Recent Publications

Stephen J. Howard, D. Q. Hwang, R. D. Horton, R. W. Evans, S. J. Brockington, J. Johnson, "Method of reconstructing a moving pulse", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2007), Preprint: arXiv:physics/0702187v1 22 Feb 2007

D. Q. Hwang, R. D. Horton, S. Howard, R. W. Evans, and S. E. Brockington "Advances in CTIX Accelerator Study" Journal of Fusion Energy, Vol. 1, No. 1-2 (June 2007) pg. 81-84

A. Graf, S. Howard, R. Horton, D. Hwang, M. May,P. Beiersdorfer, J. Terry "Visible spectrometer at the Compact Toroid Injection Experiment and the Alcator C-Mod tokamak for Doppler width and shift measurements" Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 10F125 (2006)

Robert D. Horton, David Q. Hwang, and S. Howard, R. W. Evans, and S. E. Brockington "Observation of Poloidal Field Amplification in a Passively Switched Coaxial Compact Toroid Accelerator" To be submitted (2006)

Papers based on Thesis: "Interaction Dynamics of High Reynolds Number Magnetized Plasma Flow on the CTIX Plasma Accelerator" , Howard, S. PhD Thesis, UC Davis (2006)

Brockington, S. J. E., R. D. Horton, D. Q. Hwang, R. W. Evans, S. Howard, Y. C. F. Thio "Plasma density gradient measurement using laser deflection" Review of Scientific Instruments 76, 063503 (2005)

K. L. Baker, D. Q. Hwang R. W. Evans, R. D. Horton, H. S. McLean, S. D. Terry, S. Howard, C. J. DiCaprio "Compact Toroid Dynamics in the Compact Toroid Injection Experiment" Nucl. Fusion 42 (2002) pg. 94-99

K. L. Baker, D. Q. Hwang R. W. Evans, R. D. Horton, H. S. McLean, S. D. Terry "Observation of pinching in the compact toroid injection experiment:Implication for a plasma opening switch: App.Phys. Lett. 79 #9 (2001) pg. 1237-1239

D.Q. Hwang, H.S. McLean a , K.L. Baker, R.W. Evans, R.D. Horton, S.D. Terry, S. Howard, G.L. Schmidt "Interaction of a spheromak-like compact toroid with a high beta spherical tokamak plasma" Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 40, No. 5 (2000) pg. 897-905

S. D. Terry, D. Q. Hwang, H. S. McLean, R. D. Horton, R. W. Evans, and K. L. Baker "The Compact Toroid Injection Experiment tomographic imaging system" Review OF Scientific Instruments 71, # 11 November (2000)

D. Q. Hwang, M. Ryutova, and H. McLean "Penetration of a compressible magnetized plasma object into a low beta target plasma" Physics Of Plasmas, 6, #5 (1999)