NI1: Electron Confinement and Zonal Flows

Chair: Stanley Kaye, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Rosen Centre Hotel - Junior Ballroom


Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:30 AM–10:00 AM

NI1.00001 : Experimental Studies of Zonal Flow and Field in CHS Plasma
Invited Speaker: A. Fujisawa

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:00 AM–10:30 AM

NI1.00002 : Electron Temperature Fluctuations in the Core of High-Performance DIII-D Plasmas
Invited Speaker: A.E. White

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:30 AM–11:00 AM

NI1.00003 : Gyrokinetic $\delta\! f$ particle simulation of trapped electron mode driven turbulence
Invited Speaker: Jianying Lang

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:00 AM–11:30 AM

NI1.00004 : A quantitative account of electron energy transport in an NSTX plasma*
Invited Speaker: Dave Mikkelsen

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:30 AM–12:00 PM

NI1.00005 : The Relationship between Type I ELM Severity and Perturbed Electron Transport in NSTX
Invited Speaker: K. Tritz

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
12:00 PM–12:30 PM

NI1.00006 : Spectral Features of the Geodesic Acoustic Mode and its Interaction with Turbulence in a Tokamak Plasma

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NI2: MHD, Strongly Coupled and Low Temperature Plasmas

Chair: Phil Efthimion, PPPL, Princeton University
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 3/4


Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:30 AM–10:00 AM

NI2.00001 : Ion Heating During Reconnection in the Madison Symmetric Torus
Invited Speaker: D. Craig

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:00 AM–10:30 AM

NI2.00002 : Measurements and Simulations of Fluctuation-Driven Magnetic Fields in Flowing Liquid Metal
Invited Speaker: Erik Spence

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:30 AM–11:00 AM

NI2.00003 : A Fully-Relaxed Helicity Balance Model for the HIT-SI Spheromak
Invited Speaker: R.G. O'Neill

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:00 AM–11:30 AM

NI2.00004 : Modeling Nuclear Fusion with an Ultracold Nonneutral Plasma
Invited Speaker: D.H.E. Dubin

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:30 AM–12:00 PM

NI2.00005 : Coulomb crystallization in classical and quantum systems
Invited Speaker: Michael Bonitz

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
12:00 PM–12:30 PM

NI2.00006 : Neutral depletion and transport in low temperature plasmas
Invited Speaker: Amnon Fruchtman

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NO3: Simulation and Modeling

Chair: Hong Qin, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 9/10


Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

NO3.00001 : Simulation of plasma effects on rf power transport in vacuum waveguides
Peter Stoltz, D.N. Smithe

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

NO3.00002 : Grid-Free Particle Method for Electrostatic Plasmas
Robert Krasny, Lyudmyla Barannyk, Benjamin Sonday, Andrew Christlieb, Jingmei Qiu

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

NO3.00003 : Correlated Relativistic Current Sheet Systems
Claus Jaroschek, Masahiro Hoshino

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

NO3.00004 : The Equilibrium Ensemble of Three-dimensional Hall Magnetohydrodynamics
Vincenzo Carbone

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

NO3.00005 : Vlasov-Fokker-Planck Transport Simulations Of Magnetic Field Instabilities
Alexander Thomas, Robert Kingham

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

NO3.00006 : Plasma microturbulence with dual drive
M. Kammerer

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

NO3.00007 : ETG Modeling of a TCV Multi-Phase H-Mode Shot
Emiliano Fable, Stefano Alberti, E. Asp, Juhyung Kim, W. Horton, L. Porte, O. Sauter, Y. Martin, Gianpaolo Turri

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

NO3.00008 : Spatio-temporal correlations in edge tokamak plasma
J. Horacek, A.H. Nielsen, O. Garcia

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

NO3.00009 : Edge kinetic-MHD code coupling and monitoring with Kepler workflow
Roselyne Barreto, Norbert Podhorszki, G. Park, C.S. Chang, L. Sugiyama, P.B. Snyder

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

NO3.00010 : Noise control in global gyrokinetic particle simulations
S. Jolliet, P. Angelino, T.M. Tran, L. Villard, A. Bottino

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

NO3.00011 : Gyrokinetic simulations of electron density fluctuations and comparisons with measurement
R.V. Budny, E. Mazzucato, A. Fonseca, R. Bravenec, J. Candy, R.E. Waltz

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

NO3.00012 : Gyrokinetic Simulation of Trapped Electron Mode Turbulence
Yong Xiao, Zhihong Lin

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

NO3.00013 : Instability modeling of homogenous and inhomogeneous plasmas using nonparametric distribution estimation and convex vector optimization algorithms
Sam Adhikari

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NO6: Laser-Plasma Coupling at Long Scale Length

Chair: Robert Kirkwood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 5/6


Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

NO6.00001 : LPI Risk Mitigation on NIF Using Larger Radius Hohlraums
Paul Bradley, D.C. Wilson, D.A. Callahan, M.J. Edwards

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

NO6.00002 : An Assessment of Laser-Plasma Instabilities in NIF Ignition Hohlraums with Different Capsule Ablators.
D.A. Callahan, M.J. Edwards, D.E. Hinkel, O.S. Jones, P. Michel, E.A. Williams

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

NO6.00003 : Modeling energy transfer via beam crossing in NIF hohlraums
P. Michel, E.A. Williams, D.A. Callahan

