Reviews of Plasma Physics

Reviews of Plasma Physics Volume 22, contains two reviews. The first Cooperative Effects in Plasmas by the late B.B. Kadomtsev is based on the second edition of the author's book in Russian which originated from his written lectures for students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shafranov, Vitaly D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:Reviews of Plasma Physics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Cooperative Effects in Plasmas
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Nonlinear waves
  • 3. Waves and particles
  • 4. Plasma in a magnetic field
  • 5. Linear waves
  • References
  • Relativistic Interaction of Laser Pulses with Plasmas
  • 1. Relativistically strong electromagnetic waves in underdense plasmas
  • 2. Acceleration of charged particles and photons
  • 3. Filamentation of the laser light and magnetic interaction of filaments of electromagnetic radiation
  • 4. Relativistic solitons
  • 5. Interaction of an ultrashort, relati vistically strong, laser pulse with an over dense plasma
  • 6. Nonlinear interaction of laser pulses with a foil
  • 7. Coulomb explosion of a cluster irradiated by a high intensity laser pulse
  • 8. Conclusions
  • References