Open AccessExperiments with nonneutral plasmas
Author(s) -
T. M. O’Neil
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
aip conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
eISSN - 1551-7616
pISSN - 0094-243X
DOI - 10.1063/1.4944011
Subject(s) - plasma , inviscid flow , physics , atomic physics , excited state , waves in plasmas , plasma diagnostics , ion , electron , flow (mathematics) , trapping , dense plasma focus , computational physics , mechanics , quantum mechanics , ecology , biology
Selected experiments with nonneutral plasmas are discussed. These include the laser cooling of a pure ion plasma to a crystalline state, a measurement of the Salpeter enhancement factor for fusion in a strongly correlated plasma and the measurement of thermally excited plasma waves. Also, discussed are experiments that demonstrate Landau damping, trapping and plasma wave echoes in the 2D ExB drift flow of a pure electron plasma, which is isomorphic to the 2D ideal flow (incompressible and inviscid flow) of a neutral fluid.
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