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November 2015
ISSN 1070-664X
EISSN 1089-7674
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REVIEW ARTICLE
Direct-drive inertial confinement fusion: A review
R. S. Craxton; K. S. Anderson; T. R. Boehly; V. N. Goncharov; D. R. Harding; J. P. Knauer; R. L. McCrory; P. W. McKenty; D. D. Meyerhofer; J. F. Myatt; A. J. Schmitt; J. D. Sethian; R. W. Short; S. Skupsky; W. Theobald; W. L. Kruer; K. Tanaka; R. Betti; T. J. B. Collins; J. A. Delettrez; S. X. Hu; J. A. Marozas; A. V. Maximov; D. T. Michel; P. B. Radha; S. P. Regan; T. C. Sangster; W. Seka; A. A. Solodov; J. M. Soures; C. Stoeckl; J. D. Zuegel
Phys. Plasmas 22, 110501 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934714
LETTERS
Fast response of electron-scale turbulence to auxiliary heating cessation in National Spherical Torus Experiment
Y. Ren; W. X. Wang; B. P. LeBlanc; W. Guttenfelder; S. M. Kaye; S. Ethier; E. Mazzucato; K. C. Lee; C. W. Domier; R. Bell; D. R. Smith; H. Yuh
Phys. Plasmas 22, 110701 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935113
Low edge safety factor operation and passive disruption avoidance in current carrying plasmas by the addition of stellarator rotational transform
M. D. Pandya; M. C. ArchMiller; M. R. Cianciosa; D. A. Ennis; J. D. Hanson; G. J. Hartwell; J. D. Hebert; J. L. Herfindal; S. F. Knowlton; X. Ma; S. Massidda; D. A. Maurer; N. A. Roberds; P. J. Traverso
Phys. Plasmas 22, 110702 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935396
Reducing wall plasma expansion with gold foam irradiated by laser
Lu Zhang; Yongkun Ding; Shaoen Jiang; Jiamin Yang; Hang Li; Longyu Kuang; Zhiwei Lin; Longfei Jing; Liling Li; Bo Deng; Zheng Yuan; Tao Chen; Guanghui Yuan; Xiulan Tan; Ping Li
Phys. Plasmas 22, 110703 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935381
TUTORIAL
The snowflake divertor
In Special Collection:
Reviews and Tutorials in Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, and Confinement
Phys. Plasmas 22, 110901 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935115
ARTICLES
Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities
Gyro-viscosity and linear dispersion relations in pair-ion magnetized plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112101 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934923
Nonplanar dynamics of variable size dust grains in nonextensive dusty plasma
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112105 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935166
Generalised relativistic Ohm's laws, extended gauge transformations, and magnetic linking
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112106 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935282
Doubly excited 3Pe resonance states of two-electron positive ions in Debye plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112107 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935291
Harmonic growth of spherical Rayleigh-Taylor instability in weakly nonlinear regime
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112112 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936096
Landau damping of Langmuir twisted waves with kappa distributed electrons
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112114 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935845
Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport
Azimuthal inhomogeneity of turbulence structure and its impact on intermittent particle transport in linear magnetized plasmas
T. Kobayashi; S. Inagaki; M. Sasaki; Y. Kosuga; H. Arakawa; T. Yamada; Y. Nagashima; Y. Miwa; N. Kasuya; A. Fujisawa; S.-I. Itoh; K. Itoh
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112301 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934537
Evolution of laser induced electromagnetic postsolitons in multi-species plasma
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112302 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935303
Fluctuation-induced shear flow and energy transfer in plasma interchange turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112304 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935912
Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement
Multidirectional plasma flow measurement by Gundestrup Probe in scrape-off layer of ADITYA tokamak
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112501 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935292
Three-dimensional equilibria and island energy transport due to resonant magnetic perturbation edge localized mode suppression on DIII-D
J. D. King; E. J. Strait; R. Nazikian; C. Paz-Soldan; D. Eldon; M. E. Fenstermacher; N. M. Ferraro; J. M. Hanson; S. R. Haskey; R. J. La Haye; M. J. Lanctot; S. A. Lazerson; N. C. Logan; Y. Q. Liu; M. Okabayashi; J.-K. Park; D. Shiraki; A. D. Turnbull
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112502 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935486
Observation of particle acceleration in laboratory magnetosphere
Y. Kawazura; Z. Yoshida; M. Nishiura; H. Saitoh; Y. Yano; T. Nogami; N. Sato; M. Yamasaki; A. Kashyap; T. Mushiake
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112503 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935894
Explicit high-order non-canonical symplectic particle-in-cell algorithms for Vlasov-Maxwell systems
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112504 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935904
Intermittent bursts in ion-temperature-gradient turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112505 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935907
Evolution of E × B shear and coherent fluctuations prior to H-L transitions in DIII-D and control strategies for H-L transitions
D. Eldon; R. L. Boivin; C. Chrystal; R. J. Groebner; G. R. McKee; L. Schmitz; G. R. Tynan; Z. Yan; J. A. Boedo; K. H. Burrell; J. D. King; E. Kolemen; N. C. Luhmann, Jr.; C. M. Muscatello; T. H. Osborne; P. B. Snyder
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112506 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935919
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian constraints for guiding-center Hamiltonian theories
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112507 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935925
Impurities in a non-axisymmetric plasma: Transport and effect on bootstrap current
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112508 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935901
Inertially Confined Plasmas, High Energy Density Plasma Science, Warm Dense Matter
Three- and two-dimensional simulations of counter-propagating shear experiments at high energy densities at the National Ignition Facility
Ping Wang; Ye Zhou; Stephan A. MacLaren; Channing M. Huntington; Kumar S. Raman; Forrest W. Doss; Kirk A. Flippo
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112701 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934612
The importance of electrothermal terms in Ohm's law for magnetized spherical implosions
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112703 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935286
Direct and secondary nuclear excitation with x-ray free-electron lasers
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112706 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935294
The development of coated and non-coated wire explosions observed by X-ray backlighting
