Launched over 35 years ago, Voyagers 1 and 2 are on an epic journey outward from the Sun to reach the boundary between the solar plasma and the much cooler interstellar medium. The boundary, called the heliopause, is expected to be marked by a large increase in plasma density, from about 0.002 per cubic centimeter (cm(-3)) in the outer heliosphere, to about 0.1 cm(-3) in the interstellar medium...

Starting from the exact microscopic equations for an unmagnetized dusty plasma, where the dust charge is regarded as a new degree of freedom of the system, we present a self-consistent set of equations that is suitable for weak turbulence analyses, where we have considered that the dust is electrically charged by absorption of plasma particles through inelastic collisions. In the quasilinear li...

Measurements are presented of radiated wave electric fields which result from the creation of a dense, laser-produced plasma within a large, uniform background magnetoplasma. The radiated field patterns are consistent for waves propagating along the quasielectrostatic branch of the whistler wave dispersion curve calculated from the background plasma parameters. The energy source of these waves ...

A patient with chronic myelocytic leukemia had a cyclic oscillation of blood neutrophils, eosinophils, monocytes, platelets, normoblasts, and reticulocytes but not of lymphocytes. The cycle interval was 53--69 days. Except for reticulocytes all other cells cycled with neutrophils. Plasma colony-stimulating factor (CSF) oscillated out of phase with neutrophils, suggesting that granulocytopoiesis...

This paper reviews two time-synchronized laser induced fluorescence methods that may be applied to a wide range of periodic and quasi-periodic plasma phenomena. The first approach utilizes a sample-hold technique for restricting collection of the fluorescence signal to small acquisition gates triggered at a particular phase in the oscillation cycle. The averaged signal in each gate is held unti...

The cold, core plasma mass density in the Earth’s magnetosphere may be deduced from the resonant behaviour of ultra-low frequency (ULF; 1–100mHz), magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Ground-based magnetometers are the most widely used instruments for recording the signature of ULF wave activity in the magnetosphere. For a suitable model of the background magnetic field and a functional form for th...

In the magnetically controlled Plasma-GMAW welding process, composite arc forms a keyhole in workpiece to be welded. order explore effect of process parameters on coupling, weld pool and keyhole, behavior characteristics side information were collected using acquisition system high-speed camera during bead-on-plate welding. The image is processed by pseudo-color enhancement technology, molten a...

We evidence the existence of plasma oscillations of electrons-positron pairs created by the vacuum polarization in an uniform electric field with E . Ec. Our general treatment, encompassing also the traditional, well studied case of E > Ec, shows the existence in both cases of a maximum Lorentz factor acquired by electrons and positrons and allows determination of the a maximal length of oscill...

A predicted effect of current shot-noise suppression at optical-frequencies in a drifting charged-particle-beam and the corresponding process of particles self-ordering are analyzed in a one-dimensional 1D model and verified by three-dimensional numerical simulations. The analysis confirms the prediction of a 1D single mode Langmuir plasma wave model of longitudinal plasma oscillation in the be...