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

NO6.00004 : Hohlraum Hot-Electron Production
S.P. Regan, T.C. Sangster, D.D. Meyerhofer, W. Seka, B. Yaakobi, R.L. McCrory, C. Stoeckl, V.Yu. Glebov, W.L. Kruer, E.A. Williams, O.S. Jones, D.A. Callahan, M. Rosen, O.L. Landen, S.H. Glenzer, C. Sorce, B.J. MacGowan

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

NO6.00005 : Simulations of gas-filled hohlraum targets on the OMEGA laser
K. Widmann, E.A. Williams, S.P. Regan, D.J. Strozzi, R.E. Turner

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

NO6.00006 : Kinetic modeling of Raman scattering with adiabatic electron response
D.J. Strozzi, L. Gremillet

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

NO6.00007 : Saturation of Backward Stimulated Scattering of Laser in Kinetic Regime
L. Yin, B.J. Albright, K. Bowers, W. Daughton, H.A. Rose

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

NO6.00008 : Saturation of Stimulated Raman Scatter in laser speckle by Langmuir wave self-localization
H.A. Rose, L. Yin

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

NO6.00009 : Scattered-Laser-Light Spectroscopy in Direct-Drive Implosion Experiments
D.H. Edgell, W. Seka, J.A. Delettrez, R.S. Craxton, V.N. Goncharov, I.V. Igumenshchev, J. Myatt, A.V. Maximov, R.W. Short, T.C. Sangster, R.E. Bahr

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

NO6.00010 : Two-Plasmon-Decay Instability Driven by Incoherent Laser Irradiation
J. Myatt, W. Seka, C. Stoeckl, R.W. Short, A.V. Maximov

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

NO6.00011 : White light Parametric Instabilities
Luis Silva

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

NO6.00012 : Collective stimulated Brillouin backscatter
H.A. Rose

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

NO6.00013 : Experimental demonstration of optical mitigation techniques for stimulated Brillouin Scattering in ignition relevant plasmas
D.H. Froula, Richard London, Richard Berger, Sham Dixit, P. Neumayer, R. Wallace

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
12:06 PM–12:18 PM

NO6.00014 : Design of an Experiment to Observe Laser-Plasma Interactions on NIKE
D. Fyfe, B. Afeyan, M. Charbonneau-Lefort, L. Phillips, W. Manheimer, S.T. Zalesak, A.J. Schmitt

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NO7: Coherent and Incoherent Radiation Sources

Chair: John Verbonvoeur, University of California, Berkeley
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 7/8


Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

NO7.00001 : Investigation of Improved Magnetron Characteristics with Transparent Cathode
Sarita Prasad, Herman Bosman, Mikhail Fuks, Edl Schamiloglu

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

NO7.00002 : Dielectric window breakdown in oxygen gas: from vacuum multipactor to collisional microwave discharge
S.K. Nam, C. Lim, H.C. Kim, Y.Y. Lau

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

NO7.00003 : Fast Opening Microwave Barrier and Independency of Polarization in Plasma tubes
Fred Dyer, Igor Alexeff, Eric P. Pradeep, Nanditha Pulsani, Naresh Karnam, Jeffry Peck, Ted Anderson, Esmaeil Farshi

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

NO7.00004 : Interpretation of the nonlinear mode excitation in the ITER gyrotron.
Oleksandr Sinitsyn, Gregory Nusinovich

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

NO7.00005 : Mode switching in a gyrotron with azimuthally corrugated resonator
Gregory Nusinovich, Thomas Antonsen, Oleksandr Sinitsyn

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

NO7.00006 : Propagation of cyclotron maser radiation in inhomogeneous magnetic fields.
Robert Bingham, Alan Phelps, Adrian Cross, Craig Robertson, Craig Whyte

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

NO7.00007 : Fiber-Based, Spatially and Temporally Shaped Picosecond UV Laser for Advanced RF Gun Applications
M. Johnson, D. McNabb, J. Pruet, A. Tremaine, F. Hartemann, C. Siders, S. Anderson, S. Betts, J. Hernandez, I. Jovanovic

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

NO7.00008 : Electromagnetic Simulation Studies of Photocathode Sources
Mark Hess, Chong Shik Park

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

NO7.00009 : Relativistic Electron Beam Tunneling Through an Overdense Plasma
A.G. Sgro

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

NO7.00010 : Design considerations and parameter study for a 0.5TeV PWFA afterburner
Chengkun Huang, W. Lu, M. Tzoufras, M. Zhou, C. Joshi

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

NO7.00011 : Intense coherent THz radiation from two-color laser-gas interactions
Ki-Yong Kim, Balakishore Yellampalle, Antoinette Taylor, George Rodriguez

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

NO7.00012 : Second Harmonic Generation in the Blowout Regime of Laser Wakefield Accelerators
Phillip Sprangle, Daniel Gordon, Antonio Ting, Dmitri Kaganovich

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

NO7.00013 : Coherent and incoherent radiation from ultra-intense laser interaction with nanostructured nickel nanowire (`velvet') targets
Paul Forrester, Marina Servol, Hart Levy, Luke McKinney, Brett Teeple, Yves Candela, Jean-Claude Kieffer, Simon Le Moal, Gabor Kulcsar, P. Audebert, Jean-Paul Geindre, Anne Heron, Jean-Claude Adam, Robin Marjoribanks

