Stabilization of Drift Instabilities of an Inhomogeneous Plasma by Means of an RF Electric Field

The possibility of stabilizing effects that an rf electric field imposes on drift instabilities in an inhomogeneous plasma is investigated. A two-species, nonisothermal plasma, situated in an externally applied static magnetic field is considered with the rf electric field applied in the same direction as the dc magnetic field. The plasma is "mildly" inhomogeneous in density, with a density gradient perpendicular to the confining magnetic field. Using a hydrodynamic model for the plasma it is found that under certain conditions an increase in the frequency of the drift oscillations is obtained as the result of the application of the rf electric field. The increase in the frequency of the drift oscillations results in an increase in the magnitude of the stabilizing term associated with Landau damping which in turn yields a smaller growth rate for the drift instability. Discussions of the state of the plasma for different values of the frequency of the applied electric field are presented and the feasible ranges of values of the above quantity required for stabilization are determined. It is concluded that the resulting stabilization is significant only in a very narrow rf band. Therefore, the application of this technique appears to be a difficult experimental undertaking.     

Dissociation of Quarkonium in a Strong Electric Field

The probability of tunnel decay of quarkonium (bond state of a heavy quark and a heavy antiquark) into free quarks in a strong electric field is estimated.     

Backscattering and Absorptive Parametric Instabilities Involving the Lower Hybrid Mode in a Magnetized Plasma

The theories of two decay-type parametric instabilities involving the lower hybrid mode in a magnetized plasma are presented. In the first of these, a pump wave of ordinary polarization causes the growth of a backward propagating transverse wave and a longitudinal lower hybrid wave, all with wave vectors perpendicular to the external magnetic field. The second instability concerns the parametric excitation of the upper hybrid and the lower hybrid modes.     

强电场对夸克胶子等离子体中粲夸克偶素演化的影响(英文)

在极端相对论重离子碰撞中,高速运动的重离子会产生很强的电场。在碰撞的早期电场强度大小在eE~m_π2的量级。在夸克胶子等离子体中,强电场将会对粲夸克偶素的演化产生巨大的影响。我们用含时薛定谔方程计算夸克胶子等离子体中由高速运动电荷所产生强电场对重夸克偶素演化的影响。此电场可以导致不同角动量态之间的跃迁。为了研究此效应,比较了有电场和无电场情况下J/ψ、ψ'以及χ_c的产额。计算结果表明,在碰撞早期电场会导致J/ψ解离;同时,χ_c也由电场导致的J/ψ的跃迁而产生。     

类氢原子的强电场电离

强电场情况下,微扰论不再适用,要精确求解Ｓｃｈｒｏｄｉｎｇｅｒ方程．本课题组用数值方法对强电场下类氢原子电离进行了计算,得到基态氢原子的共振态解,与更精确的结果作了比较,证明Ｂｒｅｉｔ－Ｗｉｇｎｅｒ近似在一定误差下是可以接受的． The Schrdinger equation of hydrogen like atoms in a strong electric field is solved by the numerical method instead of perturbation. The resonance ionization of hydrogen atom ground state is computed and comparing with exact result and Breit Wigner parametrisation is useful.     

Plasma Polarization Around Dust Particle in an External Electric Field

The effect of plasma polarization around a negatively charged dust particle is investigated with the help of Monte Carlo simulation of ion trajectories in the electric field of the dust particle and an external electric field. The induced dipole moment of such a system was estimated in a wide range of dust particle and plasma parameters. It is shown that the dipole moment is very large, and has a non‐monotonous dependence on the external electric field. For a small external electric field, it weakly depends on the charge of the dust particle. The dipole moment reduces with the decrease of ion mean free path (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Field of an Electric Dipole Surrounded by a Small Plasma Spheroid with a Cavity

We obtain and analyze a solution of the boundary-value problem for the field of an electric dipole centered in a vacuum cavity inside a small plasma spheroid. The influence of the cavity size on the field enhancement in an outer vacuum region is analyzed as a function of the curvature of the plasma-spheroid surface. The results are compared with the case of a sphere with similar cavity.__________Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 142–151, February 2005     

Calculation of the Electron Distribution Function in a Weakly Ionized Plasma in an Electric Field

Doklady Physics - An analysis of the integral Boltzmann equation to determine the electron distribution function in a weak electric field and its solution are presented. The solution based on a...     

Temperature Field Measurements of the Electric Arc Plasma in a Longitudinal Magnetic Field

Two methods are described to determine local parameters of the unsteady asymmetric plasma. The basis of one method is the parametric approach. This method is used to determine plasma parameters in the case when an assumption can be made on the shape of the intensity isolines. The temperature field was calculated according to the intensity distributions in X direction obtained simultaneously from two lines of sight. The second method was applied for measurements in arbitrary plasma configuration. In this case the temperature fields were calculated according to measurements from lines of sight simultaneously, and the obtained data were used in the Radon transformation inversion.     

Structure of the Wall Sheath in a Gas-Discharge Plasma for an Arbitrary Orientation of a Flat Probe Relative to the Electric Field in the Plasma

Technical Physics - We investigate the structure of the wall sheath of a gas discharge near a flat surface at a negative potential for high mean electron energy. It is shown that in the conditions...     

Non-Relativistic H2 +-Molecule in a Strong Magnetic Field

We show that under the influence of a strong uniform magnetic field the energy of the H₂⁺-ion at the 0-th order Born-Oppenheimer approximation goes over into that of the corresponding united atom limit, He⁺.     

Electron Density and Temperature Rise Time of a Weakly Ionized Oxygen Plasma Subject to an Alternating Electric Field

Macroscopic balance equations for particle number, momentum and energy of the electrons are derived from the Boltzmann equation which describe the time evolution of a weakly ionized oxygen plasma exposed to an alternating homogeneous electric field. The equations are applied to estimate the rise time of electron temperature and density when a rf pulse is emitted from a satellite into the ionospheric plasma.     

Electric Field Mechanism of Thin Plasma Jet Formation in an Open Atmospheric Discharge

Russian Physics Journal - Experimental and theoretical investigations of a new form of pulsed periodic discharge burning in the form of a thin plasma jet – apokamp – have been carried...     

Wave Instabilities of a Collisionless Plasma in Fluid Approximation

Wave properties and instabilities in a magnetized, anisotropic, collisionless, rarefied hot plasma in fluid approx‐imation are studied, using the 16‐moments set of the transport equations obtained from the Vlasov equations. These equations differ from the CGL‐MHD fluid model (single fluid equations by Chew, Goldberger, and Low [5,9]) by including two anisotropic heat flux evolution equations, where the fluxes invalidate the double polytropic CGL laws. We derived the general dispersion relation for linear compressible wave modes. Besides the classic incompressible fire hose modes there appear four types of compressible wave modes: two fast and slow mirror modes – strongly modified compared to the CGL model – and two thermal modes. In the presence of initial heat fluxes along the magnetic field the wave properties become different for the waves running forward and backward with respect to the magnetic field. The well known discrepancies between the results of the CGL‐MHD fluid model and the kinetic theory are now removed: i) The mirror slow mode instability criterion is now the same as that in the kinetic theory. ii) Similarly, in kinetic studies there appear two kinds of fire hose instabilities ‐ incompressible and compressible ones. These two instabilities can arise for the same plasma parameters, and the instability of the new compressible oblique fire hose modes can become dominant. The compressible fire hose instability is the result of the resonance coupling of three retrograde modes ‐ two thermal modes and a fast mirror mode. The results can be applied to the theory of solar and stellar coronal and wind models (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

An Experimental Study of the Two-Phase Flow Adjacent to a Wire in Nucleate Boiling Under an Electric Field

An experimental study of the two-phase flow near a heated wire in nucleate pool boiling is presented. A nonuniform electric field of cylindrical geometry was imposed to the heater. The two-phase flow parameters were measured using specifically developed local phase-detection optical probes. The study includes experiments varying the vertical distance from the heater (z) and measurements of the void fraction and the impact rate in a plane perpendicular to the heater (y-z). The results show that the void fraction decreases with applied voltage and with z. The dependence of the void fraction and the impact rate with heat flux is complex, with a strong decrement in the impact rate and void fraction near the critical heat flux when voltage is applied. The maximum void fraction and impact rate move from the vertical centerline (z) to a position 3 heater radii away.     

Neutrino-Pair Bremsstrahlung from a Hot Plasma in the Presence of a Strong Magnetic Field

The stellar energy loss rate due to the production of neutrino pairs by Bremsstrahlung is calculated for neutron stars in the presence of a strong magnetic field (B ? 10¹² G) and the Coulomb field of the positive ions. The calculated energy loss rates are applied to nonrelativistic electrons at low densities ? 10⁵ gm/cm³ and relatively low temperatures T ? 10⁹ K.     

A Study of Small Amplitude Ion Acoustic Double Layers in a Multi-Species Unmagnetized Plasma

We report here analytic solutions for weak ion acoustic double layers in an unmagnetized multi-species plasma having two electron components, each described by a Boltzmann distribution, and two ions of different masses, each described by usual fluid equations. The velocity and the width of the double layers for different amplitude has been studied.     

Electron-Cyclotron Laser Using Free-Electron Two-Quantum Stark Radiation in a Strong Uniform Axial Magnetic Field and an Alternating Axial Electric Field in a Voltage-Supplied Pill-Box Cavity

We consider the radiation from the beam electrons traveling in a strong uniform axial magnetic field and an axiai alternating electric field of wavelength λ_w generated by a voltage-supplied pill-box cavity.The beam electrons emit genuine laser radiation that propagates only in the axial direction through free-electron twoquantum Stark radiation.We find that laser radiation takes place only at the expense of the axial kinetic energy when λ_wc/(ω_c/γ),where ω_c/γ is the reiativistic electron-cyclotron frequency.We formulate the laser power based on quantum-wiggler electrodynamics,and envision a laser of length 10 m with estimated power 0.1 GW/(kA) in the 10~(-4) cm wavelength range.