Coulomb fission of a dusty plasma
Abstract
Here, experimental observations are presented of the splitting (fission) of a suspension of charged microparticles (dusty plasma) into two fragments when the plasma was suddenly turned off. The triggering mechanism for fissioning of the dust cloud is discussed in terms of a pinching instability driven by the ion drag force.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling (Germany). Research Group Complex Plasmas
- Univ. of Delhi, New Delhi (India). Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics
- Inst. for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar (India)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1467829
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1259740
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-04ER54795
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Boltzmann equations; plasma instabilities; interplanetary dust; laser plasma interactions; charged clusters; Coulomb explosion; anodes; electric fields; dusty plasmas
Citation Formats
Merlino, R. L., Meyer, J. K., Avinash, K., and Sen, A. Coulomb fission of a dusty plasma. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4954906.
Merlino, R. L., Meyer, J. K., Avinash, K., & Sen, A. Coulomb fission of a dusty plasma. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4954906
Merlino, R. L., Meyer, J. K., Avinash, K., and Sen, A. 2016.
"Coulomb fission of a dusty plasma". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4954906. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1467829.
@article{osti_1467829,
title = {Coulomb fission of a dusty plasma},
author = {Merlino, R. L. and Meyer, J. K. and Avinash, K. and Sen, A.},
abstractNote = {Here, experimental observations are presented of the splitting (fission) of a suspension of charged microparticles (dusty plasma) into two fragments when the plasma was suddenly turned off. The triggering mechanism for fissioning of the dust cloud is discussed in terms of a pinching instability driven by the ion drag force.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4954906},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1467829},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
issn = {1070-664X},
number = 6,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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