UI1: MHD

Chair: Francois Waelbroeck, University of Texas
Rosen Centre Hotel - Junior Ballroom


Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:00 PM–2:30 PM

UI1.00001 : Progress in understanding error-field physics in NSTX spherical torus plasmas
Invited Speaker: J.E. Menard

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:30 PM–3:00 PM

UI1.00002 : Neoclassical toroidal viscosity and error-field penetration in tokamaks
Invited Speaker: A.J. Cole

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:00 PM–3:30 PM

UI1.00003 : Extrapolating Neoclassical Tearing Mode Physics to ITER -- Physics Basis and Experimental Comparison
Invited Speaker: R. Buttery

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:30 PM–4:00 PM

UI1.00004 : Advancing Tokamak Physics with the ITER Hybrid Scenario on DIII-D
Invited Speaker: P.A. Politzer

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:00 PM–4:30 PM

UI1.00005 : MHD simulations of disruption mitigation on DIII-D and Alcator C-Mod
Invited Speaker: V.A. Izzo

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:30 PM–5:00 PM

UI1.00006 : Momentum transport from current-driven reconnection
Invited Speaker: F. Ebrahimi

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UT2: Tutorial: Hydromagnetic Dynamos

Chair: Steven Cowley, University of California, Los Angeles
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 3/4


Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:00 PM–3:00 PM

UT2.00001 : New directions in the theory of hydromagnetic dynamos
Invited Speaker: Fausto Cattaneo

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UO3: Hohlraum Physics I

Chair: Nathan Meezan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 9/10


Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:00 PM–2:12 PM

UO3.00001 : Optimizing the NIF Ignition Hohlraum
D.A. Callahan, D.E. Hinkel, Ogden Jones, Bruce Langdon, P. Michel, E.A. Williams

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:12 PM–2:24 PM

UO3.00002 : Scaling and modeling of x-ray preheat in laser heated hohlraums
O.L. Landen, J. Schein, M. Rosen

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:24 PM–2:36 PM

UO3.00003 : X-ray induced preheat in indirect drive candidate ablators for the NIF
D.K. Bradley, O.L. Landen, J.H. Eggert

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:36 PM–2:48 PM

UO3.00004 : Using view factor analysis to understand symmetry for NIF Indirect Drive
Cliff Thomas, Michael Edwards

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:48 PM–3:00 PM

UO3.00005 : Simulation studies of the re-emit technique for foot tuning of the NIF ignition pulse
John Edwards, D. Meeker

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:00 PM–3:12 PM

UO3.00006 : Development of the re-emit technique for ICF foot symmetry tuning for indirect drive ignition on NIF
Eduard Dewald, John Edwards, Cliff Thomas, D. Meeker, Ogden Jones

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:12 PM–3:24 PM

UO3.00007 : Using backlit thin shell capsules to tune drive symmetry during ignition implosions.
John Edwards, R. Kirkwood, D. Meeker, O.L. Landen, S. Robert Goldman, M. Schmitt, B. Afeyan

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:24 PM–3:36 PM

UO3.00008 : Implosion of Large Scale, Be, Thin Shell Capsules on Omega, Under NIC Conditions
R. Kirkwood, D. Meeker, O.L. Landen, S. Robert Goldman, M. Schmitt, B. Afeyan

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:36 PM–3:48 PM

UO3.00009 : Design of Symmetry Capsules for the National Ignition Facility
S.V. Weber, N. Izumi, M.J. Edwards, N.M. Hoffman, D.C. Wilson

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:48 PM–4:00 PM

UO3.00010 : Symergy Designs for 96 Beam Full-pulse Pre-Ignition Hohlraums
S. Robert Goldman, E.S. Dodd, N.M. Hoffman, D.C. Wilson

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:00 PM–4:12 PM

UO3.00011 : Calculations for Omega symmetry capsule implosion experiments in $\sim $0.2 NIF scale high temperature hohlraums
N.D. Delamater, D.C. Wilson, G.A. Kyrala, E.S. Dodd, N.M. Hoffman, D.W. Schmidt, V.Yu. Glebov, C. Stoeckl, C.K. Li, J.A. Frenje

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:12 PM–4:24 PM

UO3.00012 : Using beam phasing and pointing to control indirect drive implosion symmetry
G.A. Kyrala, N. Hoffman, D.C. Wilson, S. Robert Goldman, N.D. Delamater, F.J. Marshall, V.Yu. Glebov, C. Stoeckl, J.A. Frenje

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:24 PM–4:36 PM

UO3.00013 : Demonstrating Control of Symmetry Capsule Implosions in Omega Experiments using NIF 0.7-Scale Hohlraums
Nelson Hoffman, S. Robert Goldman, G.A. Kyrala

