Plasma Physics Reports -- May 2003

Plasma Equilibrium with Barriers
V. D. Pustovitov
pp. 355-362    Full Text: PDF (92 kB)

Studies of Fluctuations in the High-Temperature Plasma of Modern Stellarators by the Microwave Scattering Technique
G. M. Batanov, L. V. Kolik, A. E. Petrov, A. A. Pshenichnikov, K. A. Sarksyan, N. N. Skvortsova, N. K. Kharchev, Yu. V. Khol'nov, K. Okubo, T. Shimozuma, I. Ioshimora, S. Kubo, J. Sanchez, T. Estrada, and B. van Milligen
pp. 363-379    Full Text: PDF (341 kB)

Stable Lévy Distributions of the Density and Potential Fluctuations in the Edge Plasma of the U-3M Torsatron
V. Yu. Gonchar, A. V. Chechkin, E. L. Sorokovoi, V. V. Chechkin, L. I. Grigor'eva, and E. D. Volkov
pp. 380-390    Full Text: PDF (175 kB)

Alfvén Wave Spectrum in a Transversely Inhomogeneous Plasma with Dissipation
S. M. Churilov
pp. 391-398    Full Text: PDF (97 kB)

Effect of the Periodic Ripple in an Axial Confining Magnetic Field on the Alfvén Heating of a Cylindrical Plasma
N. R. Belyaev, I. O. Girka, and V. T. Gritsyna
pp. 399-406    Full Text: PDF (106 kB)

Generation of Plasma Fields in the Interaction between Two Oppositely Propagating Short Laser Pulses in an Underdense Plasma
L. M. Gorbunov and A. A. Frolov
pp. 407-424    Full Text: PDF (681 kB)

Linear Noise Approximation Method for Calculating Nonequilibrium Fluctuations of the Occupation Numbers in Radiative–Collisional Average Ion Models
P. D. Gasparyan and A. A. Gorshikhin
pp. 425-442    Full Text: PDF (203 kB)

Diagnostics of a Current-Sheet Plasma with the Use of Helium Spectral Lines with Forbidden Components
V. P. Gavrilenko, N. P. Kyrie, and A. G. Frank
pp. 443-446    Full Text: PDF (59 kB)

Erratum: Laser Probing of the Plasma in the S-300 Facility (Plasma Phys. Rep. 28, 790 (2002))
Yu. G. Kalinin, V. A. Korel'skii, E. V. Kravchenko, and A. Yu. Shashkov
p. 447    Full Text: PDF (10 kB)