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Papers from the 60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Invited papers, review articles, and tutorials from the 60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics Co-Located with the 71st Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference held in Portland, Oregon, November 5-9, 2018. Among the highlights will include the award and prize lectures by Keith Burrell, Seth Davidovits, Frederico Fiuza, and Jozef Ongena.

Guest Editor: David E. Newman

Inertially Confined Plasmas, Dense Plasmas, Equations of State

Low mode implosion symmetry sensitivity in low gas-fill NIF cylindrical hohlraums

N. Izumi; D. T. Woods; N. B. Meezan; J. D. Moody; O. L. Landen; L. Divol; Hui Chen; D. A. Callahan; M. Hohenberger; A. L. Kritcher; D. T. Casey; M. D. Rosen; J. S. Ross; M. B. Schneider; M. J. Edwards; W. W. Hsing

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0030826

Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement

Separating divertor closure effects on divertor detachment and pedestal shape in DIII-D

A. L. Moser; L. Casali; B. M. Covele; A. W. Leonard; A. G. McLean; M. W. Shafer; H. Q. Wang; J. G. Watkins

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5109027

Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities

Hybrid particle-in-cell simulations of laser-driven plasma interpenetration, heating, and entrainment

D. P. Higginson; P. Amendt; N. Meezan; W. Riedel; H. G. Rinderknecht; S. C. Wilks; G. Zimmerman

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5110512

Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement

Long-lived predator-prey dynamics in the pedestal of near-zero torque high performance DIII-D plasmas

K. Barada; T. L. Rhodes; K. H. Burrell; L. Zeng; Xi Chen; M. E. Austin; L. Bardóczi; C. M. Muscatello; W. A. Peebles

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5097143

Lasers, Particle Beams, Accelerators, Radiation Generation

X-ray sources using a picosecond laser driven plasma accelerator

N. Lemos; P. King; J. L. Shaw; A. L. Milder; K. A. Marsh; A. Pak; B. B. Pollock; C. Goyon; W. Schumaker; A. M. Saunders; D. Papp; R. Polanek; J. E. Ralph; J. Park; R. Tommasini; G. J. Williams; Hui Chen; F. V. Hartemann; S. Q. Wu; S. H. Glenzer; B. M. Hegelich; J. Moody; P. Michel; C. Joshi; F. Albert

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5091798

Lasers, Particle Beams, Accelerators, Radiation Generation

Field reconstruction from proton radiography of intense laser driven magnetic reconnection

C. A. J. Palmer; P. T. Campbell; Y. Ma; L. Antonelli; A. F. A. Bott; G. Gregori; J. Halliday; Y. Katzir; P. Kordell; K. Krushelnick; S. V. Lebedev; E. Montgomery; M. Notley; D. C. Carroll; C. P. Ridgers; A. A. Schekochihin; M. J. V. Streeter; A. G. R. Thomas; E. R. Tubman; N. Woolsey; L. Willingale

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5092733

REVIEW ARTICLE

Performance of Wendelstein 7-X stellarator plasmas during the first divertor operation phase

R. C. Wolf; A. Alonso; S. Äkäslompolo; J. Baldzuhn; M. Beurskens; C. D. Beidler; C. Biedermann; H.-S. Bosch; S. Bozhenkov; R. Brakel; H. Braune; S. Brezinsek; K.-J. Brunner; H. Damm; A. Dinklage; P. Drewelow; F. Effenberg; Y. Feng; O. Ford; G. Fuchert; Y. Gao; J. Geiger; O. Grulke; N. Harder; D. Hartmann; P. Helander; B. Heinemann; M. Hirsch; U. Höfel; C. Hopf; K. Ida; M. Isobe; M. W. Jakubowski; Y. O. Kazakov; C. Killer; T. Klinger; J. Knauer; R. König; M. Krychowiak; A. Langenberg; H. P. Laqua; S. Lazerson; P. McNeely; S. Marsen; N. Marushchenko; R. Nocentini; K. Ogawa; G. Orozco; M. Osakabe; M. Otte; N. Pablant; E. Pasch; A. Pavone; M. Porkolab; A. Puig Sitjes; K. Rahbarnia; R. Riedl; N. Rust; E. Scott; J. Schilling; R. Schroeder; T. Stange; A. von Stechow; E. Strumberger; T. Sunn Pedersen; J. Svensson; H. Thomson; Y. Turkin; L. Vano; T. Wauters; G. Wurden; M. Yoshinuma; M. Zanini; D. Zhang; the Wendelstein 7-X Team

