Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100087
Jonmoni Dutta , Ahmed Atteya , Pralay Kumar Karmakar
The presence of diverse negative ions is well-known to modify different collective waves and instabilities in diverse space and astrophysical environments. We herein investigate the stability dynamics of the spherical nonthermal (kappa-modified) pulsational mode of gravitational collapse (PMGC) excitable in astrophysical dust molecular clouds (DMCs). It primarily explores the impact of the realistic nonthermal negative ionic effects on the PMGC stability features. The high-energetic lighter constituents, such as the electrons, positive ions, and negative ions, are modelled with their respective nonthermal kappa ()-distribution laws. The inertial dust particulates are treated in the viscous fluid fabric. Application of spherical normal mode treatment results in a generalized linear quartic (degree-4) dispersion relation. A computational illustrative platform illuminates the underlying stabilizing and destabilizing factors. It is seen that the cloud size, dust mass, dust charge, nonthermality parameters, equilibrium charged dust number density, and neutral dust viscosity play stabilizing roles. It counters the destabilizing scenarios caused by the equilibrium electron number density, positive ion number density, negative ion number density, neutral dust density, and charged dust viscosity. The fundamental physical mechanisms responsible herein are substantiated and compared in light of the previous predictions. The nontrivial avenues of our study in realizing the Jeans-driven galactic structural unit formation processes, moderated actively with the presence of negative ions in diverse real astronomical circumstances are summarily indicated.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-29DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100092
Keiichiro Takeda , Naoki Sato
We present the noncanonical Hamiltonian structure of the relativistic Euler equations for a perfect fluid in Minkowski spacetime. By identifying the system’s noncanonical Poisson bracket and Hamiltonian, we show that relativistic fluid flows preserve helicity and enstrophy as conserved quantities in three-dimensional and two-dimensional cases, respectively. This holds when the fluid follows a relativistic -barotropic equation of state, which generalizes the classical barotropic condition. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these conserved quantities are Casimir invariants associated with the noncanonical Poisson structure. These findings open new avenues for applying Hamiltonian theory to the study of astrophysical fluids and relativistic plasmas.
{"title":"Revealing noncanonical Hamiltonian structures in relativistic fluid dynamics","authors":"Keiichiro Takeda , Naoki Sato","doi":"10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present the noncanonical Hamiltonian structure of the relativistic Euler equations for a perfect fluid in Minkowski spacetime. By identifying the system’s noncanonical Poisson bracket and Hamiltonian, we show that relativistic fluid flows preserve helicity and enstrophy as conserved quantities in three-dimensional and two-dimensional cases, respectively. This holds when the fluid follows a relativistic <span><math><mi>γ</mi></math></span>-barotropic equation of state, which generalizes the classical barotropic condition. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these conserved quantities are Casimir invariants associated with the noncanonical Poisson structure. These findings open new avenues for applying Hamiltonian theory to the study of astrophysical fluids and relativistic plasmas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100558,"journal":{"name":"Fundamental Plasma Physics","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100092"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143912896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100088
Anandam Choudhary , Laxman Prasad Goswami , C. Aparajit , Amit D. Lad , Ameya Parab , Yash M. Ved , Trishul Dhalia , Amita Das , G. Ravindra Kumar
The interaction of intense linearly polarized (LP) femtosecond laser pulses with solids is known to generate azimuthal magnetic fields, while circularly polarized (CP) light has been shown to create axial fields. We demonstrate through experiments and particle-in-cell simulations that circularly polarized light can generate both axial and azimuthal fields of comparable magnitude in a plasma created in a solid. Angular distributions of the generated fast electrons at the target front and rear show significant differences between the results for the two polarization states, with circular polarization enforcing more axial confinement. The measurement of the spatial distribution of both types of magnetic fields captures their turbulent evolution.
