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Editorial
Simon Woodruff
3-15
Chair Summaries from the 2006 Innovative Confinement Concepts (ICC) Workshop
D. Craig, R. Goldston, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson and C. R. Sovinec, et al.
17-20
Magnetic Field and Inductance Calculations in Theta-Pinch and Z-Pinch Geometries
T. J. Awe, R. E. Siemon, B. S. Bauer, S. Fuelling and V. Makhin, et al.
21-23
Plasma Centrifuge Heat Engine – a Route to Non-thermal p-11B Fusion
D. C. Barnes
25-29
OriginalPaper
Measurements of Plasma Jets and Collimated Flux Tubes that are the Precursors of Spheromak Self-organization
P. M. Bellan, S. You and G. S. Yun
31-35
Novel Dipole Trapped Spheromak Configuration
M. R. Brown, C. D. Cothran, J. Fung, M. J. Schaffer and E. Belova
37-41
OriginalPaper
Spectroscopic Flow and Ion Temperature Studies of a Large s FRC
C. D. Cothran, J. Fung, M. R. Brown, M. J. Schaffer and E. Belova
43-46
Non-inductive Production of ST Plasmas with Washer Gun Sources on the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
N. W. Eidietis, R. J. Fonck, G. D. Garstka, E. A. Unterberg and G. R. Winz
47-51
Experimental Design of a Magnetic Flux Compression Experiment
Stephan Fuelling, Thomas J. Awe, Bruno S. Bauer, Tasha Goodrich and Irvin R. Lindemuth, et al.
53-56
Improved Stability and Confinement in a High-β Relaxed Plasma State
H. Y. Guo, A. L. Hoffman, K. E. Miller and L. C. Steinhauer
57-60
Original Paper
Varying Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating on the Levitated Dipole Experiment
A. K. Hansen, A. C. Boxer, J. L. Ellsworth, D. T. Garnier and I. Karim, et al.
61-65
Symmetric Neutralized Ion Beams for Magnetic Fusion Applications
Nathaniel K. Hicks and Alfred Y. Wong
67-70
OriginalPaper
Confinement & Current Drive Measurements for Steady-State FRCs
A. L. Hoffman, H. Y. Guo, K. E. Miller and R. D. Milroy
71-75
Magnetic Reconnection in the Spheromak: Physics and Consequences
E. B. Hooper, B. I. Cohen, D. N. Hill, L. L. LoDestro and H. S. McLean, et al.
77-80
OriginalPaper
Global Energy Confinement Scaling Predictions for Tandem Mirrors
W. Horton, J. Pratt, H. L. Berk and E. Spencer
81-84
Original Paper
Advances in CTIX Accelerator Study
D. Q. Hwang, R. D. Horton, S. Howard, R. W. Evans and S. J. Brockington
85-90
Proposed Experiment to Study Relaxation Formation of a Spherical Tokamak with a Plasma Center Column
S. C. Hsu and X. Z. Tang
91-92
Original paper
Overview of the Plasma Science and Innovation Center (PSI – Center)
Thomas R. Jarboe, Adam Bayless, Eric Held, Jeong-Young Ji and Charlson Kim, et al.
93-97
OriginalPaper
Recent Advances in the SPIRIT (Self-organized Plasma with Induction, Reconnection, and Injection Techniques) Concept
H. Ji, E. Belova, S. P. Gerhardt and M. Yamada
99-102
OriginalPaper
Equilibrium Reconstruction of Anisotropic Pressure Profile in the Levitated Dipole Experiment
I. Karim, M. E. Mauel, J. L. Ellsworth, A. C. Boxer and D. T. Garnier, et al.
103-107
OriginalPaper
Confinement of Strongly Anisotropic Hot-ion Plasma in a Compact Mirror
A. V. Anikeev, P. A. Bagryansky, A. A. Ivanov, A. A. Lizunov and S. V. Murakhtin, et al.
109-112
Original paper
Numerical Modeling of a Magnetic Flux Compression Experiment
Volodymyr Makhin, Bruno S. Bauer, Thomas J. Awe, Stephan Fuelling and Tasha Goodrich, et al.
