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Session CP9: Poster Session II: Basic Plasma Physics: Non-Neutral, Dusty, Complex, and Low Temperature Plasmas; General Spherical Torus; Pinch Physics; Basic Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection

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CP9.00001: BASIC PLASMA PHYSICS: NON-NEUTRAL, DUSTY, COMPLEX, AND LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMAS


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CP9.00002: Chaotic Neoclassical Ripple Transport in Nearly Axisymmetric Penning-Malmberg Trap
A.A. Kabantsev , C.F. Driscoll

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CP9.00003: Damping Measurements of Plasma Modes
F. Anderegg , M. Affolter , C.F. Driscoll

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CP9.00004: Degenerate Mixing of Trivelpiece-Gould Waves on a Cold, Finite-Length Plasma Cylinder
M.W. Anderson , T.M. O'Neil , R.W. Gould

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CP9.00005: Waves and Instabilities in Multispecies Nonneutral Plasmas
D.H.E. Dubin

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CP9.00006: Construction of a Multicell Trap for Positron Storage
J.R. Danielson , C.M. Surko

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CP9.00007: Tailored Electrostatic Beams From Single-Component Plasmas
Tobin Weber

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CP9.00008: Two sources of asymmetry-induced transport
D.L. Eggleston

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CP9.00009: Understanding and improving confinement in CNT
Paul Brenner , Thomas Pedersen , Xabier Sarasola , Benoit Durand de Gevigney , Peter Traverso

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CP9.00010: Overview of recent results from CNT
Thomas Sunn Pedersen , Allen H. Boozer , Paul W. Brenner , Benoit Durand de Gevigney , Xabier Sarasola , Peter Traverso

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CP9.00011: Field line mapping and equilibrium reconstructions in new CNT Configuration
Peter Traverso , Thomas Pedersen , Paul Brenner , Xabier Sarasola , Benoit Durand de Gevigney

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CP9.00012: Observation of Trivelpiece-Gould modes in toroidal pure electron plasma
F. Choudhury , M.R. Stoneking , A.R. Knoedler

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CP9.00013: Axisymmetric Eigenmodes of Spheroidal Pure Electron Plasmas
Yosuke Kawai , Haruhiko Saitoh , Zensho Yoshida , Yasuhito Kiwamoto

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CP9.00014: Centrifugal separation in electron-antiproton plasmas
Joel Fajans

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CP9.00015: The Effect of Multipole-Enhanced Diffusion on the Joule Heating of a Cold Non-Neutral Plasma
Steven Chapman , Alex Povilus , Joel Fajans

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CP9.00016: Autoresonant-spectrometric determination of the residual gas composition in the ALPHA experiment apparatus
Marcelo Baquero-Ruiz

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CP9.00017: Search for Trapped Antihydrogen in ALPHA
Niels Madsen

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CP9.00018: Autoresonant Excitation of Antiproton Plasmas
William Bertsche

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CP9.00019: Evaporative Cooling of Antiprotons to Cyrogenic Temperatures in a Penning Trap
Eoin Butler

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CP9.00020: Characterization of a non-neutral ion trap for the determination of the half-life of ionized $^7$Be
Bryan G. Peterson , Daniel Erickson , Chad Williams , Grant W. Hart

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CP9.00021: Axisymmetric Bernstein modes in a non-neutral plasma: Boundary conditions and 6/7 of the Brillouin limit
Grant W. Hart , Ross L. Spencer

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CP9.00022: Fluid Modes of a Spherically Confined Yukawa Plasma
Hanno Kaehlert , Michael Bonitz

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CP9.00023: Experiments and simulation of dust motion in toroidal dust clouds in a weakly magnetized plasma
Alexander Piel , Torben Reichstein , Iris Pilch

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CP9.00024: Frequency clusters in self-excited dust density waves
Kristoffer O. Menzel , Oliver Arp , Alexander Piel

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CP9.00025: Nonlinear magnetoplasmons in strongly coupled Yukawa and Coulomb plasmas
Torben Ott , Michael Bonitz , Zoltan Donk\'{o} , Peter Hartmann

