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The low-frequency instability of a magnetized plasma column and the anomalous radial plasma convection are shown to be linked with the existence of a radial cross-field current along a plasma channel rotating around the central magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 S. Jaeger , Th. Pierre

A "scanning" drift tube apparatus, capable of mapping of the spatio-temporal evolution of electron swarms, developing between two plane electrodes under the effect of a homogeneous electric field, is presented. The electron swarms are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 I. Korolov , M. Vass , N. Kh. Bastykova , Z. Donko

Dusty plasma medium turns out to be an ideal system for studying the strongly coupled behavior of matter. The large size and slow response make their dynamics suitable to be captured through simple diagnostic tools. Furthermore, as the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Aman Singh Katariya , Amita Das , Animesh Sharma , Bibhuti Bhushan Sahu

The scattering and transformation of the waves propagating in magnetized plasma on a heavy stationary charged particle located at a plane plasma-vacuum boundary is considered. The scattering (transformation) occurs due to the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hrachya B. Nersisyan

The twisted magnetospheres of magnetars must sustain a persistent flow of electron-positron plasma. The flow dynamics is controlled by the radiation field around the hot neutron star. The problem of plasma motion in the self-consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Strong electrostatic turbulence in magnetically confined plasmas is characterized by trapping or eddying of particle trajectories produced by the $E\times B$ stochastic drift. Trapping is shown to produce strong effects on test particles…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Madalina Vlad , Florin Spineanu

The dielectric permeability tensor for spin polarized plasmas derived in terms of the spin-1/2 quantum kinetic model in six-dimensional phase space in Part I of this work is applied for study of spectra of high-frequency transverse and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Pavel A. Andreev

A new category of plasma emerged at the end of the 1970s. It consists of a column of plasma maintained by the electric field component of radiofrequency (RF) and microwave (MW) waves that propagate at the interface between the outer surface…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Michel Moisan

An independent control of the flux and energy of ions impacting on an object immersed in a plasma is often desirable for many industrial processes such as microelectronics manufacturing. We demonstrate that a simultaneous control of these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Sarveshwar Sharma , Igor Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Predhiman Kaw , Abhijit Sen

Drift-diffusion plasma fluid models are commonly used to simulate electric discharges. Such models can computationally be very efficient if they are combined with explicit time integration. This paper deals with two issues that often arise…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jannis Teunissen

The well observed inward drift of current carrying runaway electrons during runaway plateau regime after disruption is studied by considering the phase space dynamic of runaways in a large aspect ratio toroidal system. We consider the case…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Di Hu , Hong Qin

The collisional drift wave instability is reexamined taking into account the ion response in the direction parallel to the magnetic field lines, which appears due to friction with electrons and which can not be omitted in view of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Vranjes , S. Poedts

We use Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission data to investigate electron-scale energy transfer due to lower hybrid drift waves during magnetopause reconnection. We analyze waves observed in an electron-scale plasma mixing layer at the…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Sabrina F. Tigik , Daniel B. Graham , Yuri V. Khotyaintsev

The Electron Cyclotron Drift Instability (ECDI) driven by the electron $E\times B$ drift in partially magnetized plasmas is investigated with highly resolved particle-in-cell simulations. The emphasis is on two-dimensional effects involving…

Several analysis methods for nonstationary fluctuations are described and applied to the edge localized mode (ELM) instabilities of limiter H-mode plasmas. The microwave scattering diagnostic observes poloidal $k_{\theta}$ values of 3.3…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Kurt S. Riedel , Alexander Sidorenko , Norton Bretz , David J. Thomson

Electromagnetic temporal boundaries, emerging when the constitutive parameters of a medium undergo abrupt temporal variations, have garnered significant interest for their role in facilitating unconventional wave phenomena and enabling…

Charged particles can be accelerated via surfatron mechanism along dc magnetic field by obliquely propagating electrostatic waves. In plasma, this mechanism can, in principle, produce an average parallel current, even when the wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 I. Y. Dodin , N. J. Fisch

Resonant scattering of fast particles off low frequency plasma waves is a major process determining transport characteristics of energetic particles in the heliosphere and contributing to their acceleration. Usually, only Alfv\'en waves are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Cedric Schreiner , Patrick Kilian , Felix Spanier

We derive a generalized linear dispersion relation of waves in a strongly magnetized, compressible, homogeneous and isotropic quasineutral plasma. Starting from a two fluid model, describing distinguishable electron and ion fluids, we…

Space Physics · Physics 2010-05-27 Dastgeer Shaikh , B. Dasgupta , P. K. Shukla

The propagation of plasma waves in a new non-linear, logarithmic electrodynamics model is performed. A cold, uniform, collisionless fluid plasma model is applied. Electrostatic waves in magnetized plasma are shown to correspond to modified…