Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. We present the quasi-analytical spatiotemporal theory, which describes the process of establishing generation in a backward-wave gyro-oscillator based on the use of a sectioned quasi-optical system wi…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. The electron heat transport plays an important role in laser driven inertial confinement fusion. For the plasmas created by intense laser, the traditional Spitzer–Härm theory cannot accurately describ…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. We present a method to calculate the shift of the K edge in warm dense aluminum. We use the average-atom model and show how to build the energy of an electronic configuration with integer subshell pop…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. We are developing a positron–electron plasma trap based on a dipole magnetic field generated by a levitated superconducting magnet to investigate the physics of magnetized plasmas with mass symmetry a…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. First experiment with nitrogen seeding has been performed at the compact spherical tokamak Globus-M2. Significant reduction of the electron temperature and the energy flux to the outer lower divertor …
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. The energy deposition of electron cyclotron waves in a dipole-confined plasma is investigated for the RT-1 device, specifically including the effects of high-energy electrons and the electron Bernstei…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. The eigen equation of pitch-angle distribution derived from the slowing-down distribution equation with an energetic particle source term is solved by using the Legendre series expansion method. An it…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Broadband lasers have the potential to mitigate cross-beam energy transfer (CBET) in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments. A quantitative assessment of the bandwidth required for…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. Electromagnetic dynamics of blobs in hot scrape-off-layer plasmas of the tokamak are affected by excitation of the Alfvén waves and their subsequent propagation to the machine first wall along open ma…
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023. NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a four-spacecraft formation of Earth orbiting satellites that have been providing unparalleled measurements of the local kinetic-scale plasma dynamics…