Below are listed a number of papers that either have been or will be published in connection with JIFT activities.
 
 

V. I. Berezhiani, S. M. Mahajan, Z. Yoshida, and M. Ohhashi, "Self-trapping of strong electromagnetic beams in relativistic plasmas," Institute for Fusion Studies Report No. IFS-925 (March 2001), to be published.

B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch, K. Ichiguchi, M. Wakatani, and T. Tatsuno, "On the application of local asymptotic criteria to stellarator stability", Phy. Plasmas 8 (3), 990-996 (2001).

C. Z. Cheng, N. N. Gorelenkov, G. J. Kramer, R. Nazikan, Y. Kusama, K. Shinohara, and T. Ozeki "N-NBI excitation of frequency chirping modes in JT-60U experiments," to be published in Proceedings of the 7th IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems (Gothenberg, Sweden, 8-11 Oct., 2001), paper OT-22.

W. C. Chou, R. Matsumoto, T. Tajima, M. Umekawa, and K. Shibata, "Dynamics of the Parker-Jeans instability in a galactic gaseous disk," Ap. J. 538, 710-727 (2000).

J. Q. Dong, W. Horton, and Y. Kishimoto, "Gyrokinetic study of ion temperature gradient instability in vicinity of flux surfaces with reversed magnetic shear," Phys. Plasmas 8 (1), 167-173 (2001).

W. Horton, P. Zhu, T. Tajima, Y. Kishimoto, J.-M. Kwon, and D.-I. Choi, "Transport barriers in optimized shear toroidal confinement," in Proc. 26th EPS Conf. on Contr. Fusion and Plasma Physics, Maastricht, 14-18 June 1999 (ECA, 1999) vol. 23J, pp. 285-288.

W. Horton, F. Porcelli, P. Zhu, A. Aydemir, Y. Kishimoto, and T. Tajima, "Ignitor physics assessment and confinement projects," Nucl. Fusion 42, 169-179 (2002).

K. Ichiguchi, M. Wakatani, T. Unemura, T. Tatsuno, and B. A. Carreras, "Improved stability due to local pressure flattening in stellarators", Nucl. Fusion 41 (2) 181-187 (2001).

Hantao Ji, Jeremy Goodman, and Akira Kageyama, "Magnetorotational instability in a rotating liquid metal annulus," Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society Letter 325, L1-L5 (2001).

N. N. Gorelenkov, S. Bernabei, C. Z. Cheng, K. Hill, R. Nazikian, S. Kaye, Y. Kusama, G. J. Kramer, K. Shinohara, T. Ozeki, and M. V. Gorelenkova, "Stability properties of toroidal Alfvén modes driven by fast particles," Nuclear Fusion 40 (7), 1311-1323 (2000).

N. N. Gorelenkov, S. Bernabei, C. Z. Cheng, G. Y. Fu, K. Hill, S. Kaye, G. J. Kramer, Y. Kusama, K. Shinohara, R. Nazikian, T. Ozeki, and W. Park, "Fast Particle Effects on the Internal Kink, Fishbone and Alfvén Modes," Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Report No. PPPL-3512 (2001); to be published in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Sorrento, Italy, October 2000. (International Atomic Energy, Vienna), paper IAEA-CN-77/TH6/1.

Y. Kishimoto, T. Masaki, and T. Tajima, "High energy ions and nuclear fusion in laser-plasma interaction," Phys. Plasmas 9, 589-601 (2002).

A. Maluckov, N. Nakajima, M. Okamoto, S. Murakami, and R. Kanno, "Statistical properties of the neoclassical diffusion in a tokamak equilibrium," Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 43 1211-1226 (2001).

A. Maluckov, N. Nakajima, M. Okamoto, S. Murakami, and R. Kanno, "Statistical properties of the particle radial diffusion in a radially bounded irregular magnetic field," National Institute for Fusion Science Report No. NIFS-715 (October 2001), submitted for publication.

D. R. Mikkelsen, H. Shirai, N. Asakura, T. Fujita, T. Fukuda, T. Hatae, S. Ide, A. Isayama, Y. Kamada, Y. Kawano, Y. Koide, O. Naito, Y. Sakamoto, T. Takizuka, and H. Urano, "Correlation between core and pedestal temperatures in JT-60U: Experiment and modeling," Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Report No. PPPL-3512 (2001), submitted for publication in Nuclear Fusion.

N. Mizuguchi, T. Hayashi, and T. Sato, "Convective loss of heat energy excited in the edge region of spherical tokamak," Contributions to Plasma Physics, in press.

Shuichi Ohsaki, Zensho Yoshida, Nana Shatashvili, and Swadesh M. Mahajan, "Eruptive events in the solar atmosphere," Institute for Fusion Studies Report No. IFS-927 (March 2001), to be published in Astrophys. Rev. Letts.

