The influence of the solid to plasma phase transition on the generation of plasma instabilities [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Exploring the plasma processes in the pre-plasma state that lead to instabilities is challenging. Here the authors probe the evolution of the plasma phase change and the instabilities in plasma created by an exploding copper wire in Z-pinch geometry ...
E. Kaselouris +9 more
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Pressure anisotropy-driven instabilities regulate the jovian magnetodisk [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsJupiter’s magnetosphere is often presented as a template for fast-rotating magnetospheres. Distinct from Earth-like, solar wind-driven magnetospheres, it contains an extended magnetodisk encircling the planet.
Z.-Y. Liu +7 more
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Microstructure formation in radially counterstreaming electron flows
New Journal of Physics, 2021 A theoretical model is developed to describe the formation of microstructures due to plasma streaming instabilities in radially convergent geometries. Microstructures in the form of radial spokes are found experimentally in laser wakefield accelerators ...
Lucas I Iñigo Gamiz +7 more
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Chiral Plasma Instabilities [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2013 5 pages, 1 figure; published ...
Akamatsu, Yukinao, Yamamoto, Naoki
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Observation of an Ultracold Plasma Instability [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2008 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ...
Zhang, X. L. +2 more
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Proton Temperature Anisotropy within the Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections Sheath at 1 au
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 The sheath plasma of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) is highly compressed, heated, turbulent, and magnetically intense relative to the ambient solar wind.
Zubair I. Shaikh +2 more
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Quasi-periodical kinetic instabilities in minimum-B confined plasma
AIP Advances, 2022 We present the results of an experimental investigation of quasi-periodical kinetic instabilities exhibited by magnetically confined electron cyclotron resonance heated plasmas.
B. S. Bhaskar +4 more
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Theory of coupled resistive drift and resistive drift ballooning instabilities in fusion plasma
Heliyon, 2021 Drift wave instabilities (DWI) associated with the two-fluid dynamics seems to be responsible for anomalous transport in modern day tokamaks. Ballooning instabilities tend to exchange flux tubes of different pressure, resulting in convective transport ...
Umer Rehman, Ahmad Ali, Shakeel Mahmood
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Perturbative analysis of low-frequency instabilities in high-field ST40 experiments
Nuclear Fusion, 2023 Linear and nonlinear perturbative analyses of low-frequency instabilities are presented for ST40 spherical torus high field plasmas, with simultaneous neutral beam heating due to two tangential sources at 25 keV and 55 keV.
V.N. Duarte +9 more
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Theory of Fluid Instabilities in Partially Ionized Plasmas: An Overview
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Partially ionized plasmas (PIP) are essential constituents of many astrophysical environments, including the solar atmosphere, the interstellar medium, molecular clouds, accretion disks, planet ionospheres, cometary tails, etc., where the ionization ...
Roberto Soler +3 more
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