Heavy-ion beam transport in plasma channels is an option to transport high-current beams which are required in fusion reactor scenarios. The channel provides free electrons that space-charge and current neutralize the ion beams. In addition, the channel creates a large azimuthal magnetic field that prevents the beam ions from leaving the channel. A stable channel is necessary to guarantee good ...

It is demonstrated that the stimulated Raman scattering in optical fibers supports kink solitons (shocks) not only in the recently considered case of anomalous dispersion but also in the normal-dispersion regime. In both cases there is a family of the kinks depending on an arbitrary (positive) wave number of the carrying wave. Although all the kinks are unstable because of the inherent instabil...

Stability properties of “magnetic tower” jets propagating in the gravitationally stratified background have been examined by performing three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The current-carrying, Poynting flux-dominated magnetic tower jet, which possesses a highly wound helical magnetic field, is subject to the current-driven instability (CDI). We find that, under general physical ...

The role of kink instability in magnetically driven jets is explored through numerical one-dimensional steady relativistic MHD calculations. The instability is shown to have enough time to grow and influence the dynamics of Poynting-flux dominated jets. In the case of AGN jets, the flow becomes kinetic flux dominated at distances > ∼ 1000rg because of the rapid dissipation of Poynting flux. Whe...