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CP9.00026: Bi-Dust Solitary Waves
Julio Puerta , Pablo Martin

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CP9.00027: Non-Gaussian Velocity Distribution of Microparticles in Plasma under Microgravity Conditions
Amit K. Mukhopadhyay , J. Goree , Bin Liu , V.E. Fortov , A.M. Lipaev , V.I. Molotkov , O.F. Petrov , G.E. Morfill , H.M. Thomas , A.V. Ivlev

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CP9.00028: Tiling analysis of melting in strongly-coupled dusty plasma*
W.D. Suranga Ruhunusiri , Yan Feng , Bin Liu , John Goree

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CP9.00029: Probe Induced Low Density Dust Regions in Complex Plasma
Brandon Harris , Natalie Walker , Jorge Carmona Reyes , Jimmy Schmoke , Mike Cook , Lorin Matthews , Truell Hyde

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CP9.00030: A Simple Method to Measure the Interaction Potential between Dielectric Grains in a Dusty Plasma
Zhuanhao Zhang , Ke Qiao , Jie Kong , Lorin Matthews , Truell Hyde

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CP9.00031: Conducting Particles Within a Dusty Plasma
Jorge Carmona Reyes , Lorin Matthews , Truell Hyde

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CP9.00032: The Dust Accelerator Facility at CCLDAS
Anthony Shu , A. Collette , R. Cosentino , K. Drake , N. Duncan , M. Horanyi , S. LeBlan , T. Munsat , P. Northway , S. Robertson , Z. Sternovsky , E. Thomas , M. Wagner , T. Wingfield , E. Grun , R. Srama

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CP9.00033: Characterization of single-file diffusion in one-dimensional dusty plasma
W.L. Theisen , T.E. Sheridan

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CP9.00034: Acoustic pulses in dusty plasma 1-ring
T.E. Sheridan , James C. Gallagher

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CP9.00035: Observation of dust jets due to a dust-discharge instability
Su-Hyun Kim , Jonathon R. Heinrich , Robert L. Merlino

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CP9.00036: Dust structurization observed in a dc glow discharge dusty plasma
Jonathon R. Heinrich , Su-Hyun Kim , Robert L. Merlino

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CP9.00037: Measurement of Spatially Resolved Velocity Distributions in a Dusty Plasma
Ross Fisher , Edward Thomas

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CP9.00038: Analysis of waves at a dust cloud - plasma interface
E. Thomas , J. Shaw , M. Chaudhuri , U. Konopka , H. Thomas

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CP9.00039: Application of PIV techniques to phase transition and wave experiments in complex (dusty) plasmas
L. Couedel , E. Thomas , J. Williams , V. Nosenko , S. Zhdanov , A. Ivlev , H. Thomas , G. Morfill

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CP9.00040: Initial application of tomographic particle image velocimetry to complex (dusty) plasmas
J. Williams

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CP9.00041: Electrostatic dust cyclotron instability in a plasma with warm dust
Marlene Rosenberg

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CP9.00042: A Comparative study of Eletromagnetic instabilities in a Lorentzian dusty plasma
Nazish Rubab , Nikolai Erkaev , Daniel Langmayr , Helfried Biernat

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CP9.00043: Improved Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device for $^3$He-$^3$He Fusion
Gabriel Becerra , John Santarius , Gerald Kulcinski

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CP9.00044: Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Modeling and Comparison to Experiments
Gilbert Emmert , John Santarius , Eric Alderson , David Donovan

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CP9.00045: Using an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Nuclear Fusion Device as a Pulsed Neutron Source: Optimizing the Pulse Shape
Richard Bonomo

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CP9.00046: Studies of Negative Ion Generation in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Device
Eric Alderson , John Santarius , Gil Emmert , David Donovan , Gerald Kulcinski

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CP9.00047: Spatial and Energy Profiling of D-D Fusion Reactions in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Device
David Donovan , Gerald Kulcinski , John Santarius

