US-Japan Workshop on Physics of Compact Toroid Plasmas

February 25-27, 2002
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Spheromak Experiment overview

Nagata, Transition between Spherical RFP and Spherical Torus during the Helicity Injection Process

Woodruff, Coalescence of multiple plasmoids as a means of efficient spheromak formation

Nelson, The Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive Helicity Injection: The HIT–SI Experiment

FRC Experiment overview

Wurden, Progress on the FRX-L FRC Plasma Injector at LANL for Magnetized Target Fusion

Brown, Overview of the SSX-FRC experiment

Large-orbit particle experiments

Greenly, The Cornell Ion Ring Program

Asai, Effects of Neutral Beam Injection on FRC Confinement

Rotating magnetic fields

Milroy, Physics Overview of Rotating Magnetic Field Current Drive for a Field-Reversed Configuration

Guo, Formation and steady-state maintenance of field reversed configurations using rotating magnetic fields (RMF)

Ohnishi, Study of Equilibrium Operation by Rotating Magnetic Field Current Drive in Field-Reversed Configuration

Flow effects

Ono, Application of Toroidal Flow to Oblate FRCs in TS-3 and 4 Merging Experiments

Yamada, Axisymmetric flowing equilibria of a two-fluid plasma

Steinhauer, Compact toroid equilibria as double-mode condensates

Diagnostics

Inomoto, Electron Temperature Measurement of NB-aided FRC in the FIX Device

Cothran, Partial and complete spheromak merging: three-dimensional reconnection and FRC studies at SSX

Miller, Internal Magnetic Field Measurements in the TCS Experiment

Peter, Experimental Measurement of Ion Toroidal Rotation in an FRC with RMF Current Drive

Sieck, Comparisons between Steady Inductive Helicity Injection (SIHI) and Merging Spheromak Experiments

Theory and experimental modeling

Barnes, Long FRC Equilibrium and Stability – Toward a Theory of S*/E Scaling

Gretchikha, Simulations of Ion Beam-Alfven Wave Dynamics in the Cornell Ion Ring Experiment

Izzo, NIMROD Simulations of the HIT-SI Spheromak

Innovative concepts

Slough, Pulsed High Density Fusion

Schaffer, ADVANCES IN NOVEL FRC PLASMAS

Workshops

Diagnostic Issues Workshop Summary

RMF Issues Workshop Summary

Physics Issues Workshop Summary

Experiment Issues Workshop Summary

Vision-innovative Ideas Workshop Summary