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Blackman, Eric G. and Hantao Ji, "Laboratory Plasma Dynamos, Astrophysical Dynamos, and Magnetic Helicity Evolution," MNRAS,
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Cunningham, G. "Impurities and impurity transport in the spheromak SPHEX," Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 39 (1997) 1339-1354.
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Cothran, C .D, J. Fung, and M.R. Brown, "Fast high resolution spectroscopy of a laboratory plasma,"
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Falk, Abram, "Dynamics of a Field-Reversed Configuration in SSX," Undergraduate Thesis, Swarthmore College, March 22, 2003.
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Fung, Jerome, "High Resolution Flow and Ion Temperature Measurements with Ion Doppler Spectroscopy at SSX," Undergraduate Thesis, Swarthmore College, March 9, 2006.
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Holcomb, C. T., T. R. Jarboe, D. N. Hill, S. Woodruff, and R. D. Wood, "Sustained spheromak coaxial gun operation in the presence of an n = 1 magnetic distortion," Phys. Plasmas 13, 022504 (2006).
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Kato, Y., N. Satomi, M. Nishikawa, K. Watanabe, "Electron temperature measurement using line-intensity ratio on the CTCC spheromak," Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 35 (1993) 1513-1528.
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Lukin, Vyacheslav S., "Modeling SSX Spheromak Plasmas: Internal Physics from External Measurements," Undergraduate Thesis, Swarthmore College, March 14, 2000.
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Murchadha, Aongus O., "Ion Temperature and Flow Velocity Measurements in SSX-FRC," Undergraduate Thesis, Swarthmore College, March 15, 2005.
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Swisher, Victoria, "Modeling UV and X-ray Spectra from the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment," Undergraduate Thesis, Swarthmore College, May 23, 2006.
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Turner, W.C., G. C. Goldenbaum, E. H. A. Granneman, J. H. Hammer, C. W. Hartman, D. S. Prono, J. Taska, "Investigations of the magnetic structure and the decay of a plasma-gun-generated compact torus," Phys. Fluids 26 (7), July 1983.
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