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CP9.00048: Spectral line emission from helicon heated plasmas
T.M. Biewer , R.H. Goulding , D.L. Hillis , R. Isler , S. Meitner

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CP9.00049: Microwave produced plasma in a Toroidal Device
A.K. Singh , W.F. Edwards , E.D. Held

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CP9.00050: Characteristics of Low Frequency Electrostatic Fluctuations in a Magnetized Toroidal Plasma
R. Kaur , A.K. Singh , R. Singh , A. Sarada Sree , S.K. Mattoo

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CP9.00051: Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Ions in a Partially Ionized Quantum Plasma
Patrick Ludwig , Michael Bonitz , Hanno K\"ahlert , James W. Dufty

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CP9.00052: Non-linear Plasma Wakes
I.H. Hutchinson

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CP9.00053: GENERAL SPHERICAL TORUS


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CP9.00054: Electron-ion collision frequency in very cold plasma
Shannon Dickson , Devin Konecny , Scott Robertson

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CP9.00055: Status of the the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX)
R. Majeski , L. Berzak , S. Gershman , E. Granstedt , C.M. Jacobson , R. Kaita , T. Kozub , B. LeBlanc , N. Logan , D.P. Lundberg , M. Lucia , K. Snieckus , D. Sobers , J. Timberlake , L. Zakharov , T. Gray , R. Maingi , K. Tritz , L.R. Baylor , C.E. Thomas , V. Soukhanovskii , M. Nieto

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CP9.00056: Quantification of Eddy Currents and Their Effects on Plasma Start-up in a Conducting, Double-walled Spherical Tokamak
L. Berzak , R. Kaita , T. Kozub , N. Logan , R. Majeski , J. Menard , L. Zakharov

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CP9.00057: 3-D Modeling of Magnetic Fields for the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment
N. Logan , L. Berzak , R. Kaita , R. Majeski , J. Menard , L. Zakharov

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CP9.00058: Molecular Cluster Injection for High-Density Fueling on the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX)
D.P. Lundberg , R. Kaita , R. Majeski , D.P. Stotler

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CP9.00059: Spectroscopic Measurements on the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment
Erik Granstedt , Robert Kaita , Richard Majeski , Travis Gray , Rajesh Maingi , Kevin Tritz , Vlad Soukhanovskii

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CP9.00060: First Results from the LTX High-Speed Digital Holography System
C.E. (Tommy) Thomas Jr. , L.R. Baylor , S.K. Combs , S.J. Meitner , D.A. Rasmussen , E.M. Granstedt , R. Majeski , R. Kaita

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CP9.00061: The Lithium Tokamak Experiment Thomson Scattering Diagnostic
C.M. Jacobson , R. Kaita , B.P. LeBlanc , R. Majeski , T. Strickler

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CP9.00062: Langmuir probe diagnostics on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX)
M. Lucia , S. Gershman , D. Sobers , R. Kaita , R. Majeski , L. Berzak , C.M. Jacobson , T. Kozub , D.P. Lundberg , R. Marsala , K. Snieckus , J. Taylor

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CP9.00063: Characterization of lithium evaporators for LTX
M. Nieto-Perez , R. Majeski , J. Timberlake , D. Lundberg , R. Kaita , B. Arevalo-Torres

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CP9.00064: Performance of 200~kW Diagnostic Neutral Beam
E. Schartman , E.L. Foley , F. Levinton , J. Kwan , K.N. Leung , R. Wells , Y. Wu , H. Vainionpaa

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CP9.00065: The {\sc Pegasus} Toroidal Experiment program
A.J. Redd , J. Barr , M.W. Bongard , M.G. Burke , R.J. Fonck , E.T. Hinson , D.J. Schlossberg , K.E. Thome

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CP9.00066: Equilibrium and Stability Properties of \textsc{Pegasus} Edge Plasmas
M.W. Bongard , J.L. Barr , R.J. Fonck , E.T. Hinson , A.J. Redd

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CP9.00067: Plasma Properties in the \textsc{Pegasus} Edge Region
E.T. Hinson , M.W. Bongard , R.J. Fonck , B.A. Kujak-Ford , G.R. Winz

