Jim Terry

Jim, son Jesse, Nixie, and son Morgan (9/2005)

Professional Interests

• My research has involved the study of laboratory plasmas with the goal of energy
  production by nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns). This has
  required a working knowledge of
  plasma physics,
  atomic physics,
  atomic spectroscopy,
  plasma diagnostics,
  vacuum technology,
  optics.
  
• Resume: PDF (77 kB)
• Cirriculum Vitae: PDF (109 kB)
• Publications list: PDF (103 kB)

Professional Awards

• Fellow of the American Physical Society (Division of Plasma Physics)

Recent Presentations and Published Papers

• Concerning Volume Recombination in Plasmas
• "The Experimental Determination of the Volume Recombination Rate in Tokamak Divertors", by J.L. Terry, et al.

Journal of Nucl. Mater. 266-269 (1999) p.30.
This was also an invited talk at the 13th International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions (PSI), May, 1998, San Diego, CA.
[ PDF (370 kB)]
• "Volume recombination and opacity in Alcator C-Mod divertor plasmas", by J.L. Terry, et al.

Physics of Plasmas 5 (1998) p. 1759.
This was also an invited talk at the DPP-APS Annual Meeting, November 16-20, 1998, New Orleans, LA.
[ PDF (219 kB)]
• "Radiative and three-body recombination in the Alcator C-Mod divertor", by D. Lumma, J.L. Terry, B. Lipschultz

Physics of Plasmas 4 (1997) p. 2555
[ PDF (292 kB)]
• Concerning Turbulence in Plasmas
• "Fluctuation Measurements in the SOL of Alcator C-Mod", by J.L. Terry, et al.

Poster presented at the DPP-APS Annual Meeting, October 23-27, 2000, Quebec City, Canada.
Abstract / Poster:[PDF (0.8 MB)]
• "Visible Imaging of Turbulence in the SOL of the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak", by J.L. Terry, et al.

Paper and poster presented at the 14th International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices, May 22-26, 2000, Rosenheim, Germany.
Abstract / Paper [PDF (433 KB)]
• "Turbulence Imaging in the SOL of Alcator C-Mod", by J.L. Terry, et al.

Presentation at the Meeting on Plasma Turbulence and Transport in Edge/SOL Regions (satellite meeting to TTF meeting), May 14-15, 2001, Fairbanks, Alaska
• Abstract / PowerPoint Presentation (4.3 MB) or PDF (5.0 MB) (MPEG movies 1 (0.82 MB), 2 (1.4 MB))

• Movies of edge turbulence - There are 4 movies showing 12 consecutive frames and 4 movies showing 300 consecutive frames.

• Concerning Spectroscopic Measurements of Electron Temperature
• "Te Measurements in the Cold Regions of Alcator C-Mod Divertor Plasmas",

by J.L. Terry, B. Lipschultz, C.J. Boswell, D.A. Pappas, A. Yu. Pigarov, S.I. Krasheninnikov, and B. LaBombard
Proceedings of the 26th EPS Conference on Nuclear Fusion and Plasma Physics (Maastricht, the Netherlands) 23J (1999) p. 321.
[PDF (171 kB)]

Current Work

• General Explanation of Current Research at the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak
• "Experiments in Plasma Physics and Fusion Science on the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak", by J.L. Terry, et al.

This is a poster presented at the General Meeting of the APS, April 29, 2001 in Washington D.C.
[entire poster (1 page) - PDF (8.09 MB), poster printable in multiple pages - PDF (3.17 MB)]

Alcator C-Mod Quarterly Reports - I was responsible for writing the Quarterly Reports to the project's funding agency, the Dept. of Energy ('97 until '02).

telephone:(617) 253-8637
fax : (617) 253-0627
email:terry@psfc.mit.edu

                         
          Jim at the top of Mt. Washington at the                                    Jim at the top of Mt. Washington just after
end of the 2000 Mt. Washington Road Race ('00)                       finishing the 2001 Mt. Washington Road Race ('01)

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Pictures from November 2007 get-together with Bruce Dreyfuss

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