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.
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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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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
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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
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Stark A, Fox W, Egedal J, Grulke O, Klinger T , "Laser-induced fluorescence measurement of the ion-energy-distribution function in a collisionless reconnection experiment", (2005) Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235005. (pdf
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Stark A, Egedal J, Fox W, Grulke O, Klinger T , "Phase-resolved measurements of ion dynamics with laser-induced fluorescence", (2006) Physica Scripta T122, 8. (pdf
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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
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Egedal J, Fox W, Katz N, Porkolab M, Reim K, Zhang E, "Laboratory Observation of Spontaneous Magnetic Reconnection", (2007) Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015003. (pdf
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Kesich A, Bonde J, Egedal J, Fox W, Goodwin R, Katz N, and Le A, "Magnetic flux array for spontaneous magnetic reconnection experiments", (2008) Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 063505.
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Katz N, Egedal J, Fox W, Le A, Porkolab M, "Experiments on the Propagation of Plasma Filaments", (2008) Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015003. (pdf
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Egedal J, Fox W, Katz N, Porkolab M, Øieroset M, Lin R P, Daughton W, and Drake JF, "Evidence and theory for trapped electrons in guide field magnetotail reconnection", (2008) J. Geophys. Res., 113, A12207. (pdf
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Fox W, Porkolab M, Egedal J, Katz N, Le A, "Laboratory Observation of Electron Phase-Space Holes during Magnetic Reconnection", (2008) Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255003. (pdf
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Egedal J, Daughton W, Drake J F, Katz N, Le A, "Formation of a localized acceleration potential during magnetic reconnection with a
guide field.", (2009) Physics of Plasmas 16, 050701, (pdf
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Le A, Egedal J, Daughton W, Fox W, Katz N, "The Equations of State for Collisionless Guide-Field Reconnection", (2009) Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 085001. (pdf
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Egedal J, Le A, Katz A, Chen L-J, Lefebvre B, and Daughton W, "Cluster Observations of Bi-directional Beams Caused by Electron Trapping During Anti-parallel Reconnection", (2010) J. Geophys. Res., 115, A03214. (pdf
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Le A, Egedal J, Daughton W, Drake J, Fox W, Katz N, "Magnitude of the Hall Fields during magnetic reconnection", (2010) Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L03106 . (pdf
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Le A, Egedal J, Fox W, Katz N, Vrublevskis A, Daughton W, and Drake J, "Equations of state in collisionless magnetic reconnection", (2010) Physics of Plasmas 17, 055703, (pdf
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Katz N, Egedal J, Fox W, Le A, Bonde J, and Vrublevskis A, "Laboratory Observation of Localized Onset of Magnetic Reconnection", (2010) Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255004. (pdf
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Egedal J, Le A, Zhu Y, Daughton W, Oieroset M, Phan T, Lin P, Eastwood J, "Cause of Super-thermal Electron Heating during Magnetotail Reconnection", ((2010) Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L10102. (pdf
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Fox W, Porkolab M, Egedal J, Katz N, and Le A, "Laboratory observations of electron energization and associated lower-hybrid and Trivelpiece-Gould wave turbulence during magnetic reconnection", (2010) Physics of Plasmas 17, 072303, (pdf
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Ng J, Egedal J,Le A, Daughton W, Chen L-J, "Kinetic Structure of the Electron Diffusion Region in Anti-parallel Magnetic Reconnection", (2010) submitted to PRL. (pdf
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Slides from Egedal J, "Experimental Investigation of Spontaneous Magnetic Reconnection in the Laboratory", (invited talk at the 50th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Dallas TX, November 17-21, 2008) (pdf
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Fast ions in Tokamaks. Publications:
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.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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):