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CP9.00068: Ion Temperature Measurements in the \textsc{Pegasus} Toroidal~Experiment
M.G. Burke , M.W. Bongard , R.J. Fonck , D.J. Schlossberg

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CP9.00069: Study of Impurities in the \textsc{Pegasus} Toroidal~Experiment
K.E. Thome , A.S. Dowd , R.J. Fonck , D.J. Schlossberg

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CP9.00070: Low-m Tearing Mode Studies on \textsc{Pegasus}
J.L. Barr , M.W. Bongard , R.J. Fonck , B.T. Lewicki , A.J. Redd

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CP9.00071: Design of the Thomson Scattering Diagnostic on the \textsc{Pegasus} Toroidal Experiment
D.J. Schlossberg , R.J. Fonck , B.A. Kujak-Ford , B.T. Lewicki , J.I. Moritz

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CP9.00072: Numerical Simulation of Non-inductive Startup in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
J.B. O'Bryan , C.R. Sovinec , T.M. Bird

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CP9.00073: Full-wave Modeling of EBWs in Pegasus
Sara Gallian , Michael Bongard , Francesco Volpe , Jonathan Jacquot , Alf K\"ohn

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CP9.00074: Double null merging start-up experiments on UTST
Takuma Yamada , Shuji Kamio , Keita Abe , Morio Sakumura , Qinghong Cao , Naoto Suzuki , Takenori Watanabe , Michiaki Inomoto , Yuichi Takase , Yasushi Ono , Ryota Imazawa , Koji Ishiguchi

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CP9.00075: Multipoint spectroscopy measurement of spherical tokamak heating by plasma merging method in UTST
Shuji Kamio , Qinghong Cao , Keita Abe , Morio Sakumura , Naoto Suzuki , Takenori Watanabe , Koji Ishiguchi , Ryota Imazawa , Takuma Yamada , Michiaki Inomoto , Yuichi Takase , Yasushi Ono

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CP9.00076: Application of electric double layer capacitor to sec-order DC power supply for plasma confinement experiments TS-3 and UTST
K. Abe , M. Inomoto , T. Yamada , A. Kuwahata , S. Kamio , M. Sakumura , Q.H. Cao , T. Watanabe , N. Suzuki , R. Imazawa , Y. Ono

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CP9.00077: Physical Design and Transport Simulation of the STOR-U Tokamak
Dazhi Liu , Chijin Xiao , Akira Hirose

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CP9.00078: An atmospheric pressure air plasma source for polymer surface modification
Shujun Yang , Jiansheng Tang

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CP9.00079: PINCH PHYSICS


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CP9.00080: Beryllium liner z-pinches for Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor studies on Z
R. McBride , S. Slutz , C. Jennings , D. Sinars , R. Lemke , M. Martin , R. Vesey , M. Cuneo , M. Herrmann

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CP9.00081: Results from magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Experiments on Thin Foils Driven by a 1-MA LTD
J.C. Zier , S.G. Patel , A.M. Steiner , R.M. Gilgenbach , D.M. French , M.R. Gomez , Y.Y. Lau , M.G. Mazarakis , M.E. Cuneo , M.R. Lopez

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CP9.00082: A Theoretical Study of Anisotropy in the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (MRT) on a Thin Foil
Y.Y. Lau , J.C. Zier , I.M. Rittersdorf , R.M. Gilgenbach , S.G. Patel , A.M. Steiner , M.R. Gomez , M.E. Cuneo , S. Slutz , A.L. Velikovich , D. Colombant

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CP9.00083: Plasma Spectroscopy of the Double Post-Hole Convolute on Sandia's Z-Machine*
Matthew Gomez , Ron Gilgenbach , Mike Cuneo , Mike Lopez , Greg Rochau , Ryan McBride , Jim Bailey , Pat Lake , Yitzhak Maron

