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most citedSelf-mediation of runaway electrons via self-excited wave-wave and wave-particle interactions

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11 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Resonant Pitch-Angle Scattering Of Runaway-Electrons by Externally-launched Helicon Waves in the DIII-D Tokamak

Hari Choudhury, Jeffrey Lestz, Carlos Paz-Soldan +12

Resonant wave-particle interactions between externally launched helicon waves (also known as whistler waves) and runaway electrons (REs) have been demonstrated on the DIII-D tokama…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Wave-Energy Partition Governs Weak Collisional Damping in Cold Plasmas

Yanzeng Zhang, Xianzhu Tang, Ge Zhuang

Weak dissipation can control wave propagation, mode competition, and instability thresholds in plasmas, yet the physical origin of large branch-to-branch differences in collisional…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Excitation of whistler and slow-X waves by runaway electrons in a collisional plasma

Qile Zhang, Yanzeng Zhang, Xian-Zhu Tang

Runaway electrons are known to provide robust ideal or collisionless kinetic drive for plasma wave instabilities in both the whistler and slow-X branches, via the anomalous Doppler…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Collisionless ablative plasma shocks

Yanzeng Zhang, Xian-Zhu Tang

An ablative plasma shock can emanate from the interface between a cold/dense plasma and a hot/dilute ambient plasma, where the plasma mean-free-path is much longer than the tempera…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Distinct parallel electrostatic collisionless shocks in hot-cold ablative mixing plasmas

Yanzeng Zhang, Xian-Zhu Tang

Hot-cold ablative mixing plasmas are ubiquitous in astrophysical and laboratory systems, where a cold/dense plasma is roughly in pressure balance with a hot/dilute plasma. Examples…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Similarity for downscaled kinetic simulations of electrostatic plasmas: reconciling the large system size with small Debye length

Yanzeng Zhang, Haotian Mao, Yuzhi Li +1

A simple similarity has been proposed for kinetic (e.g., particle-in-cell) simulations of plasma transport that can effectively address the longstanding challenge of reconciling th…