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Session CP6: Poster Session II: Heating and Current Drive; Non-Neutral Plasmas; Basic Theory; MHD and Stability; LDX and MCX

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Room: Marsalis A/B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm





CP6.00001: HEATING AND CURRENT DRIVE


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CP6.00002: Simulations of lower-hybrid coupling in the Madison Symmetric Torus
Johan Carlsson , David Smithe , Mark Carter , Mike Kaufman

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CP6.00003: Full-wave simulations of lower hybrid wave propagation in toroidal plasma with nonthermal electron distributions
E.J. Valeo , C.K. Phillips , J.C. Wright , P.T. Bonoli , R.W. Harvey , R. Bilato

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CP6.00004: Lower hybrid parametric decay into fast phase velocity waves and generation of relativistic electron into tokamak
Animesh Kuley , Vipin Tripathi

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CP6.00005: RF potentials analysis using TOPICA
Daniele Milanesio , Marco Sorba , Riccardo Maggiora

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CP6.00006: RF plasma heating improvement with EBG surfaces
Saul Guadamuz , Daniele Milanesio , Riccardo Maggiora

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CP6.00007: Self-consistent analysis of ICRF heating and current drive in tokamak plasmas
Hideo Nuga , Atsushi Fukuyama

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CP6.00008: Full wave analysis including finite gyroradius effects in toroidal plasmas
Atsushi Fukuyama , Tomohisa Okamoto

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CP6.00009: Overview of Physics Research in the SciDAC Center for Simulation of Wave-Plasma Interactions
Paul Bonoli

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CP6.00010: Towards including finite orbit effects in self-consistent calculations of ion cyclotron heating in non-Maxwellian plasmas
D.L. Green , L.A. Berry , E.F. Jaeger , M. Choi

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CP6.00011: Time Dependent Simulation of Energetic Ion Tail Formation Coupled to Thermal Plasma Transport
D.B. Batchelor , L.A. Berry , D.E. Bernholdt , W. Elwasif , E.F. Jaeger , V.E. Lynch , R.W. Harvey , A. Bader , P.T. Bonoli , S.C. Jardin , L-P. Ku

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CP6.00012: Self-Consistent Simulation of High Power Electromagnetic Wave Heating in Three Dimensional Tokamak Geometry
E.F. Jaeger , L.A. Berry , D.B. Batchelor , R.W. Harvey

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CP6.00013: Analytic Model of Antenna Sheaths
D.A. D'Ippolito , J.R. Myra

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CP6.00014: Time-Domain Simulation of Edge Plasma, Sheaths, and RF Couplers, on NERSC Supercomputers
D.N. Smithe , D.A. D'Ippolito , J.R. Myra , J.A. Carlsson

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CP6.00015: Resonance Cone Interaction with a Self-Consistent Radio Frequency Sheath
J.R. Myra , D.A. D'Ippolito

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CP6.00016: Nonlinear cyclotron harmonic absorption
JaeChun Seol , C.C. Hegna , J.D. Callen

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CP6.00017: Nonlinear ponderomotive force by electron cyclotron waves and current drive efficiency
Cesar Gutierrez-Tapia , Monica Beltran-Plata

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CP6.00018: Modeling of RF/MHD coupling using NIMROD and GENRAY
Thomas G. Jenkins , D.D. Schnack , C.R. Sovinec , C.C. Hegna , J.D. Callen , F. Ebrahimi , S.E. Kruger , J. Carlsson , E.D. Held , J.-Y. Ji , R.W. Harvey , A.P. Smirnov

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CP6.00019: Simulations of nonlinear dynamics of electron Bernstein waves in a 3D geometry
John R. Cary , Nong Xiang

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CP6.00020: Geometric Gyrokinetic Particle Algorithm for RF Physics
Zhi Yu , Hong Qin

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CP6.00021: Relativistic Quasilinear Theory for Transport by RF Waves in Toroidal Plasmas
Y. Kominis , A.K. Ram , K. Hizanidis

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CP6.00022: Alpha Channeling in Centrifugal Mirror Machines
Abraham Fetterman , Nathaniel Fisch

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CP6.00023: NON-NEUTRAL PLASMAS


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CP6.00024: Overview of results from the Columbia Non-Neutral Torus
T. Sunn Pedersen , John W. Berkery , A.H. Boozer , Q.R. Marksteiner , M. Hahn , P.W. Brenner , B. Durand de Gevigney , X. Sarasola Martin

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CP6.00025: Measurements of the toroidal structure of the ion-driven instability in the CNT stellarator
Xabier Sarasola , Thomas Pedersen , Quinn Marksteiner , Michael Hahn , Paul Brenner

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CP6.00026: Pure Electron Equilibrium and Transport Jumps in the Columbia Non-neutral Torus
M. Hahn , T. Sunn Pedersen , Q. Marksteiner , J. Berkery , P.W. Brenner

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CP6.00027: Improved Confinement In The Columbia Non-Neutral Torus
Paul W. Brenner , T. Sunn Pedersen , M. Hahn , J. Berkery , Q.R. Marksteiner

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CP6.00028: Numerical Studies of Transport in the Columbia Non-neutral Torus
Benoit Durand de Gevigney , Thomas Sunn Pedersen , Allen H. Boozer

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CP6.00029: Trapped-Particle-Mediated Asymmetry Induced Transport and Damping
C.F. Driscoll , A.A. Kabantsev , T.M. O'Neil , D.H.E. Dubin , Yu.A. Tsidulko

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CP6.00030: Asymmetry-Induced Transport with Azimuthal Perturbations at the Trapping Separatrix
A.A. Kabantsev , Yu.A. Tsidulko , C.F. Driscoll

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CP6.00031: Enhanced Neoclassical Transport Caused by Chaos Near an Asymmetric Separatrix
D.H.E. Dubin , Yu.A. Tsidulko

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CP6.00032: Measurements of Correlation-Enhanced Collision Rates
F. Anderegg , D.H.E. Dubin , T.M. O'Neil , C.F. Driscoll

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CP6.00033: Finite Length Effects on Collisional Damping of Plasma Waves in Single-Species Plasmas
M.W. Anderson , T.M. O'Neil , F. Anderegg , C.F. Driscoll

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CP6.00034: Progress towards the determination of an empirical flux equation for asymmetry-induced transport
D.L. Eggleston , C.T. Smith

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CP6.00035: Tailored Particle Beams From Single-Component Plasmas
T.R. Weber , J.R. Danielson , C.M. Surko

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CP6.00036: Possible Procedure for Generating a Cold ($\sim$0.1 K) Antihydrogen Beam
Carlos Ordonez

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CP6.00037: Ac-driven, azimuthal density holes in non-neutral plasmas
Michael Borich , Lazar Friedland

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CP6.00038: Finite temperature m=0 Bernstein modes in a non-neutral plasma, theory and simulation
Grant W. Hart , Ross L. Spencer , M. Takeshi Nakata

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CP6.00039: Modeling the FTICR-MS signal of a $^{7}$Be Ion Plasma using a 2D PIC code
M. Takeshi Nakata , Grant W. Hart , Bryan G. Peterson , Ross L. Spencer

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CP6.00040: Molecular Ion and Non-Zero Birth Velocity Effects in IEC Modeling
Gilbert Emmert , John Santarius

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CP6.00041: BASIC THEORY


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CP6.00042: Relaxation of non-Maxwellian moments: analytical solutions of the kinetic equation for uniform plasmas
Jeong-Young Ji , E.D. Held

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CP6.00043: A class of action principles for magnetofluid models with gyroviscosity
P.J. Morrison

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CP6.00044: Progress on the Kinetic MHD model
Jianhua Cheng , Yang Cheng , Scott Parker

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CP6.00045: Line-tied MHD modes: effect of plasma pressure, axial boundary condition and axial flow
Francesco Arcudi , Gian Luca Delzanno , John M. Finn

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CP6.00046: Hall-MHD and Two-Fluid Plasma Equilibria and Stability
Eliezer Hameiri

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CP6.00047: Minimum energy states in the Hall MHD relaxation theory
Ivan Khalzov , Dalton Schnack , Fatima Ebrahimi

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CP6.00048: Comparisons of the Two-Fluid, Ten Moment and the Two-Fluid, Five Moment Plasma Models
Robert Lilly , Uri Shumlak