113-117
Simulations of the Field-Reversed Configuration with the NIMROD Code
A. I. D. Macnab, D. C. Barnes, R. D. Milroy, C. C. Kim and C. R. Sovinec
119-121
Perspectives on Magnetized Target Fusion Power Plants
R. L. Miller
123-126
Antisymmetric RMF Current Drive in FRCs
R. D. Milroy, H. Y. Guo, A. L. Hoffman and L. C. Steinhauer
127-130
The Plasma Science and Innovation Center Interfacing Group
B. A. Nelson, C. C. Kim, A. P. Cassidy, S. D. Griffith and R. D. Milroy, et al.
131-133
Overview of HIT-SI Diagnostic Systems
R. G. O’Neill, R. J. Smith, C. Akcay, W. T. Hamp and R. Z. Aboul Hosn, et al.
135-137
Variational Principle of Hall Magnetohydrodynamics
Shuichi Ohsaki
139-144
OriginalPaper
Effects of the Hot Electron Interchange Instability on Plasma Confined in a Dipolar Magnetic Field
E. E. Ortiz, A. C. Boxer, J. L. Ellsworth, D. T. Garnier and A. K. Hansen, et al.
145-148
Initial Vacuum Magnetic Field Mapping in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid
J. T. Peterson, G. J. Hartwell, S. F. Knowlton, J. Hanson and R. F. Kelly, et al.
149-153
Original Paper
Combining the “Kinetic Tandem” and the “Kinetic Stabilizer” Concepts
R. F. Post
155-158
Asymmetry, Potential Penetration and Supersonic Speeds in MBX Experiment at High Voltage and Medium Power
H. J. Quevedo, P. M. Valanju and Roger D. Bengtson
159-162
Solenoid-free Plasma Start-up in HIT-II and NSTX using Transient CHI
R. Raman, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson, M. G. Bell and D. Mueller
163-168
Overview of the Helicity Injected Torus (HIT) Program
A. J. Redd, T. R. Jarboe, W. T. Hamp, B. A. Nelson and R. G. O’Neill, et al.
169-172
Comparison Between Experimental Measurements and Numerical Simulations of Spheromak Formation in SSPX
C. A. Romero-Talamás, E. B. Hooper, D. N. Hill, B. I Cohen and H. S. McLean, et al.
173-177
Solving the Stand-off Problem for Magnetized Target Fusion: Plasma Streams as Disposable Electrodes, Together with a Local Spherical Blanket
D. D. Ryutov and Y. C. F. Thio
179-183
A Novel Method Of Transport Barrier Formation
S. Sen
185-189
Equilibrium Evolution in the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch
U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, C. S. Adams, D. J. Den Hartog and R. P. Golingo, et al.
191-197
Original Paper
Compression, Heating and Fusion of Colliding Plasmoids by a Z-theta Driven Plasma Liner
John Slough, Richard Milroy, Tim Ziemba and S. Woodruff
199-205
The Pulsed High Density Experiment: Concept, Design, and Initial Results
John Slough, Samuel Andreason, Hiroshi Gota, Chris Pihl and George Votroubek
207-210
Computation of Equilibria of a Flowing Two-fluid in Two Dimensions
Loren C. Steinhauer, Houyang Guo and Akio Ishida
211-214
Adaptive Optimal Stochastic State Feedback Control of Resistive Wall Modes in Tokamaks
Z. Sun, A. K. Sen and R. W. Longman
215-220
Original Paper
On the Physics of Improved Confinement During Pulsed Poloidal Current Drive in MST Reversed-Field Pinch
V. A. Svidzinski and S. C. Prager
221-225
Initial Experiments at High Normalized Current in the Pegasus
Toroidal Experiment
E. A. Unterberg, D. J. Battaglia, M. W. Bongard, N. W. Eidietis and R. J. Fonck, et al.
227-232
Validation of the Semi-Implicit Algorithm Time Stepping for MH4D
Srinath Vadlamani, Uri Shumlak and George Marklin
233-238
Observation of an Enhanced Magnetic Helicity Injection Mode by a Rotating Plasma Annulus
Zhehui Wang, Jiahe Si and Hui Li
239-241
Thinking in Different Ways to Combine Fusion with Fission
F. Winterberg
243-246
Physics of Formation, Acceleration, Reconnection and Compression of Two Field Reversed Configurations
S. Woodruff, G. Votroubek, J. Slough and T. Ziemba
247-250
Summary of US Fusion Program Planning Documents Relating to Innovative Confinement Concepts (1992–2005)
S. Woodruff