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November 2014
ISSN 1070-664X
EISSN 1089-7674
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REVIEW ARTICLE
20 years of research on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak
In Special Collection:
Reviews and Tutorials in Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, and Confinement
M. Greenwald; A. Bader; S. Baek; M. Bakhtiari; H. Barnard; W. Beck; W. Bergerson; I. Bespamyatnov; P. Bonoli; D. Brower; D. Brunner; W. Burke; J. Candy; M. Churchill; I. Cziegler; A. Diallo; A. Dominguez; B. Duval; E. Edlund; P. Ennever; D. Ernst; I. Faust; C. Fiore; T. Fredian; O. Garcia; C. Gao; J. Goetz; T. Golfinopoulos; R. Granetz; O. Grulke; Z. Hartwig; S. Horne; N. Howard; A. Hubbard; J. Hughes; I. Hutchinson; J. Irby; V. Izzo; C. Kessel; B. LaBombard; C. Lau; C. Li; Y. Lin; B. Lipschultz; A. Loarte; E. Marmar; A. Mazurenko; G. McCracken; R. McDermott; O. Meneghini; D. Mikkelsen; D. Mossessian; R. Mumgaard; J. Myra; E. Nelson-Melby; R. Ochoukov; G. Olynyk; R. Parker; S. Pitcher; Y. Podpaly; M. Porkolab; M. Reinke; J. Rice; W. Rowan; A. Schmidt; S. Scott; S. Shiraiwa; J. Sierchio; N. Smick; J. A. Snipes; P. Snyder; B. Sorbom; J. Stillerman; C. Sung; Y. Takase; V. Tang; J. Terry; D. Terry; C. Theiler; A. Tronchin-James; N. Tsujii; R. Vieira; J. Walk; G. Wallace; A. White; D. Whyte; J. Wilson; S. Wolfe; G. Wright; J. Wright; S. Wukitch; S. Zweben
Phys. Plasmas 21, 110501 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901920
LETTERS
On violation of local closure of transport relation in high-temperature magnetized plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 21, 110701 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902102
Conversion of the dominantly ideal perturbations into a tearing mode after a sawtooth crash
V. Igochine; A. Gude; S. Günter; K. Lackner; Q. Yu; L. Barrera Orte; A. Bogomolov; I. Classen; R. M. McDermott; N. C. Luhmann, Jr.; ASDEX Upgrade Team
Phys. Plasmas 21, 110702 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902106
ARTICLES
Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities
Analytical estimate of phase mixing time of longitudinal Akhiezer-Polovin waves
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112104 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901194
Instabilities of collisionless current sheets revisited: The role of anisotropic heating
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112106 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901033
Vlasov simulations of kinetic Alfvén waves at proton kinetic scales
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112107 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901583
Plasma wave aided two photon decay of an electromagnetic wave in a plasma
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112112 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902104
Orbit-based analysis of resonant excitations of Alfvén waves in tokamaks
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112116 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902519
Influence of O2 on the dielectric properties of CO2 at the elevated temperatures
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112117 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902514
Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport
Verification of gyrokinetic microstability codes with an LHD configuration
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112305 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902124
Nonquasineutral electron vortices in nonuniform plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112306 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902101
Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement
Inviscid evolution of large amplitude filaments in a uniform gravity field
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112504 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901237
The effect of an anisotropic pressure of thermal particles on resistive wall mode stability
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112505 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901568
Synergistic cross-scale coupling of turbulence in a tokamak plasma
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112510 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902366
Simulation of peeling-ballooning modes with pellet injection
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112512 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902532
Inertially Confined Plasmas, High Energy Density Plasma Science, Warm Dense Matter
The effect of shock dynamics on compressibility of ignition-scale National Ignition Facility implosions
A. B. Zylstra; J. A. Frenje; F. H. Séguin; D. G. Hicks; E. L. Dewald; H. F. Robey; J. R. Rygg; N. B. Meezan; M. J. Rosenberg; H. G. Rinderknecht; S. Friedrich; R. Bionta; R. Olson; J. Atherton; M. Barrios; P. Bell; R. Benedetti; L. Berzak Hopkins; R. Betti; D. Bradley; D. Callahan; D. Casey; G. Collins; S. Dixit; T. Döppner; D. Edgell; M. J. Edwards; M. Gatu Johnson; S. Glenn; S. Glenzer; G. Grim; S. Hatchett; O. Jones; S. Khan; J. Kilkenny; J. Kline; J. Knauer; A. Kritcher; G. Kyrala; O. Landen; S. LePape; C. K. Li; J. Lindl; T. Ma; A. Mackinnon; A. Macphee; M. J.-E. Manuel; D. Meyerhofer; J. Moody; E. Moses; S. R. Nagel; A. Nikroo; A. Pak; T. Parham; R. D. Petrasso; R. Prasad; J. Ralph; M. Rosen; J. S. Ross; T. C. Sangster; S. Sepke; N. Sinenian; H. W. Sio; B. Spears; P. Springer; R. Tommasini; R. Town; S. Weber; D. Wilson; R. Zacharias
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112701 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4900621
Study of gas-puff Z-pinches on COBRA
N. Qi; E. W. Rosenberg; P. A. Gourdain; P. W. L. de Grouchy; B. R. Kusse; D. A. Hammer; K. S. Bell; T. A. Shelkovenko; W. M. Potter; L. Atoyan; A. D. Cahill; M. Evans; J. B. Greenly; C. L. Hoyt; S. A. Pikuz; P. C. Schrafel; E. Kroupp; A. Fisher; Y. Maron
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112702 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4900748
Low-adiabat rugby hohlraum experiments on the National Ignition Facility: Comparison with high-flux modeling and the potential for gas-wall interpenetration
