The first kinetic study of transient growth for a collisionless homogeneous Maxwellian plasma in a uniform magnetic field is presented. A system which is linearly stable may display transient growth if the linear operator describing its evolution is non-normal so that its eigenvectors are nonorthogonal. In order to include plasma kinetic effects, a Landau fluid model is employed. The linear ope...

We report on observations of shear Alfvén waves radiated from a source of small transverse size, and the subsequent radial confinement of wave magnetic field energy within a cylindrical plasma. The radius of confinement lies between the kinetic regime of the bulk plasma and the inertial regime at the plasma edge; this radius is found to be a function of wave frequency. Numerical calculations us...

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We reconsider the nonlinear resonant interaction between three electrostatic waves in a magnetized plasma. The general coupling coefficients derived from kinetic theory are reduced here to the low-frequency limit. The main contribution to the coupling coefficient we find in this way agrees with the coefficient recently presented in Annales Geophysicae. But we also deduce another contribution wh...

When an atom is immersed in a plasma the energy levels are broadened and shifted by the interaction with the fluctuating electric field of the plasma. We discuss the effect of this field on the spectral line shape by the use of results from plasma kinetic theory. In particular we show that in the equilibrium plasma the dominant effect is from single-particle collisions although correlation effe...

Successive stages of direct laser acceleration driven by two pulses in an applied magnetic field enable volumetric generation bulk-relativistic, persistently hot plasma at gas-jet-accessible and optically diagnosable density. Theory kinetic simulations demonstrate robustness to experimentally relevant parameters indicate that this approach is capable accessing a relativistically thermal regime ...

Concepts underlying the Enskog kinetic theory of hard-spheres are applied to include short-range correlation effects in a model for transport coefficients of strongly coupled plasmas. The approach is based on an extension of the effective potential transport theory [S. D. Baalrud and J. Daligault, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 235001 (2013)] to include an exclusion radius surrounding individual charged...

The kinetic theory of precipitating electrons with Maxwellian source plasma yields the well-known current-voltage relationship (CV-relationship; Knight formula), which can in most cases be accurately approximated by a reduced linear formula. Our question is whether it is possible to obtain this CV-relationship from ̄uid theory, and if so, to what extent it is physically equivalent with the more...