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August 2012
ISSN 1070-664X
EISSN 1089-7674
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LETTERS
Simulation of current-filament dynamics and relaxation in the Pegasus Spherical Tokamak
Phys. Plasmas 19, 080701 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4746089
A Vlasov equilibrium for space charge dominated beam in a misaligned solenoidal channel
Phys. Plasmas 19, 080702 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747694
ARTICLES
Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities
Backward mode of the ion-cyclotron wave in a semi-bounded magnetized Lorentzian plasma
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082101 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742156
Kink modes and surface currents associated with vertical displacement events
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082103 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4740507
The role of compressibility in energy release by magnetic reconnection
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082109 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742314
Beam-wave interaction analysis of a magnetically insulated line oscillator
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082110 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4743023
Non-modal analysis of the diocotron instability: Plane geometry
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082112 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747506
Extending magnetohydrodynamics to the slow dynamics of collisionless plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082113 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4746092
Electron magneto-hydrodynamic waves bounded by magnetic bubble
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082118 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748573
Simulation of filamentation instability of a current-carrying plasma by particle in cell method
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082119 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748956
Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport
Beam-driven three-dimensional electromagnetic strong turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082301 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4740058
Properties of convective cells generated in magnetized toroidal plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082304 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4740056
Electron geodesic acoustic modes in electron temperature gradient mode turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082305 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742321
Large amplitude dust-acoustic solitary waves in electron-positron-ion plasma with dust grains
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082308 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4745652
Collisionless inter-species energy transfer and turbulent heating in drift wave turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082309 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4746033
Effects of parallel electron dynamics on plasma blob transport
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082312 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747619
Long range temporal correlation in the chaotic oscillations of a dc glow discharge plasma
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082313 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747533
Electron acoustic waves in a magnetized plasma with kappa distributed ions
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082314 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4743015
Nonlinear instability saturation due to quasi-particle trapping in a turbulent plasma
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082316 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747531
A link between nonlinear self-organization and dissipation in drift-wave turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082318 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748143
Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement
Internal disruptions and sawtooth like activity in Large Helical Device
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082501 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4740064
δf Monte Carlo calculation of neoclassical transport in perturbed tokamaks
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082503 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4740511
Snowflake divertor configuration studies in National Spherical Torus Experiment
V. A. Soukhanovskii; R. E. Bell; A. Diallo; S. Gerhardt; S. Kaye; E. Kolemen; B. P. LeBlanc; A. G. McLean; J. E. Menard; S. F. Paul; M. Podesta; R. Raman; T. D. Rognlien; A. L. Roquemore; D. D. Ryutov; F. Scotti; M. V. Umansky; D. Battaglia; M. G. Bell; D. A. Gates; R. Kaita; R. Maingi; D. Mueller; S. A. Sabbagh
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082504 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4737117
Geodesic acoustic mode excitation by a spatially broad energetic particle beam
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082507 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4745191
Measurements of ion cyclotron range of frequencies mode converted wave intensity with phase contrast imaging in Alcator C-Mod and comparison with full-wave simulations
N. Tsujii; M. Porkolab; P. T. Bonoli; Y. Lin; J. C. Wright; S. J. Wukitch; E. F. Jaeger; D. L. Green; R. W. Harvey
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082508 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4745613
Verification and validation of linear gyrokinetic simulation of Alfvén eigenmodes in the DIII-D tokamak
D. A. Spong; E. M. Bass; W. Deng; W. W. Heidbrink; Z. Lin; B. Tobias; M. A. Van Zeeland; M. E. Austin; C. W. Domier; N. C. Luhmann, Jr.