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112707 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935915
Plasma viscosity with mass transport in spherical inertial confinement fusion implosion simulations
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112708 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935906
Characterisation of the current switch mechanism in two-stage wire array Z-pinches
G. C. Burdiak; S. V. Lebedev; A. J. Harvey-Thompson; G. N. Hall; G. F. Swadling; F. Suzuki-Vidal; E. Khoory; S. N. Bland; L. Pickworth; P. de Grouchy; J. Skidmore; L. Suttle; E. M. Waisman
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112710 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936278
Ionospheric, Solar-System, and Astrophysical Plasmas
Kinetic model of force-free current sheets with non-uniform temperature
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112902 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935488
Evolution of lower hybrid turbulence in the ionosphere
Phys. Plasmas 22, 112904 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936281
Lasers, Particle Beams, Accelerators, Radiation Generation
Experimental study of an X-band phase-locked relativistic backward wave oscillator
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113102 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935053
Propagation characteristics of two-color laser pulses in homogeneous plasma
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113104 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934977
Injection locking of an electronic maser in the hard excitation mode
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113107 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935847
Regimes of enhanced electromagnetic emission in beam-plasma interactions
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113109 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935890
Mechanisms of amplification of ultrashort electromagnetic pulses in gyrotron traveling wave tube with helically corrugated waveguide
N. S. Ginzburg; I. V. Zotova; A. S. Sergeev; V. Yu. Zaslavsky; I. V. Zheleznov; S. V. Samsonov; S. V. Mishakin
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113111 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935905
High-power laser interaction with low-density C–Cu foams
F. Pérez; J. D. Colvin; M. J. May; S. Charnvanichborikarn; S. O. Kucheyev; T. E. Felter; K. B. Fournier
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113112 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935911
Controlling two plasmon decay instability in intense femtosecond laser driven plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113114 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935909
Electron residual energy due to stochastic heating in field-ionized plasma
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113115 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936276
Radiation: Emission, Absorption, Transport
An X-band high-impedance relativistic klystron amplifier with an annular explosive cathode
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113301 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934991
Ionization competition effects on population distribution and radiative opacity of mixture plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113302 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935298
Low-Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Applications, Plasma Sources, Sheaths
Effective group index of refraction in non-thermal plasma photonic crystals
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113501 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935009
Instability of plasma plume of micro-hollow cathode discharge
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113502 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935116
Simulation of multipactor on the rectangular grooved dielectric surface
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113506 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935385
Numerical study of the generation of runaway electrons in a gas diode with a hot channel
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113507 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935398
Are the argon metastables important in high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharges?
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113508 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935402
Numerical validation of axial plasma momentum lost to a lateral wall induced by neutral depletion
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113509 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935903
On the interaction between two fireballs in low-temperature plasma
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113511 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936106
Study of a contracted glow in low-frequency plasma-jet discharges operating with argon
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113512 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936277
Dusty Plasmas
Self-excited dust-acoustic waves in an electron-depleted nanodusty plasma
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113701 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934927
Dust kinetic Alfvén solitary and rogue waves in a superthermal dusty plasma
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113702 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935165
Comparison of dust charging between orbital-motion-limited theory and particle-in-cell simulations
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113703 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935697
Effect of magnetic field on dust charging and corresponding probe measurement
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113704 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935900
On the rogue waves propagation in non-Maxwellian complex space plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113705 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935916
Diffusion coefficients of Fokker-Planck equation for rotating dust grains in a fusion plasma
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113706 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935873
Characteristics of the surface plasma wave in a self-gravitating magnetized dusty plasma slab
Phys. Plasmas 22, 113707 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4936325
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Geodesic mode instability driven by electron and ion fluxes in tokamaks
Phys. Plasmas 22, 114503 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935383
On the estimation of sound speed in two-dimensional Yukawa fluids
Phys. Plasmas 22, 114504 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935846
A zero-equation turbulence model for two-dimensional hybrid Hall thruster simulations
Phys. Plasmas 22, 114505 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935891
ERRATA
Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion
Samuel E. Wurzel, Scott C. Hsu
FreeGSNKE: A Python-based dynamic free-boundary toroidal plasma equilibrium solver
N. C. Amorisco, A. Agnello, et al.
Weakly nonlinear incompressible Rayleigh–Taylor–Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in plane geometry
Zhen-Qi Zou, Jun-Feng Wu, et al.