http://prl.aps.org/ Recently published articles in Phys. Rev. Lett. in the Table of Content section "Plasma and Beam Physics" en-us Copyright (c) 2008 The American Physical Society 2008-05-07T08:09:19-04:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2008-05-07T08:09:19-04:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.185002 Author(s): T. Görler and F. Jenko<br/>Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of microturbulence simultaneously driven by electron temperature gradient modes, trapped electron modes, and ion temperature gradient modes are presented, covering both electron and ion spatiotemporal scales self-consistently. It is found that, for realistic ion hea...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185002] Published Mon May 05, 2008 T. Görler and F. Jenko 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.185002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 18 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 185002 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.185001 Author(s): S. M. Weng, Z. M. Sheng, M. Q. He, J. Zhang, P. A. Norreys, M. Sherlock, and A. P. Robinson<br/>The currents induced by arbitrarily strong dc electric fields in plasma and the evolution of electron distributions have been studied by Fokker-Planck simulations. We find that the electron distributions evolve distinctly under different fields; especially, the electron distribution is well represen...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185001] Published Mon May 05, 2008 S. M. Weng, Z. M. Sheng, M. Q. He, J. Zhang, P. A. Norreys, M. Sherlock, and A. P. Robinson 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.185001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 18 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 185001 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175004 Author(s): Tilmann Lunt, Gerd Fussmann, and Ole Waldmann<br/>We report on measurements of the ion velocity distribution as a function of distance to a target immersed in a magnetized argon plasma. Two situations are investigated: (a) practically the whole plasma streams onto a large target, and (b) the size of the target is significantly smaller than the pl...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175004] Published Fri May 02, 2008 Tilmann Lunt, Gerd Fussmann, and Ole Waldmann 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175004 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 175004 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174802 Author(s): M. Blaskiewicz, J. M. Brennan, and F. Severino<br/>Operational stochastic cooling of 100  GeV/nucleon gold beams has been achieved in the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. We discuss the physics and technology of the longitudinal cooling system and present results with the beams. A simulation algorithm is described and shown to accurately mod...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174802] Published Fri May 02, 2008 M. Blaskiewicz, J. M. Brennan, and F. Severino 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174802 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174802 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 174802 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175003 Author(s): C. C. Chaston, C. Salem, J. W. Bonnell, C. W. Carlson, R. E. Ergun, R. J. Strangeway, and J. P. McFadden<br/>It is demonstrated from observations that the Alfvénic aurora may be powered by a turbulent cascade transverse to the geomagnetic field from large MHD scales to small Alfvén wave scales of several electron skin depths and less. We show that the energy transport through the cascade is sufficient to...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175003] Published Wed Apr 30, 2008 C. C. Chaston, C. Salem, J. W. Bonnell, C. W. Carlson, R. E. Ergun, R. J. Strangeway, and J. P. McFadden 2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175003 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175003 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 175003 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174801 Author(s): E. Allaria, F. Curbis, M. Coreno, M. Danailov, B. Diviacco, C. Spezzani, M. Trovó, and G. DeNinno<br/>We present an experimental characterization of the process of coherent harmonic generation in single-pass free electron lasers. The harmonic radiation is obtained by seeding the electron beam stored in the Elettra storage ring with a Ti:sapphire laser. Different methods for generating harmonics are ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174801] Published Wed Apr 30, 2008 E. Allaria, F. Curbis, M. Coreno, M. Danailov, B. Diviacco, C. Spezzani, M. Trovó, and G. DeNinno 2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174801 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174801 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 174801 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175002 Author(s): J.