Vol. 43, No. 5, 2017

Plasma Physics Reports

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

Plasma Diagnostics

Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Near IR Emission of Xenon Excited by a Fast Electron Beam

V. N. Babichev, A. V. Dem’yanov, N. A. Dyatko, A. F. Pal’, A. N. Starostin and A. V. Filippov p. 515 abstract

Plasma Dynamics

Experimental Study of Magnetized Plasma Rotation in Crossed Fields

N. M. Gorshunov, V. V. Dubovitskii, V. G. Pashkovskii and E. P. Potanin p. 533 abstract

Sharpening of the Front of the Current through a Cylindrical Foil Liner

S. A. Sorokin p. 542 abstract

Proton Energy Relaxation in an Electron Gas in a Uniform Magnetic Field

A. A. Bobrov, S. Ya. Bronin, B. B. Zelener, B. V. Zelener, E. A. Manykin and D. R. Khikhlukha p. 547 abstract

Dusty Plasma

Interaction between Two Conducting Spheres in Weakly Ionized Collisional Plasma

V. S. Grach p. 555 abstract

Wave Processes During the Interaction of the Earth’s Magnetotail with Dusty Plasma near the Lunar Surface

S. I. Popel and T. I. Morozova p. 566 abstract

Dust−Ion Acoustic Freak Wave Propagation in a Nonthermal Mesospheric Dusty Plasma

S. K. El-Labany, E. K. El-Shewy, H. N. Abd El-Razek and A. A. El-Rahman p. 576 abstract

Space Plasma

Thermal Self-Focusing during Solar Flares

V. A. Kovalev, E. S. Kurkina and E. D. Kuretova p. 583 abstract

Low-Temperature Plasma

Langmuir Probe Study of an Inductively Coupled Magnetic-Pole-Enhanced Helium Plasma

Maria Younus, N. U. Rehman, M. Shafiq, M. Naeem, M. Zaka-ul- Islam and M. Zakaullah p. 588 abstract

Brief Communications

Effect of Collisions on Van Kampen Waves

A. V. Timofeev p. 594 abstract