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Title: 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:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling (Germany). Research Group Complex Plasmas
  3. Univ. of Delhi, New Delhi (India). Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics
  4. 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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