{"title":"Generation of mega-gauss axial and azimuthal magnetic fields in a solid plasma by ultrahigh intensity, circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses","authors":"Anandam Choudhary , Laxman Prasad Goswami , C. Aparajit , Amit D. Lad , Ameya Parab , Yash M. Ved , Trishul Dhalia , Amita Das , G. Ravindra Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The interaction of intense linearly polarized (LP) femtosecond laser pulses with solids is known to generate azimuthal magnetic fields, while circularly polarized (CP) light has been shown to create axial fields. We demonstrate through experiments and particle-in-cell simulations that circularly polarized light can generate both axial and azimuthal fields of comparable magnitude in a plasma created in a solid. Angular distributions of the generated fast electrons at the target front and rear show significant differences between the results for the two polarization states, with circular polarization enforcing more axial confinement. The measurement of the spatial distribution of both types of magnetic fields captures their turbulent evolution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100558,"journal":{"name":"Fundamental Plasma Physics","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100088"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100085
Soheil Khoshbinfar
The magnetized target fusion (MTF) concept is considered an economic way to harness fusion energy that resides between two ICF and MCF pathways. Here, we have proposed a new DT fuel initial density profile that improves final fusion yield in cylindrical targets in MTF. We have employed the Deira-4 MHD code to investigate the performance of these configurations. The potential advantage of an initial density gradient over a common uniform profile assumption in inertial fusion energy is its higher energy gain at the cost of lower input driver energy. It was shown that its energy gain is higher by a factor of two and reduction in driver input energy by a factor of three for a fixed DT fuel mass regime, mDT∼2.2 mg. The radial density profile of DT fuel also promises to make larger targets that work at a sub-MJ regime which resolves our concern about the Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth rate during the implosion phase. It has also been shown that the best results with a seed axial magnetic field ∼10 T would be achieved for a power-law density profile, ρ∝rn, with an exponent n=3. Moreover, the optimal target geometry attains for initial aspect ratio of ∼15 and ignition threshold reduced from <ρR>DT,th=0.56 g/cm2 in uniform density of DT fuel to the power law density profile of ρ∝r3 to <ρR>DT,th =0.21 g/cm2.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-02DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100086
B.N. Breizman , S.E. Sharapov
Instabilities of Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) are of significant concern because they can enhance the cross-field transport of fusion-born alpha particles beyond the neoclassical level in magnetic fusion plasmas. The threshold value of alpha-particle pressure for exciting AEs depends critically on the damping rate of AEs. The damping mechanisms include kinetic damping due to interactions with thermal particles, continuum damping due to AE frequency crossing Alfvén continuum, and radiative damping due to emitting kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs). The radiative damping is substantial and can even prevail in high-temperature burning plasmas [1]. We revisit the radiative damping analytic theory for TAE in plasmas with low positive magnetic shear, considering TAE with an eigenfrequency near the bottom of TAE-gap and with poloidal harmonics of the same sign (even TAE). In contrast to earlier papers, we provide the damping calculations in real space rather than Fourier space. This approach is straightforward technically and more enlightening from a physics standpoint for benchmarking numerical calculations of radiative damping. The parametric dependence of the resulting damping rate agrees with that of Refs. [2-5], but it has a smaller numerical factor in front of it.
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Complex plasma, consisting of ionized gas mixed with micron-sized dust particles, exhibit unique behaviors due to the mass disparity between dust grains and other plasma components. These disparities result in non-Hamiltonian dynamics that pose significant challenges for numerical modeling. Under specific conditions, the dust grains self-organize into crystal structures, driven by ion wakefields and subject to imperfections that induce dynamic phenomena like torsions—where dust grains couple and exhibit elliptical motion within the crystal lattice.
To better understand these phenomena, we developed a near real-time interactive computer model grounded in laboratory conditions, specifically replicating the environment within a GEC RF reference cell. This model addresses the challenges of stiffness in differential equations by employing an innovative point charge approach, where each point charge is dynamically influenced by all dust grains, enhancing the model's accuracy and responsiveness. The system allows for user interaction, enabling the manipulation of parameters and near real-time observation of dust behavior. Our approach balances computational efficiency with the ability to simulate complex plasma dynamics, providing a powerful tool for the study of dusty plasma crystals.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2025.100084