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CP6.00049: A Comparison between the Two-fluid Plasma Model and Hall-MHD for Captured Physics and Computational Effort
Bhuvana Srinivasan , Uri Shumlak

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CP6.00050: Backstepping In Control And Track of Chaotic Systems
Guessas Laarem , Benmahammad Khier

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CP6.00051: Destruction of transport barriers in nontwist map models with and without spatial symmetry
Alexander Wurm

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CP6.00052: Diffusion of Charged Particles in Chaotic Magnetic Fields
A.K. Ram , B. Dasgupta

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CP6.00053: Observation of Chaos in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma Due to An Applied Electrical Field
Shuangwei Xie , Christopher Watts , Mark Gilmore , Lincan Yan

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CP6.00054: Some Consequences of Asymmetries in Rotating Magnetized Plasma
Nathaniel Fisch

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CP6.00055: Bifurcations of the Continuous Spectrum in the Vlasov-Poisson Equation
G.I. Hagstrom , P.J. Morrison

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CP6.00056: MHD AND STABILITY


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CP6.00057: Symmetries of the Grad-Shafranov Equation
Ryan White , Richard Hazeltine

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CP6.00058: Ideal MHD stability spectrum of an arbitrarily flowing cylindrical plasma with a Green's function approach for coupling to the resistive wall using a linear eigenvalue formulation
S.P. Smith , S.C. Jardin , J.P. Freidberg , L. Guazzotto

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CP6.00059: The curious disappearance of MHD compressibility stabilization in closed line systems
Antoine Cerfon , Jeffrey Freidberg

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CP6.00060: A Simple Ideal MHD Model of Vertical Disruption Events in Tokamaks
Richard Fitzpatrick

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CP6.00061: Resistive Wall Mode Study in a Line-tied Screw Pinch
C. Paz-Soldan , W.F. Bergerson , D. Hannum , R. Kendrich , C.B. Forest

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CP6.00062: Singletip Langmuir Measurements of UW-RWM Plasma
David Hannum , C.B. Forest , R. Kendrick

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CP6.00063: Kinetic analysis of resistive wall modes in ITER
Linjin Zheng , M. Kotschenreuther , J.W. Van Dam

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CP6.00064: Applications of the equilibrium code FLOW and its integration within the Integrated Tokamak Modelling initiative
Luca Guazzotto , Roberto Paccagnella

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CP6.00065: Numerical Studies of Two-Fluid Axisymmetric Steady-States with Flow in Ohmic NSTX-like Plasmas
Nathaniel Ferraro , Stephen Jardin

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CP6.00066: Initial results for linear 3D Toroidal Two-Fluid stability using M3D-$C^{1}$
S. Jardin , N. Ferraro , J. Breslau , M. Chance , J. Chen

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CP6.00067: 3D MHD disruptions simulations of tokamaks plasmas
Roberto Paccagnella , Hank Strauss , Joshua Breslau

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CP6.00068: Three-Dimensional Efffects in Tokamaks
E. Strumberger , S. Guenter , P. Merkel , M. Sempf , D. Tekle

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CP6.00069: Core plasma behavior during sawtooth activities in highly-elongated ohmic/ECH tokamak plasmas
Junghee Kim , Seung Hun Lee , G. Turri , H. Weisen , W. Choe

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CP6.00070: Finite pressure effects in the Reversed Field Pinch
F. Ebrahimi , D.D. Schnack

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CP6.00071: Non-fluid Micro-Reconnecting Modes$^{*}$
C. Crabtree , B. Coppi

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CP6.00072: Parametric analysis of the two-fluid, resistive tearing instability
E. Ahedo , J.J. Ramos

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CP6.00073: Tearing mode stability analysis via a new numerical matching technique for resistive reduced MHD
M. Furukawa , S. Tokuda , L. -J. Zheng

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CP6.00074: Effects of Line-tying on Resistive Tearing Instability in Slab Geometry
Yi-Min Huang , Ellen G. Zweibel

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CP6.00075: Nonlinear Ballooning Filament: Structure and Growth
P. Zhu , C.C. Hegna , C.R. Sovinec

