Session BP8: Poster Session I: Laser and Beam Driven Acceleration/Radiation; ICF I and Laser Plasma Interactions; Shape Control, Diagnostics, Reactor Design; Astrophysical Plasmas: Experiment and Theory

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




BP8.00001: LASER AND BEAM DRIVEN ACCELERATION/RADIATION


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BP8.00002: Stability of monoenergetic electron beam generation in laser-driven plasma acceleration
Eisuke Miura , Shin-ichi Masuda , Kazuyoshi Koyama , Susumu Kato

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BP8.00003: Guiding of an intense, ultrashort laser pulse in a discharge-produced capillary plasma for electronacceleration application
Takeshi Higashiguchi , Masafumi Hikida , Hiromitsu Terauchi , Kun Li , Noboru Yugami , Ryosuke Kodama

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BP8.00004: Absolute Calibration of Imaging Plate for Electron Spectrometer measuring GeV-class electrons.
Nobuhiko Nakanii , Kiminori Kondo , Toshinori Yabuuchi , Kazuki Tsuji , Kazuo Tanaka , Shinsuke Suzuki , Takao Asaka , Kenichi Yanagida , Hirohumi Hanaki , Takashi Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Makino , Takahisa Yamane

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BP8.00005: PIC Simulations and Analysis of CTR from Electron Bunches Exiting a Plasma
Paul Mullowney , David Bruhwiler , Christine Roark , Bill Peter , Cameron Geddes , Eric Esarey , Wim Leemans , Guillerme Plateau

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BP8.00006: Optimization of the LBNL Laser Wakefield Accelerator as a Compact, Powerful Terahertz Source
Guillaume Plateau , Nicholas Matlis , Jeroen van Tilborg , Kei Nakamura , Cameron Geddes , Csaba Toth , Carl Schroeder , Eric Esarey , Wim Leemans

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BP8.00007: Controlled laser plasma wakefield acceleration of electrons via colliding pulse injection in non-collinear geometry
Csaba Toth , Kei Nakamura , Cameron Geddes , Dmitriy Panasenko , Guillaume Plateau , Nicholas Matlis , Carl Schroeder , Eric Esarey , Wim Leemans

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BP8.00008: Trapping and heating with colliding laser pulses
Eric Esarey , C.B. Schroeder , E. Cormier-Michel , C.G.R. Geddes , W.P. Leemans , D. Bruhwiler , J.R. Cary

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BP8.00009: Optimization Studies of a Multi-GeV Single Stage Laser-Plasma Accelerator
G.M. Tarkenton , B.A. Shadwick , C.B. Schroeder , E. Esarey

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BP8.00010: Reduced Phase-Space Models of Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions
B.A. Shadwick , C.B. Schroeder , G.M. Tarkenton , E. Esarey

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BP8.00011: Simulation of 1 GeV laser wakefield accelerator experiments and scaling to 10 GeV
Estelle Cormier-Michel , C.G.R. Geddes , W.A. Isaacs , N. Stinus , E. Esarey , C.B. Schroeder , W.P. Leemans , D.L. Bruhwiler , J.R. Cary

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BP8.00012: Experimental Demonstration of 1 GeV Energy Gain in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
Anthony Gonsalves , Kei Nakamura , Csaba Toth , Carl Shroeder , Estelle Cormier-Michel , Wim Leemans , D. Bruhwiler , John Cary , Simon Hooker , Eric Esarey , Dmitriy Panasenko

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BP8.00013: A 10 GeV laser driven accelerator: the BELLA project
W.P. Leemans , O. Albert , E. Esarey , C.G.R. Geddes , A. Gonsalves , N.H. Matlis , K. Nakamura , D. Panasenko , G.R. Plateau , C.B. Schroeder , Cs. Toth , D.L. Bruhwiler , J.R. Cary , M. Bakeman , E. Cormier-Michel , T. Cowan , S.M. Hooker

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BP8.00014: A Novel Source of Injection Electrons for a Capillary Waveguide Accelerator
Chris McGuffey , Takeshi Matsuoka , Michael Levin , Stepan Bulanov , Vladimir Chvykov , Galina Kalinchenko , Stephen Reed , Pascal Rousseau , Victor Yanovsky , Arie Zigler , Karl Krushelnick , Anatoly Maksimchuk

