Plasma Physics Reports -- March 2003

Founder of a Scientific School on Plasma Physics

pp. 187-189    Full Text: PDF (90 kB)

Development of a Self-Consistent Model of Dust Grain Charging at Elevated Pressures Using the Method of Moments
A. V. Filippov, N. A. Dyatko, A. F. Pal', and A. N. Starostin
pp. 190-202    Full Text: PDF (170 kB)

Dissipative Centrifugal Instability in a Rotating Conducting Atmosphere
S. L. Shalimov
pp. 203-206    Full Text: PDF (92 kB)

Fundamental Physics with an X-ray Free Electron Laser
T. Tajima
pp. 207-210    Full Text: PDF (43 kB)

Glow Discharge in Singlet Oxygen
N. P. Vagin, A. A. Ionin, Yu. M. Klimachev, I. V. Kochetov, A. P. Napartovich, D. V. Sinitsyn, and N. N. Yuryshev
pp. 211-219    Full Text: PDF (121 kB)

Evolution of the Channel of a Long Leader in Air after a Sharp Decrease in the Discharge Current
N. L. Aleksandrov, É. M. Bazelyan, and A. M. Konchakov
pp. 220-225    Full Text: PDF (76 kB)

Gas Temperature in the Plasma of a Low-Pressure Electrode Microwave Discharge in Hydrogen
Yu. A. Lebedev and M. V. Mokeev
pp. 226-230    Full Text: PDF (66 kB)

Efficient Generation of Negative Hydrogen Ions in a Low-Voltage Cesium–Hydrogen Discharge
F. G. Baksht, L. I. Elizarov, V. G. Ivanov, S. I. Kon'kov, N. K. Mitrofanov, and S. M. Shkol'nik
pp. 231-234    Full Text: PDF (65 kB)

The Conceptual Development of Stationary Plasma Thrusters
A. I. Morozov
pp. 235-250    Full Text: PDF (413 kB)

Stationary Plasma Thrusters Operate in Space
K. N. Kozubskii, V. M. Murashko, Yu. P. Rylov, Yu. V. Trifonov, V. P. Khodnenko, V. Kim, G. A. Popov, and V. A. Obukhov
pp. 251-266    Full Text: PDF (582 kB)

Dynamics of Quasineutral Plasma Beams and the Structure of the Beam-Induced Disturbances in Ionospheric Plasma
V. N. Oraevsky, Yu. Ya. Ruzhin, V. S. Dokukin, and A. I. Morozov
pp. 267-275    Full Text: PDF (133 kB)

Comments on the Equilibrium of a Rotating Plasma
V. I. Ilgisonis
pp. 276-278    Full Text: PDF (45 kB)