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Conditions for net fast ion drive are derived for beam-driven, co-propagating, sub-cyclotron compressional (CAE) and global (GAE) Alfv\'en eigenmodes driven by the Landau resonance with super-Alfv\'enic fast ions. Approximations applicable…

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Neutral-beam-driven, sub-cyclotron compressional (CAE) and global (GAE) \Alfven eigenmodes are routinely excited in spherical tokamaks such as NSTX(-U) and MAST, have been observed on the conventional aspect ratio tokamak DIII-D, and may be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 J. B. Lestz

Dispersive Alfven waves (DAWs) offer, an alternative to magnetic reconnection, opportunity to accelerate solar flare particles. We study the effect of DAW polarisation, L-, R-, circular and elliptical, in different regimes inertial and…

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This work presents a model for generating nonthermal power-law tails of particles' energy probability density functions in turbulent collisionless plasmas, applicable to both non-relativistic and relativistic scenarios. We propose that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Stanislav Boldyrev , Daniel Humphrey , Vadim Roytershteyn

Transverse electromagnetic and electrostatic plasma wave modes propagating along a background magnetic field $\vec{B}_0$ are independent according to linear kinetic theory. However, resonant interactions and energy exchange between waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Martín A. Quijada , Pablo S. Moya , Roberto E. Navarro

Nonlinear simulations of the early ELM phase based on a typical type-I ELMy ASDEX Upgrade discharge have been carried out using the reduced MHD code JOREK. The analysis is focused on the evolution of the toroidal Fourier spectrum. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 Isabel Krebs , Matthias Hoelzl , Karl Lackner , Sibylle Guenter

Particle heating in advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) by nonlinear MHD (Alfvenic) turbulence is investigated. Such turbulence with highly-fluctuating magnetic fields, $\tilde B\sim B_0$, is believed to be naturally produced by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mikhail V. Medvedev

In the linear collisionless limit, a zonal potential perturbation in a toroidal plasma relaxes, in general, to a non-zero residual value. Expressions for the residual value in tokamak and stellarator geometries, and for arbitrary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 P. Monreal , I. Calvo , E. Sánchez , F. I. Parra , A. Bustos , A. Könies , R. Kleiber , T. Görler

Polarized electron beam production via laser wakefield acceleration in pre-polarized plasma is investigated by particle-in-cell simulations. The evolution of the electron beam polarization is studied based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 L. R. Yin , X. F. Li , Y. J. Gu , N. Cao , Q. Kong , M. Buescher , S. M. Weng , M. Chen , Z. M. Sheng

Fusion-born alpha particles in ITER disruption simulations are investigated as a possible drive of Alfv\'enic instabilities. The ability of these waves to expel runaway electron (RE) seed particles is explored in the pursuit of a passive,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Andrej Lier , Gergely Papp , Philipp Lauber , Ola Embreus , George Wilkie , Stefanie Braun

Energetic particle populations in nuclear fusion experiments can destabilize Alfv\' en Eigenmodes through inverse Landau damping and couplings with gap modes in the shear Alfv\' en continua. We use the reduced MHD equations to describe the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia

Planetary magnetospheres exhibit diverse environments where Ultra-low frequency (ULF) pulsations induce nonlinear ponderomotive effects. Since suprathermal populations modeled by Kappa distributions are ubiquitous in these regions, their…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Joaquín Espinoza-Troni , Felipe A Asenjo , Pablo S Moya

The aim of the present study is to shed light on the effects connected with thermal misbalance due to non-equal cooling and heating rates induced by density and temperature perturbations in solar active regions hosting either propagating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 S. A. Belov , S. Vasheghani Farahani , N. E. Molevich

An impact of neutrals on anomalous edge plasma transport and zonal flow (ZF) is considered. As an example, it is assumed that edge plasma turbulence is driven by the resistive drift wave (RDW) instability. It is found that the actual effect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Yanzeng Zhang , Sergei I. Krasheninnikov , Rebecca Masline , Roman D. Smirnov

The Abelian Born-Infeld classical non-linear electrodynamic has been used to investigate the electric and magnetostatic fields generated by a point-like electrical charge at rest in an inertial frame. The results show a rich internal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. O. Vellozo , Jose A. Helayel-Neto , A. W. Smith , L. P. G. De Assis

In magnetic confinement fusion devices like tokamaks, it is crucial to confine the high energy fusion-born helium nuclei ($\alpha$-particles) to maintain the energy equilibrium of the plasma. However, energetic ions can excite various…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 László Horváth

We systematically investigate the influence of annealing effect on terahertz (THz) generation from CoFeB based magnetic nanofilms driven by femtosecond laser pulses. Three times enhancement of THz yields are achieved in W/CoFeB through…

Non-Maxwellian electron velocity space distribution functions (EVDF) are useful signatures of plasma conditions and non-local consequences of collisionless magnetic reconnection. In the past, EVDFs were obtained mainly for antiparallel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 P. A. Muñoz , J. Büchner

The two-field equations governing fully nonlinear dynamics of the drift wave (DW) and geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) in the toroidal geometry are derived in nonlinear gyrokinetic framework. Two stages with distinctive features are identified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ningfei Chen , Shizhao Wei , Guangyu Wei , Zhiyong Qiu

To address the long-standing unresolved issue of "isotope effect" in plasma transport, this study investigates the hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) isotope dependence of a nonlinear turbulence system. The analysis focuses on the zonal flow (ZF)…