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BP8.00015: Analysis of Trajectories and Multi-Dimensional Phase Space Diagrams for Electrons Injected Orthogonal to Plasma Waves, and Laser and Scattered Radiation
Arnesto Bowman , Ronald Williams

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BP8.00016: Beam loading in the blowout regime of laser/plasma wakefield acceleration.
Michail Tzoufras , Wei Lu , Chengkun Huang , Frank Tsung , Warren Mori , Jorge Vieira , Ricardo Fonseca , Luis Silva

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BP8.00017: Simulation and calculation of particle trapping using a quasistatic simulation code
Sepehr Morshed , John Palastro , Thomas Antonsen , Chengkun Huang , Warren Mori

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BP8.00018: Design and simulation of a single 100GeV stage Laser Wakefield Accelerator.
Wei Lu , Michail Tzoufras , Chengkun Huang , Frank Tsung , Warren Mori , Jorge Vieira , Ricardo Fonseca , Luis Silva , James Cooley , Thomas Antonsen

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BP8.00019: Detailed numerical modeling of electron injection in the Laser Wakefield Accelerator: Particle Tracking Diagnostics in PIC codes
R.A. Fonseca , L. Gargat\'e , S.F. Martins , F. Peano , J. Vieira , L.O. Silva , W.B. Mori

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BP8.00020: Self-Steepening of intense laser pulses in plasmas
Jorge Vieira , Frederico Fi\'uza , Luis Silva

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BP8.00021: Creation of a multi-centimeter low density plasma channel using high magnetic fields
B. Pollock , D.H. Froula , P. Davis , J.S. Ross , A. Collette , L. Divol , P. Michel , N. Meezan , G. Tynan , S.H. Glenzer

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BP8.00022: Electron Acceleration by a Tightly Focused Laser Pulse
K.I. Popov , V. Yu. Bychenkov , W. Rozmus , R. Sydora

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BP8.00023: Petawatt laser-driven wakefield accelerator: All-optical electron injection via collision of laser pulses and radiation cooling of accelerated electron bunches.
Serguei Kalmykov , Yoav Avitzour , S. Austin Yi , Gennady Shvets

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BP8.00024: Relativistic self-focusing of multi-color laser pulses in plasmas.
G. Shvets , S. Austin Yi , S. Kalmykov

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BP8.00025: Direct ion acceleration with variable-frequency lasers
Fabio Peano , Jorge Vieira , Ricardo Fonseca , Luis Silva , Gianni Coppa , Roberta Mulas

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BP8.00026: On The Possibility of Accelerating Positron on an Electron Wake
Xiaodong Wang , Tom Katouleas , Patric Muggli , Rasmus Ischebeck

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BP8.00027: Study of relative ion acceleration efficiencies from laser-solid interactions
Christopher Murphy , Enam Chowdhury , John Morrison , Linn Van Woerkom , Karl Krushelnick , Richard Freeman

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BP8.00028: A high gradient plasma wakefield accelerator using two subpicosecond electron bunches
Efthymios Kallos , Patric Muggli , Tom Katsouleas , Karl Kusche , Igor Pavlishin , Igor Pogorelsky , Daniil Stolyarov , Vitaly Yakimenko , Wayne Kimura

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BP8.00029: Beam head erosion in self-ionized plasma wakefield accelerators
Miaomiao Zhou , Chris Clayton , Chengkun Huang , Chan Joshi , Wei Lu , Ken Marsh , Warren Mori , Tom Katsouleas , Patric Muggli , Erdem Oz , Melissa Berry , Ian Blumenfeld , Franz-Josef Decker , Mark Hogan , Rasmus Ischebeck , Richard Iverson , Neil Kirby , Robert Siemman , Dieter Walz

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BP8.00030: Spectral Modulation of Self-Guided Laser Pulses
Arthur Pak , Joe Ralph , Ken Marsh , Chengkun Huang , Fang Fang , Chris Clayton , Chan Joshi

