Snowmass report: current draft (updated 7/26/02)

Please email comments on this report to Chris Hegna (hegna@cae.wisc.edu) or Ted Strait (strait@fusion.gat.com).

• MHD science in a burning plasma (Section 3.1.1.3)
• Issues and assessment (Section 3.3.1.3)

Summary Reports by working group members

• Ideal MHD Stability, A. Glasser (LANL) (updated 7/17/02)
• m=1 Mode: Ideal MHD Stability, J. Manickam (PPPL) (updated 6/5/02)
• m=1 Mode: Simulations, S. Jardin (PPPL) (updated 7/6/02)
• Sawtooth Behavior in Burning Plasma, H. Reimerdes (Columbia University) (updated 26 July 2002)
• Neoclassical Tearing Modes, C. Hegna (Univ. of Wisconsin) (updated 7/22/02)
• Pedestal Stability, Transport, ELMs, P. Snyder (GA) (updated 7/22/02)
• Summary Statement on ELMs, A. Turnbull (GA) (updated 7/18/02)
• Resonant Error fields and Rotation, R. La Haye (GA) (updated 7/22/02)
• RWM Stabilization by Plasma Rotation, M. Chu (GA) (updated 7/23/02)
• RWM Stabilization by Feedback, A. Garofalo (Columbia University) (updated 26 July 2002)
• NBI-Induced Rotation, R. Budny (PPPL) (updated 7/5/02)
• Tearing Mode Stability, D. Brennan (GA) (updated 26 July 2002)
• Connection between Burning Plasma MHD Science and Fusion Development, J. Sarff (Univ. of Wisconsin) (updated 7/24/02)

Plans and Progress:

• Mid-meeting MHD summary (7/16/02)
• Mid-meeting MHD progress report (7/12/02)
• Activities of the MHD physics working group, C. Hegna, progress report presented at the Sherwood Meeting (23 April 2002)
• Work Plan for the MHD Working Group (4/10/02)

Technical information:

• FIRE information
• IGNITOR information
• ITER information
• Equilibrium files

UFA Workshop on Burning Plasma Science, Austin, 11-13 December 2000:

• MHD Stability Issues in a Burning Plasma,
  presented by E. Strait
• Macrostability in a Burning Plasma,
  E. Strait and C. Hegna, workshop summary report