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Physics of erupting solar flux ropes: Coronal mass ejections (CMEs)—Recent advances in theory and observation
Measurements of correlations enhanced collision rates in the mildly correlated regime (Γ ∼ 1)
Energy transfer in compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Astrophysical particle acceleration mechanisms in colliding magnetized laser-produced plasmas
On the conditions for nonlinear growth in magnetospheric chorus and triggered emissions
Issues
September 2017
ISSN 1070-664X
EISSN 1089-7674
In this Issue
REVIEW ARTICLE
Physics of erupting solar flux ropes: Coronal mass ejections (CMEs)—Recent advances in theory and observation
In Special Collection:
Reviews and Tutorials in Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 24, 090501 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993929
LETTERS
Maximum initial growth-rate of strong-shock-driven Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
Phys. Plasmas 24, 090702 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986903
ARTICLES
Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities
Effective heating of nonadiabatic protons in magnetic reconnection with a guide field
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092101 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997453
Magnetic X points disturbed by the in-plane electric fields
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092102 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997609
Instabilities of current-sheet with a nonuniform guide field
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092104 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998481
Force-free collisionless current sheet models with non-uniform temperature and density profiles
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092105 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997703
Quantitative study of kinetic ballooning mode theory in simple geometry
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092106 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000052
Instabilities and propagation of neutrino magnetohydrodynamic waves in arbitrary direction
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092109 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997187
Two-dimensional modulated ion-acoustic excitations in electronegative plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092114 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001725
Envelope solitons in three-component degenerate relativistic quantum plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092115 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001834
Inhibition of stimulated Raman scattering due to the excitation of stimulated Brillouin scattering
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092116 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5004689
Measurements of correlations enhanced collision rates in the mildly correlated regime (Γ ∼ 1)

Phys. Plasmas 24, 092118 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4999350
Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport
Amplification of large-scale magnetic field in nonhelical magnetohydrodynamics
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092301 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997779
Kinetic treatment of nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in multi-ion plasma
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092304 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998473
Dependence of chaotic diffusion on wave phase spectrum
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092307 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993130
Ultra-low frequency shock dynamics in degenerate relativistic plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092308 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994196
Testing nonlocal models of electron thermal conduction for magnetic and inertial confinement fusion applications
J. P. Brodrick; R. J. Kingham; M. M. Marinak; M. V. Patel; A. V. Chankin; J. T. Omotani; M. V. Umansky; D. Del Sorbo; B. Dudson; J. T. Parker; G. D. Kerbel; M. Sherlock; C. P. Ridgers
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092309 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001079
Validation study of a drift-wave turbulence model for CSDX linear plasma device
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092310 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4995305
Energy transfer in compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Phys. Plasmas 24, 092311 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4990613
Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement
Understanding and predicting profile structure and parametric scaling of intrinsic rotation
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092501 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997789
Translationally symmetric extended MHD via Hamiltonian reduction: Energy-Casimir equilibria
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092504 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986013
Action-angle formulation of generalized, orbit-based, fast-ion diagnostic weight functions
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092505 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4990391
Experiment study of edge localized mode with plasma vertical jogging in HL-2A tokamak
N. Wu; S. Y. Chen; X. M. Song; M. L. Mou; J. Huang; Z. T. Wang; C. J. Tang; X. Song; F. Xia; M. Jiang; HL-2A Team
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092507 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998471
Enhanced toroidal flow stabilization of edge localized modes with increased plasma density
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092510 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4990978
A backward Monte-Carlo method for time-dependent runaway electron simulations
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092511 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986019
ERO modelling of tungsten erosion and re-deposition in EAST L mode discharges
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092512 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4991457
Investigation of the effects of impurity seeding under different magnetic configurations in L-mode plasma in EAST tokamak
Lingyan Xiang; Houyang Guo; Marco Wischmeier; Zhenwei Wu; Liang Wang; Yanmin Duan; Kaifu Gan; Yongcai Shen; Yingjie Chen; EAST Team
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092514 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001723
Enhanced neoclassical particle transport by resonant magnetic perturbations in a tokamak
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092515 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001364
Magnetohydrodynamic transport characterization of a field reversed configuration
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092518 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994681
Theory and discretization of ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with fractal pressure profiles
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092519 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986493
Inertially Confined Plasmas, High Energy Density Plasma Science, Warm Dense Matter
Preliminary investigation on the radiation transfer in dynamic hohlraums on the PTS facility
Delong Xiao; Fan Ye; Shijian Meng; Jiamin Ning; Yi Qin; Qingyuan Hu; Zhanchang Huang; Jianlun Yang; Faxin Chen; Shuqing Jiang; Ning Ding; Rongkun Xu; Chuang Xue; Yang Zhang; Shunkai Sun; Xiaojian Shu
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092701 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994331
Plasma ion stratification by weak planar shocks
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092702 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4995427
Pair correlation functions of strongly coupled two-temperature plasma
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092703 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4999185
Radiation characteristics and implosion dynamics of Z-pinch dynamic hohlraums performed on PTS facility
Xian Bin Huang; Xiao Dong Ren; Jia Kun Dan; Kun Lun Wang; Qiang Xu; Shao Tong Zhou; Si Qun Zhang; Hong Chun Cai; Jing Li; Bing Wei; Ce Ji; Shu Ping Feng; Meng Wang; Wei Ping Xie; Jian Jun Deng
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092704 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998619
First-principles calculations of X-ray absorption spectra for warm dense methane
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092705 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986028
On the importance of minimizing “coast-time” in x-ray driven inertially confined fusion implosions
O. A. Hurricane; A. Kritcher; D. A. Callahan; O. Landen; P. K. Patel; P. T. Springer; D. T. Casey; E. L. Dewald; T. R. Dittrich; T. Döppner; D. E. Hinkel; L. F. Berzak Hopkins; J. Kline; S. Le Pape; T. Ma; A. G. MacPhee; A. Moore; A. Pak; H.-S. Park; J. Ralph; J. D. Salmonson; K. Widmann
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092706 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994856
Increase in the neutron yield from a dense plasma-focus experiment performed with a conical tip placed in the centre of the anode end
P. Kubes; M. Paduch; J. Cikhardt; B. Cikhardtova; D. Klir; J. Kravarik; K. Rezac; E. Zielinska; M. J. Sadowski; A. Szymaszek; K. Tomaszewski; D. Zaloga
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092707 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994097
Ionospheric, Solar-System, and Astrophysical Plasmas
Astrophysical particle acceleration mechanisms in colliding magnetized laser-produced plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092901 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993204
On the conditions for nonlinear growth in magnetospheric chorus and triggered emissions
Phys. Plasmas 24, 092904 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986225
Lasers, Particle Beams, Accelerators, Radiation Generation
Radiation emission from braided electrons in interacting wakefields
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093101 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997440
Kinetic simulations of laser parametric amplification in magnetized plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093103 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998168
Study of virtual cathodes formation during beam-wave interaction in the reltron oscillator
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093107 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4991793
Simulations of a beam-driven plasma antenna in the regime of plasma transparency
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093114 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4995323
Electron dynamics in an elliptical bubble regime
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093116 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986242
Cascaded acceleration of proton beams in ultrashort laser-irradiated microtubes
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093117 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000104
Observation of enhanced absorption of laser radiation by nanostructured targets in PIC simulations
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093118 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993107
Radiation: Emission, Absorption, Transport
Low-Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Applications, Plasma Sources, Sheaths
Measurement and simulation of forces generated when a surface is sputtered
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093501 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997444
Slow electron energy balance for hybrid models of direct-current glow discharges
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093503 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997434
Uniformity optimization and dynamic studies of plasma jet array interaction in argon
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093507 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998469
Single-stage EHD thruster response to several simulation conditions in nitrogen gas
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093508 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986219
Fluid model for a partially packed dielectric barrier discharge plasma reactor
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093510 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000523
Investigation of the Paschen curve for helium in the 100–1000 kV range
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093511 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000387
Population of vibrational levels of carbon dioxide by cylindrical fast ionization wave
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093513 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997055
Investigation of tunable omnidirectional band gap in 1D magnetized full plasma photonic crystals
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093517 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5004695
Gyromagnetic autoresonance plasma bunches in a magnetic mirror
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093518 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986009
Microelectrode-assisted low-voltage atmospheric pressure glow discharge in air
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093519 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5004696
Enhancement and tuning of spin Hall effect of light in plasma metamaterial waveguide
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093520 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986994
Dusty Plasmas
Studies of force field effects on thermal conductivity of complex plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093701 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993992
Nonlinear electrostatic periodic waves and solitons in an inhomogeneous magnetized dusty plasma
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093705 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000719
Observation of self-excited dust acoustic wave in dusty plasma with nanometer size dust grains
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093706 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001721
Ion acoustic wave damping in a non-Maxwellian bi-ion electron plasma in the presence of dust
Phys. Plasmas 24, 093708 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4995581
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Expansion of a radial plasma blast shell into an ambient plasma
M. E. Dieckmann; D. Doria; H. Ahmed; L. Romagnani; G. Sarri; D. Folini; R. Walder; A. Bret; M. Borghesi
Phys. Plasmas 24, 094501 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4991694
Emergence of MHD structures in a collisionless PIC simulation plasma
M. E. Dieckmann; D. Folini; R. Walder; L. Romagnani; E. d'Humieres; A. Bret; T. Karlsson; A. Ynnerman
Phys. Plasmas 24, 094502 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4991702
COMMENTS
ERRATA
Erratum: “Scaling of plasma-body interactions in low Earth orbit” [Phys. Plasmas 24, 042901 (2017)]
Phys. Plasmas 24, 099901 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5004204
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.