-H. Choi, B. Knuffman, X. H. Zhang, A. P. Povilus, and G. Raithel<br/>We demonstrate the trapping of a strongly magnetized, quasineutral ultracold plasma in a nested Penning trap with a background field of 2.9 T. Electrons remain trapped in this system for several milliseconds. Early in the evolution, the dynamics are driven by a breathing-mode oscillation in the ion...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175002] Published Mon Apr 28, 2008 J.-H. Choi, B. Knuffman, X. H. Zhang, A. P. Povilus, and G. Raithel 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 175002 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175001 Author(s): G. Brodin, M. Marklund, and G. Manfredi<br/>For quantum effects to be significant in plasmas it is often assumed that the temperature over density ratio must be small. In this paper we challenge this assumption by considering the contribution to the dynamics from the electron spin properties. As a starting point we consider a multicomponent p...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175001] Published Mon Apr 28, 2008 G. Brodin, M. Marklund, and G. Manfredi 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 175001 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164802 Author(s): T. Virkus, H. D. Thomsen, E. Uggerhøj, U. I. Uggerhøj, S. Ballestrero, P. Sona, A. Mangiarotti, T. J. Ketel, A. Dizdar, S. Kartal, and C. Pagliarone CERN NA63 Collaboration<br/>Experimental results for the restricted energy loss of pairs created from 1–178 GeV photons in a thin Au target and subsequently passing a CCD detector are presented. It is shown that pairs—when detected close to the creation vertex—suffer a reduced energy loss due to the internal screening o...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164802] Published Thu Apr 24, 2008 T. Virkus, H. D. Thomsen, E. Uggerhøj, U. I. Uggerhøj, S. Ballestrero, P. Sona, A. Mangiarotti, T. J. Ketel, A. Dizdar, S. Kartal, and C. Pagliarone CERN NA63 Collaboration 2008-04-24T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164802 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164802 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-24T00:00:00-04:00 164802 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.165002 Author(s): K. U. Akli et al.<br/>The heating of solid targets irradiated by 5×10^{20}   W cm^{-2} , 0.8 ps, 1.05  μm wavelength laser light is studied by x-ray spectroscopy of the K-shell emission from thin layers of Ni, Mo, and V. A surface layer is heated to ∼5  keV with an axial temperature gradient of 0.6 â...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165002] Published Wed Apr 23, 2008 K. U. Akli et al. 2008-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.165002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 165002 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.165001 Author(s): H. Nakamura, Y. Sentoku, T. Matsuoka, K. Kondo, M. Nakatsutsumi, T. Norimatsu, H. Shiraga, K. A. Tanaka, T. Yabuuchi, and R. Kodama<br/>We produced cylindrically imploded plasmas, which have the same density-radius product of the imploded plasma ρR with the compressed core in the fast ignition experiment and demonstrated efficient fast heating of cylindrically imploded plasmas with an ultraintense laser light. The coupling efficien...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165001] Published Tue Apr 22, 2008 H. Nakamura, Y. Sentoku, T. Matsuoka, K. Kondo, M. Nakatsutsumi, T. Norimatsu, H. Shiraga, K. A. Tanaka, T. Yabuuchi, and R. Kodama 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.165001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 165001 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164801 Author(s): M. Wakasugi, T. Emoto, Y. Furukawa, K. Ishii, S. Ito, T. Koseki, K. Kurita, A. Kuwajima, T. Masuda, A. Morikawa, M. Nakamura, A. Noda, T. Ohnishi, T. Shirai, T. Suda, H. Takeda, T. Tamae, H. Tongu, S. Wang, and Y. Yano<br/>A novel internal target has been developed, which will make electron scattering off short-lived radioactive nuclei possible in an electron storage ring. An “ion trapping” phenomenon in the electron storage ring was successfully utilized for the first time to form the target for electron scatteri...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164801] Published Tue Apr 22, 2008 M. Wakasugi, T. Emoto, Y. Furukawa, K. Ishii, S. Ito, T. Koseki, K. Kurita, A. Kuwajima, T. Masuda, A. Morikawa, M. Nakamura, A. Noda, T. Ohnishi, T. Shirai, T. Suda, H. Takeda, T. Tamae, H. Tongu, S. Wang, and Y. Yano 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164801 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164801 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 164801 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155005 Author(s): R. A. Treumann and C. H. Jaroschek<br/>It is shown that power-law phase space distributions describe marginally stable Gibbsian equilibria far from thermal equilibrium, which are expected to occur in collisionless plasmas containing fully developed quasistationary turbulence. Gibbsian theory is extended on the fundamental level to statis...