Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2006 48th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics

Monday–Friday, October 30–November 3 2006; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Session Index

Session NO1: NSTX

Chair: Todd Evans, General Atomics
Room: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Grand Salon G

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:30AM - 9:42AM		NO1.00001: Research directions and highlights from the 2006 NSTX experiments. R. Raman Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:42AM - 9:54AM		NO1.00002: NSTX Experiments with Evaporated Lithium Coatings on Plasma-Facing Surfaces M.G. Bell, H.W. Kugel, R. Kaita, R.P. Majeski, D.K. Mansfield, L.A. Roquemore, C.H. Skinner, J.R. Timberlake, L.E. Zakharov Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:54AM - 10:06AM		NO1.00003: Observation of the Enhanced High-k Spectra during H-mode Phase on NSTX. H.K. Park, D.R. Smith, E. Mazzucato, M. Bell, R. Bell, B. Leblanc, S. Kaye, R. Maingi, C.W. Domier, N.C. Luhmann, Jr. Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:06AM - 10:18AM		NO1.00004: The Enhanced Pedestal H-mode in NSTX R. Maingi, R.E. Bell, D.A. Gates, S.M. Kaye, B.P. LeBlanc, J.E. Menard, S.A. Sabbagh, F. Levinton, H. Yuh Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:18AM - 10:30AM		NO1.00005: Study of the Relationship between Type I ELM Severity and Perturbed Electron Transport in NSTX Kevin Tritz, D. Stutman, L. Delgado-Aparicio, M. Finkenthal, R. Bell, B. LeBlanc, S. Kaye, R. Maingi, S. Sabbagh Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:30AM - 10:42AM		NO1.00006: Developments in plasma shaping experiments on NSTX D.A. Gates, J.E. Menard, D. Mueller, T. Stevenson Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:42AM - 10:54AM		NO1.00007: Error field identification and correction in NSTX high beta-N plasmas J.E. Menard, D.A. Gates, C.A. Ludescher, D.M. Mastrovito, S.A. Sabbagh, A.C. Sontag Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:54AM - 11:06AM		NO1.00008: RWM Stabilization Physics in NSTX A.C. Sontag, S.A. Sabbagh, J.M. Bialek, R.E. Bell, D.A. Gates, J.E. Menard, A.H. Glasser, K.L. Tritz Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:06AM - 11:18AM		NO1.00009: Hole-clump Pair Suppression with HHFW on NSTX E.D. Fredrickson, N.N. Gorelenkov, S.S. Medley, S. Bernabei, J.R. Wilson, J. Menard, W. Heidbrink, H. Berk, S. Kubota, N. Crocker, W.A. Peebles, R.W. Harvey Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:18AM - 11:30AM		NO1.00010: New beam driven modes below the geodesic acoustic frequency in NSTX Nikolai Gorelenkov, E. Fredrickson, H. Berk Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:30AM - 11:42AM		NO1.00011: HHFW Propagation and Damping Properties on NSTX versus B$_{\Phi }$ and Antenna k$_{\vert \vert }$ J. Hosea, R. Bell, S. Bernabei, B. LeBlanc, C.K. Phillips, J.R. Wilson, S. Sabbagh, L. Delgado-Aparicio, K. Tritz, P. Ryan, J. Wilgen Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:42AM - 11:54AM		NO1.00012: Thermal Electron Bernstein Wave Emission Measurements on NSTX S.J. Diem, G. Taylor, P. Efthimion, B.P. LeBlanc, C.K. Phillips, J. Caughman, J. Wilgen, R.W. Harvey, J. Preinhaelter, J. Urban Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:54AM - 12:06PM		NO1.00013: MARFE structure and dynamics in NSTX Ricardo Maqueda, Rajesh Maingi, Charles Bush, Kevin Tritz, K.C. Lee Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:06PM - 12:18PM		NO1.00014: Supersonic gas jet fueling experiments in NSTX V.A. Soukhanovskii, H.W. Kugel, R. Kaita, A.L. Roquemore, M.G. Bell, R.E. Bell, D.A. Gates, T. Gray, B.P. LeBlanc, J.E. Menard, D.P. Stotler, R. Raman, C.E. Bush, R. Maingi Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:18PM - 12:30PM		NO1.00015: Dynamic retention and deposition in NSTX measured with quartz microbalances C.H. Skinner, H.W. Kugel, A.L. Roquemore, R. Maingi, W.R. Wampler Preview Abstract

Session NO2: Advances in Plasma Simulation II

Chair: Andris Dimits, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Grand Salon H

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:30AM - 9:42AM		NO2.00001: Recent progress from Simulation of Wave Interactions with MHD (SWIM) Donald Batchelor Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:42AM - 9:54AM		NO2.00002: Solution of the Helical Grad-Shafranov Equation for Magnetic Fields with Islands Daniel Raburn, Ravi Samtaney, Donald Monticello, Allan Reiman Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:54AM - 10:06AM		NO2.00003: Axisymmetric MHD Simulations of Pellet Ablation Roman Samulyak, Tianshi Lu, Paul Parks Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:06AM - 10:18AM		NO2.00004: Full Orbit PIC in NIMROD Charlson Kim Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:18AM - 10:30AM		NO2.00005: Effects of Ion Landau Damping and Vortex Generation on the Kinetic Internal Kink Model Hiroshi Naitou, Keiichi Ishida, Kenji Ishida, Jean-Noel Leboeuf, Masatoshi Yagi, S. Tokuda Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:30AM - 10:42AM		NO2.00006: New time-adaptive technique for stiff gas dynamics and MHD Y.A. Omelchenko, H. Karimabadi, M.L. Goldstein, A.V. Usmanov Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:42AM - 10:54AM		NO2.00007: Grid-Free Particle Simulations for Electrostatic Plasmas Robert Krasny, Ben Sonday, Lyudmyla Barannyk, Andrew Christlieb Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:54AM - 11:06AM		NO2.00008: On a Primal Coarse Projective Integration Method for Multiscale Simulations Milos Skoric, Seiji Ishiguro, Sandra Maluckov Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:06AM - 11:18AM		NO2.00009: Is PIC-MCC the right tool for the job? Andrew Christlieb Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:18AM - 11:30AM		NO2.00010: Particle dynamics and energization at the earth bow shock. Richard Marchand, Frances Mackay, Jianyong Lu, Konstantin Kabin, Robert Rankin Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:30AM - 11:42AM		NO2.00011: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO BO2.00015 Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:42AM - 11:54AM		NO2.00012: Viscous Heating of Ions through Saturated Fine-Scale MHD Instabilities in a Z-Pinch at 200-300 KeV Temperature Malcolm Haines, Christine Coverdale, Chris Deeney, P. David Lepell, Brent Jones, J.P. Apruzese Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:54AM - 12:06PM		NO2.00013: Evidence of Non-Classical Transport in Discharge Hollow Cathodes Ioannis Mikellides, Ira Katz, Dan Goebel, Kristina Jameson Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:06PM - 12:18PM		NO2.00014: HDF5WS -- Web Service for Remote Access of Simulation Data Svetlana Shasharina, Chuang Li, Rooparani Pundaleeka, Nanbor Wang, David Wade-Stein, David Schissel, Qian Peng Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:18PM - 12:30PM		NO2.00015: Cross Sections for Charge Exchange and Ionization of High Energy Ions in Noble Gases Linchun Wu, Hiromu Momota, George H. Miley Preview Abstract

Session NO3: Short-Pulse Lasers and Fast Ignition

Chair: Todd Ditmire, University of Texas at Austin
Room: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Grand Salon KL

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:30AM - 9:42AM		NO3.00001: Status of the OMEGA EP High-Energy Petawatt Laser Facility C. Stoeckl, J. Bromage, J.H. Kelly, T.J. Kessler, B.E. Kruschwitz, S.J. Loucks, R.L. McCrory, D.D. Meyerhofer, S.F.B. Morse, A.L. Rigatti, T.C. Sangster, W. Theobald, L.J. Waxer, J.D. Zuegel Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:42AM - 9:54AM		NO3.00002: High-resolution 15-100 keV K-alpha radiography for high-energy density experiments Hye-Sook Park, R. Tommasini, M. Key, A. MacKinnon, P. Patel, B. Remington, M. Tabak, R. Towm, C. A. Back, E. Giraldez, C. Stoeckl, W. Theobald Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:54AM - 10:06AM		NO3.00003: Characterization of Fast-Electron Beam Propagation Through Solid-Density Matter by Optical Transition Radiation M. Storm, J. Myatt, C. Stoeckl Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:06AM - 10:18AM		NO3.00004: Anomalous Transmission through Thin Al Foils Driven by High Contrast Ultra-intense Laser T. Matsuoka, T. Lin, S. Reed, A. Maksimchuk, A.A. Batishcheva, J. Fox, O.V. Batishchev, V.Yu. Bychenkov Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:18AM - 10:30AM		NO3.00005: Integrated 1D PIC Simulation of Fast Ignition Brian Chrisman, Yasuhiko Sentoku, A. Kemp, T. Cowan Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:30AM - 10:42AM		NO3.00006: The Channeling Effect in the Underdense Plasma G. Li, C. Ren, V.N. Goncharov, W.B. Mori Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:42AM - 10:54AM		NO3.00007: Beam-plasma interaction analyzed by a hybrid simulation code Toshihiro Taguchi, Kunioki Mima Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:54AM - 11:06AM		NO3.00008: Relativistic electron transport in wire and foil targets driven by intense short pulse lasers R.J. Mason, R.B. Stephens, M. Wei, R.R. Freeman, J. Hill, L.D. Van Woerkom Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:06AM - 11:18AM		NO3.00009: Energy transport experiments using the Vulcan petawatt laser facility Peter Norreys Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:18AM - 11:30AM		NO3.00010: Collisional Relaxation of Super Thermal Electrons Generated by Relativistic Laser Pulses in Thin Solid Targets Andreas Kemp, Emmanuel d'Humieres, Yasuhiko Sentoku, Hui Chen, Hyun Chung, Stephanie Hansen, Ronnie Shepherd, Scott Wilks Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:30AM - 11:42AM		NO3.00011: Three-dimensional fast electron transport for ignition-scale inertial fusion targets Javier Honrubia, Juergen Meyer-ter-Vehn Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:42AM - 11:54AM		NO3.00012: Instabilities of Relativistic Electron Beams in Plasmas: Spatial Growth and Absolute Instability R.W. Short, J. Myatt Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:54AM - 12:06PM		NO3.00013: K-alpha X-rays, Hot Electrons and Electron Jets from Sub-millijoule Femtosecond Laser Pulses Cristina Serbanescu, Dmitri Romanov, Clarence Capjack, Valery Bychenkov, Wojciech Rozmus, Robert Fedosejevs Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:06PM - 12:18PM		NO3.00014: Spatial evolution of femtosecond-laser-induced aluminum plasma observed by picosecond time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy Yasuaki Okano, Katsuya Oguri, Takeshi Kai, Ryou Fujii, Hiroaki Nishimura, Tadashi Nishikawa, Hidetoshi Nakano Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:18PM - 12:30PM		NO3.00015: Single-shot time resolved measurement of molecular alignment in laser-irradiated gases: application to `self-channeled' plasma columns Sanjay Varma, Yu-hsin Chen, Ilya Alexeev, Raphael Moon, Howard Milchberg Preview Abstract

About APS

The American Physical Society (APS) is a non-profit membership organization working to advance the knowledge of physics.

Headquarters 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3844 (301) 209-3200
Editorial Office 100 Motor Pkwy, Suite 110, Hauppauge, NY 11788 (631) 591-4000
Office of Public Affairs 529 14th St NW, Suite 1050, Washington, D.C. 20045-2001 (202) 662-8700

Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2006 48th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics

Monday–Friday, October 30–November 3 2006; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Session Index

Session NO1: NSTX

Session NO2: Advances in Plasma Simulation II

Session NO3: Short-Pulse Lasers and Fast Ignition

Follow Us

Engage

My APS

Information for

About APS