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
12:06 PM–12:18 PM

NO7.00014 : Compton Scattering in Ignited Thermonuclear Plasmas
C. Siders, F. Hartemann

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
12:18 PM–12:30 PM

NO7.00015 : Effect of radiation back-reaction on the interaction of super-strong laser fields with plasmas.
Igor V. Sokolov, John A. Nees, V. Yanovsky, Natalia M. Naumova, Gerard A. Mourou

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NP8: Poster Session V: MHD and Waves; Inertial Confinement Fusion II and HEDP Diagnostics; C-Mod Tokamak; ITER and Magnetic Fusion Development

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

NP8.00001 : MHD AND WAVES

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NP8.00002 : 2D Structure of RWM Plasma
D. Hannum, G. Fiksel, C.B. Forest, R. Kendrick

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NP8.00003 : Identification of the resistive wall mode in the rotating wall machine
W.F. Bergerson, C.B. Forest, G. Fiksel, D. Hannum, R. Kendrick, S. Olivia, J.S. Sarff

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NP8.00004 : Engineering design and construction of a spinning conducting shell to stabilize the RWM in a cylindrical, line-tied screw pinch
C.B. Forest, R. Kendrick

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NP8.00005 : The effect of finite parallel thermal conductivity on pressure-induced magnetic islands in three-dimensional equilibria
M. Schlutt, C.C. Hegna

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NP8.00006 : Experimental Study of Driven Magnetic Relaxation in a Laboratory Plasma
T. Madziwa-Nussinov, D. Sirajuddin, M. Light

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NP8.00007 : Physical Interpretations of Magnetohydrodynamic Invariants
Martin Michalak, Bhimsen Shivamoggi

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NP8.00008 : Beyond the Intelligent-Shell concept: the Clean-Mode-Control
L. Marrelli, Gabriele Manduchi

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NP8.00009 : Advances in Thermodynamic Mixed Materials Modeling for Resistive MHD
J.W. Luginsland, Michael Frese, Sherry Frese

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NP8.00010 : Pulsed Alfv\'en Wave Experiments in a Helicon Plasma Source
Saeid Houshmandyar, Earl Scime, Alex Hansen

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NP8.00011 : Alfv\'{e}n wave Measurements in HelCat at UNM
Ralph Kelly, C. Watts, Yue Zhang, M. Gilmore

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NP8.00012 : Linear Theory of n=0 Geodesic Acoustic Mode
H.V. Wong, H.L. Berk

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NP8.00013 : Radial structures and nonlinear excitation of Geodesic Acoustic Modes
Liu Chen, Fulvio Zonca

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NP8.00014 : Spectral Gap of Shear Alfv\'{e}n Waves in a Periodic Array of Magnetic Mirrors
G. Chen, Stephen Vincena, B.T. Brugman, Walter Gekelman, R. McWilliams, W.W. Heidbrink, Heinz Boehmer, David Leneman, Boris Breizman

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NP8.00015 : Tearing mode transitions induced by electrostatic turbulence
Fulvio Militello, F. Waelbroeck, Richard Fitzpatrick, W. Horton

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NP8.00016 : A feasibility study for the existence of precursor phenomena in magnetohydrodynamic waves
Hogun Jhang

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NP8.00017 : Nonlinear coupling between drift waves and streamers in LMD-U
T. Yamada, S.I. Itoh, T. Maruta, Y. Nagashima, S. Shinohara, K. Terasaka, M. Yagi, Y. Kawai, A. Fujisawa, K. Itoh

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NP8.00018 : Magnetic field effects on velocity shear-driven ion cyclotron instabilities
E. Tejero, A. Eadon, E. Thomas, W.E. Amatucci

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NP8.00019 : Study of the low-frequency ion-cyclotron turbulence in a cylindrical plasma magnetically confined
Steve Jaeger, Abdelilah Ajendouz, Cedric Brault, Amine Erradi, Thiery Pierre, Alexandre Escarguel, Cyril Rebont, Nicolas Claire, Eric Faudot, Stephane Heuraux, Kamal Quotb

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NP8.00020 : Focusing light with subwavelength aperture due to surface plasma
K.R. Chen

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NP8.00021 : Energy transfer via Weibel and two-stream instabilities in two-temperature electron-ion plasmas
Jaehong Park, E.G. Blackman, Xianglong Kong, C. Ren

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NP8.00022 : Dynamic manipulation of electromagnetic waves in magnetized plasmas: deceleration, compression and acceleration
Gennady Shvets, Yoav Avitzour

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NP8.00023 : Properties of Whistler Spheromaks
Reiner Stenzel, J. Manuel Urrutia, Kyle Strohmaier

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NP8.00024 : Whistler instabilities in EMHD spheromaks and FRCs
J. Manuel Urrutia, Kyle Strohmaier, Reiner Stenzel

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NP8.00025 : Experiments on triggered whistler emissions
Kyle Strohmaier, J. Manuel Urrutia, Reiner Stenzel

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NP8.00026 : Large-amplitude electron oscillations with spatially inhomogeneous ion densities?
Barbara Abraham-Shrauner

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NP8.00027 : Modified Budden problem associated with an energetic-particle population
E. Tracy, A. Kaufman, A.J. Brizard

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NP8.00028 : A new normal form for multidimensional mode conversion
E. Tracy, A. Richardson, A. Kaufman

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NP8.00029 : Quadratic Effects in Conversion
A. Richardson, Eugene Tracy, A. Kaufman

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NP8.00030 : Path Integrals and Mode Conversion
A. Richardson, E. Tracy

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NP8.00031 : Direct comparison of full-wave and ray-tracing methods for a simple model of multi-dimensional mode conversion
Y. Xiao, A. Richardson, E. Tracy

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NP8.00032 : Laboratory investigation of whistler and lower hybrid wave characteristics
W.E. Amatucci, Gurudas Ganguli

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NP8.00033 : Superposition of Parallel and Perpendicular Flow Velocity Shears in Magnetized Hybrid-Ion Plasmas
Toshiro Kaneko, Ryuta Ichiki, Rikizo Hatakeyama

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NP8.00034 : Microwave heating of over-dense plasmas in the TJ-K stellarator
Gregor Birkenmeier, Hendrik Hoehnle, Eberhard Holzhauer, Walter Kasparek, Mirko Ramisch, Ulrich Stroth, Alf Koehn

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NP8.00035 : INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION II AND HEDP DIAGNOSTICS

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NP8.00036 : A Simple Model for ICF Double Shell Target Performance
M. Rosen

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NP8.00037 : 2D LMJ target design for early ignition experiments
S. Liberatore, S. Laffite, Pascal Loiseau

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NP8.00038 : 3D simulations of thermally induced expansion of beryllium microstructure in gas--filled NIF ignition targets
M.M. Marinak, R. Becker, N.R. Barton, J. Salmonson

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NP8.00039 : Strength and surface roughness of Be under laser irradiation
E.N. Loomis, T. Tierney, R. Johnson, N. Hoffman

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NP8.00040 : Stability study of planar targets using standard and adiabat shaping pulses
Marina Olazabal-Loume, Ludovic Hallo

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NP8.00041 : Progress Toward Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in a High-Energy-Density Plasma on the Nike Laser
E.C. Harding, R.P. Drake, Y. Aglitskiy, V.V. Dwarkadas, R.S. Gillespie, M.J. Grosskopf, D.A. Campbell, D.C. Marion

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NP8.00042 : ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

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NP8.00043 : Pre-imposed ripple evolution on planar CH targets with a high-{Z} overcoat
M. Karasik, Y. Aglitskiy, V. Serlin, J.W. Bates

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NP8.00044 : Simulation of Thin-Shell Capsule Compression in a Hohlraum with Diagnostic Ports
M. Schmitt, S. Robert Goldman, R. Kirkwood

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NP8.00045 : Techniques to determine electron and ion temperatures in D2/3He filled capsules
W. Garbett, M.A. Gunderson, D.C. Wilson, G.A. Kyrala, L. Welser-Sherrill, H. Makaruk, C.K. Li, J.A. Frenje, R.D. Petrasso, B. Yaakobi

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NP8.00046 : ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

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NP8.00047 : Low velocity ion stopping in multicomponent plasmas for WDM production
Bekbolat Tashev, Claude Deutsch

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NP8.00048 : Simulations of ion beam heated targets for warm dense matter (WDM) physics and inertial fusion energy
J.J. Barnard, A. Friedman, M.M. Marinak, L.J. Perkins, J. Armijo, E. Henestroza, M. Leitner, B.G. Logan, Pavel Ni, G. Penn, P.K. Roy, P.A. Seidl, J. Wurtele, A. Zeballos, A. Zylstra, R.C. Davidson, L. Grisham, Igor Kaganovich, C. Debonnel, Peter Stoltz, S. Veitzer

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NP8.00049 : Heavy-ion direct-drive T-lean targets for self-T breeding and plasma MHD direct conversion
B.G. Logan, L.J. Perkins, K. LaFortune, J.J. Barnard

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NP8.00050 : Process Model of the Gas Recovery System in an IFE reactor
Charles Gentile, Maria Aristova

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NP8.00051 : Possible Radiochemical Signatures for Imploding Capsule Diagnostics on the National Ignition Facility
Charles Cerjan, M. Stoyer, Rob Hoffman, Jeff Colvin

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NP8.00052 : Simulating Mono-energetic Proton Radiographs of Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments using the Geant4 Monte Carlo Particle Transport Toolkit
M.J.E. Manuel, F.H. Seguin, C.K. Li, J.R. Rygg, J.A. Frenje, R.D. Petrasso, R. Betti, O. Gotchev, J.P. Knauer, F.J. Marshall, D.D. Meyerhofer, V.A. Smalyuk

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NP8.00053 : The CR-39 Coincidence Counting Technique for Enhanced Signal-to-Background in a Large Range of Charged-Particle and Neutron Measurements at OMEGA and the NIF
D. Casey, J.A. Frenje, S.C. McDuffee, C.K. Li, J.R. Rygg, F.H. Seguin, R.D. Petrasso, V.Yu. Glebov, D.D. Meyerhofer, S. Roberts, T.C. Sangster

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NP8.00054 : NIF Conceptual Design Studies of Bang Time Diagnostics Using d-t Fusion Gamma Rays
J.M. Mack, Carlton Young, Scott Evans, H.W. Herrmann, Robert Malone, Michael Moran, V.Yu. Glebov

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NP8.00055 : A Neutron Streak Camera Designed for ICF Fuel Ion Temperature
Jiabin Chen, Hua Liao, Ming Chen

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NP8.00056 : Innovative High-Pressure Helium Neutron Detector
G.A. Chandler, M.S. Derzon

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NP8.00057 : Sandia National Laboratories' Z-Petawatt Laser Facility: A Progress Report
G.R. Bennett, P.K. Rambo, B.W. Atherton, E. Brambrink, A.D. Edens, J.L. Porter, J. Schwarz

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NP8.00058 : Characterization Studies of Microchannel Plates for Use in High-speed, Time-gated X-ray Cameras
Ming Wu, Craig Kruschwitz, Ken Moy, G.A. Rochau

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NP8.00059 : Supersonic Heat Wave Propagation in Laser-Produced Underdense Plasmas
H. Nishimura, S. Fujioka, K. Nagai, A. Iwamae, N. Ohnishi, F. Girard, D. Babnneuau, S. Moon, S. Hansen, M. Tobin, K. Mima

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NP8.00060 : X-ray Diagnostic Calibration with a Small Picosecond Laser Facility
C. Reverdin, M. Paurisse, A. Duval, D. Husson, C. Rubbelynck

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NP8.00061 : High Dynamic Range Single Shot Third Order Autocorrelator
J. Morrison, E. Chowdhury, Tony Link, D. Offermann, V. Ovchinnikov, R. Weber, L. Van Woerkom, R.R. Freeman

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NP8.00062 : Design of the optical backscatter diagnostic for laser plasma interaction measurements on NIF
D.H. Froula, P. Neumayer, E. Ng, K. Maitland, W. Hsing, M. Landon, S.H. Glenzer, P. Watts, R. Beeler, A.J. MacKinnon, R. Kirkwood, T. Lee, S. Andrews, B.J. MacGowan, I. Jovanovic, L. Bertolini, S. Alvarez

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NP8.00063 : Development of the High Sensitivity Multi Channel Bulk Absorption Laser Calorimeter
Chunxiao Su, Cunbang Yang, Wenhong Li

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NP8.00064 : Electronic Measurement of Microchannel Plate Pulse Height Distribution
E.C. Harding, R.P. Drake

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NP8.00065 : C-MOD TOKAMAK

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NP8.00066 : Progress and Prospects of Advanced Integrated Scenarios on Alcator C-Mod
P.T. Bonoli, C.L. Fiore, B. Labombard, B. Lipschultz, Y. Lin, E.S. Marmar, R. Parker, M. Porkolab, A.E. Schmidt, G. Wallace, S. Wolfe, S. Wukitch, C. Kessel, J.R. Wilson

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NP8.00067 : Simulations and Experiments on Modifying the q-profile for Advanced Tokamak Discharges on Alcator C-Mod
C. Kessel, S.D. Scott, R. Wilson, P.T. Bonoli, J. Ko, Y. Lin, R. Parker, A.E. Schmidt, D. Terry, G. Wallace, S. Wolfe, S. Wukitch

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NP8.00068 : Current Profile Modification By Lower Hybrid Waves in Alcator C-Mod
R. Parker, P.T. Bonoli, J. Ko, M. Porkolab, A.E. Schmidt, D. Terry, G. Wallace, S. Wolfe, J.C. Wright, S.D. Scott, J.R. Wilson

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NP8.00069 : Lower Hybrid Coupling Experiments on Alcator C-Mod
G. Wallace, P.T. Bonoli, Y. Lin, R. Parker, A.E. Schmidt, C. Kessel, J.R. Wilson

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NP8.00070 : Recent ICRF results on Alcator C-Mod
Yijun Lin, S. Wukitch, A. Binus, A. Parisot, M. Reinke

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NP8.00071 : Collisionality dependence of density peaking in H-mode plasmas in Alcator C-Mod
J. Candy, R.E. Waltz, D. Mikkelsen, M. Greenwald

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NP8.00072 : Ohmic ITBs in Alcator C-Mod
W.L. Rowan, C.L. Fiore, A. Dominguez, A. Ince-Cushman, M. Greenwald, L. Lin, E.S. Marmar, M. Reinke, J.E. Rice, K. Zhurovich

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NP8.00073 : The role of turbulent suppression in the triggering ITBs on C-Mod
P.T. Bonoli, M. Greenwald, K. Zhurovich, C.L. Fiore, D.R. Ernst, J.W. Hughes, E.S. Marmar, D. Mikkelsen, P. Phillips, J.E. Rice

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NP8.00074 : Low Density ITB Studies Using the Upgraded C-Mod Reflectometry System
C.L. Fiore, M. Porkolab, G.J. Kramer, W.L. Rowan, J.A. Snipes, E.S. Marmar, L. Lin, A. Dominguez, E. Edlund

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NP8.00075 : Localized Temperature Scale Length Measurements in Alcator C-Mod With Central RF Heating
P. Phillips, Kenneth Gentle, W.L. Rowan

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NP8.00076 : Drift Wave Turbulence Studies with the Phase Contrast Imaging Diagnostic in Alcator C-Mod
L. Lin, M. Porkolab, E. Edlund, D.R. Ernst, M. Greenwald, N. Tsujii

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NP8.00077 : Impurity poloidal rotation and other CXRS measurements for 0.1 $<\rho <$ 1.0 in Alcator C{\-}Mod plasmas.
W.L. Rowan, Kenneth Gentle, Dexter Beals

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NP8.00078 : Impurity Temperature and Velocity Profiles in L-mode and H-mode from the New Edge Charge Exchange Diagnostic on Alcator C-Mod
R. McDermott, B. Lipschultz, K. Marr, D.G. Whyte, J.W. Hughes

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NP8.00079 : Velocity measurements from the pedestal-viewing CXRS system on Alcator C-Mod
K. Marr, B. Lipschultz, R. McDermott

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NP8.00080 : Inference of Ion-Temperature and Rotation-Velocity Profiles from a Spatially Resolving X-Ray Crystal Spectrometer on Alcator C-Mod
K.W. Hill, M. Bitter, P. Beiersdorfer, A. Ince-Cushman, M.F. Gu, S.G. Lee, M. Reinke, J.E. Rice, S.D. Scott

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NP8.00081 : Application of new fitting routines on edge Thomson scattering profiles from Alcator C-Mod
N. Gierse, J.W. Hughes, B. Labombard, B. Lipschultz

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NP8.00082 : Results From Stereoscopic Imaging of the Ablation of Injected Li Pellets in the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak.
D. Mikkelsen, M. Greenwald, S.J. Zweben, B. Bose, E.S. Marmar

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NP8.00083 : Design and operation of a novel divertor cryopumping system in Alcator C-Mod
B. Labombard, B. Beck, J. Bosco, R. Childs, D. Gwinn, J. Irby, R. Leccacorvi, S. Marazita, N. Mucic, S. Pierson, P. Titus, R. Vieira, J. Zaks, A. Zhukovsky

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NP8.00084 : The Instrumental Function of the new X-ray Imaging Crystal Spectrometer on Alcator C-Mod
M. Bitter, K.W. Hill, D. Mikkelson, S.D. Scott, A. Ince-Cushman, M. Reinke, J.E. Rice, P. Beiersdorfer, M.F. Gu

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NP8.00085 : Spectroscopic Diagnostics using a Visible Transmission Grating Spectrometer at the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak
A. Graf, M. May, P. Beiersdorfer, D.G. Whyte, B. Labombard, N. Smick, K. Marr

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NP8.00086 : Effect of secondary beam neutrals on MSE: Experiment
S.D. Scott, W.L. Rowan, Bob Granetz, I. Hutchinson, H. Yuh, J. Ko

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NP8.00087 : Effect of secondary beam neutrals on MSE: Theory
S.D. Scott, J. Ko, I. Hutchinson, H. Yuh

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NP8.00088 : Design of a new X-mode edge reflectometer for Alcator C-mod
Cornwall Lau, Greg Hanson, J.B. Wilgen, Yijun Lin, S. Wukitch

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NP8.00089 : Development of Absolute Calibration of the Phase Contrast Imaging Diagnostic and Experimental Tests in Alcator C-Mod
N. Tsujii, M. Porkolab, E. Edlund, L. Lin

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NP8.00090 : Recent upgrades to Thomson scattering diagnostics on Alcator C-Mod for improved core spatial resolution
Y. Ma, J.W. Hughes, K. Zhurovich

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NP8.00091 : Real-time Detection of Locked Modes
S. Wolfe, S. Angelini

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NP8.00092 : Optimization of gas jet disruption mitigation
D.G. Whyte, M. Reinke, J.L. Terry

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NP8.00093 : Kalman Filter for the Real Time Estimation of the Vertical Position of C-Mod Plasmas
M. Ferrara, I. Hutchinson, S. Wolfe, J. Stillerman, T. Fredian

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NP8.00094 : Mode structure and stability analysis of reversed shear Alfv\'en eigenmodes with NOVA-K
E. Edlund, M. Porkolab, N. Tsujii, S. Wukitch, G.J. Kramer

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NP8.00095 : Influence of ICRF heating on the stability of TAEs
J. Sears, W. Burke, R. Parker, J.A. Snipes, S. Wolfe

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NP8.00096 : Surface Science Station (S$^{3})$: a real-time diagnostic of boronization in Alcator C-Mod
Roman Ochoukov, B. Lipschultz, D.G. Whyte, N. Gierse, Soren Harrison

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NP8.00097 : Diagnostics to Study Flow of Dust Particles in Scrape-Off Layer of Alcator C-Mod Plasmas
Aaron Bader, B. Labombard, J.L. Terry

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NP8.00098 : Stationary ELM-free H-mode on TCV
L. Porte, A. Karpushov, Y. Martin, O. Sauter, E. Asp, S. Alberti

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NP8.00099 : Physics insight from plasma shaping experiments in the TCV tokamak
A. Pochelon, Y. Camenen, A. Marinoni, H. Reimerdes, A. Scarabosio

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NP8.00100 : Effect of radio-frequency power injection on impurity profile in JET plasmas
M.E. Puiatti, C. Giroud, M. Valisa, R. Buttery, I. Coffey, L. Garzotti, D. Van Eester, L. Lauro Taroni, K. Lawson, E. Lerche, P. Mantica, M. Mattioli

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NP8.00101 : Radiative type-III ELMy H-mode at JET: expansion of operational domain
Juergen Rapp

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NP8.00102 : Damping Rate Measurements of Medium n Alfv\'{e}n Eigenmodes in JET
Herve Carfantan, Alexander Klein, Duccio Testa, J.A. Snipes, A. Fasoli

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NP8.00103 : Radial correlation reflectometry measurements on the JET tokamak
A. Fonseca, B. Alper, L. Cupido, J. Fessey, A. Figueiredo, S. Hacquin, M.E. Manso, E. Mazzucato, L. Meneses, A. Sirinelli, M. Walsh

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NP8.00104 : Factors that Influence RF Breakdown in Antenna Systems
J.B.O. Caughman, F.W. Baity, D.A. Rasmussen, M. Aghazarian, C.H. Castano Giraldo, David Ruzic

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NP8.00105 : ITER AND MAGNETIC FUSION DEVELOPMENT

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NP8.00106 : ITER Low-Field-Side-Reflectometer Design Considerations
W.A. Peebles, P.A. Gourdain, T.L. Rhodes, L. Zeng, S. Kubota, G. Wang, E.J. Doyle

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NP8.00107 : Study of Doppler Backscattering for Plasma Rotation Measurements on ITER
T.L. Rhodes, S. Kubota, W.A. Peebles, L. Schmitz, L. Zeng, E.J. Doyle, G. Wang

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NP8.00108 : Initial design of visible/IR camera optics for upper ports of ITER
M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier, L.G. Seppala

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NP8.00109 : System Design of the MSE Diagnostic for ITER
M.A. Makowski, S.L. Allen, M.F. Gu, C.T. Holcomb, S. Lerner, N. Wong, R. Chipman

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NP8.00110 : Evaluation of a DNB for ITER-Based on Common Long-Pulse Positive Ion Source Technology
D.M. Thomas, R.W. Callis, R.M. Hong, H.K. Chiu, M. von Hellermann

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NP8.00111 : Notch Filter Possibilities for ITER Stray Gyrotron Radiation
P. Woskov

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NP8.00112 : ITER Ion Cyclotron Transmission Line and Tuning System Design Options and Choices
D.W. Swain, R.H. Goulding, D.A. Rasmussen

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NP8.00113 : Effects of local ECCD driven by the optimized Equatorial and Upper EC Launchers on ITER
C. Zucca, O. Sauter, M.A. Henderson, D. Farina, G. Ramponi

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NP8.00114 : 170 GHz ITER ECH Transmission Line Estimated Losses and Testing
M.A. Shapiro, S.T. Han, J.R. Sirigiri, D. Tax, R.J. Temkin , P. Woskov, T.S. Bigelow, D.A. Rasmussen

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NP8.00115 : Digital Holography Density Diagnostic for ITER Disruption Mitigation Test Stand
C.E. Thomas Jr., L.R. Baylor, S.K. Combs

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NP8.00116 : Beryllium deposition on ITER first mirrors: layer morphology and influence on reflectivity
D. Nishijima, Ray Seraydarian, Klaus Schmid, Christian Linsmeier, Laurent Marot, R. Doerner, Gregory De Temmerman, M. Baldwin

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NP8.00117 : Codeposition of deuterium with the ITER mix of materials
R. Doerner, M. Baldwin, Gregory De Temmerman, D. Nishijima, Ch Linsmeier, Jochim Roth, Klaus Schmid

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NP8.00118 : Carbon Atom and Cluster Sputtering Yields under Low Energy Noble Gas Bombardment
Eider Oyarzabal, R. Doerner, Masashi Shimada, G.R. Tynan

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NP8.00119 : A Fitting Routine to Obtain Temperature and Relative Spectral Emissivity from Mixed Material (C, W, Be) Surfaces in PSI Experiments
Ray Seraydarian, J. Hanna, R. Doerner, M. Baldwin

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NP8.00120 : Compact Stellarator Path to DEMO
J.F. Lyon

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NP8.00121 : Establishing Physical and Engineering Science Base to Bridge from ITER to Demo
D.N. Hill, F. Najmabadi, G. Navratil, R. Parker, Y.K. Martin Peng, M. Abdou, D.A. Gates, C.C. Hegna

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NP8.00122 : Crossing the Next Frontier
J.E. Menard, J. Brooks, R. Doerner, D.A. Gates, G.Y. Fu, N.N. Gorelenkov, R. Kaita, S. Kaye, G.J. Kramer, H.W. Kugel, R. Majeski, M. Ono, C.H. Skinner, R. Maingi, M. Kotschenreuther, S. Mahajan, P. Valanju, R. Nygren, M. Ulrickson, David Ruzic, S.A. Sabbagh, V. Soukhanovskii

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NP8.00123 : Fusion Development Facility -- Mission and Overview
R.D. Stambaugh, V.S. Chan, C.P.C. Wong

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NP8.00124 : Physics-Based Performance Projections for Fusion Development Facility
V.S. Chan, R.D. Stambaugh, M.S. Chu, R.K. Fisher, C.M. Greenfield, D.A. Humphreys, L.L. Lao, J.A. Leuer, T.W. Petrie, R. Prater, G.M. Staebler, H.E. St. John, P.B. Snyder, A.D. Turnbull, M.A. Van Zeeland

