Contents

Plasma Physics Reports

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Vol. 42, No. 2, 2016

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Plasma Physics Reports ISSN 1063-780X.

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Laser Plasma

Propagation and Amplification of Microwave Radiation in a Plasma Channel Created in Gas by a High-Power Femtosecond UV Laser Pulse

A. V. Bogatskaya, E. A. Volkova, A. M. Popov and I. V. Smetanin p. 113  abstract

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Dusty Plasma

Formation of Ordered Structures in Systems of Charged Thin Cylindrical Grains

O. S. Vaulina, I. I. Lisina and E. A. Lisin p. 135  abstract

Dynamics of Plasma−Dust Structures Formed in a Trap Created in the Narrowing of a Current Channel in a Magnetic Field

E. S. Dzlieva, V. Yu. Karasev and S. I. Pavlov p. 147  abstract

Effect of Dust Charge Fluctuations on Dust Acoustic Structures in Magnetized Dusty Plasma Containing Nonextensive Electrons and Two-Temperature Isothermal Ions

F. Araghi and D. Dorranian p. 155  abstract

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Plasma Diagnostics

Study of the Homogeneity of the Current Distribution in a Dielectric Barrier Discharge in Air by Means of a Segmented Electrode

M. V. Malashin, S. I. Moshkunov and V. Yu. Khomich p. 163  abstract

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Nonlinear Phenomena

Properties of Cylindrical and Spherical Heavy Ion-Acoustic Solitary and Shock Structures in a Multispecies Plasma with Superthermal Electrons

M. G. Shah, M. M. Rahman, M. R. Hossen and A. A. Mamun p. 168  abstract

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Low-Temperature Plasma

Propagation of Current Pulses with an Amplitude of up to 85 kA in Soil over Distances of Several Tens of Meters

V. P. Smirnov, V. E. Fortov, Yu. A. Bykov, V. A. Ermolaev, E. E. Son, E. M. Bazelyan, Yu. V. Skobarikhin, E. V. Grabovski, G. M. Oleinik, A. O. Shishlov, A. N. Gribov, V. K. Grigor’yants and Yu. A. Goryushin p. 177  abstract

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Methodological Notes

On the Upper Bound in the Bohm Sheath Criterion

I. A. Kotelnikov and D. I. Skovorodin p. 186  abstract

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