Papers

Peer Reviewed

 

M.R. Stoneking, P.W. Fontana, R.L. Sampson, and D.J. Thuecks, Electron plasmas in a "partial" torus, Phys. Plasmas 9, (2002).

 

Not Peer Reviewed

 

Thuecks, D.J., C.A. Kletzing, F. Skiff, S.R. Bounds, and S. Vincena, Laboratory Investigations of Dispersive Alfvén Waves and Their Role in Electron Acceleration, Comprehensive Exam, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, accepted by thesis comittee on 25 October 2006


Oral Presentations

Laboratory Investigations of Dispersive Alfvén Waves and Their Role in Electron Acceleration, Plasma Physics Seminar at University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 06 November 2006

Laboratory Investigations of Dispersive Alfvén Waves and Their Role in Electron Acceleration, Comprehensive Exam, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 25 October 2006

Measurements of Dispersion and Damping for Shear Alfvén Waves, Plasma Physics Seminar at University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 20 February 2006

Oscillations in a Toroidal Electron Plasma, Senior Capstone talk given at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 12 March 2002

Trapping and Exploring Electron Plasmas, presented with R.L. Sampson at a Lawrence University summer research seminar, Appleton, WI, 23 August 2001

Trapping a Pure Electron Plasma in a Toroidal Magnetic Field, presented at the PEW Undergraduate Research Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 4 November 2000

Trapping a Pure Electron Plasma in a Toroidal Magnetic Field, presented at a physics colloquium at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 2 November 2000

R&D on the Jelly Doughnut: Trapping Electron Plasmas in a Toroidal Magnetic Field, presented with R. L. Sampson as part of the Lawrence University summer research seminar, Appleton, WI, July 2000


Poster Presentations

Measurements of Dispersion and Damping for Kinetic and Inertial Shear Alfvén Waves, presented at the 9th International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS), Palm Cove Resort, Cairns, Australia, 7 August 2007 (awarded outstanding student poster award)

Laboratory Measurements of the Electron Distribution Function via Whistler Wave Absorption, presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, Philadelphia, PA, 30 October 2006

Measurements of Dispersion and Damping for Kinetic and Inertial Shear Alfvén Waves, presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, Denver, CO, 25 October 2005

Low Frequency Oscillations in a Toroidal Pure-Electron Plasma, presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of The Division of Plasma Physics, Long Beach, CA, 30 October 2001


Other posters containing research I was involved with

D.J. Thuecks, C.A. Kletzing, S.R. Bounds, F. Skiff, S. Vincena, W. Gekelman, "Measurements of Dispersion and Damping for Kinetic and Inertial Shear Alfvén Waves," Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 50, ??? (2005). (see above)

F.N. Skiff, C.A. Kletzing, D.J. Thuecks, S.R. Bounds, "A Wave Absorption Measurement of the Electron Distribution Function," Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 50, ??? (2005).

M.R. Stoneking, R.T. Peterson, M.A. Growdon, and D.J. Thuecks, “Limitations on Confinement of a Toroidal Electron Plasma due to Field Asymmetries and the Presence of Neutrals,” Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 47, 128 (2002).

M.R. Stoneking, P.W. Fontana, R.L. Sampson, and D.J. Thuecks, "Toroidal Electron Plasma Confinement and the Effects of a Horizontal Electric Field," Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 46, 84 (2001).

D.J. Thuecks, R.L. Sampson, and M.R. Stoneking, "Low-frequency Oscillations in Toroidal Pure-electron Plasma," Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 46, 149 (2001). (see above)

R.L. Sampson, M.R. Stoneking, and D.J. Thuecks, "Measuring the Langmuir Probe Characteristic in a Pure Electron plasma," Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 46, 304 (2001).

M.R. Stoneking, P.W. Fontana, A.J. Kopp, R.L. Sampson, and D.J. Thuecks, Controlling Toroidal Electron Plasma Equilibrium with a Horizontal Electric Field, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 45, 304 (2000).