Fundamentals of Plasma Physics

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Department of Natural Sciences

Synopsis:

Basics of high temperature plasma are expressed by means of particle, kinetic and fluid descriptions of plasma. Drift movements, adiabatic invariants, linear theory of waves in plasma are described. Nonlinear effects as ponderomotive force, autofocussing and parametric instabilities are explained. Magnetohydrodynamics and fusion ignitiaon are mentioned as well as the physics of highly ionized atoms in plasmas.

Requirements:

Basic knowledge of atomic and molecular physics, thermodynamics and theory of electromagnetic field.

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Definition of plasma. Debye shielding, Plasma paramter, Plasma frequency, Collisions of charged particles, Landau length, Coulomb logarithm, ideal and non-ideal plasma, weakly and strongly ionized plasma.

2.Movement of charged particles in external fields

3.Adiabatic invariants, ponderomotoric force

4.Kinetic theory, Klimontovich rovnice, Vlasov equation,

5.Plasma as a dielectric, time and space dispersion, two-fluid hydrodynamics

6.Plasma oscilations, plasma waves in in fluid and kinetic description popisu, Landaův damping

7.Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes, plasma waves in magnetic field

8.Particle-in-Cell

9.Ion-acoustic waves, elektromagnetic waves in plasma

10.Waves im v magnetoactive plasma

11.Parametric instabilities

12.One-fluid description, magnetohydrodynamics, hydromagnetic equilibrium, Rayleigh-Taylorova and Kruskal-Schwartzschildova instabilities

13.Difussion in soft and strong ionizes plasma.Introduction to atomic physics. Local thermodynamic equilibrium, coronal equilibrium, plasma emission

14.Nuclear fusion, Lawson criterion, magnetic a inercial confinement.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Without excercises.

Study Objective:

The aim is to present basic description of plasma, namely plasma created by high power laser beam when interacting with solid state material and presented in sources of soft x-ray radiation.

Study materials:

[1] F.F. Chen: Úvod do fyziky plazmatu, Academia, Praha 1984

Doporučená literatura:

[2] V.P. Silin: Úvod do kinetické teorie plynů, Academia, Praha 1976

[3] J. Kracík, B. Šesták, L. Aubrecht: Základy klasické a kvantové fyziky plazmatu, Academia, Praha 1974

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