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:36 PM–4:48 PM

UO3.00014 : Using Symcaps as Ignition Capsule Replicas for Diagnosing Symmetry at NIF
N.M. Hoffman, N.D. Delamater

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:48 PM–5:00 PM

UO3.00015 : Experimental demonstration of increased radiation temperature using foam-walled hohlraums
A. Reighard, P. Young, M. Rosen, J.H. Hammer, W. Hsing, S.G. Glendinning, R.E. Turner, R. Kirkwood, J. Schein, C. Sorce, J. Satcher, A. Hamza, G. Nyce, O.L. Landen, S. McAlpin, M. Stevenson, B. Thomas

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UO4: Laboratory Astrophysics

Chair: Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 1/2


Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:00 PM–2:12 PM

UO4.00001 : OMEGA Laser--Driven Hydrodynamic Plasma Jet Experiments with Relevance to Astrophysics
S.L. Sublett, J.P. Knauer, D.D. Meyerhofer, T.J.B. Collins, A. Frank

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:12 PM–2:24 PM

UO4.00002 : Laboratory Studies of High Mach Number Shock Collisions with Foils and Density Discontinuities.
M. Hohenberger, R. Carley, J. Lazarus, J.P. Chittenden, R.A. Smith

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:24 PM–2:36 PM

UO4.00003 : 3D Tomographic imaging of colliding cylindrical blast waves
R.A. Smith, J. Lazarus, M. Hohenberger, A. Marocchino, J.P. Chittenden, M. Dunne, A. Moore, E. Gumbrell

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:36 PM–2:48 PM

UO4.00004 : Spike Extensions in Rayleigh-Taylor, Decelerating-Interface Experiments
C.C. Kuranz, R.P. Drake, M.J. Grosskopf, H.F. Robey, J.F. Hansen, A. Miles, J.P. Knauer, T. Plewa, N. Hearn

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:48 PM–3:00 PM

UO4.00005 : Supersonic plasma jet interaction with gases and plasmas at the PALS laser facility
Philippe Nicolai, C. Stenz, X. Ribeyre, V. Tikhonchuk, A. Kasperczuk, T. Pisarczyk, L. Juha, E. Krousky, K. Masek, M. Pfeifer, K. Rohlena, J. Skala, J. Ullschmied, M. Kalal, D. Klir, J. Kravarik, P. Kubes, P. Pisarczyk

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:00 PM–3:12 PM

UO4.00006 : Laser-triggered millimeter-scale collimated plasma jets in crossed electric and magnetic fields.
Parrish Brady, P. Valanju, Matt McCormack, Roger Bengtson, Todd Ditmire

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:12 PM–3:24 PM

UO4.00007 : Experimental Study of Episodic Magnetically Driven Radiatively Cooled Plasma Jets
F. Suzuki-Vidal, S.V. Lebedev, S.N. Bland, J.P. Chittenden, G.N. Hall, A. Harvey-Thompson, A. Marocchino, A. Ciardi, C. Stehle, S.C. Bott, A. Frank, E.G. Blackman, T. Ray

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:24 PM–3:36 PM

UO4.00008 : Photon-photon scattering in vacuum and astophysical plasmas
G. Brodin

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:36 PM–3:48 PM

UO4.00009 : Line intensity enhancements in both stellar and laser-plasma coronal X-ray spectra due to opacity effects
Justin Wark, S. Rose, Francis Keenan, Michail Mathioudakis, Marco Matranga

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:48 PM–4:00 PM

UO4.00010 : Iron plasma transmission measurements at temperatures above 150 eV
J.E. Bailey, G.A. Rochau, P.W. Lake, J. Abdallah, Jr., Joseph MacFarlane, I. Golovkin, R.C. Mancini, Ph. Crosse, M. Bump, O. Garcia, T.C. Moore

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:00 PM–4:12 PM

UO4.00011 : Radiative cooling in relativistic collisionless shocks. Can simulations and experiments probe relevant GRB physics?
M.V. Medvedev, Anatoly Spitkovsky

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:12 PM–4:24 PM

UO4.00012 : Shock-processing of astrophysical dust grains
J.F. Hansen, G.A. Graham, E.M. Bringa, A.T. Kearsley, W. van Breugel, A.G.G.M. Tielens, E.A. Taylor

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UO6: Z Pinches and X Pinches

Chair: Christine Coverdale, Sandia National Labs
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 5/6


Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:00 PM–2:12 PM

UO6.00001 : Perspectives on Recent Progress in Developing Ar K-shell Z-Pinch Sources
J.P. Apruzese, R.J. Commisso, B.V. Weber, D. Mosher, F.C. Young, J.W. Thornhill, J.L. Giuliani, A.L. Velikovich, J. Davis, J.S. Levine, B.H. Failor, H. Sze, N. Qi, J.W. Bannister, P.L. Coleman, C.A. Coverdale