M. Fitzgerald , B.N. Breizman
The linear response of a plasma to perturbations of arbitrary frequency and wavelength is derived for any axisymmetric magnetized toroidal plasma. An explicit transformation to action-angle coordinates is achieved using orthogonal magnetic coordinates and the Littlejohn Lagrangian, establishing the validity of this result to arbitrary order in normalized Larmor radius. The global resonance condition for compressional modes is clarified in more detail than in previous works, confirming that the poloidal orbit-average of the cyclotron frequency gives the desired result at lowest order in Larmor radius. The global plasma response to the perturbation at each resonance is captured by a poloidal and gyroaverage of the perturbing potential. A “global gyroaveraging” of the potential is a natural by-product of this analysis which takes into account the changing of the magnetic field over an orbit. The resonance condition depends on two arbitrary integers which completely separately capture the effects poloidal non-uniformity and finite Larmor radius in generating sidebands. We learn that poloidal sidebands generated for compressional modes are dominated by the change in gyrofrequency over the orbit, which is very different to shear modes where the gyrofrequency only contributes via a finite Larmor radius effect. This increases the number of bounce harmonics required to compute the linear drive, giving a more complicated resonance map. An example calculation is given comparing resonance of shear and compressional modes in a published DIII-D case.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2024.100071
Liming Chen, Jie Feng, Wenchao Yan, Hao Xu, Yaojun Li, Wenzhao Wang, Xulei Ge, Xiaojun Huang, Jie Zhang
Ultra-intense laser-plasma wakefield accelerator possess several superior properties compared with the traditional radio-frequency accelerators. These characteristics include femtosecond duration, micro-source size, and ultra-dense beam density, result in highly advantageous for various important applications. In this paper, we reviewed the generation of ultra-intense and high charge electron beam based on laser-plasma acceleration and its nuclear applications in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, including the production of 10 s nC charge beams, the generation of ultra-high flux neutron source on the order of 1019 n/cm2/s, and the excitation of nuclear isomers with the peak efficiency on the order of 1015 particle/s. This laser driving ultra-dense electron source, in conjunction with the plasma environment, presents immense potential in addressing critical problems in astrophysics, and facilitating various nuclear applications. Based on above progress in nuclear astrophysics, a new research plateform about laboratory astrophysics with a 2.5 PW laser will be constructed in TDLI institute.
与传统的射频加速器相比,超强激光等离子体唤醒场加速器具有多种优越性能。这些特性包括飞秒持续时间、微源尺寸和超密集电子束密度,因此在各种重要应用中具有极大的优势。本文综述了上海交通大学基于激光等离子体加速技术的超强高电荷电子束的产生及其在核领域的应用,包括产生10 s nC电荷束、产生1019 n/cm2/s数量级的超高通量中子源,以及以1015粒子/s数量级的峰值效率激发核异构体。这种激光驱动的超密集电子源与等离子体环境相结合,在解决天体物理学的关键问题和促进各种核应用方面具有巨大潜力。在核天体物理学取得上述进展的基础上,将在 TDLI 研究所建造一个配备 2.5 PW 激光器的实验室天体物理学研究平台。
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2024.100077
Savino Longo
Many applications of Neural Networks (NN) to plasma science have appeared in the last years. The author describes here some of the early applications of NNs to plasma science at the beginning of the 90 s, when multi-layer, feed-forward-back-propagation (FFBP) architectures found several applications in this field: they were used to solve inversion problems, to create complete sets of input data, to replace time-consuming modules in models and to predict the outcome of real processes. From a partially personal perspective the author reviews the details of plasma problems to which NNs were successfully applied, and those of the related architectures. It turns out that some solutions, which are perceived today as marking the difference between the previous and contemporary NNs application practices, were in common use >30 years ago when they were deemed fruitful. This can help create deeper historical insight into a field that is getting much attention today.
近年来,等离子体科学领域出现了许多神经网络(NN)应用。作者在此描述了 90 年代初神经网络在等离子体科学中的一些早期应用,当时多层前馈-后向传播(FFBP)架构在该领域有多种应用:它们被用于解决反演问题、创建完整的输入数据集、替代模型中耗时的模块以及预测实际过程的结果。作者从部分个人角度回顾了成功应用 NN 的等离子体问题的细节,以及相关架构的细节。结果发现,一些今天被视为标志着以前和当代 NNs 应用实践之间差异的解决方案,在 30 年前被认为富有成效时却已被普遍使用。这有助于对当今备受关注的领域进行更深入的历史洞察。
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.fpp.2024.100076
Wojciech J. Miloch, Daria S. Kotova, Yaqi Jin
Ionospheric plasma irregularities and associated space weather effects over Dronning Maud Land in Antarctica are studied with a multi-instrument approach. It is demonstrated during a substorm event that auroral particle precipitation associated with the edges of auroral arcs can lead to irregularities in the ionospheric plasma density that can have significant impact on trans-ionospheric radio waves. Both refractive and diffractive effects are observed on signals from the GNSS satellites, where the latter are identified by the ionospheric free linear combination approach and amplitude scintillation. Thus, intense auroral particle precipitation can lead to plasma irregularities at scales from several kilometers down to and below the Fresnel radius, and they can result in space weather effects which can lead to losing the integrity of the GNSS signals.
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