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NP8.00125 : Numerical Study of Equilibrium, Stability, and Advanced Resistive Wall Mode Feedback Algorithms on KSTAR
O. Katsuro-Hopkins, S.A. Sabbagh, H.K. Park, J.Y. Kim, K.I. You, A.H. Glasser, L.L. Lao

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NP8.00126 : KSTAR Equilibrium Reconstruction with EFIT Code
S.H. Hahn, Kwang-Il You, D.K. Lee, L.L. Lao

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NP8.00127 : Criteria for Neoclassical Tearing Modes Suppression in KSTAR

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NP8.00128 : Two-Dimensional Simulation of Edge Localized Modes in the Edge-SOL Region of the KSTAR Tokamak
Ki Min Kim, Hyun-Sun Han, Sang Hee Hong

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NP8.00129 : SOL-Divertor Plasma Simulation in the KSTAR Tokamak with a Neutral Transport Model Using the TEP method
Hyun-Sun Han, Ki Min Kim, Sang Hee Hong

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NP8.00130 : ECEI/MIR Optical Designs for KSTAR
Z. Shen, C.W. Domier, N.C. Luhmann, Jr., H.K. Park

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NP8.00131 : Experimental investigation of the novel x-ray tube for the KSTAR x-ray image crystal spectrometer
Jun-Gyo Bak, Sang-Gon Lee, Min-Gap Bog, Uk-Won Nam, Myung-Kook Moon, Jong-Kyu Cheon

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NP8.00132 : Commissioning activities of the initial magnetic diagnostics for KSTAR tokamak
Sang-Gon Lee, Jun-Gyo Bak, Eun-Mie Ka

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NP8.00133 : EAST First Diverted Plasma Operations -- Plasma Control and Vertical Stabilization
H.Z. Wang, P. Fu, X. Gong, J. Luo, Y. Wan, J. Li, A.W. Hyatt, J.A. Leuer, D.A. Humphreys, G.L. Jackson, R.D. Johnson, B.G. Penaflor, M.L. Walker, A.S. Welander, D. Mueller, Q.P. Yuan

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NP8.00134 : Major Improvements in Diagnostic Neutral Beam Performance on HT-7 and EAST and Implications for CXRS
He Huang, W.L. Rowan, Yuejiang Shi, Jun Li, Donghai Ding, Chundong Hu

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NM4: Mini-conference on Angular Momentum Transport in Laboratory and Nature III

Chair: Stewart Prager, University of Wisconsin
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 1/2


Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:30 AM–10:00 AM

NM4.00001 : Spontaneous Rotation in Tokamak Plasmas
J.E. Rice

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:00 AM–10:20 AM

NM4.00002 : Momentum Confinement on DIII-D with Low Net Neutral Beam Torque
W.M. Solomon, R.V. Budny, D. Mikkelsen, R. Nazikian, S.D. Scott, M.C. Zarnstorff, K.H. Burrell, J.S. deGrassie, R.J. Groebner, J.E. Kinsey, C.C. Petty

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:20 AM–10:35 AM

NM4.00003 : Momentum Transport Studies in NSTX
S. Kaye, W.M. Solomon

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:35 AM–10:50 AM

NM4.00004 : ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:50 AM–11:10 AM

NM4.00005 : Formation and saturation of zonal flows via turbulent momentum transport in a basic magnetized plasma experiment
G.R. Tynan, Jonathan Yu, Zheng Yan, C. Holland, Stefan Muller, Min Xu, O.D. Gurcan

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:10 AM–11:25 AM

NM4.00006 : Toroidal Rotation in the Torpex Magnetized Plasmas
Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, I. Furno, B. Labit, Ahmed Diallo, A. Fasoli

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:25 AM–11:55 AM

NM4.00007 : Developments in the Theory of Toriodal Momentum Transport
O.D. Gurcan, T.S. Hahm

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:55 AM–12:15 PM

NM4.00008 : Edge flows and their role in intrinsic rotation and the LH transition
Ahmet Y. Aydemir

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
12:15 PM–12:30 PM

NM4.00009 : Angular momentum sources in tokamak plasma edge
Choong-Seock Chang

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NM5: What's Next for Helicon Sources?

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


Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:30 AM–9:50 AM

NM5.00001 : Dual-Source Operation of the HelCat (Helicon-Cathode) Device
C. Watts, M. Gilmore, A.G. Lynn, Ralph Kelly, S. Xie, L. Yan, Yue Zhang

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
9:50 AM–10:10 AM

NM5.00002 : Development and Characterization of Inverted Helicon Plasma Sources
Benjamin Masters, David Ruzic

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:10 AM–10:30 AM

NM5.00003 : The Toroidal Helicon Experiment at IPR
Manash Kumar Paul

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:30 AM–10:50 AM

NM5.00004 : Ar + CO$_{2}$ and He + CO$_{2}$ Plasmas in ASTRAL
R.F. Boivin, A. Gardner, O. Kamar, S. Loch

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
10:50 AM–11:10 AM

NM5.00005 : Results from the mini-Helicon Thruster Experiment
Oleg Batishchev, Nareg Sinenian, Murat Celik, Manuel Martinez-Sanchez

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
11:10 AM–11:30 AM

NM5.00006 : Power Balance in a Helicon Plasma.
Charles A. Lee, Dan Berisford, L. Raja, Roger Bengtson

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