Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. In this study, we examine absolute and global instabilities driven by the Cherenkov interaction between a magnetized electron beam and spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with an azimuthal mode nu…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Energy-frontier TeV colliders based on plasma accelerators are attracting much attention due to the recent achievements in multi-stage laser acceleration as well as the remarkable advances in electron…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. In the double-cone ignition scheme, two deuterium–tritium shells in a pair of head-on Au cones are compressed and accelerated spherically [Zhang et al., Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A. 378 (2184), 20200015 …
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. A sub-grid foam model is developed to describe numerically a sequence of processes transforming solid elements in the foam into a hot plasma under the energy deposition by lasers. We account for three…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Asymmetric halo currents (HCs) can exert large net forces on the vacuum vessel and other components during disruptions on tokamaks. The displacements caused by these forces can then be amplified if th…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. This paper extends the analysis first presented in Jardin et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 245001 (2022)] to more thoroughly examine the stability of spherical torus equilibrium to ideal magnetohydrodyna…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. In the plasma equilibrium theory, Gajewski’s analytical expression [Gajewski, Phys. Fluids 15, 70 (1972)] for the poloidal magnetic flux [math] outside the plasma is known. It was obtained as a soluti…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. The magnetic drift and the electric potential play an important role in microtearing destabilization by increasing the growth rate of this instability in the presence of collisions, while in electrost…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. We present a parametric scaling of hot electron (HE) generation at quarter critical density from the two-plasmon decay process. The study is conducted with the laser plasma simulation environment code…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. It is believed that isolated defects within the capsule (e.g., void, high-density inclusion) can be one of the essential factors for implosion performance degradation by seeding hydrodynamic instabili…