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BP8.00031: 3D PIC Simulations of Laser Produced Plasma Expansion with Large Ion Larmor Radius
Masanori Nunami , Akira Takata , Katsunobu Nishihara

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BP8.00032: ICF I AND LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS


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BP8.00033: Update on Specifications for LMJ Ignition Targets
Giorla Jean , Cherfils Catherine , Galmiche Didier , Gauthier Pascal , Laffite Stephane , Masse Laurent , Poggi Francoise , Quach Robert , Seytor Patricia

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BP8.00034: NIF ignition target requirements, margins, and uncertainties
Steven Haan , Jay Salmonson , Daniel Clark , Debra Callahan , Bruce Hammel , Laurance Suter , John Edwards , John Lindl

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BP8.00035: Plans for and Progress Towards and Inertial Confinement Fusion Code from the Crestone Project
John Wohlbier , Charles Wingate , Thomas Masser , Gregory Bowers , Michael Sorice

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BP8.00036: Colliding plasmas in laser irradiated cavities studied with soft x-ray interferometry
Jorge Filevich , Mike Purvis , Jonathan Grava , Mario C. Marconi , Jorge Rocca , James Dunn , Stephen J. Moon , Vyacheslav Shlyaptsev , Ela Jankowska

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BP8.00037: Progress in High-Energy-Density Plasma Jet Theoretical Research
Chiping Chen , Jing Zhou

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BP8.00038: Acceleration of thin flyer foils with a 1 MA pulsed power device for shock-wave experiments in clumpy foam targets
Stephan Neff , Jessica Ford , David Martinez , Christopher Plechaty , Sandra Wright , Radu Presura

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BP8.00039: Impact of High-Z Coatings on the Ablation Pressure of Laser Driven Targets.
Andrew Mostovych , Jaechul Oh , Andrew Schmitt , James Weaver

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BP8.00040: Transverse modulation instability of white light in plasmas
L.O. Silva , R. Bingham , B. Brandao , J. Santos

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BP8.00041: Measurements of the energy flow and plasma dynamics in a laboratory analogue of N-waves in the solar atmosphere
M. Taylor , J. Foster , P. Graham , A. Moore , S. MacLaren , P. Young , G. Glendinning , A. Reighard , C. Sorce , C. Back , J. Hund , B. Blue

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BP8.00042: Nonlocal heat transport using optically-smoothed lasers in direct-drive ICF
Michael Keskinen , Denis Colombant , Andrew Schmitt , Wally Manheimer

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BP8.00043: Plasma Heating and Fusion Neutron Production in Collisions of Planar CD Foils at Velocities Above 400 km/s.
A.L. Velikovich , S.T. Zalesak , A.J. Schmitt , N. Metzler , M. Murakami , T. Sakaiya , K. Shigemori , H. Shiraga , S. Fujioka , T. Watari , H. Saito , H. Azechi

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BP8.00044: Non-Maxwellian distributions in an IEC device for fusion break even
Evstati Evstatiev

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BP8.00045: Investigation of Stimulated Raman Scattering Using a Short-Pulse Single-Hot-Spot at the Trident Laser Facility
J.L. Kline , D.S. Montgomery , L. Yin , K.A. Flippo , B.J. Albright , T. Shimada , R.P. Johnson , H.A. Rose , E.A. Williams , R.A. Hardin

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BP8.00046: Mitigation of Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hohlraum Plasmas
D.S. Montgomery , J.L. Kline , H.A. Rose , S.R. Goldman , D.H. Froula , J.S. Ross , R.M. Stevenson

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BP8.00047: Multidimensional non local effects in hot spot relaxation in laser-produced plasmas
P.H. Nicolai , J.L. Feugeas , X. Ribeyre , M. Grech , G. Schurtz

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BP8.00048: Parametric instabilities and their control in multidimensional nonuniform gain media
Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort , Bedros Afeyan , Martin Fejer

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BP8.00049: Particle-in-Cell Simulations of the 2$\omega_p$ Instability
F.S. Tsung , W.B. Mori , B.B. Afeyan

