Vol. 42, No. 7, 2016

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 Radiation

Emission of Terahertz Waves in the Interaction of a Laser Pulse with Clusters

A. A. Frolov p. 637 abstract

Nonlinear Phenomena

Low-Threshold Parametric Excitation of the Upper Hybrid Wave in Experiments on Electron-Cyclotron Resonance Heating by an Ordinary Wave

E. V. Sysoeva, E. Z. Gusakov, L. V. Simonchik and M. S. Usachenok p. 647 abstract

Plasma Electronics

Noise Characteristics of a Plasma Relativistic Microwave Amplifier

P. S. Strelkov, I. E. Ivanov and D. V. Shumeiko p. 653 abstract

Space Plasma

On the Reason for the Kink in the Rigidity Spectra of Cosmic-Ray Protons and Helium Nuclei near 230 GV

V. M. Loznikov, N. S. Erokhin, N. N. Zol’nikova and L. A. Mikhailovskaya p. 658 abstract

Plasma Dynamics

Breakdown in Helium in High-Voltage Open Discharge with Subnanosecond Current Front Rise

I. V. Schweigert, A. L. Alexandrov, P. A. Bokhan and Dm. E. Zakrevskiy p. 666 abstract

Ion-Acoustic Gardner Solitons in a Four-Component Nonextensive Multi-Ion Plasma

N. Jannat, M. Ferdousi and A. A. Mamun p. 678 abstract

Low-Temperature Plasma

Formation of Shock Waves in a Discharge Plasma in the Presence of a Magnetic Field

V. S. Kurbanismailov, O. A. Omarov, G. B. Ragimkhanov, Kh. M. Abakarova and Ali Rafid Abbas Ali p. 687 abstract

Applied Physics

Spectroscopic and Probe Measurements of the Electron Temperature in the Plasma of a Pulse-Periodic Microwave Discharge in Argon

V. V. Andreev, I. Vasileska and M. A. Korneeva p. 699 abstract

Microwave Capillary Torch as a Means for Modifying the Electrophysical Characteristics of Metal Surfaces

K. V. Artem’ev, A. M. Davydov, V. A. Ivanov, I. A. Kossyi, G. S. Luk’yanchikov and I. V. Moryakov p. 703 abstract

Simulation of Electron Beam Formation and Transport in a Gas-Filled Electron-Optical System with a Plasma Emitter

A. A. Grishkov, S. Yu. Kornilov, N. G. Rempe, S. V. Shidlovskiy and V. A. Shklyaev p. 713 abstract

Determination of the Plasma Effective Charge from the Soft X-Ray Spectrum and Plasma Conductivity at the L-2M Stellarator after Boronization of the Vacuum Chamber

A. I. Meshcheryakov and I. Yu. Vafin p. 718 abstract

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