Recent Publications
  in plasma science @ UNM


APS Division of Plasma Physics Conference, Dallas 2008

Bricette Cyrin, The HelCat Helicon-Cathode Device at UNM, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Ralph Kelly, Alfvén wave Measurements in Helium using the HelCat Device at UNM, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Alan Lynn, Magnetic Bubble Expansion as an Experimental Model for Extra-Galactic Radio Lobes, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Christopher Watts, Modeling Ionospheric Effects for the LWA, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Shuangwei Xie, Observation of Chaos in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma Due to An Applied Electrical Field , APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Lincan Yan, Convective Blobs in the Presence of Sheared Flows in A Magnetized Laboratory Plasma, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Yue Zhang, Design and Construction of the Plasma Bubble Expansion Experiment, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

APS Division of Plasma Physics Conference, Orlando 2007


Electron Temperature Fluctuations

Christopher Watts, A Review of ECE Correlation Radiometry Techniques for Detection of Core Electron Temperature Fluctuations, Fusion Science and Technology, 52, 174 (2007)

Christopher Watts, H. J. Hartfuss and M. Häse, Comparison of different methods of electron cyclotron emission-correlation radiometry for the measurement of temperature fluctuations in the plasma core, Review of Scientific Instruments, 75, 3177 (2004)

Christopher Watts, et al., Upper limit on turbulent electron temperature fluctuations on Alcator C-Mod, Nuclear Fusion, 44 (2004).

J. Heard, C. Watts, R. F. Gandy, P. E. Phillips, G. Cima, R. Chatterjee, A. Blair, A. E. Hubbard, C. W. Domier, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., High resolution electron cyclotron emission temperature profile and fluctuation diagnostic for Alcator C-Mod, Rev. Sci. Inst., 70, 1011 (1999).

 

FRX-L @ Los Alamos National Lab

Alan Lynn, Initial design of a spectroscopic plasma flow diagnostic for the FRX-L field-reversed configuration plasma, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting (Oct. 2006).

HelCat (and Alpha) Device

Bricette Cyrin, The HelCat Helicon-Cathode Device at UNM, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Christopher Watts, Impurity Doping in Helicon Plasmas, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Orlando (Oct. 2007)

Christopher Watts, Dual source operation of the HelCat Device, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Orlando (Oct. 2007)

Mark Gilmore, Overview of the HELCAT (HELicon-CAThode) Dual-Source Linear Plasma Device, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting (Oct. 2006).

Christopher Watts, Alpha: A Large-area Plasma Helicon Array, Review of Scientific Instruments, 75, 1975 (2004).

Christopher Watts, Model for neutral profile of a helicon plasma, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting (Oct. 2003).

Christopher Watts, Coupling of multiple helicon sources on alpha, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting (Oct. 2003).

Plasma Bubble Expansion Experiment (PBEX)

Alan Lynn, Magnetic Bubble Expansion as an Experimental Model for Extra-Galactic Radio Lobes, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Alan Lynn, Experimental and Numerical Studies of Magnetic Bubble Expansion as a Model for Extra-Galactic Radio Lobes, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Orlando (Oct. 2007)

Yue Zhang, Design and Construction of the Plasma Bubble Expansion Experiment, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Orlando (Oct. 2007)

Secondary Electron Emission

Space Weather & Ionosphere

Christopher Watts, Modeling Ionospheric Effects for the LWA, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Turbulence & Waves

Ralph Kelly, Alfvén wave Measurements in Helium using the HelCat Device at UNM, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Shuangwei Xie, Observation of Chaos in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma Due to An Applied Electrical Field , APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Lincan Yan, Convective Blobs in the Presence of Sheared Flows in A Magnetized Laboratory Plasma, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Dallas (Nov. 2008)

Ralph Kelly, Alfvén wave Measurements in HelCat at UNM, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Orlando (Oct. 2007)

Shuangwei Xie, Investigation of Active Feedback Control of Turbulent Transport in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting (Oct. 2006).

Lincan Yan, Investigation of Intermittent Turbulence and Turbulent Structures in the Presence of Controlled Sheared Flows, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting (Oct. 2006).

Christopher Watts, Alfvén wave measurements in HelCat, APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Philadelphia (Oct. 2006).

Christopher Watts and Jeremy Hanna, Alfvén Wave Propagation in Partially Ionized Plasmas, Physics of Plasmas, 11, 1358 (2004)

.Jeremy Hanna, Christopher Watts, Alfvén wave measurements in a helicon plasma, Physics of Plasmas, 8, 4251 (2001).


Student Theses

Student Advisor Dissertation Title
Naga Devara Mark Gilmore 120 Ghz Tracking Interferometer For The Triggered Plasma Opening Switch
Preshanth Kumar Mark Gilmore Characterization of the Dose Effect in Secondary Electron Emission

 



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