TI1: Ignition Target Design and Laser-Plasma Instabilities

Chair: Douglas Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rosen Centre Hotel - Junior Ballroom


Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:30 AM–10:00 AM

TI1.00001 : Robustness studies of NIF ignition targets in two dimensions
Invited Speaker: Daniel Clark

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:00 AM–10:30 AM

TI1.00002 : Multi-Variable Sensitivity Studies of NIF Ignition Targets
Invited Speaker: J. Salmonson

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:30 AM–11:00 AM

TI1.00003 : Ignition Capsule Design with a High-Density Carbon (HDC) Ablator for the National Ignition Facility (NIF)

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:00 AM–11:30 AM

TI1.00004 : Analyses of laser-plasma interactions in National Ignition Facility (NIF) ignition targets
Invited Speaker: D.E. Hinkel

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:30 AM–12:00 PM

TI1.00005 : Predictive modeling of Omega Laser Plasma Interaction Experiment

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
12:00 PM–12:30 PM

TI1.00006 : Suppression of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in multiple-ion species inertial confinement fusion Hohlraum Plasmas.
Invited Speaker: P. Neumayer

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TI2: Plasma Technology, Nozzles, and the First Wall

Chair: David Ruzic, University of Illinois
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 3/4


Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:30 AM–10:00 AM

TI2.00001 : Industrial Plasma Antennas
Invited Speaker: Igor Alexeff

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:00 AM–10:30 AM

TI2.00002 : Measurements of electric field strengths in ionization fronts during breakdown
Invited Speaker: G.M.W. Kroesen

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:30 AM–11:00 AM

TI2.00003 : Plasma Shield for In-Air and Under-Water Beam Processes
Invited Speaker: Ady Hershcovitch

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:00 AM–11:30 AM

TI2.00004 : Plasma Physics and Radiation Hydrodynamics in Development of EUV Light Sources for Lithography
Invited Speaker: Katsunobu Nishihara

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:30 AM–12:00 PM

TI2.00005 : Magnetic Nozzle and Plasma Detachment Scenario
Invited Speaker: Boris Breizman

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
12:00 PM–12:30 PM

TI2.00006 : Lithium Surface Coatings and Improved Plasma Performance in NSTX
Invited Speaker: H.W. Kugel

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TO3: Magnetic Confinement Theory

Chair: Paul Terry, University of Wisconsin
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 9/10


Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

TO3.00001 : Decoupling of ion and electron heat transport via scale separation
Frank Jenko, Tobias Goerler, Terry Rhodes, Stan Kaye

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

TO3.00002 : Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations for Stellarators
T. Gorler, D. Mikkelsen

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

TO3.00003 : The zonal flow back-reaction on ion-temperature-gradient mode turbulence
Johan Anderson, Jiquan Li, Yasuaki Kishimoto

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

TO3.00004 : Role of magnetic shear in flow shear suppression

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

TO3.00005 : Trajectory trapping and structure generation in turbulent magnetized plasmas
Madalina Olimpia Vlad, Florin Spineanu

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

TO3.00006 : A stepped pressure profile model for internal transport barriers
S. Hudson, Robert Dewar

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

TO3.00007 : Self-consistent Modeling of the Pedestal in Tokamak \mbox{H-mode} Plasmas
L.D. Pearlstein, A.Y. Pankin, G. Bateman, A.H. Kritz, C.S. Chang, S. Ku, G. Park, C.R. Sovinec, P.B. Snyder

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

TO3.00008 : Linear theory of n=0 geodesic acoustic mode
H.V. Wong, H.L. Berk

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

TO3.00009 : The ideal stability of unity beta tokamaks
P.A. Gourdain, S.C. Cowley

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

TO3.00010 : Dust dynamics and diagnostic applications in quasi-neutral plasmas and magnetic fusion
Zhehui Wang, C. Ticos, Jiahe Si, Gian Luca Delzanno, G. Lapenta, G.A. Wurden

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

TO3.00011 : Dust in Fusion Plasmas: Modeling Approach
R.D. Smirnov, A.Yu. Pigarov, S.I. Krasheninnikov, M. Rosenberg, D.A. Mendis

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

TO3.00012 : Modeling of Dust-Wall Collisional Characteristics in Tokamaks
David Benson, R.D. Smirnov

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TO4: JET, EAST, RFX and FRCs

Chair: John Sarff, University of Wisconsin
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 1/2


Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

TO4.00001 : High beta-N experiments at JET
Clive Challis

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

TO4.00002 : Toward the stationary operation at high $\beta_{N}$ at JET: experiments and modelling
I. Voitsekhovitch , Clive Challis, C. Giroud, R.V. Budny, T.C. Luce, M. Murakami

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

TO4.00003 : Reversed shear Alfv\'en Eigenmodes in the frequency range of the triangularity induced gap on JET
G.J. Kramer, G.Y. Fu, R. Nazikian, R.V. Budny, N.N. Gorelenkov, C.Z. Cheng, B. Alper, S.D. Pinches, F. Rimini, S.E. Sharapov, P. de Vries, K.D. Zastrow, V. Zoita

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

TO4.00004 : EAST First Plasma -- Design, Simulation {\&} Experimental Results
B.G. Penaflor, M.L. Walker, A.S. Welander, D. Mueller, Q.P. Yuan, H.Z. Wang, J.A. Leuer, D.A. Humphreys, A.W. Hyatt, G.L. Jackson, R.D. Johnson

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

TO4.00005 : ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

TO4.00006 : The ITER ICRF Antenna Design with TOPICA
Daniele Milanesio, Giuseppe Vecchi

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

TO4.00007 : Finite Electron Temperature Effects on Interferometric Measurements in Fusion Plasmas
V.V. Mirnov, W.X. Ding, D.L. Brower

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

TO4.00008 : Direct Measurement of the Electron Bernstein Wave Absorption and Current Drive at the WEGA Stellarator.
Heinrich Laqua, Stefan Marsen, Matthias Otte, Yuriy Podoba, Josef Preinhaelter, J. Urban

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

TO4.00009 : Electron temperature measurements and heat transport improvement in the RFX-mod experiment.
Alberto Alfier, F. Bonomo, P. Franz, L. Marrelli, R. Pasqualotto, P. Piovesan, G. Spizzo, S.V. Annibaldi

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

TO4.00010 : Enhanced confinement, magnetic topology and diffusion in RFX-mod for poloidal current drive
D. Terranova, P. Innocente, Rita Lorenzini, Alberto Alfier, F. Bonomo

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

TO4.00011 : High Current Regimes in RFX-mod
M. Valisa, P. Innocente, L. Marrelli, S. Martini, S. Ortolani, R. Paccagnella, M.E. Puiatti, M. Spolaore

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

TO4.00012 : Filamented current density structures measured in the edge region of the RFX-mod experiment
M. Spolaore, N. Vianello, E. Martines, E. Spada, M. Zuin, V. Antoni, P. Scarin

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

TO4.00013 : Dynamic Formation of FRCs on the PHD Experiment
John Slough, Samuel Andreason, Hiroshi Gota, Chris Pihl

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
12:06 PM–12:18 PM

TO4.00014 : Compression of Dynamically Formed and Merged FRCs
George Votroubek, John Slough, Arthur Blair, Chris Pihl, Samuel Andreason, R.D. Milroy

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
12:18 PM–12:30 PM

TO4.00015 : FRC rotation control using an electric field
E.L. Ruden, Michael Frese

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TO6: Fast Ignition II

Chair: Christian Stoeckl, University of Rochester
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 5/6


Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:30 AM–9:42 AM

TO6.00001 : OMEGA EP: Status and Use Planning
D.D. Meyerhofer, J.H. Kelly, S.J. Loucks, R.L. McCrory, S.F.B. Morse, C. Stoeckl

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:42 AM–9:54 AM

TO6.00002 : Integrated Simulation of Fast-Ignition ICF
K.S. Anderson, R. Betti, V. Gotcheva, J. Myatt, J.A. Delettrez, S. Skupsky

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:54 AM–10:06 AM

TO6.00003 : Direct-Drive Fuel-Assembly Simulations of Fast-Ignition Cone-in-Shell Implosions
K.S. Anderson, P.W. McKenty, R. Betti, M.M. Marinak

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:06 AM–10:18 AM

TO6.00004 : Hydrodynamic Relations for Direct-Drive, Fast-Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions
R. Betti

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:18 AM–10:30 AM

TO6.00005 : Control of the Fast Electron Beam Divergence for Fast Ignition Inertial Fusion

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:30 AM–10:42 AM

TO6.00006 : Kinetic and Fluid Models of the Filamentation Instability of Relativistic Electron Beams for Fast-Ignition Conditions
R.W. Short, J. Myatt

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:42 AM–10:54 AM

TO6.00007 : ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:54 AM–11:06 AM

TO6.00008 : Kinetic and Collisional Effects on the Linear and Non-Linear Evolution of Fast Ignition Relevant Beam Instabilities
Larissa A. Cottrill, B.F. Lasinski, S.M. Lund, M. Tabak