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155005] Published Fri Apr 18, 2008 R. A. Treumann and C. H. Jaroschek 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155005 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 155005 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155004 Author(s): Yousef I. Salamin, Zoltán Harman, and Christoph H. Keitel<br/>Theoretical investigations show that linearly and radially polarized multiterawatt and petawatt laser beams, focused to subwavelength waist radii, can directly accelerate protons and carbon nuclei, over micron-size distances, to the energies required for hadron cancer therapy. Ions accelerated by ra...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155004] Published Fri Apr 18, 2008 Yousef I. Salamin, Zoltán Harman, and Christoph H. Keitel 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155004 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 155004 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155003 Author(s): Shmuel Eisenmann, Joseph Peñano, Phillip Sprangle, and Arie Zigler<br/>The ability to select and stabilize a single filament during propagation of an ultrashort, high-intensity laser pulse in air makes it possible to examine the longitudinal structure of the plasma channel left in its wake. We present the first detailed measurements and numerical 3-D simulations of the...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155003] Published Thu Apr 17, 2008 Shmuel Eisenmann, Joseph Peñano, Phillip Sprangle, and Arie Zigler 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155003 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155003 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 155003 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155002 Author(s): C. M. Ticoş, Zhehui Wang, G. A. Wurden, J. L. Kline, D. S. Montgomery, L. A. Dorf, and P. K. Shukla<br/>Simultaneous acceleration of hundreds of dust particles to hypervelocities by collimated plasma flows ejected from a coaxial gun is demonstrated. Graphite and diamond grains with radii between 5 and 30  μm, and flying at speeds up to 3.7  km/s, have been recorded with a high-speed camera. T...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155002] Published Thu Apr 17, 2008 C. M. Ticoş, Zhehui Wang, G. A. Wurden, J. L. Kline, D. S. Montgomery, L. A. Dorf, and P. K. Shukla 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 155002 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155001 Author(s): J. P. Marler and M. R. Stoneking<br/>Nearly steady-state electron plasmas are trapped in a toroidal magnetic field for the first time. We report the first results from a new toroidal electron plasma experiment, the Lawrence Non-neutral Torus II, in which electron densities on the order of 10^{7}   cm^{-3} are trapped in a 270° tor...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155001] Published Wed Apr 16, 2008 J. P. Marler and M. R. Stoneking 2008-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 155001 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.145002 Author(s): D. B. Sinars, R. W. Lemke, M. E. Cuneo, S. V. Lebedev, E. M. Waisman, W. A. Stygar, B. Jones, M. C. Jones, E. P. Yu, J. L. Porter, and D. F. Wenger<br/>Short-implosion-time 20-mm diameter, 300-wire tungsten arrays maintain high peak x-ray powers despite a reduction in peak current from 19 to 13 MA. The main radiation pulse on tests with a 1-mm on-axis rod may be explained by the observable j [over →] ×B [over →] work done during the implosion,...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 145002] Published Fri Apr 11, 2008 D. B. Sinars, R. W. Lemke, M. E. Cuneo, S. V. Lebedev, E. M. Waisman, W. A. Stygar, B. Jones, M. C. Jones, E. P. Yu, J. L. Porter, and D. F. Wenger 2008-04-11T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.145002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 145002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 14 2008-04-11T00:00:00-04:00 145002 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.144801 Author(s): G. Rumolo, G. Arduini, E. Métral, E. Shaposhnikova, E. Benedetto, R. Calaga, G. Papotti, and B. Salvant<br/>The electron cloud (EC) can be formed in the beam pipe of a circular accelerator if the secondary emission yield (SEY) of the inner surface is larger than 1, and it can detrimentally affect the circulating beam. Understanding the underlying physics and defining the scaling laws of this effect is ind...