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CP9.00084: Incident Wire Array Z-pinch Plasma Radiation Fluence Effects on the Filter Material Property {\&} Implications on the Observed Radiation Parameters
Y.K. Chong , J. Thornhill , A. Velikovich , J. Giuliani , J. Davis , R. Clark , D. Ampleford , C. Coverdale , B. Jones

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CP9.00085: Spectroscopic study of z-pinch stagnation
B. Jones , C.A. Jennings , E.P. Yu , S.B. Hansen , G.A. Rochau , J.E. Bailey , C.A. Coverdale , D.J. Ampleford , M.E. Cuneo , Y. Maron , V. Fisher , V. Bernshtam , A. Starobinets , L. Weingarten

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CP9.00086: Three-dimensional simulations of wire-array Z pinch stagnation
Edmund Yu , Yitzhak Maron , Brent Jones , Mike Cuneo , Chris Jennings , Dawn Flicker

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CP9.00087: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in magnetized high-energy density plasma
Radu Presura , Sandra Stein , David Martinez , Showera Haque , Leela O'Brien

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CP9.00088: Plasma Temperature Estimates from EUV Spectroscopy of an Aluminum Rod pulsed with MA Current
Stephan Fuelling , Tom J. Awe , Bruno S. Bauer , Irvin R. Lindemuth , Richard E. Siemon , Kevin C. Yates

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CP9.00089: Development of absorption spectroscopy for wire-array Z-pinches
A. Anderson , V.V. Ivanov , P. Hakel , R.C. Mancini , P. Wiewior , T. Durmaz , A.L. Astanovitskiy , O. Chalyy , S.D. Altemara , D. Papp , E. McKee , J.P. Chittenden , N. Niasse , A.P. Shevelko

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CP9.00090: Analysis of Implosion and Radiative Properties of Ag Single Planar Wire Array Z-pinches on Zebra at UNR*
S.F. Keim , A.S. Safronova , V.L. Kantsyrev , A.A. Esaulov , I. Shrestha , M.E. Weller , K.M. Williamson , N.D. Ouart , V. Shlyaptseva , G.C. Osborne

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CP9.00091: Comprehensive Analysis of Radiative Properties of Brass and Al Arranged in Nested Cylindrical Wire Arrays*
M.E. Weller , N.D. Ouart , A.S. Safronova , V.L. Kantsyrev , A.A. Esaulov , K.M. Williamson , I. Shrestha , G.C. Osborne , V. Shlyaptseva , S.F. Keim , A. Stafford , C.A. Coverdale

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CP9.00092: Analysis of results of recent implosions of palladium wire loads arranged in single planar wire arrays on Zebra at UNR
A.M. Covington , T. Darling , A.S. Safranova , V.L. Kantsyrev , A.A. Esaulov , I. Shrestha , K.M. Williamson , S. Keim , V. Shylaptseva , G.C. Osborne , M.E. Weller , N.D. Ouart

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CP9.00093: Assessment of Proton Deflectometry for Exploding Wire Experiments
S. Bott , M. Wei , D. Mariscal , K. Gunasekera , G. Collins , F. Beg , J. Kindel , A. Covington , R. Presura , N. LeGalloudec , P. Wiewior , C. Plechaty , T. Burris-mog , Y. Paudel , S. Stein , O. Chalyy , A. Astanovitskiy

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CP9.00094: Absorption Spectroscopy of Pulsed Power Driven Metal Plasmas
Patrick Knapp , Sergei Pikuz , Tania Shelkovenko , Adam Cahill , John Greenly , David Hammer

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CP9.00095: Time Resolved Single Wire Aluminum Optical Spectroscopy Experiments
Kate Blesener , Sergey Pikuz , Tatiana Shelkovenko , Isaac Blesener , David Chalenski , David Hammer , Yitzhak Maron , Vladimir Bernshtam

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CP9.00096: Radial Foil Experiments on Cobra with Imposed B-Field
Peter Schrafel , Pierre Gourdain , John Greenly , Bruce Kusse

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CP9.00097: Double cathode experiments using radial foil configurations on the COBRA generator
B.H. Pang , A.Y. Gorenstein , J.E. Kim , P.-A. Gourdain , D.A. Hammer , B.R. Kusse

