Egedal J, Fasoli A, Porkolab M and Tarkowski D, "Plasma generation and
confinement in a toroidal magnetic cusp", (2000) Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71,
3351. (Abstract)
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Egedal J, Fasoli A, Tarkowski D and Scarabosio A, "Collisionless magnetic
reconnection in a toroidal cusp", (2001) Physics of Plasma, 8, 1935.
(Abstract)
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Egedal J and Fasoli A, "Single-particle dynamics in collisionless magnetic
reconnection", (2001) Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 5047. (Abstract)
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Egedal J and Fasoli A, "The topology of guiding center orbits in a linear
magnetic cusp", (2001) Physics of Plasmas, 8. 4042. (Abstract)
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file)
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Egedal J, "A drift kinetic approach to reconnection in an open cusp plasma",
(2002) Physics of Plasmas, 9, 1095. (Abstract)
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Egedal J, Fasoli A and Nazemi J, "Dynamical Plasma Response during Driven
Magnetic Reconnection", (2003) Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135003. (Abstract)
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Egedal J, Fox W, Porkolab M and Fasoli A, "Experimental evidence of fast reconnection via trapped electron motion", (2004) Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2844. (pdf
file)
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Shadman K, Egedal J and Childs R, "An experimental study of the gridded electromagnet probe",
(2004) Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2236.
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Egedal J, Fox W, Bolonohy E and Porkolab M, "Kinetic simulation of the VTF magnetic reconnection experiment", (2004) Computer Physics Communications, 164, 29. (pdf
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Egedal J, Oieroset M, Fox W and Lin RP, "In sity discovery of an electrostatic potential, trapping electrons and mediating fast reconnection in the Earth’s magnetotail", (2005) Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 025006. (pdf
file)
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Egedal J, Fox W, Porkolab M and Fasoli A, "Eigenmode response to driven magnetic reconnection in a collisionless plasma", (2005) Physics of Plasmas, 12, 052107. (pdf
file)
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Egedal J, Fox W, Katz N, Porkolab M, Reim K, Zhang E, "Laboratory Observation of Spontaneous Magnetic Reconnectionl", (2007) Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015003. (pdf
file)
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Proposal funded by NSF/DOE 2003-2006:
Porkolab M and Egedal J, "Experimental Study of Collisionless Reconnection Processes in Plasmas
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Presentation to Dorland's and Cowley's Center of Excellence, Jan 05, 2005
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Presentation to the MIT Physics Department, Feb 05, 2005
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Egedal J, "Drift Orbit Topology of Fast Ions in Tokamaks", (2000) Nuclear
Fusion, 40, 1597. (Abstract)
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Redi MH, Darrow DS, Egedal J, Kaye SM and White, RB, "Calculations of Neutral Beam Ion Confinement for the National
Spherical Torus Experiment", EPS, Montreux, Switzerland. paper P1.081 (European Physics Society, Petit-Lancy, 2002).
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Egedal J, Redi MH, Darrow DS and Kaye SM, "Efficient evaluation of beam
ion confinement in spherical tokamaks". (2003) Physics of Plasmas 10, 2372.
(Abstract)
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file)
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Rosenberg AL, Menard JE, Wilson JR, et al., Egedal J, "Fast ion absorption of the high harmonic fast wave in the National Spherical Torus Experiment". (2004) Physics of Plasmas 11, 2441.
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Egedal J, "The orbit averaged particle source from neutral beam injection in tokamaks ", (2005) Nuclear
Fusion, 45, 184. (pdf
file)
Collective Thomson Scattering. A new diagnostic for measuring fast ions
in Tokamaks. Publications:
Egedal J and Bindslev H, "Topology of relativistic refractive index surfaces
for electron cyclotron waves", (1994) Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
36,
543. (Abstract)
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file)
Hoekzema J, Bindslev H, Egedal J, Fessey J, Gatcombe C, Hammond N, Hughes
T, Machuzak J, Oosterbeek J, Roberts P, Stevens A and Stott P, "First Results
of Collective Scattering on JET", (1997) Rev. Sci. Instrum., 68
275. (Abstract)
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file)
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Machuzak J, Woskov P, Fessey J, Hoekzema J, Egedal J, Bindslev H, Roberts
P, Stevens A, Davies P, Gatcombe C and Hughes T, "Linewidth measurements
of the JET energetic ion and alpha particle CTS diagnostic gyrotron", (1999)
Rev. Sci Instrum., 70, 1155. (Abstract)
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file)
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Egedal J, Machuzak J, Fessey J, Bindslev H, Hoekzema J, Hughes T, Davies
P, Gatcombe C and Woskov P, "Calibration of the JET energetic ion and alpha
particle CTS diagnostic receiver", (1999) Rev. Sci. Instrum., 70,
1167. (Abstract)
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file)
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Bindslev H, Hoekzema J, Egedal J, Fessey J, Hughes T and Machuzak J, "Fast-Ion
Velocity Distribution in JET Measured by Collective Thomson Scattering",
(1999) Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 3206. (Abstract)
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file)
Bindslev H, Porte L, Hoekzema A, Machuzak J, Woskov P, Van Eester D, Egedal
J, Fessey J and Hughes T, "Fast ion collective Thomson scattering, JET
Results and TEXTOR plans", (2001) Fusion Engineering and Design, 53,
105. (Abstract)
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file)
Egedal J and Bindslev H, "Reconstruction of Gyrotropic Phase-space Distributions from 1D Projections", (2004) Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2191. (pdf
file)
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Egedal J, Bindslev H, Budny RV, and Woskov P, "Impact of beam ions on alpha-particle measuremnts by collectove Thomson scattering in ITER ", (2005) Nuclear
Fusion, 45, 191. (pdf
file)
Egedal J, PhD Thesis: "Fast ions in tokamaks and their measurements by collective Thomson scattering",
University College, Oxford Department of Engineering Science, Parks Road, Oxford, Trinity term 1998. (Abstract)
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Recent data from the new closed configuration of VTF (click to view a 1.5Mb movie of blob emission):