G. Rewoldt, L.-P. Ku, W. M. Tang, H. Sugama, N. Nakajima, K. Y. Watanabe, S. Murakami, H. Yamada, and W. A. Cooper, "Drift mode calculations for the Large Helical Device," Phys. Plasmas 7, 4942 (2000)

G. Rewoldt, K.W. Hill, R. Nazikian, W.M. Tang, H. Shirai, Y. Sakamoto, Y. Kishimoto, S. Ide, and T. Fujita, "Radial patterns of instability and transport in JT-60U internal transport barrier discharges," Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Report No. PPPL-3547 (2001), to be published in Nuclear Fusion (2002).

G. Rewoldt, L.-P. Ku, W. M. Tang, H. Sugama, N. Nakajima, K.Y. Watanabe, S. Murakami, H. Yamada, and W.A. Cooper, "Microinstability Studies for the Large Helical Device," Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Report No. PPPL-3661 (2002), submitted for publication to Nuclear Fusion.

K. Shinohara, Y. Kusama, G. J. Kramer, M. Takechi, A. Morioka, M. Ishikawa, N. Oyama, K. Tobita, T. Ozeki, S. Takeji, S. Moriyama, T. Fujita, T. Oikawa, T. Suzuki, T. Nishitani, T. Kondoh, S. Lee, M. Kuriyama, N. N. Gorelenkov, R. Nazikian, G. Y. Fu, C. Z. Cheng, and A. Fukuyama, "Alfvén eigenmodes driven by Alfvénic beam ions in JT-60U," Nuclear Fusion 41, 603 (2001).

K. Shinohara, M. Takechi, M. Ishikawa, Y. Kusama, N. N. Gorelenkov, C. Z. Cheng, A. Morioka, N. Oyama, K. Tobita, T. Ozeki, G. J. Kramer, and R. Nazikian, "Recent progress of Alfvén eigenmode experiments using NNB in JT-60U tokamak," to be published in Proceedings of the 7th IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems (Gothenberg, Sweden, 8-11 Oct., 2001), invited talk/paper IT-12.

K. Shinohara, M. Takechi, M. Ishikawa, Y. Kusama, N. N. Gorelenkov, C. Z. Cheng, A. Morioka, N. Oyama, K. Tobita, T. Ozeki, G. J. Kramer, and R. Nazikian, "Recent progress of Alfvén eigenmode experiments using NNB in JT-60U tokamak," to be published in Nucl. Fusion (2002).

H. Sugama, T.-H Watanabe, and W. Horton, "Collisionless kinetic-fluid closure and its application to the three-mode ion temperature gradient driven system", Phys. Plasmas 8 (6) 2617-2628 (2001).

T. Tajima, Y. Kishimoto, and T. Masaki, "Cluster fusion," Physica Scripta T89, 45-48 (2001).

T. Tatsuno, V. I. Berezhiani, and S. M. Mahajan, "Vortex solitons: Mass, energy, and angular momentum bunching in relativistic electron-positron plasmas," Phys. Rev. E 63, 046403-1 ? 046403-7 (2001).

Y. Todo, H. L. Berk, and B. N. Breizman, "Simulation study of beam ion loss due to Alfvén eigenmode bursts," in preparation for publication.
Francesco Volponi, Swadesh M. Mahajan, and Zensho Yoshida, "Asymptotic analysis and renormalized perturbation theory of the non-Hermitian dynamics of an inviscid vortex," Phys. Rev. E 64, 026312 (2001).

T.-H Watanabe, H. Sugama, and T. Sato,  "A nondissipative simulation method for the drift kinetic equation", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 70 (12) 3565-3576 (2001).

Z. Yoshida, S. M. Mahajan, S. Ohsaki, M. Iqbal, and N. Shatashvili, "Beltrami fields in plasmas: High-confinement mode boundary layers and high beta equilibria," Phys. Plasmas 8 (5), 2125-2131 (2001).

Z. Yoshida and S. M. Mahajan, "Variational Principles and Self-Organization in Two-Fluid Plasmas," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095001 (2002).

A. G. Zhidkov, A. Sasaki, I. Fukumoto and T. Tajima, et al., "Pulse duration effect on the distribution of energetic particles produced by intense femtosecond laser pulses irradiating solids," Phys. Plasmas 8 (8), 3718-3723 (2001).

A. Zhidkov, A. Sasaki, and T. Tajima, "Emission of MeV multiple-charged ions from metallic foils irradiated with an ultrashort laser pulse," Phys. Rev. E 61(3), R2224-R2227 (2000).

A. Zhidkov, A. Sasaki, T. Utsumi, I. Fukumoto, T. Tajima, et al., "Prepulse effects on the interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with high-Z solids," Phys. Rev. E 62 (5), 7232-7240 (2000).

A. Zhidkov, A. Sasaki, and T. Tajima, "Energetic multiple charged ion source on short pulse laser irradiated foils," Rev. Sci. Instr. 71, 931-934 (2000).