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Issue 11,
November 2024

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Physics of Plasmas, published by AIP Publishing in cooperation with the APS Division of Plasma Physics, is committed to the publication of original research in all areas of experimental, computational, and theoretical plasma physics. Physics of Plasmas publishes in-depth review manuscripts, forward-looking perspectives, Tutorials on active topics, and Special Topics highlighting new developments. Every year a special issue publishes the invited and review papers from the most recent meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics.

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Research Article
M. Sackers, O. Marchuk et al.
This work presents the first experimental study on the near-threshold sputtering regime for monocrystalline low-index plane tungsten targets investigated using high-resolution emission spectroscopy. ...
Tutorial
Chris Hamilton, Jean-Baptiste Fouvry
Stellar systems—globular and nuclear star clusters, elliptical and spiral galaxies and their surrounding dark matter haloes, and so on—are ubiquitous characters in the evolutionary tale of our ...
Research Article
K. Moczulski, H. Wen et al.
We present numerical simulations used to interpret laser-driven plasma experiments at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research. The mechanisms by which non-thermal particles are accelerated in ...
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Wei Bai, Chenchen Wu et al.
It is well established that space plasmas often contain particle components with high-energy tails that approximately follow a power-law distribution in velocity space. Such superthermal ...
Research Article
L. Einkemmer
A constant intensity beam that propagates into a stationary plasma results in a bump-on-tail feature in velocity space. This results in an instability that transfers kinetic energy from the plasma to ...
Letter
A. Yu. Popov, A. A. Nagovitsyn et al.
It is shown that the absolute parametric decay instability of a microwave beam of a finite width, resulting in the excitation of two electron Bernstein waves, can occur at monotonic parameters of the ...
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