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082511 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747505
The effect of anisotropic heat transport on magnetic islands in 3-D configurations
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082514 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747500
Electron profile stiffness and critical gradient studies
J. C. DeBoo; C. C. Petty; A. E. White; K. H. Burrell; E. J. Doyle; J. C. Hillesheim; C. Holland; G. R. McKee; T. L. Rhodes; L. Schmitz; S. P. Smith; G. Wang; L. Zeng
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082518 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4750061
Inertially Confined Plasmas, High Energy Density Plasma Science, Warm Dense Matter
Spectral lines behavior of Be I and Na I isoelectronic sequence in Debye plasma environment
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082701 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742177
OMEGA polar-drive target designs
P. B. Radha; J. A. Marozas; F. J. Marshall; A. Shvydky; T. J. B. Collins; V. N. Goncharov; R. L. McCrory; P. W. McKenty; D. D. Meyerhofer; T. C. Sangster; S. Skupsky
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082704 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742320
Investigation of a polychromatic tomography method for the extraction of the three-dimensional spatial structure of implosion core plasmas
T. Nagayama; R. C. Mancini; R. Florido; D. Mayes; R. Tommasini; J. A. Koch; J. A. Delettrez; S. P. Regan; V. A. Smalyuk
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082705 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4743017
Scale coupling in Richtmyer-Meshkov flows induced by strong shocks
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082706 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4744986
The interaction of quasi-monoenergetic protons with pre-compressed inertial fusion fuels
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082707 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4745862
Designs for highly nonlinear ablative Rayleigh-Taylor experiments on the National Ignition Facility
A. Casner; V. A. Smalyuk; L. Masse; I. Igumenshchev; S. Liberatore; L. Jacquet; C. Chicanne; P. Loiseau; O. Poujade; D. K. Bradley; H. S. Park; B. A. Remington
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082708 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4737901
Influence of atomic processes on the implosion of plasma liners
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082711 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748563
Ionospheric, Solar-System, and Astrophysical Plasmas
Resonant wave-particle interactions modified by intrinsic Alfvénic turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082902 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742989
Collisionless kinetic regimes for quasi-stationary axisymmetric accretion disc plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 19, 082905 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748578
Lasers, Particle Beams, Accelerators, Radiation Generation
Efficient laser-induced 6-8 keV x-ray production from iron oxide aerogel and foil-lined cavity targets
F. Pérez; J. J. Kay; J. R. Patterson; J. Kane; B. Villette; F. Girard; C. Reverdin; M. May; J. Emig; C. Sorce; J. Colvin; S. Gammon; J. Jaquez; J. H. Satcher, Jr.; K. B. Fournier
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083101 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4740076
Enhancing extreme ultraviolet photons emission in laser produced plasmas for advanced lithography
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083102 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742159
Improved modeling of relativistic collisions and collisional ionization in particle-in-cell codes
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083104 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742167
Rapid startup in relativistic backward wave oscillator by injecting external backward signal
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083105 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742180
Geometrical constraints on plasma couplers for Raman compression
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083110 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4745868
Design and numerical simulations of a high power 0.15 THz oscillator
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083111 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747161
Energy spread inhibition of compact electron bunch driven by circularly polarized laser pulse
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083112 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748572
Propagation characteristics of a Gaussian laser beam in plasma with modulated collision frequency
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083114 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4744970
Target normal sheath acceleration sheath fields for arbitrary electron energy distribution
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083115 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748565
Radiation: Emission, Absorption, Transport
Multi-keV x-ray sources from metal-lined cylindrical hohlraums
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083301 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4746031
Low-Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Applications, Plasma Sources, Sheaths
Two-dimensional plasma expansion in a magnetic nozzle: Separation due to electron inertia
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083501 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4739791
Thermodynamic and transport properties of two-temperature SF6 plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083506 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4739778
Axial force imparted by a current-free magnetically expanding plasma
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083509 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747701
Wave modeling in a cylindrical non-uniform helicon discharge
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083511 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748874
Dusty Plasmas
Generation of dust projectiles passing over an obstacle in the plasma sheath
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083701 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742169
Secondary dust density waves excited by nonlinear dust acoustic waves
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083702 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742992
Dust-acoustic waves and stability in the permeating dusty plasma. II. Power-law distributions
Phys. Plasmas 19, 083706 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4748297
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Geometric integration of the Vlasov-Maxwell system with a variational particle-in-cell scheme
Phys. Plasmas 19, 084501 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742985
ERRATA
Nonlinear simulations of GAEs in NSTX-U
E. V. Belova, E. D. Fredrickson, et al.
Artificial correlation heating in PIC simulations
M. D. Acciarri, C. Moore, et al.
The long road to ignition: An eyewitness account
Mordecai D. Rosen