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Nonlinear screening effect in an ultrarelativistic degenerate electron-positron gasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
N. L. Tsintsadze, A. Rasheed, H. A. Shah, and G. Murtaza Nonlinear screening process in an ultrarelativistic degenerate electron-positron gas has been investigated by deriving a generalized nonlinear Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential. In the simple one-dimensional case, the nonlinear Poisson equation leads to Debye-like (Coulomb-like) solut ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112307 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Energy coupling to the plasma in repetitive nanosecond pulse dischargesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Igor V. Adamovich, Munetake Nishihara, Inchul Choi, Mruthunjaya Uddi, and Walter R. Lempert A new analytic quasi-one-dimensional model of energy coupling to nanosecond pulse discharge plasmas in plane-to-plane geometry has been developed. The use of a one-dimensional approach is based on images of repetitively pulsed nanosecond discharge plasmas in dry air demonstrating that the plasma rem ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113505 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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On the role of a nonscalar electron pressure in the collisionless magnetic reconnectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
M. Hosseinpour and G. Vekstein Collisionless tearing instability in a sheared force-free magnetic field is considered in the framework of electron magnetohydrodynamics. A rigorous analytical analysis demonstrates that the bulk inertia of electrons is the dominant reconnection mechanism in a sufficiently low-beta plasma, when the ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 114505 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Electron-cyclotron wave scattering by edge density fluctuations in ITEREmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Christos Tsironis, Arthur G. Peeters, Heinz Isliker, Dafni Strintzi, Ioanna Chatziantonaki et al. The effect of edge turbulence on the electron-cyclotron wave propagation in ITER is investigated with emphasis on wave scattering, beam broadening, and its influence on localized heating and current drive. A wave used for electron-cyclotron current drive (ECCD) must cross the edge of the plasma, whe ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112510 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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The effect of parallel electric field in shock waves on the acceleration of relativistic ions, electrons, and positronsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Seiichi Takahashi, Hiromasa Kawai, Yukiharu Ohsawa, Shunsuke Usami, Charles Chiu et al. The effect of an electric field E parallel to the magnetic field B on particle acceleration in shock waves is studied. With test particle calculations, for which the electromagnetic fields of shock waves are obtained from one-dimensional, fully kinetic, electromagnetic, particle simulations, the mot ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112308 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Laser induced fluorescence of the ferroelectric plasma source assisted hollow anode dischargeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
V. Vekselman, J. Gleizer, S. Yatom, D. Yarmolich, V. Tz. Gurovich et al. Parameters of the plasma produced by a ferroelectric plasma source (FPS) assisted high-current (~1 kA), hollow anode (HA), low-pressure (10 Torr) Ar gas discharge were studied using a time- and space-resolved laser induced fluorescence (LIF) diagnostic technique. It was shown that the plasma filli ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113504 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Estimates of confinement time and energy gain for plasma liner driven magnetoinertial fusion using an analytic self-similar converging shock modelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
J. T. Cassibry, R. J. Cortez, S. C. Hsu, and F. D. Witherspoon Plasma liner driven magnetoinertial fusion (PLMIF) is a fusion energy concept that utilizes an imploding plasma liner to shock heat and compress a magnetized target plasma to fusion conditions. The fusion burn fraction is linearly proportional to the confinement (or dwell) time of the liner-target s ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112707 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Ion flow measurements and plasma current analysis in the Irvine Field Reversed ConfigurationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
W. S. Harris, E. Trask, T. Roche, E. P. Garate, W. W. Heidbrink et al. Measurements of the Doppler shift of impurity lines indicate that there is an ion flow of ~7 km/s in the Irvine Field Reversed Configuration. A charge-exchange neutral particle analyzer shows the peak energy is below the 20 eV minimum detectable energy threshold, which is in agreement with the spec ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112509 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Dynamic and spectroscopic characteristics of atmospheric gliding arc in gas-liquid two-phase flowEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, an atmospheric alternating-current gliding arc device in gas-liquid two-phase flow has been developed for the purpose of waste water degradation. The dynamic behavior of the gas-liquid gliding arc is investigated through the oscillations of electrical signals, while the spatial evolut ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113506 (2009)] published Fri Nov 20, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Dressed soliton in quantum dusty pair-ion plasmaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Prasanta Chatterjee, Kaushik Roy, S. V. Muniandy, and C. S. Wong Nonlinear propagation of a quantum ion-acoustic dressed soliton is studied in a dusty pair-ion plasma. The Kortewegde Vries (KdV) equation is derived using reductive perturbation technique. A higher order inhomogeneous differential equation is obtained for the higher order correction. The expression ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112106 (2009)] published Thu Nov 19, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Parametric analysis of a magnetized cylindrical plasmaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Eduardo Ahedo The relevant macroscopic model, the spatial structure, and the parametric regimes of a low-pressure plasma confined by a cylinder and an axial magnetic field is discussed for the small-Debye length limit, making use of asymptotic techniques. The plasma response is fully characterized by three-dimens ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113503 (2009)] published Thu Nov 19, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Stochastic analysis of pitch angle scattering of charged particles by transverse magnetic wavesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Don S. Lemons, Kaijun Liu, Dan Winske, and S. Peter Gary This paper describes a theory of the velocity space scattering of charged particles in a static magnetic field composed of a uniform background field and a sum of transverse, circularly polarized, magnetic waves. When that sum has many terms the autocorrelation time required for particle orbits to b ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112306 (2009)] published Thu Nov 19, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Guiding of 35 TW laser pulses in ablative capillary discharge waveguidesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
C. McGuffey, M. Levin, T. Matsuoka, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko et al. An ablatively driven capillary discharge plasma waveguide has been used to demonstrate guiding of 30 fs, 35 TW laser pulses over distances up to 3 cm with incident intensity in excess of 4 x 10 W/cm. The plasma density range over which good guiding was observed was 13 x 10 cm. The quality of the l ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113105 (2009)] published Thu Nov 19, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Long-distance correlation and zonal flow structures induced by mean E x B shear flows in the biasing H-mode at TEXTOREmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Y. Xu, S. Jachmich, R. R. Weynants, M. Van Schoor, M. Vergote et al. Long-distance toroidal correlations of potential and density fluctuations have been investigated at the TEXTOR tokamak [H. Soltwisch et al., Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 26, 23 (1984)] in edge electrode-biasing experiments. During the biasing-induced H-mode, the dc E x B shear flow triggers a zona ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 110704 (2009)] published Wed Nov 18, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Current driven instability in collisional dusty plasmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
B. P. Pandey, S. V. Vladimirov, and A. Samarian The current driven electromagnetic instability in a collisional, magnetized, dusty medium is considered in the present work. It is shown that in the presence of the magnetic field aligned current, the low-frequency waves in the medium can become unstable if the ratio of the current to the ambient fi ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113708 (2009)] published Wed Nov 18, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Effects of trapped electrons on electromagnetic fields in an oblique shock waveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mieko Toida and Kenta Shikii A magnetosonic shock wave propagating obliquely to an external magnetic field can trap electrons and accelerate them to ultrarelativistic energies. The effect of trapped electrons on electromagnetic fields in a shock wave is studied by theory and particle simulations. The expressions for field stren ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112305 (2009)] published Wed Nov 18, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Destabilizing effect of density gradient on the KelvinHelmholtz instabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
L. F. Wang, C. Xue, W. H. Ye, and Y. J. Li In this paper, we derive explicit analytic formulas for the linear growth rate and frequency of the KelvinHelmholtz instability in fluids with the density gradient. The analytic formulas are in excellent agreement with the results of two-dimensional numerical simulation. We found that the density gr ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112104 (2009)] published Wed Nov 18, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Dust charge and ion drag forces in a high-voltage, capacitive radio frequency sheathEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I. Denysenko, K. Ostrikov, and N. A. Azarenkov The charge of an isolated dust grain and ion drag forces on the grain in a collisionless, high-voltage, capacitive rf sheath are studied theoretically. The studies are carried out assuming that the positive ions are monoenergetic, as well as in more realistic approximation, assuming that the time-av ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113707 (2009)] published Wed Nov 18, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Dust charging effects on test charge potential in a multi-ion dusty plasmaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
S. Ali The DebyeHuckel and oscillatory wake potentials caused by a test charge are studied in a multi-ion dusty plasma, whose constituents are the Boltzmann distributed electrons and light positive ions, the heavy mobile negative ions, and static but charge fluctuating dust particles. For this purpose, flu ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113706 (2009)] published Wed Nov 18, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Fitting the dielectric response of collisionless plasmas by continued fractionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
