Jacek Szklarski

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
12:10 PM–12:30 PM

GM4.00007 : Axisymmetric Numerical and Analytical Studies of the Helical Magnetorotational Instability in a Magnetized Taylor-Couette Flow
Wei Liu, Jeremy Goodman, Hantao Ji

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GM5: Mini-conference on Optimizing Helicon Source Performance-Absorption and Heating Mechanisms

Chair: Earl Scime, West Virginia University
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 11/12


Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 AM–9:50 AM

GM5.00001 : Helicon Sources: Why they work
Rod Boswell

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:50 AM–10:10 AM

GM5.00002 : Magnetic Field Dependencies in the Mini-RFTF Light Ion Helicon Plasma Source
F.W. Baity, D.O. Sparks, M.D. Carter, M. Yoshitaka, D.A. Rasmussen, R.H. Goulding

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:10 AM–10:30 AM

GM5.00003 : Density and temperature maxima at specific w and B
Matthew Balkey, Earl Scime, J.L. Kline, P. Keiter, R. Boivin

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:30 AM–10:50 AM

GM5.00004 : Radially localized helicon mode and power deposition in a helicon source
Alexey Arefiev, Boris Breizman, Roger Bengtson, G. Chen, Charles A. Lee, L. Raja

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:50 AM–11:10 AM

GM5.00005 : Helicon mode formation and rf power deposition in a helicon source
Michael Kraemer, Kari Niemi

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