Peter Amendt; J. Steven Ross; Jose L. Milovich; Marilyn Schneider; Erik Storm; Debra A. Callahan; Denise Hinkel; Barbara Lasinski; Don Meeker; Pierre Michel; John Moody; David Strozzi
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112703 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901195
Evolution of helical perturbations in a thin-shell model of an imploding liner
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112704 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901197
A survey of pulse shape options for a revised plastic ablator ignition design
D. S. Clark; J. L. Milovich; D. E. Hinkel; J. D. Salmonson; J. L. Peterson; L. F. Berzak Hopkins; D. C. Eder; S. W. Haan; O. S. Jones; M. M. Marinak; H. F. Robey; V. A. Smalyuk; C. R. Weber
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112705 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901572
Simulations of indirectly driven gas-filled capsules at the National Ignition Facility
S. V. Weber; D. T. Casey; D. C. Eder; J. D. Kilkenny; J. E. Pino; V. A. Smalyuk; G. P. Grim; B. A. Remington; D. P. Rowley; C. B. Yeamans; R. E. Tipton; M. Barrios; R. Benedetti; L. Berzak Hopkins; D. L. Bleuel; E. J. Bond; D. K. Bradley; J. A. Caggiano; D. A. Callahan; C. J. Cerjan; D. S. Clark; L. Divol; D. H. Edgell; M. J. Edwards; M. J. Eckart; D. Fittinghoff; J. A. Frenje; M. Gatu-Johnson; V. Y. Glebov; S. Glenn; N. Guler; S. W. Haan; A. Hamza; R. Hatarik; H. Herrmann; D. Hoover; W. W. Hsing; N. Izumi; O. S. Jones; M. Kervin; S. Khan; J. Kline; J. Knauer; A. Kritcher; G. Kyrala; O. L. Landen; S. Le Pape; T. Ma; A. J. Mackinnon; A. G. MacPhee; M. M. Marinak; J. M. Mcnaney; N. B. Meezan; F. E. Merrill; M. Mintz; A. Moore; D. H. Munro; A. Nikroo; A. Pak; T. Parham; R. Petrasso; H. G. Rinderknecht; D. B. Sayre; S. M. Sepke; B. K. Spears; W. Stoeffl; R. Tommasini; R. P. Town; P. Volegov; K. Widmann; D. C. Wilson; A. B. Zylstra
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112706 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901598
Coupling of an average-atom model with a collisional-radiative equilibrium model
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112707 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902123
X-ray conversion efficiency and radiation non-uniformity in the hohlraum experiments at Shenguang-III prototype laser facility
Huasen Zhang; Dong Yang; Peng Song; Shiyang Zou; Yiqing Zhao; Sanwei Li; Zhichao Li; Liang Guo; Feng Wang; Xiaoshi Peng; Huiyue Wei; Tao Xu; Wudi Zheng; Peijun Gu; Wenbing Pei; Shaoen Jiang; Yongkun Ding
Phys. Plasmas 21, 112709 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901919
Ionospheric, Solar-System, and Astrophysical Plasmas
Lasers, Particle Beams, Accelerators, Radiation Generation
Self-compression of intense short laser pulses in relativistic magnetized plasma
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113102 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901029
Collimated fast electron beam generation in critical density plasma
T. Iwawaki; H. Habara; S. Baton; K. Morita; J. Fuchs; S. Chen; M. Nakatsutsumi; C. Rousseaux; F. Filippi; W. Nazarov; K. A. Tanaka
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113103 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4900868
The slingshot effect: A possible new laser-driven high energy acceleration mechanism for electrons
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113105 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901285
Controllable high-quality electron beam generation by phase slippage effect in layered targets
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113106 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901600
An S-band high gain relativistic klystron amplifier with high phase stability
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113107 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901811
Terahertz generation by two cross focused Gaussian laser beams in magnetized plasma
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113109 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902368
Low-Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Applications, Plasma Sources, Sheaths
Sheath oscillation characteristics and effect on near-wall conduction in a krypton Hall thruster
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113501 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4900764
Statistical modelling of discharge behavior of atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113502 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901250
Two-dimensional positive column structure in a discharge tube with radius discontinuity
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113503 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901307
Formation mechanism of dot-line square superlattice pattern in dielectric barrier discharge
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113504 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4900623
Power dependence of electron density at various pressures in inductively coupled plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113505 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901305
Dusty Plasmas
Dust magneto-gravitational drift wave in configuration
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113702 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901199
Coupling strength in Coulomb and Yukawa one-component plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113704 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4900625
Study of possible chaotic, quasi-periodic and periodic structures in quantum dusty plasma
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113705 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901917
Landau damping in a multi-component dusty plasma
Phys. Plasmas 21, 113706 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901576
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Dispersion relations for electromagnetic wave propagation in chiral plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 21, 114501 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901349
ERRATA
Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion
Samuel E. Wurzel, Scott C. Hsu
FreeGSNKE: A Python-based dynamic free-boundary toroidal plasma equilibrium solver
N. C. Amorisco, A. Agnello, et al.