Session NI1: Electron Confinement and Zonal Flows

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NI1.00006: Spectral Features of the Geodesic Acoustic Mode and its Interaction with Turbulence in a Tokamak Plasma
Invited Speaker: Chang-Xuan Yu

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Session NI2: MHD, Strongly Coupled and Low Temperature Plasmas

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Session NO3: Simulation and Modeling

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NO3.00004: The Equilibrium Ensemble of Three-dimensional Hall Magnetohydrodynamics
Sergio Servidio , William Matthaeus , Vincenzo Carbone

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

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

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

NO3.00006: Plasma microturbulence with dual drive
F. Merz , M. Kammerer , F. Jenko

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

NO3.00007: ETG Modeling of a TCV Multi-Phase H-Mode Shot
Elina Asp , Juhyung Kim , Wendell Horton , Laurie Porte , Stefano Alberti , Emiliano Fable , Yves Martin , Olivier Sauter , Gianpaolo Turri

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

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

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

NO3.00009: Edge kinetic-MHD code coupling and monitoring with Kepler workflow
Julian Cummings , Scott Klasky , Roselyne Barreto , Norbert Podhorszki , Gunyoung Park , C.S. Chang , Linda Sugiyama , Phil Snyder

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

NO3.00010: Noise control in global gyrokinetic particle simulations
Ben McMillan , Sebastien Jolliet , Paolo Angelino , Trach-Minh Tran , Laurent Villard , Alberto Bottino

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Session NO6: Laser-Plasma Coupling at Long Scale Length

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


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

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

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

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

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

NO6.00003: Modeling energy transfer via beam crossing in NIF hohlraums
Pierre Michel , Laurent Divol , Ed Williams , Debbie Callahan

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

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

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

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

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

NO6.00006: Kinetic modeling of Raman scattering with adiabatic electron response
David J. Strozzi , Didier B\'enisti , Laurent Gremillet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NO6.00011: White light Parametric Instabilities
L. Silva

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

NO6.00012: Collective stimulated Brillouin backscatter
Pavel Lushnikov , Harvey Rose

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

NO6.00013: Experimental demonstration of optical mitigation techniques for stimulated Brillouin Scattering in ignition relevant plasmas
Dustin Froula , Laurent Divol , Nathan Meezan , Richard London , Richard Berger , Sham Dixit , James Ross , Paul Neumayer , Russel Wallace , Larry Suter , Siegfried Glenzer

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

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

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Session NO7: Coherent and Incoherent Radiation Sources

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NO7.00006: Propagation of cyclotron maser radiation in inhomogeneous magnetic fields.
Robert Bingham , Alan Cairns , Irena Vorgul , Barry Kellett , Alan Phelps , Kevin Ronald , David Speirs , Sandra McConville , Adrian Cross , Craig Robertson , Craig Whyte

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NO7.00014: Compton Scattering in Ignited Thermonuclear Plasmas
Frederic Hartemann , Craig Siders , Chris Barty

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

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

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

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




NP8.00001: MHD AND WAVES


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

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00008: Beyond the Intelligent-Shell concept: the Clean-Mode-Control
Paolo Zanca , Lionello Marrelli , Gabriele Manduchi , Giuseppe Marchiori

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00014: Spectral Gap of Shear Alfv\'{e}n Waves in a Periodic Array of Magnetic Mirrors
Roger McWilliams , Yang Zhang , William Heidbrink , Heinz Boehmer , Guangye Chen , Boris Breizman , Stephen Vincena , Troy Carter , David Leneman , Walter Gekelman , Brian Brugman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00030: Path Integrals and Mode Conversion
N. Zobin , A.S. Richardson , E.R. Tracy

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

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NP8.00032: Laboratory investigation of whistler and lower hybrid wave characteristics
William Amatucci , David Blackwell , Gurudas Ganguli , George Gatling , David Walker , Chris Compton

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

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NP8.00034: Microwave heating of over-dense plasmas in the TJ-K stellarator
Alf K{\"o}hn , Gregor Birkenmeier , Hendrik H{\"o}hnle , Eberhard Holzhauer , Walter Kasparek , Mirko Ramisch , Ulrich Stroth

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NP8.00035: INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION II AND HEDP DIAGNOSTICS


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

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

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

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NP8.00039: Strength and surface roughness of Be under laser irradiation
S.N. Luo , E.N. Loomis , S.R. Greenfield , D.L. Paisley , D. Swift , T. Tierney , R. Johnson , N. Hoffman , H. Lorenzana

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

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

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NP8.00042: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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

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

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

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NP8.00046: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00054: NIF Conceptual Design Studies of Bang Time Diagnostics Using d-t Fusion Gamma Rays
Joseph Mack , Carlton Young , Scott Evans , Hans Herrmann , Robert Malone , Michael Moran , Vladimir Glebov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00061: High Dynamic Range Single Shot Third Order Autocorrelator
John Morrison , Enam Chowdhury , Tony Link , Dustin Offermann , Vladimir Ovchinnikov , Rebecca Weber , Linn van Woerkom , Richard Freeman

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

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

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

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NP8.00065: C-MOD TOKAMAK


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00079: Velocity measurements from the pedestal-viewing CXRS system on Alcator C-Mod
Kenneth Marr , Bruce Lipschultz , Rachael McDermott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00086: Effect of secondary beam neutrals on MSE: Experiment
Jinseok Ko , Steve Scott , Bill Rowan , Bob Granetz , Ian Hutchinson , Howard Yuh

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00092: Optimization of gas jet disruption mitigation
Robert Granetz , Dennis Whyte , Matthew Reinke , James Terry

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

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NP8.00094: Mode structure and stability analysis of reversed shear Alfv\'en eigenmodes with NOVA-K
Eric Edlund , Miklos Porkolab , Liang Lin , Naoto Tsujii , Steve Wukitch , Gerrit Kramer

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

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

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NP8.00097: Diagnostics to Study Flow of Dust Particles in Scrape-Off Layer of Alcator C-Mod Plasmas
Aaron Bader , Robert Granetz , Brian LaBombard , James Terry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00105: ITER AND MAGNETIC FUSION DEVELOPMENT


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NP8.00127: Criteria for Neoclassical Tearing Modes Suppression in KSTAR
Y.S. Park , Y.S. Hwang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

NM4.00001: Spontaneous Rotation in Tokamak Plasmas
John Rice

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

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

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

NM4.00003: Momentum Transport Studies in NSTX
Stanley Kaye , Wayne Solomon

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

NM4.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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

NM4.00005: Formation and saturation of zonal flows via turbulent momentum transport in a basic magnetized plasma experiment
George Tynan , Jonathan Yu , Zheng Yan , Chris Holland , Stefan Muller , Min Xu , Ozgur Gurcan , Patrick Diamond

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

NM4.00006: Toroidal Rotation in the Torpex Magnetized Plasmas
Benoit Labit , Ahmed Diallo , Ambrogio Fasoli , Ivo Furno , Davoud Iraji , Paolo Ricci , Christian Theiler

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

NM4.00007: Developments in the Theory of Toriodal Momentum Transport
P.H. Diamond , C. McDevitt , O.D. Gurcan , T.S. Hahm

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

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

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

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

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Session NM5: What's Next for Helicon Sources?

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


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

NM5.00001: Dual-Source Operation of the HelCat (Helicon-Cathode) Device
Christopher Watts , Mark Gilmore , Alan Lynn , Ralph Kelly , Shuanwei Xie , Lincan Yan , Yue Zhang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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