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Theory and Application of Thomson Scattering to Particle Transport and Magnetic Field Measurements in Laser-Produced Plasmas
DownloadSpring 2023
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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2005
Kabin, Konstantin, Marchand, Richard, Lu, J. Y., Rankin, Robert, Tikhonchuk, Vladimir T.
It is shown that perpendicular gradients in shear Alfvén wave (SAW) dispersion regulate the localization of wave power on nightside geomagnetic L-shells where narrow Field Line Resonances (FLRs) form. We estimate the timescale for this process, ω0tc = 1/equation image, and demonstrate that it is...
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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...