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Fall 2018
Langmuir amplitude modulations and harmonic waves, generated by solar wind electron beams, are commonly observed in type III solar radio bursts. Various mechanisms have been proposed for the origin of these waves, but there is still ongoing debate on how the observation of continuous type III...
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Spring 2021
Both short and long pulse laser plasma interactions are investigated by theoreti- cal analysis and modern computational techniques. An extensive set of simulations of short pulse laser plasma based particle accelerators are performed with the aim of improving performance and diagnostics of the...
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Fall 2017
In this thesis we present Particle-in-Cell (PIC) plasma simulations designed to model large amplitude whistler waves. There are significant nonlinear effects that arise due wave-wave and wave-particle interactions. There are two related sections to this report: one investigating the evolution of...
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Theory and Application of Thomson Scattering to Particle Transport and Magnetic Field Measurements in Laser-Produced Plasmas
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The particle transport, plasma currents, and magnetic fields were investigated in laboratory plasmas, both with the Optical Thomson Scattering (OTS) diagnostic and in theory and numerical simulations. %despite the presence of hot ion tails, which would be more suppressed by collisions in real...
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Spring 2017
The effect of partial coherence of a probe on the spectrum of Thomson scattered radiation from plasma is investigated. The coherence of a probe is described in terms of the electric field Gaussian correlation function of the finite correlation time (longitudinal coherence) and the finite...