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:12 PM–2:24 PM

UO6.00002 : The development of instabilities in wire array Z-pinches
J.P. Chittenden, C. Jennings

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:24 PM–2:36 PM

UO6.00003 : Bounds for Kinetic Energy and Resistance for W wire array implosions on Z
E.M. Waisman, M.E. Cuneo, Daniel Sinars, William Stygar, Raymond Lemke

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:36 PM–2:48 PM

UO6.00004 : Faster, 80ns, current scaling experiments yield higher radiated x-ray power and approach quadratic dependence
M.E. Cuneo, William Stygar, Henry C. Harjes, Daniel Sinars, B. Jones, C. Deeney, E.M. Waisman, Thomas J. Nash, Kenneth W. Struve, Dillon H. McDaniel

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:48 PM–3:00 PM

UO6.00005 : Measurement of Doppler implosion velocity in wire array z pinches
B. Jones, J.E. Bailey, G.A. Rochau, C.A. Coverdale, M.E. Cuneo, Y. Maron, V. Fisher, V. Bernshtam, A. Starobinets, C. Deeney

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:00 PM–3:12 PM

UO6.00006 : Ablated Wire Material and Coronal Structure Interactions
D. Haas, Simon Bott, Yossof Eshaq, U. Ueda, F. Beg

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:12 PM–3:24 PM

UO6.00007 : The Implosion of Radial Wire Array Z-Pinches
S.N. Bland, S.V. Lebedev, F. Suzuki-Vidal, J.P. Chittenden, G.N. Hall, A. Harvey-Thompson, J.B.A. Palmer, D.J. Ampleford, K. Chandler-Mitchell, M. Mitchell

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:24 PM–3:36 PM

UO6.00008 : The Structure of Ablated Plasma from Coiled Wire Arrays
G.N. Hall, S.N. Bland, S.V. Lebedev, J.P. Chittenden, J.B.A. Palmer, F. Suzuki-Vidal, S.C. Bott

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:36 PM–3:48 PM

UO6.00009 : Ablation of wires in an inverse wire array z-pinch
S.V. Lebedev, G.N. Hall, S.N. Bland, F. Suzuki-Vidal, J.P. Chittenden, C. Jennings, A. Harvey-Thompson, Cheng Ning, J.B.A. Palmer

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:48 PM–4:00 PM

UO6.00010 : Investigation of implosions in star-like wire arrays on the 1-MA Zebra generator
V.V. Ivanov, V.I. Sotnikov, A. Haboub, A.L. Astanovitskiy, A. Morozov, S.D. Altemara, C.M. Thomas, S. Batie, V. Nalajala, A.P. Shevelko, E.D. Kazakov

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:00 PM–4:12 PM

UO6.00011 : Analysis of implosion and spectroscopic characteristics of combined planar wire arrays composed from low- and mid-z wire materials on the 1MA pulsed power generator at UNR
A.S. Safronova, V.L. Kantsyrev, N.D. Ouart, M.F. Yilmaz, K. Williamson, V. Shlyaptseva, I. Shrestha, G. Osborne, C.A. Coverdale, C. Deeney

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:12 PM–4:24 PM

UO6.00012 : Implosion dynamics and radiation features of planar, compact cylindrical, and nested wire arrays on 1 MA, 100 ns z-pinch generators
V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Safronova, A.A. Esaulov, K. Williamson, I. Shrestha, G. Osborne, N.D. Ouart, M.F. Yilmaz, V. Shlyaptseva, J.B. Greenly, J.D. Douglass, R.D. McBride, D.A. Chalenski, D.A. Hammer, B.R. Kusse, L.I. Rudakov

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:24 PM–4:36 PM

UO6.00013 : Plasma Density Measurements within Tungsten Wire-Array Z-Pinches on the COBRA Accelerator
J.D. Douglass, R.D. McBride, K. Bell, P. Knapp, J.B. Greenly, S. Pikuz, D.A. Hammer

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:36 PM–4:48 PM

UO6.00014 : Implosion dynamics of wire-array z-pinches on the COBRA accelerator
R.D. McBride, K. Bell, I. Blesener, D.A. Chalenski, J.D. Douglass, J.B. Greenly, P. Knapp, S. Pikuz, D.A. Hammer, B.R. Kusse

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:48 PM–5:00 PM

UO6.00015 : Soldered contact effect on wire array Z-pinches
D.A. Chalenski, B.R. Kusse, J.B. Greenly

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UP8: Poster Session VIII: Gyrokinetics, Two-Fluids and Assorted; DIII-D II; Turbulence and Transport; Plasma Sources, Sheaths, and Thrusters

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

UP8.00001 : GYROKINETICS, TWO-FLUIDS AND ASSORTED

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UP8.00002 : An electrostatic, gyrokinetic-like model for thin layers with large gradients and electrostatic potentials
Harold Weitzner, Choong-Seock Chang, Frank Jenko

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UP8.00003 : The Solution of Boundary Layer Problems using Kruskal-Newton diagrams
R.B. White, Thomas Fischaleck

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UP8.00004 : Power-law statistics in beam-driven plasma-wave system with fluctuations: a signature of self-organized criticality, or something else?
Yu. Tyshetskiy, J.A. Roberts, P.A. Robinson, I.H. Cairns, B. Li

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UP8.00005 : Hamiltonian theory of the nonlinear collisionless tearing mode
F. Waelbroeck, P.J. Morrison, E. Tassi

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UP8.00006 : Toroidal effects on gyrokinetic and fluid models
L. Sugiyama

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UP8.00007 : Ballooning Modes for Hall-MHD Plasmas with Shear Flow
Eliezer Hameiri

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UP8.00008 : Preconditioning and Scalability of Implicit Extended MHD Plasma Simulation by FETI-DP Domain Substructuring
A.H. Glasser

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UP8.00009 : Ten-Moment Equations For Fluid Modelling of Plasmas
Ammar Hakim

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UP8.00010 : Nonstationary Nonlocal Transport Theory of Fully Ionized Two Component Plasma
Zhen Zheng, W. Rozmus, A. Brantov, V. Bychenkov

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UP8.00011 : Electrostatic gyrokinetics in an axisymmetric torus
Grigory Kagan, Peter Catto

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UP8.00012 : Nonlinear global gyrokinetic PIC simulations of collisionless TEM turbulence
S. Jolliet, B.F. McMillan, T.M. Tran, X. Lapillonne, L. Villard, A. Bottino, P. Angelino, Y. Idomura

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UP8.00013 : Status of edge gyrokinetic turbulence simulation in XGC1
C.S. Chang, D. Zorin, L. Greengard, P. Worley, E. D'Azevedo, Y. Chen, Z. Lin

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UP8.00014 : Moment approach to the derivation of diffusive and general parallel closures
Eric Held

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UP8.00015 : A drift ordered short mean-free path description for partially ionized magnetized plasma
Andrei Simakov

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UP8.00016 : Atomic Models for High Charge State Uranium Plasmas
David Fillmore, Peter Messmer

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UP8.00017 : Experiments for measuring EIR and MAR in detaching plasmas in the PISCES-A divertor simulator
Laizhong Cai, G.R. Tynan, E.M. Hollmann, D. Nishijima

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UP8.00018 : Molecular Ion Effects in IEC Modeling
G.A. Emmert, John Santarius

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UP8.00019 : Deuterium cluster model for low energy nuclear reactions (LENR)
George Miley, Heinrich Hora

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UP8.00020 : New formula of Debye length in solid metallic hydrogen
Kazunori Shibata, R. Kodama

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UP8.00021 : The Explanation of Quantum Teleportation and Entanglement Swapping
Russell Moon, Victor Vasiliev

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UP8.00022 : DIII-D II

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UP8.00023 : Overview of DIII-D Experimental Results and Program Plans
T.S. Taylor

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UP8.00024 : 3D Structure and Dynamics of ELMs
J.G. Watkins, I. Joseph, J.H. Yu, M. Jakubowski, O. Schmitz, T.E. Evans

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UP8.00025 : Modeling of the Plasma Response to Resonant Magnetic Perturbations with the NIMROD Code
I. Joseph, Eric Held, D.D. Schnack, T.E. Evans, R. Moyer

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UP8.00026 : Effect of RMP on Edge Density Profiles and Fluctuations in DIII-D
L. Zeng, T.L. Rhodes, E.J. Doyle, G. Wang, W.A. Peebles, A.E. White, T.E. Evans, R. Moyer, M.E. Fenstermacher

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UP8.00027 : Particle Transport in RMP ELM Suppressed H-modes
R. Moyer, J.A. Boedo, V.A. Izzo, I. Joseph, S. Mordijck, D.L. Rudakov, J.H. Yu, T.E. Evans, N.H. Brooks, T.H. Osborne, P. Gohil, J.S. deGrassie, A.W. Leonard, M.E. Fenstermacher, C.J. Lasnier, J.G. Watkins, T.C. Jernigan, M. Jakubowski, O. Schmitz, G. Wang, A.E. White, L. Zeng, G.R. McKee, C. Rost, J.R. Dorris