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BP8.00050: Simulation of stimulated Raman scattering in 2D
Wojciech Rozmus , P.-E. Masson-Laborde , Zhongling Peng , V.Yu. Bychenkov , C.E. Capjack

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BP8.00051: pF3d simulations of nonlinear laser propagation in a multi-speckle environment
E.S. Dodd , B. Bezzerides , D.F. DuBois , H.X. Vu

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BP8.00052: SRS modeling of NIF ignition designs using pF3D
Edward Williams , Denise Hinkel , Laurent Divol , A. Bruce Langdon , Pierre Michel , C.H. Still

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BP8.00053: Driven Plasma Waves Relevant to Stimulated Raman Scattering
Jay Fahlen , Benjamin Winjum , John Tonge , F.S. Tsung , Viktor Decyk , Warren Mori

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BP8.00054: The Role of Pump Depletion in Stimulated Raman Scattering for NIF Parameters
B.J. Winjum , J. Fahlen , F.S. Tsung , W.B. Mori

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BP8.00055: LPI Experiments at the Nike Laser*
J. Weaver , J. Oh , B. Afeyan , L. Phillips , J. Seely , C. Brown , M. Karasik , V. Serlin , S. Obenschain , L.-Y. Chan , D. Kehne , D. Brown , A. Schmitt , A. Velikovich , U. Feldman , G. Holland , Y. Aglitskiy

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BP8.00056: Additional Considerations for Laser Plasma Instability Mitigation in Ignition-scale Hohlraums.
William Kruer

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BP8.00057: Diagnosing Large Simulations of Laser-Plasma Interaction for NIF ignition targets.
Bruce Langdon , Denise Hinkel , Steve Langer , Bert Still , Ed Williams

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BP8.00058: SHAPE CONTROL, DIAGNOSTICS, REACTOR DESIGN TECHNOLOGY


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BP8.00059: Microwave Cavities for Pellet Mass Detection on JET
S.K. Combs , J.B.O. Caughman , L.R. Baylor , D.A. Rasmussen , A. Geraud , D. Homfray

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BP8.00060: The Ignitor High Speed Pellet Injector$^*$
F. Bombarda , S. Migliori , A. Frattolillo , L.R. Baylor , J.B.O. Caughman , S.K. Combs , D. Fehling , C. Foust , J.M. McJill , G. Roveta

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BP8.00061: Design of the IGNITOR Plasma Start-up and Scenarios$^*$
G. Ramogida , G. Cenacchi , A. Coletti , A. Cucchiaro , F. Villone , F. Rubinacci , B. Coppi

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BP8.00062: Advances in the IGNITOR Plasma Control$^*$
F. Villone , R. Albanese , G. Ambrosino , A. Pironti , F. Rubinacci , G. Ramogida , F. Bombarda , A. Coletti , A. Cucchiaro , B. Coppi

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BP8.00063: Plasma Position Diagnostics for the Ignitor Experiment
G. Pizzicaroli , F. Alladio , F. Bombarda , A. Licciulli , M. Fersini , D. Diso , E. Paulicelli

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BP8.00064: IGNITOR Plasma Chamber Assembly Procedure and Welding Processes$^*$
G. Toselli , G. Barbieri , B. Carmignani , G. Celentano , F. Cognini , A. Cucchiaro , U. De Maio , A. Ierino , T. Minghetti , G. Panzani , S. Sangiorgi , M. Timpanaro , D. Trestini , D. Visparelli , B. Coppi

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BP8.00065: CATIA-V 3D Modeling for Design Integration of the Ignitor Machine Load Assembly$^*$
A. Bianchi , B. Parodi , F. Gardella , B. Coppi

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BP8.00066: Ignition and Burning Plasma Regimes in the Double Null Configuration of Ignitor$^*$
G. Cenacchi , A. Airoldi , B. Coppi

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BP8.00067: ICRH Physics in the Ignitor Experiment$^*$
A. Cardinalli , G. Cenacchi , A. Airoldi , B. Coppi

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BP8.00068: The IGNITOR ICRH Antenna Design with TOPICA
Riccardo Maggiora , Volodymyr Kyrytsya , Daniele Milanesio , Orso Meneghini , Giuseppe Vecchi

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BP8.00069: High temperature transient heating experiments on C in a Be seeded plasma in PISCES B.
J. Hanna , D. Nishijima , R.P. Doerner , M. Baldwin , K.R. Umstadter , R. Seradarian , R. Hernandez , R. Pugno

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BP8.00070: The Effect of MHD Noise on the Vertical Observer in Tokamaks
Gianpaolo Turri , Stefano Coda , Yves Martin , Jean-Marc Moret , Olivier Sauter

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BP8.00071: X-ray diagnostic for monitoring the charge state distribution in an ECR ion source
Brian Cluggish , Ioan-Niculae Bogatu , Liangji Zhao , Jin Soo Kim

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BP8.00072: Ion Velocity Distribution Functions in a Compact, Expanding, Helicon Plasma
Daniel Lewis , Alexander Hansen , Earl Scime

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BP8.00073: Absorption Spectroscopy Measurements of Ion Velocity Distribution Functions in Argon Plasmas.
Earl Scime , William S. Przybysz

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BP8.00074: Optical diagnostic suite for measuring plasma velocity, laser-ablated metal topography and electron density
Anthony Valenzuela , George Rodriguez , Steven Clarke

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BP8.00075: Method to Estimate the Electron Temperature and the Neutral Density in a Plasma from Spectroscopic Measurements Using Argon Atoms and Argon Ions Collisional-Radiative Models
Ella M. Sciamma , Roger D. Bengtson , Kevin E. Casey , W.L. Rowan , Amy M. Keesee , Charles A. Lee , Dan Berisford , Kevin Lee , Kenneth Gentle

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BP8.00076: A Novel X Ray Source for Cancer Radiotherapy
Ilija Draganic , Jacek Capala , John Gillaspy

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BP8.00077: ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS: EXPERIMENT AND THEORY


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BP8.00078: The Magnetothermal Instability And Its Role In Angular Momentum Transport in Hot, Dilute Magnetized Accretion
Tanim Islam

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BP8.00079: Finite Larmor Radius Effects on the Magnetorotational Instability
N.M. Ferraro

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BP8.00080: Poloidal rotation and its effect on toroidal rotation
O.D. Gurcan , P.H. Diamond , T.S. Hahm

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BP8.00081: Initial results from the Princeton Magnetorotational Instability Experiment using liquid metal
M.D. Nornberg , E. Schartman , H. Ji , M.J. Burin , W. Liu , J. Goodman

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BP8.00082: The Princeton MagnetoRotational Instability (MRI) Experiment - Apparatus and Diagnostics
Ethan Schartman , Mark Nornberg , Hantao Ji , Michael J. Burin , Jeremy Goodman

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BP8.00083: Axisymmetric Simulation of the Magnetorotational Instability in a Magnetized Taylor-Couette Flow
Wei Liu , Jeremy Goodman , Hantao Ji

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BP8.00084: Numerical Studies of Boundary Layers in the Princeton MRI Experiment
Austin Roach , Hantao Ji , Wei Liu , Jeremy Goodman

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BP8.00085: An Experimental Study of Turbulent Boundary Layers in Free-Surface MHD Flows
J. Luc Peterson , Mark Nornberg , Hantao Ji , Alex Gill , Dimitris Giannakis

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BP8.00086: Laboratory Study of Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) in a Helicon Plasma
H. Ji , J. Foley , F. Levinton , B. Fetroe , Y. Raitses , J. Kefeli , M. Nornberg , S. Zweben , M. Yamada

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BP8.00087: Magnetorotational instability in electrically driven flow: theoretical predictions and experimental observations
Ivan Khalzov , Andrei Smolyakov , Victor Ilgisonis

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BP8.00088: Physics of Plasma Accreting Structures$^*$
F. Rousseau , B. Coppi

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BP8.00089: Non-axisymmetric Ballooning Modes in Thin Accretion Structures
Chris Crabtree , Bruno Coppi

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BP8.00090: Modeling the spectral evolution of prompt GRBs and X-ray flares
S. Pothapragada , S. Reynolds , S. Graham , M.V. Medvedev

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BP8.00091: Phase-space distribution of accelerated electrons in Weibel-mediated relativistic GRB shocks
S. Graham , S. Pothapragada , S. Reynolds , M.V. Medvedev

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BP8.00092: Jitter radiation produced by electrons with anisotropic distribution in Weibel turbulence of GRBs and lab experiments
S. Reynolds , S. Graham , S. Pothapragada , M.V. Medvedev

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BP8.00093: Transport Properties of Laser Plasma and H-Rich White Dwarf Stars
Vithal L. Patel , Jaechul Oh

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BP8.00094: Numerical study of ultra-relativistic electromagnetic filamentation in boosted frames
S.F. Martins , R.A. Fonseca , W.B. Mori , L.O. Silva

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BP8.00095: Colliding Laser-Produced Plasmas on LaPD
Andrew Collette , Walter Gekelman

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BP8.00096: Three-dimensional RAGE Simulations of Strong Shocks Interacting with Sapphire Balls
B.H. Wilde , R.F. Coker , P.A. Rosen , J.M. Foster , P. Hartigan , R. Carver , B.E. Blue , J.F. Hansen

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BP8.00097: Using Hydrodynamic Codes in Modeling of Multi-Interface Diverging Experiments for NIF
M.J. Grosskopf , R.P. Drake , C.C. Kuranz , T. Plewa , N. Hearn , D. Arnett , C. Meakin , A.R. Miles , H.F. Robey , J.F. Hansen , B.A. Remington , W. Hsing , M.J. Edwards

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BP8.00098: Effect of relaxation and radiation transport on the structure of electro-magnetically driven strong shock waves
Kotaro Kondo , Mitsuo Nakajima , Tohru Kawamura , Kazuhiko Horioka

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BP8.00099: Laboratory experiments to study supersonic astrophysical flows interacting with clumpy environments
P.A. Rosen , J.M. Foster , B.H. Wilde , R. Coker , B.E. Blue , R.J.R. Williams , F. Hansen , C. Sorce , P. Hartigan , R. Carver , J. Palmer

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BP8.00100: Plasma Jet and Shock Experiments Using High-Power Lasers
Youichi Sakawa , A. Oya , S. Dono , T. Kimura , N. Ozaki , Y. Kuramitsu , T. Kato , H. Nagatomo , K. Shigemori , R. Kodama , T. Norimatsu , H. Takabea , B. Loupais , M. Koenig , J. Waugh , N. Woolsey

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BP8.00101: Hydrodynamic and atomic-kinetic modeling of photoionised neon plasmas
Iain Hall , Tunay Durmaz , Roberto Mancini , Jim Bailey , Gregory Rochau , Michael Rosenburg , David Cohen , Igor Golovkin , Joseph MacFarlane , Manolo Sherrill , Joseph Abdallah , Robert Heeter , Mark Foord , Siegfried Glenzer

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BP8.00102: Chaotic magnetic fields due to asymmetric current configurations - application to cross-field diffusion of particles in cosmic rays
B. Dasgupta , A.K. Ram

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BP8.00103: Dynamics of Cosmic Ray acceleration in a modified shock
Alexander Pushkin , Mikhail Malkov , Patrick Diamond

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BP8.00104: Relativistic MHD Jets and Their Interactions with the Intra-cluster Medium
Hui Li , Masa Nakamura , Shengtai Li , Hao Xu

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BP8.00105: Deformation of a magnetized plasma jet upon collision with a neutral gas cloud
A.L. Moser , P.M. Bellan

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BP8.00106: MHD kink instability driven by differential rotation
Christopher Carey , Carl Sovinec , Sebastian Heinz

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BP8.00107: Experimental and Numerical Studies of Magnetic Bubble Expansion as a Model for Extra-Galactic Radio Lobes
A.G. Lynn , Y. Zhang , S.C. Hsu , H. Li , W. Li , M. Gilmore , Christopher Watts

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BP8.00108: Instabilities and Structure Evolution in Radiative Shocks
F.W. Doss , R.P. Drake , A.J. Visco , C.C. Kuranz , M.J. Grosskopf , A.B. Reighard , J. Knauer

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BP8.00109: DYNAMOS AND HELIOPHYSICAL PLASMA PHYSICS


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BP8.00110: Overview of Recent Upgrades to the Madison Dynamo Experiment
Elliot Kaplan , Cary Forest , Roch Kendrick , Carlos Parada , Zane Taylor , Mark Nornberg , Erik Spence

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BP8.00111: Direct Numerical Simulation of Mechanically Driven Turbulent Dynamos in Spherical Geometry
Klaus Reuter , Frank Jenko , Cary Forest , Adam Bayliss

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BP8.00112: Optimization of flows in the Madison Dynamo Experiment
N.Z. Taylor , C.B. Forest , N.S. Haehn , E.J. Kaplan , R.D. Kendrick , C.A. Parada , C.R. Weber , M.D. Nornberg , E.J. Spence

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BP8.00113: A Plasma, Magnetorotational Instability Experiment
C. Collins , C.B. Forest , R. Kendrick , A. Seltzman

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BP8.00114: A Plasma Dynamo Experiment based upon Ring Cusp Confinement and Electrostatic Stirring
Cary Forest , Gennady Fiksel , Noah Hershkowitz , Roch Kendrick , Steve Cowley , Erik Spence

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BP8.00115: Measuring and imaging bulk flows in laboratory plasma loops
E.V. Stenson , P.M. Bellan

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BP8.00116: Observing Energetic Bursts in the Caltech Solar Coronal Loop Simulation
R.J. Perkins , G.S. Yun , P.M. Bellan

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BP8.00117: Measurement of Electrical Currents in the Solar Corona
Steven Spangler

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BP8.00118: Lagrangian Simulations of Current Sheet Formation During Relaxation of an Unstable Line-Tied Equilibrium
Liwei Lin , C.S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee

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BP8.00119: Solar Coronal Heating and Magnetic Energy Build-Up in a Tectonics Model
M. Gilson , C.S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee

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BP8.00120: The Effect of Magnetic Turbulence Energy Spectral Scaling on the Heating of the Solar Wind
D. Munsi , C.S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee , P.A. Isenberg

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BP8.00121: Alignment of Velocity and Magnetic Fluctuations in Simulations of Anisotropic MHD Turbulence
C.S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee

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BP8.00122: Scattering of Suprathermal Electrons in the Solar Wind: Particle-in-Cell Simulations
S. Peter Gary , Shinji Saito

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BP8.00123: Remote Measurements of Ion Temperatures in the Terrestrial Magnetotail
Amy Keesee , Earl Scime

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BP8.00124: Hybrid Simulations of Mini Magnetospheres in the Laboratory
Luis Gargate , Ruth Bamford , Robert Bingham , Ricardo Fonseca , Luis Silva

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BP8.00125: 3D hybrid simulation of the Titan's plasma environment
Alexander Lipatov , Edward Sittler Jr. , Richard Hartle

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BP8.00126: Simulations of plasmas pentrating magnetic barriers
Herbert Gunell , Tomas Hurtig , Mark Koepke , Nils Brenning , Hans Nilsson

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BP8.00127: Spectral Characteristics of Weakly-Collisional Stationary Alfv\'en Waves
S.M. Finnegan , M.E. Koepke , D.J. Knudsen

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BP8.00128: Generation of Lower Hybrid Waves in an Oxygen Dominated Plasma
Manish Mithaiwala , Leonid Rudakov , Gurudas Ganguli

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BP8.00129: Laboratory experiments to investigate auroral cyclotron emission processes
Sandra McConville , Kevin Ronald , Alan Phelps , David Speirs , Karen Gillespie , Adrian Cross , Colin Whyte , Craig Robertson , Robert Bingham , Barry Kellett , Irena Vorgul , Alan Cairns

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BP8.00130: Ionospheric Interaction Experiments With Gigawatts
J.P. Sheerin , J.M. Gerres , M.E. Bacon , B.J. Watkins , W.A. Bristow , S.I. Oyama , C.J. Heinselman , K.M. Groves

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