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CP9.00098: Axial Instability Growth in Tungsten Wire Array Z-Pinches
Adam Cahill , Patrick Knapp , John Greenly , Sergei Pikuz , Tania Shelkovenko , David Hammer

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CP9.00099: Experimental r-$\theta $ density profiles of wire-array and cylindrical foil Z-pinches on COBRA
Isaac Blesener , John Greenly , Sergey Pikuz , Tatiana Shelkovenko , Bruce Kusse , Charles Seyler

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CP9.00100: Calibrated areal density measurements of cable-array Z-pinch plasmas at 1 MA
C.L. Hoyt , P.F. Knapp , S.A. Pikuz , T.A. Shelkovenko , P.-A. Gourdain , J.B. Greenly , D.A. Hammer

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CP9.00101: Current Rise-Rate Scaling for Radial Wire Arrays
M. Mitchell , K. Chandler , S. Bland , F. Suzuki , G. Hall , A. Thomson , A. Lebedev , J. Chittenden , R. McBride , S. Pikuz , T. Shelkovenko , D. Hammer , B. Kusse

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CP9.00102: Radial foil Z-pinch experiments on the MAGPIE generator
P. de Grouchy , F. Suzuki-Vidal , S.V. Lebedev , G. Swadling , G. Burdiak , S.N. Bland , G.N. Hall , A.J. Harvey-Thompson , E. Khoory , L. Pickworth , J. Skidmore , J.P. Chittenden , M. Bocchi , A. Ciardi , M. Krishnan

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CP9.00103: End-On Optical Interferometry of Precursor formation in Cylindrical Wire Array Z-Pinches
George Swadling , Sergey Lebedev , Simon Bland , Gareth Hall , Francisco Suzuki-Vidal , Adam Harvey-Thompson , Guy Burdiak , Nicolas Niasse , Louissa Pickworth , Essa Khoory , Philip de Grouchy , Jonathan Skidmore

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CP9.00104: Development of a Non-LTE model for Z-pinch simulations
Nicolas Niasse , Jeremy Chittenden

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CP9.00105: Time and Space Resolved Synthetic Spectra of a Z-Pinch Stagnation
J. Giuliani , A.L. Velikovich , J.W. Thornhill , A. Dasgupta , J.P. Apruzese , R.W. Clark , S.T. Zalesak , B. Jones , C.A. Coverdale , C. Deeney

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CP9.00106: Modeling and Spectroscopic Analysis of non-LTE Argon Plasmas
Arati Dasgupta , Ward Thornhill , John Giuliani , Jack Davis , Robert Clark , Brent Jones , Stephanie Hansen , Dave Ampleford , Chris Jennings , Christine Coverdale

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CP9.00107: Diagnosing Plasma Conditions in Copper Wire Array Shots on Z: Spatially-Averaged Analysis Compared to Inferred Properties of Individual Bright Spots
J.P. Apruzese , J.W. Thornhill , A.L. Velikovich , B. Jones , D.J. Ampleford , C.A. Coverdale

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CP9.00108: 2D Rad-MHD Model Assessment of Designs for Multiple-Shell Gas Nozzles for Z
J. Thornhill , J. Giuliani , A. Velikovich , J. Apruzese , Y. Chong , J. Davis , A. Dasgupta , R. Clark , B. Jones , C. Coverdale , D. Ampleford , C. Jennings , M. Cuneo , E. Waisman , M. Krishnan , P. Coleman

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CP9.00109: Structure and behavior of the imploding plasma in a laser triggered vacuum arc EUV source
Qiushi Zhu , Junzaburo Yamada , Nozomu Kishi , Masato Watanabe , Akitoshi Okino , Kazuhiko Horioka , Eiki Hotta

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CP9.00110: Multi-Kev X-Ray Emission from High-Z Gas Targets Fielded at Omega and NIF
Mark May , Kevin Fournier , Jeff Colvin , Jave Kane

