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.
This paper presents a “hybrid” approach to direct drive inertial confinement fusion that can exploit a high-energy gas laser with two opposed beams. The target and driver are asymmetric, much like ...
Jean Luis Suazo Betancourt, Naia Butler-Craig et al.
Expected high electron mobility and low resistivity along magnetic field lines—as compared to across magnetic field lines—have led to the assumption, or the reproduction through a solution to the ...
In a radiofrequency (RF) plasma thruster device utilizing a cusp-shaped magnetic field, we investigate the dependence of plasma parameters on operational conditions. Among the conditions, this study ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