August Wierling An approximation scheme for the dielectric response of thermal collisionless plasmas at arbitrary degeneracy is presented. A T-fraction representation is obtained from the known expansions of the real part of the dielectric function for small and large arguments. The partial numerators and denominat ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112105 (2009)] published Wed Nov 18, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Current sheet bifurcation and collapse in electron magnetohydrodynamicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A. Zocco, L. Chacon, and Andrei N. Simakov Inertial effects in nonlinear magnetic reconnection are studied within the context of two-dimensional electron magnetohydrodynamics with resistive and viscous dissipation. Families of nonlinear solutions for relevant current sheet parameters are predicted and confirmed numerically in all regimes of ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 110703 (2009)] published Mon Nov 16, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Comparison between experiment and simulation for argon inductively coupled plasmaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Fei Gao, Shu-Xia Zhao, Xiao-Song Li, and You-Nian Wang In order to include the nonlocal characteristics of electrons and investigate the inductively coupled plasma (ICP) resources more completely, we have developed a hybrid Monte Carlo (MC)/fluid hybrid model and calculated the axial and radial distributions of electron density, electron temperature, pl ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113502 (2009)] published Mon Nov 16, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Relaxation of spheromak configurations with open fluxEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pablo Luis Garcia-Martinez and Ricardo Farengo The relaxation of several kink unstable equilibria with open flux representative of spheromaks sustained by dc helicity injection is studied by means of three-dimensional, resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations. No external driving is applied, but the initial conditions are chosen to reproduce th ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112508 (2009)] published Mon Nov 16, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Erratum: Electrostatic and thermal fluctuations are the source of magnetic fields in unmagnetized inhomogeneous plasmas [Phys. Plasmas 16, 082102 (2009)]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hamid Saleem Abstract not available. [Phys. Plasmas 16, 119901 (2009)] published Mon Nov 16, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Neutron yield study of direct-drive, low-adiabat cryogenic D implosions on OMEGA laser systemEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
S. X. Hu, P. B. Radha, J. A. Marozas, R. Betti, T. J. B. Collins et al. Neutron yields of direct-drive, low-adiabat (alpha[approximate]2 to 3) cryogenic D target implosions on the OMEGA laser system [T. R. Boehly et al., Opt. Commun. 133, 495 (1997)] have been systematically investigated using the two-dimensional (2D) radiation hydrodynamics code DRACO [P. B. Radha et a ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112706 (2009)] published Mon Nov 16, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Wall shocks in high-energy-density shock tube experimentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
F. W. Doss, H. F. Robey, R. P. Drake, and C. C. Kuranz The radiative precursor of a sufficiently fast shock has been observed to drive the vaporization of shock tube material ahead of the shock. The resulting expansion drives a converging blast wave into the gas volume of the tube. The effects of this wall shock may be observed and correlated with prima ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112705 (2009)] published Fri Nov 13, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Arbitrary amplitude dust ion-acoustic shock waves in a dusty plasma with positive and negative ionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A. A. Mamun, P. K. Shukla, and B. Eliasson Arbitrary amplitude dust ion-acoustic shock waves in a multi-ion dusty plasma (composed of electrons, light positive ions, heavy negative ions, and stationary massive dust grains) has been studied. For this purpose, the coupled Poisson and dust-charging equations, which accounts for the fluctuation ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 114503 (2009)] published Fri Nov 13, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Nonthermal effects on the KarpmanWashimi ponderomotive magnetization in Lorentzian plasmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hwa-Min Kim and Young-Dae Jung The nonthermal effects on the KarpmanWashimi ponderomotive magnetization are investigated in Lorentzian plasmas. The induced magnetization due to the nonstationary ponderomotive interaction related to the time variation of the field intensity is obtained as a function of the Debye length and spectra ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 114504 (2009)] published Fri Nov 13, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Nonlinear stopping power for ions moving in magnetized two-component plasmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Zhang-Hu Hu, Yuan-Hong Song, Gui-Qiu Wang, and You-Nian Wang Energy losses of test particles in magnetized two-component plasmas are investigated by means of particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, taking into account the dynamic polarization effects of both the plasma ions and electrons. The influences of the magnetic field, the angle between the test particle v ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112304 (2009)] published Thu Nov 12, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Effect of high-voltage nanosecond pulses on complex plasmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
M. Y. Pustylnik, A. V. Ivlev, H. M. Thomas, G. E. Morfill, L. M. Vasilyak et al. Influence of high-voltage (111 kV) pulses of nanosecond (20 ns) duration on microparticles levitating in a rf plasma is studied. It is shown that the pulses produce significant influence on the plasma, causing perturbations with the relaxation time of the order of 10 s. This time is sufficient for ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113705 (2009)] published Thu Nov 12, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Hot electron generation forming a steep interface in superintense laser-matter interactionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