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CP9.00111: Multi-KeV X-Ray Yields From High-Z Gas Targets Fielded at the National Ignition Facility
K.B. Fournier , M.J. May , J.D. Colvin , J.O. Kane , C.A. Thomas , M. Schneider , R. Marrs , S. Compton , J. Moody , E. Bond , E. Dewald , J.F. Davis

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CP9.00112: Pinch dynamics deduced from terminal current and voltage measurements in a Dense Plasma Focus
Mahadevan Krishnan , Brian Bures , Robert Madden

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CP9.00113: Hard X-ray Imaging of a 250 kA Plasma Focus in Inert Gases
Brian Bures , Mahadevan Krishnan , Robert Madden

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CP9.00114: Gas-Puff Neutral Density Measurements Using PLIF
David Chalenski , Pierre Gourdain , Bruce Kusse

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CP9.00115: Upgrade of a Theta Pinch Plasma Source for Energetic Plasma Flow Generation and Fusion-Related Material Interaction Study
Soonwook Jung , Vijay Surla , David Ruzic

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CP9.00116: Kinetic effects of nuclear reactions in deuterium gas puffs
Brian Appelbe , Simon Vickers , Jeremy Chittenden

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CP9.00117: Fusion Neutron Production in Deuterium and DT Z-Pinch Implosions with Seeded Axial Magnetic Field at Multi-MA Currents
A.L. Velikovich , J. Davis , J.L. Giuliani , Y.K. Chong , R.W. Clark , S.T. Zalesak , C.A. Coverdale , D.G. Flicker

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CP9.00118: BASIC PLASMA PHYSICS: MAGNETIC RECONNECTION


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CP9.00119: An effective resistivity model of collisionless driven reconnection in an ion-scale current sheet
Ritoku Horiuchi , Hiroaki Ohtani , Shunsuke Usami , Mitsue Den , Akira Kageyama

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CP9.00120: Studies on collisionless driven reconnection with a multi-hierarchy simulation model
Shunsuke Usami , Hiroaki Ohtani , Ritoku Horiuchi , Mitsue Den

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CP9.00121: Fast Magnetic Reconnection and High Power Heating in TS-4 / UTST Spherical Tokamak Merging Experiments with Neutral Beam Injections
Yasushi Ono

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CP9.00122: Experimental Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection in the Sunspot Light Bridge
Yoshinori Hayashi , Hiroshi Tanabe , Michiaki Inomoto , Yasushi Ono , Toshifumi Shimizu , Shinsuke Imada , Naoto Nishizuka

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CP9.00123: Plasma Pileup and Ejection during Impulsive Magnetic Reconnection in TS-4 Merging Experiment
Kensuke Suzuki , Atsushi Matsuda , Yoshinori Hayashi , Michiaki Inomoto , Yasushi Ono

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CP9.00124: Investigation of Ion Heating Mechanism of Magnetic Reconnection by Use of Tomographic 2-D Ion Doppler Diagnostics
Hiroshi Tanabe , Akihiro Kuwahata , Setthivoine You , Hirotaka Oka , Patrick Copinger , Shingo Ito , Yoshinori Hayashi , Toru Ii , Alexandar Balandin , Michiaki Inomoto , Yasushi Ono

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CP9.00125: Reconnection experiments including 3D magnetic nulls
A. Le , J. Egedal , A. Vrublevskis

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CP9.00126: Observations of formation and dynamics of plasma filaments in VTF
A. Vrublevskis , J. Egedal , A. Le

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CP9.00127: New anisotropic electron pressure closure implemented in two fluid simulations of collisionless reconnection
O. Ohia , J. Egedal , A. Le , S.V. Lukin

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CP9.00128: The role of kinetic effects and parallel electric fields within the Hall current system of collisionless reconnection
J. Egedal , A. Le , W. Daughton

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CP9.00129: Generalized Skilling Equation for Particle Acceleration in Reconnecting Magnetic Fields
Liang Wang , A. Bhattacharjee , M. Lee

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CP9.00130: Reconnection rates and particle acceleration in electron-positron plasmas
Naoki Bessho , A. Bhattacharjee