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UP8.00028 : Modeling of Global Particle Balance in ELMing and RMP ELM-Suppressed DIII-D Discharges With SOLPS5-EIRENE
S. Mordijck, I. Joseph, R. Moyer, G.R. Tynan, L.W. Owen, T.E. Evans, T.H. Osborne, D. Coster, D. Reiter

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UP8.00029 : Strike Point Splitting in RMP-ELM-free H-mode
I. Joseph, R. Moyer, T.E. Evans, M.J. Schaffer, W.P. West, M. Jakubowski, A.M. Runov, R. Schneider, S.V. Kasilov, O. Schmitz, M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier, J.G. Watkins

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UP8.00030 : Fast Imaging of ELM Structure and Dynamics in DIII-D
J.H. Yu, J.A. Boedo, E.M. Hollmann, R. Moyer, D.L. Rudakov, P.B. Snyder

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UP8.00031 : ELM Triggering From Deuterium Pellets Injected into DIII-D
L.R. Baylor, T.C. Jernigan, T.E. Evans, P.B. Parks, M.E. Fenstermacher, R. Moyer

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UP8.00032 : Modeling of Perturbation Magnetic Field Based on Scrape-Off Layer Currents (SOLCs) During ELMs in DIII-D
H. Takahashi, E.D. Fredrickson, M.J. Schaffer

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UP8.00033 : Target Plate Profiles During ELM Suppression Experiments on DIII-D
J.G. Watkins, T.E. Evans, C.J. Murphy, M.J. Martin, A. Nelson, M. Jakubowski, I. Joseph, R. Moyer, C.J. Lasnier, M.E. Fenstermacher

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UP8.00034 : Divertor Heat and Particle Fluxes During ELM Control Experiments
O. Schmitz, M. Jakubowski, T.E. Evans, M.J. Schaffer, W.P. West, M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier, I. Joseph, R. Moyer, B. Unterberg, H. Frerichs

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UP8.00035 : Radiating Divertor Behavior in Single- and Double-Null Plasmas in DIII-D
T.W. Petrie, N.H. Brooks, A.W. Hyatt, M.J. Schaffer, M.R. Wade, W.P. West, M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier, J.G. Watkins

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UP8.00036 : The Influence of High Field Side Recycling and Impurity Sources on Divertor Detachment in Simulations of Ohmic Discharges of the ASDEX Upgrade and DIII-D Tokamaks
M. Wischmeier, A. Kallenbach, A.V. Chankin, D. Coster, J. Harhausen, H.W. Mueller, M. Groth

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UP8.00037 : Measurement and Modeling of Carbon Flows in the Main SOL of the DIII-D Tokamak
M. Groth, M.E. Fenstermacher, G.D. Porter, M.E. Rensink, T.D. Rognlien, J.A. Boedo, D.L. Rudakov, J.H. Yu, N.H. Brooks, R.C. Isler, J.G. Watkins

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UP8.00038 : Direct Spectroscopic Measurement of Fast Ionic Flow in the Main SOL of Diverted Plasmas on the DIII-D Tokamak
N.H. Brooks, W.P. West, R.C. Isler, M. Groth, J.A. Boedo

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UP8.00039 : Indications of an Inward Pinch in the Inner SOL of DIII-D From $^{13}$C Deposition Experiments
J.D. Elder, P.C. Stangeby, A.G. McLean, S.L. Allen, M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, J.A. Boedo, D.L. Rudakov, B.D. Bray, N.H. Brooks, A.W. Leonard, W.P. West, W.R. Wampler, J.G. Watkins, D.G. Whyte

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UP8.00040 : Tritium Recovery From Carbon Co-deposits: \textit{ex situ} Studies in Preparation for an \textit{in situ} Thermal Oxidation Experiment in DIII-D
C. Tsui, J.W. Davis, A.A. Haasz, B.W.N. Fitzpatrick, A.G. McLean, P.C. Stangeby, Y. Mu, S.L. Allen, W.P. West, P.L. Taylor, K.L. Holtrop, A.W. Hyatt, R. Boivin, K.R. Umstadter

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UP8.00041 : Results From the Upgraded Porous Plug Injection System for Studies of Hydrocarbon Dissociation and Transport in DIII-D
A.G. McLean, J.W. Davis, Y. Mu, P.C. Stangeby, S.L. Allen, R. Ellis, M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier, B.D. Bray, N.H. Brooks, T.W. Petrie, W.P. West, C.P.C. Wong, D.G. Whyte, J.A. Boedo, E.M. Hollmann, D. Nishijima, D.L. Rudakov, R.J. Colchin, R.C. Isler, J.G. Watkins, S. Brezinsek, M. Jakubowski, A. Krater

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UP8.00042 : Dust Particles Observed by Laser Scattering at DIII-D
B.D. Bray, W.P. West, D.L. Rudakov

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UP8.00043 : Inference of Thermal and Momentum Transport Coefficients in the DIII-D Edge Pedestal
W.M. Stacey, R.J. Groebner

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UP8.00044 : Dependence of H-mode Power Threshold on Input Torque and Toroidal Plasma Rotation in the DIII-D Tokamak
P. Gohil, G.R. McKee, D.J. Schlossberg, G. Wang

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UP8.00045 : H-Mode Pedestal Toroidal Velocity in DIII-D
J.S. deGrassie, R.J. Groebner, K.H. Burrell, W.M. Solomon

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UP8.00046 : Effects of Toroidal Rotation on Edge Turbulence and the L-H Power Threshold
D.J. Schlossberg, G.R. McKee, M.W. Shafer, K.H. Burrell, P. Gohil, R.J. Groebner, T.C. Luce, G. Wang

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UP8.00047 : Toroidal Flow in Tokamak Plasmas
J.D. Callen, A.J. Cole, C.C. Hegna

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UP8.00048 : Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity for Low-Density Ohmic Plasmas in DIII-D
A.J. Cole, C.C. Hegna, J.D. Callen, M.J. Schaffer, R.J. La Haye

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UP8.00049 : Gyrokinetic Theory and Simulation of Angular Momentum Transport
R.E. Waltz, G.M. Staebler, J. Candy, F.L. Hinton

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UP8.00050 : A New Formulation of the Quasi-linear Transport Theory for the Trapped Gyro Landau Fluid Model
G.M. Staebler, J.E. Kinsey, R.E. Waltz

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UP8.00051 : Towards a Predictive Pedestal Height Model
P.B. Snyder, A.W. Leonard, T.H. Osborne, H.R. Wilson

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UP8.00052 : Modeling and Analysis of Phase Contrast Imaging Measurements
J.C. Rost, M. Porkolab, J.R. Dorris, J. Candy, K.H. Burrell

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UP8.00053 : Development of a Synthetic BES Diagnostic for Application to Gyrokinetic Simulations
C. Holland, G.R. Tynan, G.R. McKee, M.W. Shafer, J. Candy, R.E. Waltz, R. Bravenec

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UP8.00054 : Localized Measurement of Short Wavelength Plasma Fluctuations Using the DIII-D Phase Contrast Imaging Diagnostic
J.R. Dorris, J.C. Rost, M. Porkolab, K.H. Burrell

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UP8.00055 : Time-dependent Radial Transport of Electron Distributions Due to ECCD in DIII-D
R.W. Harvey, A.P. Smirnov, R. Prater, C.C. Petty

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UP8.00056 : Doppler Reflectometry Measurements of Medium Wavenumber Density Fluctuations and Zonal Flows in DIII-D
L. Schmitz, G. Wang, A.E. White, J. Justiniano, T.L. Rhodes, W.A. Peebles

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UP8.00057 : Radial Correlation Length of Density Fluctuations in DIII-D Plasmas
G. Wang, W.A. Peebles, T.L. Rhodes, E.J. Doyle, L. Schmitz, A.E. White, L. Zeng, R. Nazikian, G.R. McKee

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UP8.00058 : ITG and TEM Turbulence in DIII-D L-mode Discharges
J.C. DeBoo, C.C. Petty, G.M. Staebler, E.J. Doyle, T.L. Rhodes, L. Schmitz, G. Wang, A.E. White, G.R. McKee

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UP8.00059 : Rational-q Triggered Transport Changes With Varying Toroidal Rotation in DIII-D
M.E. Austin, K.H. Burrell, R.E. Waltz, M.A. Van Zeeland, G.R. McKee, M.W. Shafer, T.L. Rhodes

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UP8.00060 : TURBULENCE AND TRANSPORT

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UP8.00061 : Density profile behavior in JET and extrapolations to ITER
Mikhail Maslov, Henri Weisen

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UP8.00062 : Characteristics of Zonal Flows in the HL-2A and HT-7 tokamaks
W.Y. Hong, J. Qian

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UP8.00063 : Improved core confinement in JET plasmas close to q=1 and possible alternative explanations
Flavio Crisanti

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UP8.00064 : Effects of kinetic electrons on Alfvenic ITG in global electromagnetic gyrokinetic particle simulations
Y. Nishimura, Z. Lin, Liu Chen

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UP8.00065 : Determination of fractional transport exponents in a simple fluid drift-wave turbulence model
Debasmita Samaddar, D.E. Newman, R. Sanchez, B.A. Carreras

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UP8.00066 : Characterization of transport dynamics from the self-consistent interaction between fluctuations and zonal flows in ITG gyro-kinetic simulations with the UCAN code
D.E. Newman, R. Sanchez, J.N. Leboeuf, B.A. Carreras

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UP8.00067 : Particle characterization of transport in global gyrokinetic calculations of ion channel turbulence in tokamak plasmas
J.N. Leboeuf, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, R. Sanchez

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UP8.00068 : A turbulent dynamo: Generation of zonal magnetic fields by finite beta drift-ballooning modes in tokamak plasmas
Robert Kleva

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UP8.00069 : Electron transport analysis in TCV
W. Horton, Juhyung Kim, E. Asp, L. Porte

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UP8.00070 : Drift-Waves and Stability in the GAMMA-10
J. Pratt, W. Horton

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UP8.00071 : Pinch effect and chaotic motion in toroidal confinement devices
G. Spizzo, R.B. White, S. Cappello

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UP8.00072 : Correlation Between Accretion Theory and Spontaneous Rotation Experiments*
M. Landreman, B. Coppi, C. Di Sanzo

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UP8.00073 : Confinement Regime Transition: Spontaneous Rotation Reversal and Collisionality of the Plasma Edge*
C. Di Sanzo, B. Coppi, M. Landreman

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UP8.00074 : Gyrokinetic turbulence and transport with kinetic electrons in NSTX plasmas
W.X. Wang, S. Ethier, T.S. Hahm, S. Kaye, W.W. Lee, J. Manickam, G. Rewoldt, W.M. Tang

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UP8.00075 : A New Split-Weight Scheme for Finite-$\beta$ Gyrokinetic Plasmas
W.W. Lee, W.X. Wang

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UP8.00076 : Nonlocal Neoclassical Calculation of Toroidal Momentum Transport
G. Rewoldt, W.X. Wang, M.G. Bell, S. Kaye, W.M. Solomon, R. Nazikian

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UP8.00077 : Low-q resonances, transport barriers, and secondary electrostatic convective cells

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UP8.00078 : Nonlinear excitation and damping of Zonal Flows using a renormalized polarization response
F.L. Hinton

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UP8.00079 : Propagation of transport barriers in a simple model of coupled heat and particle fluxes

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UP8.00080 : Extension of electrostatic gyrokinetics to transport timescales
Felix Parra, Peter Catto

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UP8.00081 : Spontaneous Toroidal Rotation in Tokamaks
Malcolm Haines

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UP8.00082 : TEQ Free Boundary Equilibrium Solver in TRANSP/PTRANSP
R. Andre, D. Pearlstein, L.L. LoDestro, W.H. Meyer

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UP8.00083 : Enhancement of NUBEAM for the simulation of fast ion and RF-wave interaction based on the quasi-linear theory
Jae-Min Kwon, C.S. Chang

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UP8.00084 : TRANSP and PTRANSP at PPPL: Status and Plans.
R. Andre, K. Indireshkumar, Jae-Min Kwon, C. Ludescher-Furth

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UP8.00085 : PTRANSP Simulations of Sawtooth Oscillations in Tokamak Plasmas
G. Bateman, F.D. Halpern, A.H. Kritz, A.Y. Pankin, R.V. Budny

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UP8.00086 : PTRANSP Simulations of Toroidal Momentum \mbox{Transport in Neutral} Beam Heated Tokamak Plasmas
F.D. Halpern, G. Bateman, A.H. Kritz, A.Y. Pankin, R.V. Budny

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UP8.00087 : PLASMA SOURCES, SHEATHS, AND THRUSTERS

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UP8.00088 : Modeling and experiments in argon-oxygen rf ICP pulse plasma.
Vladimir Demidov, Evgeny Bogdanov, Anatoly Kudryavtsev, Konstantin Serditov, Charles DeJoseph, Jr.

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UP8.00089 : Nonlinear kinetic effects in inductively coupled plasmas via particle-in-cell simulations
Aaron Froese, Andrei Smolyakov, Dmytro Sydorenko

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UP8.00090 : Design and Construction of the Plasma Bubble Expansion Experiment
Y. Zhang, A.G. Lynn, M. Gilmore, C. Watts

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UP8.00091 : Initial operations of the ALEXIS device with a new, helicon-type rf source
A. Eadon, E. Tejero, E. Thomas, M. Cianciosa

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UP8.00092 : Gas Flow Effects on Discharge Characteristics in a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Reactor of Spray Type
Woo Seok Kang, Hyun-Su Kim, Sang Hee Hong

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UP8.00093 : Nonlocal Control of Plasma Properties in a Pulsed RF ICP in Argon-Oxygen Mixtures
Jon Blessington, Charles DeJoseph, Vladimir Demidov, Mark Koepke

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UP8.00094 : Effects of Discharge Current and Gas Flow Rate on CF$_{4}$ Abatement Process by Thermal Plasma Decomposition
Sooseok Choi, Hyun Seok Lee, Jun Seok Nam, Woo Seok Kang, Sang Hee Hong

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UP8.00095 : Free-floating atmospheric pressure ball plasmas
G.A. Wurden, C. Ticos, Z. Wang, C.J.v. Wurden

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UP8.00096 : Anode Sheath Transition In a Carbon Nanotube Arc Discharge
Abe Fetterman, Yevgeny Raitses, Michael Keidar

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UP8.00097 : Disinfection of {\it S.~mutans} Bacteria Using a Plasma Needle at Atmospheric Pressure
S. Hansen, J. Goree, Bin Liu, D. Drake

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UP8.00098 : Dynamical properties of non-equilibrium atmospheric plasma jets and their applications to plasma processing in liquids
Ikawa Satoshi, Hitoshi Furusho, Yukio Nagasaki, Satoshi Hamaguchi

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UP8.00099 : High-beta effects in a helicon plasma
Rod Boswell, Cormac Corr

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UP8.00100 : Thermal Phenomena in Gas Confinement Dielectric Tube of the VASIMR Helicon Plasma
Dan Berisford, Roger Bengtson, L. Raja, J. Squire, L. Cassidy, J. Chauncery, G. McCaskill

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UP8.00101 : On the effect of dc resistance on determination of sheath electron density profiles in collisionless plasmas
Richard F. Fernsler, W.E. Amatucci

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UP8.00102 : Convective Instabilities and Enhanced Electron Scattering Inherent to Presheaths
S.D. Baalrud, C.C. Hegna, J.D. Callen

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UP8.00103 : Exact solution for the generalized Bohm criterion in a two-ion species plasma
Dongsoo Lee, Lutfi Oksuz, Noah Hershkowitz

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UP8.00104 : Experimental verification of the Bohm criterion for two species plasmas
Lutfi Oksuz, Dongsoo Lee, Noah Hershkowitz

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UP8.00105 : Overview of Stanford's Activities in the Development of a Coaxial High Energy Thruster
Mark Cappelli, Flavio Poelmann, Nicolas Gascon

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UP8.00106 : Investigation of Plasma Potential and Electron Dynamics in the Near-Field of Hall Plasma Thrusters
Andrew Smith, Mark Cappelli

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UP8.00107 : Effects of sheath instability on plasma properties in a Hall thruster discharge
Dmytro Sydorenko, Andrei Smolyakov, Igor Kaganovich, Yevgeny Raitses

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UP8.00108 : Characterization of the plasma plume in the current overrun regime of cylindrical Hall thrusters
Erik Granstedt, Yevgeny Raitses, Nathaniel Fisch

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UP8.00109 : Experiments with Non-Self-Sustained Regimes of Hall Thruster Discharge
Yevgeny Raitses, Artem Smirnov, Erik Granstedt, Nathaniel Fisch

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UP8.00110 : Ion flows in a two-component expanding plasma
Ioana Biloiu, Earl Scime

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UM5: Mini-conference on the First Microns of the First Wall: Graphite Wall Sputtering and Evolution

Chair: Sergei Krasheninnikov, University of California at San Diego
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 11/12


Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:00 PM–2:20 PM

UM5.00001 : In-situ investigations of material migration in recent JET campaign
A. Kreter

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:20 PM–2:40 PM

UM5.00002 : Chemical Sputtering of graphite surfaces by slow H and D Atomic and Molecular projectiles
F.W. Meyer, H. Zhang, H.F. Krause

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:40 PM–3:00 PM

UM5.00003 : MD Simulations of Plasma-Surface Interactions of Deuterated Carbon
S.J. Stuart

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:00 PM–3:20 PM

UM5.00004 : Structural Studies of Carbon Dust Samples Exposed to NSTX Plasma
Yevgeny Raitses, C.H. Skinner, Fuming Jiang, Thomas S. Duffy, Angus Pacala

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:20 PM–3:40 PM

UM5.00005 : Hydrogen dynamics under strong plasma-wall coupling
A.Yu. Pigarov, S.I. Krasheninnikov, A. Pletzer

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:40 PM–4:00 PM

UM5.00006 : Investigation of Plasma Surface Interactions with the PISCES ELM Laser System
K.R. Umstadter, M. Baldwin, J. Hanna, R. Doerner, T. Lynch, T. Palmer, G.R. Tynan

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:00 PM–4:20 PM

UM5.00007 : Atomistic Simulations of Energetic Particle Interactions with the First Wall.
Roger Stoller

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