New Developments in Nonlinear Plasma Physics: Proceedings of the 2009 ICTP Summer College on Plasma Physics and International Symposium on Cutting Edge Plasma Physics, In Honor of Professor Lennar

by Eliasson, Bengt; Shukla, Padma K.

• ISBN13: 9780735407541
• ISBN10: 0735407541
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics
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Summary

The main focus of the workshop was on tokamak physics and magnetic confinement fusion, plasma turbulence, dusty plasmas, intense laser-plasma interactions, plasma based particle acceleration, and quantum plasmas including quantum electrodynamic effects. The aim of the workshop was also to provide training for young scientists from all over the world, mainly from third world countries, and to give them the opportunity to interact with the senior scientists in an informal manner. A selected number of papers by the invited speakers appears in this book.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Electromagnetic Energy Density Manipulation and Enhancement in a Relativistic Plasma: The Role W Relativistic Nonlinaearities	p. 1
Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions - On the Paradigm of Stimulated Raman Scattering	p. 15
Laser Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Monoenergetic Protons in an Ultra-Thin Foil	p. 35
Beam-Plasma Interactions	p. 50
Beam-Plasma Interaction and Nonlinear Effects	p. 59
Dust Particles Interaction With Plasma Jet	p. 74
Properties of Ion-Particle Interaction and the Ion Drag Force in Complex (Dusty) Plasmas	p. 83
Effective Interaction Potentials and Physical Properties of Complex Plasmas	p. 95
Experiments on Cryogenic Complex Plasma	p. 110
Growth, Sedimentation, Heating and Charging of Dust Particles in the Polar Summer Mesosphere	p. 127
Dust-Acoustic Waves: Visible Sound Waves	p. 141
A New Approach to the Coronal Heating Problem	p. 153
Two Dimensional Inhomogeneous Magnetic Electron Drift Modes	p. 168
The Physics of Zonal Flow-Drift Wave Turbulence Interactions: A Synthesis of Time-domain, Fourier Domain, and Direct Visualization Studies	p. 179
Turbulent Transport in Fusion Plasmas, Effects of Toroidicity and Fluid Closure	p. 193
Influence of Kinetic Effects on the Shape of Mirror Structures	p. 205
Nonlinear Mirror Modes in a Plasma with Nonzero Electron Temperature	p. 213
Alfvén Wave Filamentation and Dispersive Phase Mixing	p. 224
Creation of Magnetic Fields by Electrostatic and Thermal Fluctuations	p. 233
Information Theory and Plasma Turbulence	p. 247
A Novel Charged Medium Consisting of Gas-Liquid Interfacial Plasmas	p. 258
Trapping and Frequency Variability in Electron Acoustic Waves	p. 272
Spin Kinetic Models of Plasmas - Semiclassical and Quantum Mechanical Theory	p. 280
Nonlinear Electrostatic Oscillations in a Sharp Plasma Interface	p. 290
High Intensity Physics - Current and Future Possibilities	p. 301
A Spectral Method for Action-Angle Representation of Linear Waves in Plasmas	p. 315
On Hamiltonian and Action Principle Formulations of Plasma Dynamics	p. 329
A Possible Interpretation of Dark Energy and Matter of the Expanding Universe	p. 345
Analytical and Numerical Aspects in Solving the Controlled 3D Gross-Pitaevskii Equation	p. 356
Some Mathematical Aspects of the Correspondence Between the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation and the Generalized Korteweg-de Vries Equation	p. 365
Pseudospark-Sourced Electron Beam for Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Radiation Generation	p. 380
Author Index	p. 391
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