R. Mishra, Y. Sentoku, and A. J. Kemp Superintense laser light (>10 W/cm) is able to sweep the preplasma over short times and compress the preplasma density gradient typically generated by the prepulse of today's high-intensity, high energy laser systems. Hot electron generation at steep plasma density gradients has been studied in a p ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112704 (2009)] published Thu Nov 12, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Dispersive characteristics and longitudinal resonance properties in a relativistic backward wave oscillator with the coaxial arbitrary-profile slow-wave structureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Xingjun Ge, Huihuang Zhong, Baoliang Qian, Jun Zhang, Yuwei Fan et al. The method for calculating the dispersion relations of the slow-wave structures (SWSs) with arbitrary geometrical structures is studied in detail by using the Fourier series expansion. In addition, dispersive characteristics and longitudinal resonance properties of the SWSs with the cosinusoidal, tr ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113104 (2009)] published Thu Nov 12, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Fast reconnection in high-Lundquist-number plasmas due to the plasmoid InstabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A. Bhattacharjee, Yi-Min Huang, H. Yang, and B. Rogers Thin current sheets in systems of large size that exceed a critical value of the Lundquist number are unstable to a super-Alfvenic tearing instability, referred to hereafter as the plasmoid instability. The scaling of the growth rate of the most rapidly growing plasmoid instability with respect to t ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112102 (2009)] published Wed Nov 11, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Experimental observation of carbon dioxide reduction in exhaust gas from hydrocarbon fuel burningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Han S. Uhm and Chul H. Kim A high-negative voltage at the cathode initiates a dark discharge, resulting in a reduction of the carbon dioxide concentration in exhaust gas from the burning of hydrocarbon fuel. An experiment indicated that nearly 44% of the carbon dioxide in exhaust gas disappears after a high-voltage applicatio ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 114502 (2009)] published Wed Nov 11, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Application of variational method for three-color three-photon transitions in hydrogen atom implanted in Debye plasmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
S. Paul and Y. K. Ho Multiphoton processes, where transparency appears, have long fascinated physicists. Plasma screening effects are investigated on three-color three-photon bound-bound transitions in hydrogen atom embedded in Debye plasmas; where photons are linearly and circularly polarized, two left circular and one ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113301 (2009)] published Wed Nov 11, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Plasmons with orbital angular momentumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
J. T. Mendonca, S. Ali, and B. Thide Electron plasma waves carrying orbital angular momentum are investigated in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma composed of inertial electrons and static ions. For this purpose, the usual plasmon dispersion relation is employed to derive an approximate paraxial equation. The latter is analyzed with ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112103 (2009)] published Wed Nov 11, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Head-on collision of ion thermal waves in a magnetized pair-ion plasma containing charged dust impuritiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents the first study of the head-on collision between two ion thermal waves in a two-fluid (i.e., a pair-ion) magnetized plasma consisting of positive and negative ions, as well as a fraction of stationary charged dust impurities, using the extended PoincareLighthillKuo method. The ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113704 (2009)] published Wed Nov 11, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Microwave absorption of magnetized hydrogen plasma in carbon nanotubesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Afshin Moradi A simple model to describe the microwave absorption of magnetized hydrogen plasma embedded inside the carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which were grown by iron-catalyzed high-pressure disproportionation (HiPco), is proposed and analyzed. By using Maxwell equations in conjunction with a general expression of ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113501 (2009)] published Wed Nov 11, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Electron gyroscale fluctuation measurements in National Spherical Torus Experiment H-mode plasmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
D. R. Smith, S. M. Kaye, W. Lee, E. Mazzucato, H. K. Park et al. A collective scattering system has measured electron gyroscale fluctuations in National Spherical Torus Experiment [M. Ono et al., Nucl. Fusion 40, 557 (2000)] H-mode plasmas to investigate electron temperature gradient (ETG) turbulence. Observations and results pertaining to fluctuation measurement ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112507 (2009)] published Wed Nov 11, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Geometry dependence of stellarator turbulenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
H. E. Mynick, P. Xanthopoulos, and A. H. Boozer Using the nonlinear gyrokinetic code package GENE/GIST [F. Jenko, W. Dorland, M. Kotschenreuther, and B. N. Rogers, Phys. Plasmas 7, 1904 (2000); P. Xanthopoulos, W. A. Cooper, F. Jenko, Yu. Turkin, A. Runov, and J. Geiger, ibid. 16, 082303 (2009)], we study the turbulent transport in a broad family ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 110702 (2009)] published Tue Nov 10, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Energy gain of free electron in pulsed electromagnetic plane wave with constant external magnetic fieldsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Justin Angus and Sergei Krasheninnikov The interactions of a relativistic free electron with a pulsed electromagnetic (EM) plane wave in the presence of constant magnetic fields are studied using the well-known constants of motion. The goal is to determine the energy gained by the electron after the wave has passed. For a constant magnet ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113103 (2009)] published Tue Nov 10, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Size scaling effects on the particle density fluctuations in confined plasmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Federico Vazquez and Ferenc Markus In this paper, memory and nonlocal effects on fluctuating mass diffusion are addressed in the context of fusion plasmas. Nonlocal effects are included by considering a diffusivity coefficient depending on the size of the container in the transverse direction to the applied magnetic field. It is obta ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112303 (2009)] published Tue Nov 10, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Hollow current profile scenarios for advanced tokamak reactor operationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
P.-A. Gourdain and J.-N. Leboeuf Advanced tokamak scenarios are a possible approach to boosting reactor performances. Such schemes usually trigger current holes, a particular magnetohydrodynamics equilibrium where no current or pressure gradients exist in the core of the plasma. While such equilibria have large bootstrap fractions, ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112506 (2009)] published Tue Nov 10, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Dynamically stable, self-similarly evolving, and self-organized states of high beta tokamak and reversed pinch plasmas and advanced active controlEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Yoshiomi Kondoh and Toshinobu Fukasawa Generalized simultaneous eigenvalue equations derived from a generalized theory of self-organization are applied to a set of simultaneous equations for two-fluid model plasmas. An advanced active control by using theoretical time constants is proposed by predicting quantities to be controlled. Typic ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112504 (2009)] published Fri Nov 6, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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Variational coordinate transformation in plasma physicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ryan White, Emila R. Solano, and R. D. Hazeltine It is well-known from scaling arguments that action-based field theories do not possess localized solutions in spaces of more than one dimension. The same scaling argument, modified to account for external forces, is applied to magnetic plasma confinement in an axisymmetric torus. It yields an integ ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112505 (2009)] published Fri Nov 6, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
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On interaction of large dust grains with fusion plasmaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
S. I. Krasheninnikov and R. D. Smirnov So far the models used to study dust grain-plasma interactions in fusion plasmas neglect the effects of dust material vapor, which is always present around dust in rather hot and dense edge plasma environment in fusion devices. However, when the vapor density and/or the amount of ionized vapor atoms ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 114501 (2009)] published Fri Nov 6, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
Source: Physics of Plasmas - November 7, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Obliquely propagating cnoidal waves in a magnetized dusty plasma with variable dust chargeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
L. L. Yadav and V. K. Sayal We have studied obliquely propagating dust-acoustic nonlinear periodic waves, namely, dust-acoustic cnoidal waves, in a magnetized dusty plasma consisting of electrons, ions, and dust grains with variable dust charge. Using reductive perturbation method and appropriate boundary conditions for nonlin ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 113703 (2009)] published Thu Nov 5, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
Source: Physics of Plasmas - November 6, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Coupled nonlinear drift and ion acoustic waves in dense dissipative electron-positron-ion magnetoplasmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
W. Masood, S. Karim, H. A. Shah, and M. Siddiq Linear and nonlinear propagation characteristics of drift ion acoustic waves are investigated in an inhomogeneous electron-positron-ion (e-p-i) quantum magnetoplasma with neutrals in the background using the well known quantum hydrodynamic model. In this regard, Kortewegde VriesBurgers (KdVB) and Ka ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112302 (2009)] published Wed Nov 4, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
Source: Physics of Plasmas - November 5, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Enhancement of backward Raman scattering by electron-ion collisionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Z. J. Liu, Shao-ping Zhu, L. H. Cao, C. Y. Zheng, X. T. He et al. The propagation of light waves in an underdense plasma is studied using one-dimensional VlasovMaxwell numerical simulation. It is found that the backward stimulated Raman scattering will be enhanced by electron-ion collisions. With appropriate electron-ion collision rate the Langmuir waves, driven v ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112703 (2009)] published Wed Nov 4, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
Source: Physics of Plasmas - November 5, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Linearized model collision operators for multiple ion species plasmas and gyrokinetic entropy balance equationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
H. Sugama, T.-H. Watanabe, and M. Nunami Linearized model collision operators for multiple ion species plasmas are presented that conserve particles, momentum, and energy and satisfy adjointness relations and Boltzmann's H-theorem even for collisions between different particle species with unequal temperatures. The model collision operator ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112503 (2009)] published Wed Nov 4, 2009. (Source: Physics of Plasmas)
Source: Physics of Plasmas - November 5, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals