Journal•ISSN: 0032-1028
Plasma Physics
IOP Publishing
About: Plasma Physics is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Plasma & Magnetic field. It has an ISSN identifier of 0032-1028. Over the lifetime, 1868 publications have been published receiving 23070 citations.
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TL;DR: Stix's treatment of zero-damped electrostatic waves in a Maxwellian plasma is extended to the nonlinear regime in this paper, where Stationary Bernstein-Greene-Krusk almodes which propagate with ion acoustic speed are constructed.
Abstract: Stix's treatment of zero-damped electrostatic waves in a Maxwellian plasma is extended to the nonlinear regime. Stationary Bernstein-Greene-Krusk almodes which propagate with ion acoustic speed are constructed. This subclass consists of solitary, snoidal (=periodical waves, like ocean waves, which can be written in terms of Jacobian elliptic functions) and sinusoidal waves. A discrimination of those waves can be given by a single parameter, the steepness parameter, which contains nonlinearity, trapping of particles and dispersion. It turns out that Sadgeev's soliton represents a special case of the class solitons having the largest width and the lowest velocity. Hence a modified Korteweg-de-Vries equation must exist with a stronger nonlinearity.
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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the strength of the interaction varies significantly with energy over the widths of the distributions of two Maxwellian distributions of particles, and this effect is considered for fusion (both D-T and D-D).
Abstract: The interaction of two Maxwellian distributions of particles will differ from the interaction of the two particles at their respective Maxwell averages if the strength of the interaction varies significantly with energy over the widths of the distributions. This effect is considered here in particular for fusion (both D-T and D-D) for the mean energy of the reacting particles as a function of temperature and for the spectrum of the neutrons produced.
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TL;DR: A brief review of the physics of ion acceleration, charge exchange and ionization, trajectories for fast ions in toroidal magnetic fields, and fast-ion thermalization is given in this paper.
Abstract: Presents a brief review of the physics of ion acceleration, charge exchange and ionization, trajectories for fast ions in toroidal magnetic fields, and fast-ion thermalization. The injection of fast atoms is found to be a highly competitive method both for heating present-day experimental toroidal plasmas and for bringing full-scale toroidal CTR plasmas to low-density ignition.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the experiments on solitons in plasmas performed during the period 1970 to 1982 are reviewed and suggested suggestions for future experiments are presented, as well as a review of the results.
Abstract: The experiments on solitons in plasmas performed during the period 1970 to 1982 are reviewed. Suggestions for future experiments are presented.
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