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 144801] Published Wed Apr 09, 2008 G. Rumolo, G. Arduini, E. Métral, E. Shaposhnikova, E. Benedetto, R. Calaga, G. Papotti, and B. Salvant 2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.144801 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 144801 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 14 2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 144801 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.145001 Author(s): T. Morita, T. Zh. Esirkepov, S. V. Bulanov, J. Koga, and M. Yamagiwa<br/>The laser-driven acceleration of high quality proton beams from a double-layer target, comprised of a high-Z ion layer and a thin disk of hydrogen, is investigated with three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations for an obliquely incident laser pulse. The proton beam energy reaches its maximum at...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 145001] Published Mon Apr 07, 2008 T. Morita, T. Zh. Esirkepov, S. V. Bulanov, J. Koga, and M. Yamagiwa 2008-04-07T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.145001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 145001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 14 2008-04-07T00:00:00-04:00 145001 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.135003 Author(s): X. Q. Yan (颜学庆), C. Lin (林晨), Z. M. Sheng (盛政明), Z. Y. Guo (郭之虞), B. C. Liu (刘必成), Y. R. Lu (陆元荣), J. X. Fang (方家驯), and J. E. Chen (陈佳洱)<br/>A new ion acceleration method, namely, phase-stable acceleration, using circularly-polarized laser pulses is proposed. When the initial target density n_{0} and thickness D satisfy a_{L} ∼(n_{0} /n_{c} )D/λ_{L} and D>l_{s} with a_{L} , λ_{L} , l_{s} , and n_{c} the normalized laser amplitude, the...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135003] Published Thu Apr 03, 2008 X. Q. Yan (颜学庆), C. Lin (林晨), Z. M. Sheng (盛政明), Z. Y. Guo (郭之虞), B. C. Liu (刘必成), Y. R. Lu (陆元荣), J. X. Fang (方家驯), and J. E. Chen (陈佳洱) 2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.135003 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135003 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 13 2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 135003 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.135002 Author(s): K. Y. Kim, B. Yellampalle, J. H. Glownia, A. J. Taylor, and G. Rodriguez<br/>We report the electrical conductivity of laser-produced warm dense aluminum plasmas measured using single-shot ultrafast terahertz (THz) frequency spectroscopy. In contrast with experiments performed at optical frequencies, measurements based upon THz probe reflectivity directly determine a quasi-dc...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135002] Published Thu Apr 03, 2008 K. Y. Kim, B. Yellampalle, J. H. Glownia, A. J. Taylor, and G. Rodriguez 2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.135002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 13 2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 135002 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.135001 Author(s): Ö. D. Gürcan, P. H. Diamond, and T. S. Hahm<br/>A physical model of turbulent equipartition (TEP) of plasma angular momentum is developed. We show that using a simple, model insensitive ansatz of conservation of total angular momentum, a TEP pinch of angular momentum can be obtained. We note that this term corresponds to a part of the pinch veloc...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135001] Published Thu Apr 03, 2008 Ö. D. Gürcan, P. H. Diamond, and T. S. Hahm 2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.135001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 13 2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 135001 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125005 Author(s): K. Krushelnick, W. Rozmus, U. Wagner, F. N. Beg, S. G. Bochkarev, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, A. Gopal, H. Habara, S. P. Mangles, P. A. Norreys, A. P. Robinson, M. Tatarakis, M. S. Wei, and M. Zepf<br/>Experiments were performed in which intense laser pulses (up to 9×10^{19}    W/cm^{2} ) were used to irradiate very thin (submicron) mass-limited aluminum foil targets. Such interactions generated high-order harmonic radiation (greater than the 25th order) which was detected at the rear of th...