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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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November 27 2024
C. A. Thomas, M. Tabak et al.
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 ...
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November 18 2024
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 ...
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November 18 2024
Takeru Furukawa, Kento Shimasaki et al.
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 ...
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December 11 2024
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. ...
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December 06 2024
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 ...
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December 04 2024
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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December 11 2024
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 ...
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December 11 2024
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 ...
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December 11 2024
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 ...
Hybrid direct drive with a two-sided ultraviolet laser
C. A. Thomas, M. Tabak, et al.
Toward first principles-based simulations of dense hydrogen
Michael Bonitz, Jan Vorberger, et al.
Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion
Samuel E. Wurzel, Scott C. Hsu