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5098761

Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities

Experimental study of ion heating in obliquely merging hypersonic plasma jets

Samuel J. Langendorf; Kevin C. Yates; Scott C. Hsu; Carsten Thoma; Mark Gilmore

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5108727

TUTORIAL

Turbulent mixing and transition criteria of flows induced by hydrodynamic instabilities

Ye Zhou; Timothy T. Clark; Daniel S. Clark; S. Gail Glendinning; M. Aaron Skinner; Channing M. Huntington; Omar A. Hurricane; Andris M. Dimits; Bruce A. Remington

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5088745

Inertially Confined Plasmas, High Energy Density Plasma Science, Warm Dense Matter

Making inertial confinement fusion models more predictive

Jim A. Gaffney; Scott T. Brandon; Kelli D. Humbird; Michael K. G. Kruse; Ryan C. Nora; J. Luc Peterson; Brian K. Spears

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5108667

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The 2018 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics

Michael E. Mauel

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5120399

Inertially Confined Plasmas, High Energy Density Plasma Science, Warm Dense Matter

Pushered single shell implosions for mix and radiation trapping studies using high-Z layers on National Ignition Facility

E. L. Dewald; J. E. Pino; R. E. Tipton; J. D. Salmonson; J. Ralph; E. Hartouni; S. F. Khan; R. Hatarik; C. V. Young; D. Thorn; V. A. Smalyuk; R. Sacks; A. Nikroo; N. Rice; S. A. MacLaren; S. Prisbrey; B. A. Remington; F. Graziani

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5109426

Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement

Verification and application of resonance broadened quasi-linear (RBQ) model with multiple Alfvénic instabilities

N. N. Gorelenkov; V. N. Duarte; C. S. Collins; M. Podestà; R. B. White

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5087252

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Foreword to Special Issue: Papers from the 60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, November 5–9, 2018, Portland, OR, USA

David Newman; Arturo Dominguez; Michael Mauel

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115515

Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities

Nonthermal ion acceleration by the kink instability in nonrelativistic jets

E. P. Alves; J. Zrake; F. Fiuza

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5098478

Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement

Self-consistent pedestal prediction for JET-ILW in preparation of the DT campaign

S. Saarelma; L. Frassinetti; P. Bilkova; C. D. Challis; A. Chankin; R. Fridström; L. Garzotti; L. Horvath; C. F. Maggi; JET Contributors

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5096870

Inertially Confined Plasmas, High Energy Density Plasma Science, Warm Dense Matter

Understanding turbulence in compressing plasma as a quasi-EOS

Seth Davidovits; Nathaniel J. Fisch

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5098790

Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement

Safety factor and turbulence dynamics dependence of the L-H power threshold on DIII-D

Z. Yan; G. R. Mckee; P. Gohil; L. Schmitz; C. Holland; S. R. Haskey; B. A. Grierson; R. Ke; T. Rhodes; C. Petty

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5091701

Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement

Kinetic simulations of sheared flow stabilization in high-temperature Z-pinch plasmas

K. Tummel; D. P. Higginson; A. J. Link; A. E. W. Schmidt; D. T. Offermann; D. R. Welch; R. E. Clark; U. Shumlak; B. A. Nelson; R. P. Golingo; H. S. McLean

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5092241

Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities