Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. We investigate the Fermi acceleration of charged particles in 2D MHD anti-parallel plasmoid reconnection, finding a drastic enhancement in energization rate [math] over a standard Fermi model of [math…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. A model for calculation of thermophysical properties (pressure, internal energy, electrical and thermal conductivities, and thermal power) of low-temperature indium plasma is developed at the temperat…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Darwin approximation, a non-relativistic submodel of the Maxwell’s equations, has been used for theoretical and computational investigations of magnetized plasmas. In this short paper, an improved Dar…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Underwater discharge is the typical method used to generate plasma in a liquid phase environment and is employed in many engineering applications. This study analyzes the formation and development pro…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. The generation of energetic electrons in laser fusion in an important issue. The electrons may either arise from a laser plasma instability, or from the uncoupled high temperature tail of a Maxwellian…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. It is shown that stationary non-spherical dust grains immersed into stationary magnetized plasma can experience the [math] force due to electric current flowing through the grain. The electric current…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023.
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. In a recent paper, “Arbitrary amplitude ion-acoustic supersolitons in negative ion plasmas with two-temperature superthermal electrons” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 092101 (2022)], Kumar and Mishra deal with th…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. The accurate interpretation of experiments with matter at extreme densities and pressures is a notoriously difficult challenge. In a recent work [Dornheim et al., Nat. Commun. 13, 7911 (2022)], we hav…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. The nonlinear physics of cross-beam energy transfer (CBET) for multi-speckled laser beams is examined using large-scale particle-in-cell simulations for a range of laser and plasma conditions relevant…