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CP6.00076: Nonlinear ballooning instability dynamics of tokamak edge plasmas
C.C. Hegna , P. Zhu

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CP6.00077: Dynamic Behavior of Peeling-Ballooning Modes in a Shifted-Circle Tokamak
B. Squires , S.E. Kruger , C.C. Hegna , E. Held , P.B. Snyder , C.R. Sovinec , P. Zhu

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CP6.00078: Overview and Recent Results from the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch
U. Shumlak , J.M. Blakely , B.J. Chan , D.J. Den Hartog , R.P. Golingo , S.D. Knecht , B.A. Nelson , R.J. Oberto , M.R. Sybouts , G.V. Vogman

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CP6.00079: Thomson Scattering Measurements on the ZaP Experiment
R.P. Golingo , U. Shumlak , B.A. Nelson , D.J. Den Hartog , R.J. Oberto

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CP6.00080: Influence of Gas Injection on the Characteristics of the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch
S.D. Knecht , U. Shumlak , R.P. Golingo , B.A. Nelson

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CP6.00081: LDX AND MCX


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CP6.00082: Flying Lessons: the Levitated Dipole Experiment without parallel losses
D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel , R.M. Bergmann , A.C. Boxer , J.L. Ellsworth , J. Kesner , P.C. Michael , P. Woskov

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CP6.00083: The Levitated Dipole Experiment: Experiment and Theory
J. Kesner , R.M. Bergmann , A.C. Boxer , J.L. Ellsworth , P. Woskov , D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel

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CP6.00084: Evidence of ``Natural'' Density Profiles in a Dipole-Confined Plasma
A.C. Boxer , J.L. Ellsworth , J. Kesner , D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel

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CP6.00085: Imaging of low-frequency fluctuations in dipole confined plasma
Jennifer Ellsworth , R.M. Bergmann , A.C. Boxer , J. Kesner , D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel

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CP6.00086: 28 GHz Gyrotron Heating Plans for LDX
P.P. Woskov , A.C. Boxer , J.L. Ellsworth , J. Kesner , P.C. Michael , D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel

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CP6.00087: Observation of low-frequency oscillations in LDX with an angular electrostatic probe
R.M. Bergmann , A.C. Boxer , J.L. Ellsworth , J. Kesner , D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel

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CP6.00088: Multi-Color Soft X-ray Diagnostic Design for the Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX)
M.S. Davis , D.T. Garnier , M.E. Mauel , J.L. Ellsworth , J. Kresner , P.C. Michael

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CP6.00089: Reconstruction of Pressure Profile Evolution during Levitated Dipole Experiments
M. Mauel , D. Garnier , A. Boxer , J. Ellsworth , J. Kesner

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CP6.00090: Measurement of Interchange Structure Coupling through Excitation of Strong Nonaxisymmetric Flows
M.W. Worstell , B.A. Grierson , M.E. Mauel

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CP6.00091: Global and Local Characterization of Turbulent and Chaotic Structures in a Dipole-Confined Plasma
B.A. Grierson , M.W. Worstell , M.E. Mauel

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CP6.00092: Plasma Flow Damping and Confinement Times on MCX
R. Clary , R. Ellis , A. Hassam , S.H. Choi , R. Elton , C. Teodorescu , I. Uzun-Kaymak , W. Young

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CP6.00093: Magnetic Fluctuations in MCX
Ilker Uzun-Kaymak , Parvez Guzdar

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CP6.00094: Experiments on the critical ionization velocity limit effect in MCX
Catalin Teodorescu , R. Clary , R. Ellis , A. Hassam , I. Uzun-Kaymak , W. Young

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CP6.00095: The Diamagnetism of Rotating Plasmas
William Young , S. Choi , R. Clary , R. Ellis , A. Hassam , C. Teodorescu , I. Uzun-Kaymak

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CP6.00096: Overview of the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment
Richard Ellis , SeungHo Choi , Ryan Clary , Raymond Elton , Adil Hassam , Carlos Talamas , Catalin Teodorescu , Ilker Uzun-Kaymak , Sarah Messer , Andrew Case , Douglas Witherspoon

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CP6.00097: Measurement of velocity shear in the MCX
Seung Choi , Parvez Guzdar , Richard Ellis

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