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CP9.00131: Diamagnetic Effects on Asymmetric Reconnection: A Comparative PIC and Hall MHD Study
Stephen Abbott , Kai Germaschewski , Amitava Bhattacharjee

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CP9.00132: On the question of hysteresis in Hall MHD Reconnection
Brian Sullivan , Amitava Bhattacharjee , Yi-Min Huang

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CP9.00133: Current sheet formation and the plasmoid instability in large, hyperresistive Hall MHD systems
Amitava Bhattacharjee , Brian Sullivan , Yi-Min Huang

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CP9.00134: RoleĀ  of the Plasmoid Instability in the Onset of Fast Reconnection
Yi-Min Huang , A. Bhattacharjee , Brian P. Sullivan

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CP9.00135: Magnetic Field Reconnection and the quasi-seperatrix layer of three interacting flux ropes
Walter Gekelman , Bart Van Compernolle , Stephen Vincena

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CP9.00136: 3D current, temperature and density profiles of three interacting flux ropes
Bart Van Compernolle , Walter Gekelman , Stephen Vincena

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CP9.00137: The Effect of Shear Flow on the Scaling of 2D Magnetic Reconnection
Paul Cassak

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CP9.00138: Comparison of Secondary Islands in Collisional Reconnection to Hall Reconnection
Lucas Shepherd , Paul Cassak

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CP9.00139: Pressure anisotropy in two-fluid simulations of magnetic reconnection
Evan Johnson

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CP9.00140: Magnetic Reconnection Events in Weakly Collisional Regimes$*$
P. Buratti , B. Coppi

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CP9.00141: Progress on the MHD closure with kinetic ions and drift kinetic electrons
Jianhua Cheng , Yang Chen , Scott Parker , Dmitri Uzdensky

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CP9.00142: Building 3D data sets of flux tube dynamics
B. Loseth , T.P. Intrator , J. Sears

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CP9.00143: Generalized Kinetic Current-Sheet Equilibria
David L. Newman , Martin V. Goldman , Haihong Che , Giovanni Lapenta

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CP9.00144: Influence of current-aligned instabilities on the 3D evolution of magnetic reconnection
V. Roytershteyn , W. Daughton , H. Karimabadi

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CP9.00145: Resistive MHD Simulations of X-Line Retreat and Competing Reconnection Sites
N.A. Murphy , A.K. Young

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CP9.00146: Gyro-kinetic Electron and Fully-Kinetic Ion Particle Simulation of Tearing Mode Instability in a Harris Current Sheet
Xiang Lu , Xueyi Wang , Yu Lin , Kong Wei , Chen Liu

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CP9.00147: Nonlinear gyrofluid simulations of collisionless reconnection
Francois Waelbroeck , Daniela Grasso , Emanuele Tassi

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CP9.00148: Reconnection Effects in the Outer Heliosphere: Is the Magnetic Field in the Heliosheath Sector Region and in the Outer Heliosheath Laminar?
Merav Opher , James Drake , Marc Swisdak , Gabor Toth

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CP9.00149: Acceleration of ions and electrons during magnetic reconnection in a multi-island environment
Kevin Schoeffler , James Drake , Marc Swisdak

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CP9.00150: Super-Alfv\'enic energy transport during magnetic reconnection
Michael Shay , James Drake , Jonathan Eastwood

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CP9.00151: The kinetic structure of slow shocks and reconnection exhausts
Y.H. Liu , J. Drake , M. Swisdak

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CP9.00152: Current sheet break-up via fast plasmoid formation in the island coalescence problem the ultra-high Lundquist number regime ($ S \sim 10^9 $)
J.N. Shadid , R.P. Pawlowski , L. Chac\'on , D.A. Knoll

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CP9.00153: Hyper-resistivity in 2D-MHD turbulence
Zhibin Guo , P.H. Diamond

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CP9.00154: Fast 2D magnetic reconnection: relating anomalous resistivity and two-fluid MHD models
V.S. Lukin , M.G. Linton

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