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:06 AM–11:18 AM

TO6.00009 : Onset of Coherent Electromagnetic Structures In the REB-DT Fuel Interaction for Fast Ignition
Claude Deutsch, Antoine Bret, Marie-Christine Firpo

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:18 AM–11:30 AM

TO6.00010 : Laser Channeling in Millimeter-Scale Underdense Plasmas of Fast Ignition
G. Li, R. Yan, C. Ren, V.N. Goncharov, T.L. Wang, J. Tonge

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:30 AM–11:42 AM

TO6.00011 : Collision of high-velocity impactor with high-density plasma as another pathway towards laser fusion ignition
Hiroshi Azechi, T. Sakaiya, H. Saito, Kazuto Ohtani, Kazuo Takeda, Hirokazu Hosoda, H. Shiraga, Mitsuo Nakai, K. Shigemori, S. Fujioka, M. Murakami, Atsushi Sunahara, H. Nagatomo, K. Mima, M. Karasik, John Gardner, D. Colombant, J.W. Bates, A.L. Velikovich, John Sethian, S.P. Obenschain, Yafim Aglitsky

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:42 AM–11:54 AM

TO6.00012 : Suprathermal pressure in low mass short-pulse laser irradiated targets
M. Tabak

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:54 AM–12:06 PM

TO6.00013 : Recent energy transport experiments on the VULCAN Petawatt laser
K.L. Lancaster

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
12:06 PM–12:18 PM

TO6.00014 : Quenching mode of efficient heating in entrant cone laser interactions.
B. Chrisman, Yasuhiko Sentoku, M. Borghesi, J. Fuchs, Kiminori Kondo, M. Nakatsutsumi, M. Tampo, K.A. Tanaka, T. Yabuuchi, R. Kodama

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
12:18 PM–12:30 PM

TO6.00015 : Integrated LSP Modeling of Fast-electron Production and Transport in a Wire Target
M. Wei, F. Beg, Richard Stephens, D.R. Welch

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

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

TP8.00001 : RECONNECTION AND NON-NEUTRAL II

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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TP8.00033 : HIGH POWER MICROWAVE AND LASER DRIVEN SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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TP8.00060 : NSTX SPERICAL TORUS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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TP8.00107 : GENERAL SPHERICAL TORUS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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TP8.00137 : Benefits of Higher-Order Particle Shapes in the Electromagnetic PIC Code VORPAL
Paul Mullowney, Peter Messmer, J. Cary, Cameron Geddes, E. Cormier-Michel, E. Esarey

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TP8.00138 : Designing an RF thruster booster unit with TOPICA
Vito Lancellotti, Giuseppe Vecchi

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TP8.00139 : Numerical Model of a Spacecraft Shielding against High-Energy Particles
Adrian Sun, Oleg Batishchev

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TP8.00140 : Numerical Study of Energy Release in Magnetized Corona Driven by Continuous Footpoint Motions
Yi-Min Huang, D.D. Schnack

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TM5: Mini-conference on the First Microns of the First Wall: Mixed Materials Issues

Chair: Tom Rognlien, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 11/12


Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:30 AM–9:50 AM

TM5.00001 : Review of C-Be mixed material plasma experiments in PISCES-B
J. Hanna, D. Nishijima, R. Doerner, M. Baldwin, K.R. Umstadter, Ray Seraydarian, R. Hernandez

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:50 AM–10:10 AM

TM5.00002 : Mixed plasma species effects on Tungsten
M. Baldwin, R. Doerner, D. Nishijima, Yoshio Ueda

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:10 AM–10:30 AM

TM5.00003 : Sputtering, impurity transport, and redeposition at the divertor and first wall
J. Brooks

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:30 AM–10:50 AM

TM5.00004 : Hydrogenic Fuel Retention in Refractory Metals
D.G. Whyte, B. Lipschultz, J. Irby, G.M. Wright

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:50 AM–11:10 AM

TM5.00005 : Effect of impurities on the thermo-oxidative removal of codeposits from DIII-D and JET divertor tiles
A.A. Haasz, C. Tsui, J.W. Davis

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:10 AM–11:30 AM

TM5.00006 : Innovative Tokamak First Wall and Divertor Material Concepts
C.P.C. Wong

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:30 AM–11:50 AM

TM5.00007 : Evolution of Elemental Composition and Morphology in Fusion Reactor's First Wall
Yong W. Kim

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