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125005] Published Fri Mar 28, 2008 K. Krushelnick, W. Rozmus, U. Wagner, F. N. Beg, S. G. Bochkarev, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, A. Gopal, H. Habara, S. P. Mangles, P. A. Norreys, A. P. Robinson, M. Tatarakis, M. S. Wei, and M. Zepf 2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125005 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 12 2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 125005 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125004 Author(s): G. A. Rochau, J. E. Bailey, Y. Maron, G. A. Chandler, G. S. Dunham, D. V. Fisher, V. I. Fisher, R. W. Lemke, J. J. MacFarlane, K. J. Peterson, D. G. Schroen, S. A. Slutz, and E. Stambulchik<br/>The Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum is an x-ray source for high energy-density physics studies that is heated by a radiating shock to radiation temperatures >200  eV. The time-dependent 300–400 eV electron temperature and 15–35  mg/cc density of this shock have been measured for the first time ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125004] Published Fri Mar 28, 2008 G. A. Rochau, J. E. Bailey, Y. Maron, G. A. Chandler, G. S. Dunham, D. V. Fisher, V. I. Fisher, R. W. Lemke, J. J. MacFarlane, K. J. Peterson, D. G. Schroen, S. A. Slutz, and E. Stambulchik 2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125004 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 12 2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 125004 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125003 Author(s): Jaime A. Araneda, Eckart Marsch, and Adolfo F.-Viñas<br/>Vlasov theory and one-dimensional hybrid simulations are used to study the effects that compressible fluctuations driven by parametric instabilities Alfvén-cyclotron waves have on proton velocity distributions. Field-aligned proton beams are generated during the saturation phase of the wave-particl...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125003] Published Wed Mar 26, 2008 Jaime A. Araneda, Eckart Marsch, and Adolfo F.-Viñas 2008-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125003 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125003 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 12 2008-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 125003 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125002 Author(s): G. Li, R. Yan, C. Ren, T.-L. Wang, J. Tonge, and W. B. Mori<br/>Two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations show that laser channeling in millimeter-scale underdense plasmas is a highly nonlinear and dynamic process involving longitudinal plasma buildup, laser hosing, channel bifurcation and self-correction, and electron heating to relativistic temperatures. Th...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125002] Published Mon Mar 24, 2008 G. Li, R. Yan, C. Ren, T.-L. Wang, J. Tonge, and W. B. Mori 2008-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 12 2008-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 125002 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125001 Author(s): F. V. Hartemann, C. W. Siders, and C. P. Barty<br/>Inertially confined, ignited thermonuclear D-T plasmas will produce intense blackbody radiation at temperatures T≳20  keV; it is shown that the injection of GeV electrons into the burning core can efficiently generate high-energy Compton scattering photons. Moreover, the spectrum scattered in ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125001] Published Mon Mar 24, 2008 F. V. Hartemann, C. W. Siders, and C. P. Barty 2008-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.125001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 12 2008-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 125001 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.124801 Author(s): Shigemi Sasaki and Ian McNulty<br/>We consider use of a variable polarizing undulator for generating brilliant x-ray beams carrying orbital angular momentum. We find that higher harmonics of the radiation correspond to Laguerre-Gaussian modes with azimuthal mode indices l equal to one less than the harmonic number when the undulator ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 124801] Published Mon Mar 24, 2008 Shigemi Sasaki and Ian McNulty 2008-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.124801 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 124801 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 12 2008-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 124801 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.115001 Author(s): L. J. Zheng, H. Takahashi, and E. D. Fredrickson<br/>It is shown that the edge-localized modes (ELMs) observed in tokamak H mode discharges can be explained as external magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mode amplification due to coupling with scrape-off-layer current. The proposed model offers a new ELM mechanism that produces a sharp onset and initial fast g...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115001] Published Wed Mar 19, 2008 L. J. Zheng, H. Takahashi, and E. D. Fredrickson 2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.115001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 11 2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 115001 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics