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JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS VOLUME 60 1998 _, CAMBRIDGE ©el)es UNIVERSITY PRESS EDITORS ProFressor R A CAIRNS. School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland, )pp @st-andrews.ac.uk Professor GEORGE H MILEY, Fusion Studies Laboratory. University of Illinois. 103 S Goodwin Avenue. Urbana. IL 61801—298 4 USA. g-mile ya uiuc.edu ASSOCIATE EDITORS Dr ROBERT L BINGHAM. Space Science Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, England, [email protected] Dr MARCO BRAMBILLA, Maax-Planck-Institute fiir Plasmaphysik, Postfach 533, D-85740 Garching, Germany, mab@ipp-garching .mpg.de PROFESSOR ERYK INFELD, Soltan Institute. Hoza 69, PL-00681 Warsaw. Poland. Eryk Infe ld Wfuw.edu.pl ProFressor P K KAW, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382 424. Gujarat, India, Kaw@ plasma.ernet.in PrRoFEsSSOR D B MELROSE, Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia, melrose(a physics.su.oz.au PROFESSOR EDWARD C MORSE. Nuclear Engineering Department, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720, USA, [email protected] Dr RICHARD A NEBEL, 7-15, Los Alamos National Laboratory. MS K717, Los Alamos NM 87545, USA, [email protected] ProFrEssoR PADMA K SHUKLA, Jnstitut fiir Theoretische Physik IV, Fakultdt fiir Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany. ps@tp f ruhr-uni-bochum.de PROFESSOR FRANK VERHEENST. Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent. Krijgslaan 281, B-9000 Gent. Belgium, Frank.Verheest(@rug.ac.be Dr GARY P ZANK., Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark DE 197 16-4793, USA, [email protected] Dr John P Dougherty. Founding Editor, 1967-1994 JOURNAL OF PLasMA Puysics (ISSN 0022-3778) is now published ten times a year in January February. April, May, June, July, August, September. October and November. by Cambridge University Press. The Edinburgh Building. Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge (B2 2RU and Cambridge University Press, Journals Department. 40 West 20th Street. New York. NY 10011-4211 Four parts form a volume. The subscription price (excluding VAT. but includes postage) of Volumes 59 and 60 (1998) is £388.00 (US $680.00 in the USA, Canada and Mexico): for institutions: £199.00 (US $380.00) for individuals. Single parts cost £53.00 each (US $93.00 in the USA, Canada and Mexico) plus postage. All orders must be accompanied by payment EU subscribers (outside the UK) who are not registered for VAT should add VAT at their country’s rate. VAT registered subscribers should provide their VAT registration numbet Japanese prices for institutions are available from Kinokuniya Company Ltd, P.O. Box 55 Chitose, Tokyo 156, Japan. Prices include delivery by air. Copies of the journal for subscribers in the USA, Canada and Mexico are sent by air to New York to arrive with minimum delay. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY. and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: send address changes in USA, Canada and Mexico to Journal of Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press. 110 Midland Avenue, Port Chester, New York, NY 10573-4930 Internet Access: This journal is included in the Cambridge Journals Online service which can be found at www.journals.cup.org/ For further information on other Press titles access www.cup.cam.ac.uk/ o1 http://www.cup.org © Cambridge University Press 1998 CONTENTS TO VOLUME 60 Part 1 July 1998 Professor Franz D. Kahn: 1926-1998 Experiments on speed-enhanced neutron yield from a small plasma focus A. SERBAN and 8. LEE Some properties of large-amplitude, negative-potential solitary waves in a three-component plasma T. E. SHERIDAN The L mode in electromagnetic proton-cyclotron waves in plasmas modelled by a Lorentzian distribution function PEDRO VEGA, LUIS PALMA and RENE ELGUETA Gasdynamic description of electron-beam flying-off in a plasma V.N. MEL’NIK and E. P. KONTAR The large-Larmor-radius Rayleigh-Taylor instability M. FAGHIHI and F. EBRAHIMI Observation of solitary waves in an ion-beam—plasma system Y. NAKAMURA and K. KOMATSUDA The double sheath associated with electron emission into a plasma containing negative ions H. AMEMIYA, B. M. ANNARATONE and J. E. ALLEN Nonlinear dynamics of obliquely propagating Alfvén waves A. GAZOL, T. PASSOT and P. L. SULEM Dispersion and wave excitation in nongyrotropic plasmas UWE MOTSCHMANN and KARL-HEINZ GLASSMEIER Magnetohydrodynamic equations for plasmas with finite-Larmor-radius effects IGOR O. POGUTSE, ANDREI I. SMOLYAKOV and AKIRA HIROSE Stability of ion-acoustic solitons in a multispecies plasma consisting of non- isothermal electrons DEBALINA CHAKRABORTY and K. P. DAS Amplitude equations for coupled electrostatic waves in the limit of weak instability JOHN DAVID CRAWFORD and EDGAR KNOBLOCH A perturbation method for the Vlasov—Poisson system JONAS LUNDBERG and TOR FLA Mode limitation and mode completion in collisionless plasmas M. KNELLER and R. SCHLICKEISER iv Contents BOOK REVIEWS Principles of Plasma Spectroscopy, by Hans R. Griem Discovery of the Magnetosphere, edited by C.Stewart Gillmor and John R. Spreiter Part 2 August/September 1998 Energy transfer from particles to low-frequency fields in a non-uniform magnetized plasma pETRO P. SOSENKO Spatial structure of a nonlinear wave of stratification M. ROTTMANN and K. H. SPATSCHEK Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of a plasma with anisotropic and polytropic pressure laws P. K. SHARMA and R. K. CHHAJLANI The dielectric tensor for dusty magnetized plasmas with variable charge on dust particles M. C. de JULI and R. 8. SCHNEIDER Dust acoustic solitons in a magnetized dusty plasma H. K. MALIK, K. D. TRIPATHI and 8. K. SHARMA A model equation for non-resonant interacting ion acoustic plasma waves ATTILIO MACCARI Alfvén-wave dissipation and current in strongly elongated tokamaks V.S. TSYPIN, A. G. ELFIMOV, C. A. de AZEVEDO and A.S. de ASSIS Nonlinear particle dynamics in a broadband turbulence wave spectrum BRIGITTE R. RAGOT Magnetic-field generation and wave-breaking in collisionless plasmas F. CALIFANO, R. PRANDI, F. PEGORARO and 8S. V. BULANOV Lagrangian and Hamiltonian aspects of wave mixing in non-uniform media: waves on strings and waves in gas dynamics G. M. WEBB, M. BRIO and G. P. ZANK Tripolar shear-Alfvén vortex structures D. JOVANOVIC, F. PEGORARO and J. JUUL RASMUSSEN The role of collective effects in the kinetics ofa molecular plasma generated by a particle beam. Application to nitrogen N. PEYRAUD-CUENCA and P. FAUCHER Excitation of surface-type X modes by charged-particle beams V.0. GIRKA Contents The spectrum of MHD flows about X points i. J. NIJBOER, J. P. GOEDBLOED and A. E. LIFSCHITZ LETTER TO THE EDITOR Reply to ‘Comment on ‘Collective effects in bremsstrahlung in plasmas””’ V.N. TSYTOVICH, R. BINGHAM, U. de ANGELIS and A. FORLANI Part 3 October 1998 Magnetically confined plasma flows with helical symmetry L. J. PALUMBO and A. M. PLATZECK Bernstein-wave instability in a collisional plasma with a quasistatic electric field A. N. KRYSHTAL Generation of kinetic Alfvén waves by upper-hybrid pump waves V. YUKHIMUK, YU. VOITENKO, V. FEDUN and A. YUKHIMUK Three-wave coupling and parametric decay of kinetic Alfvén waves YU. M. VOITENKO Three-wave coupling and weak turbulence of kinetic Alfvén waves YU. M. VOITENKO Rayleigh—Bénard convection and pattern formation in magnetohydro- dynamics RENU BAJAJ and 8. K. MALIK Adiabatic dust-acoustic waves with dust-charge fluctuations S. V. SINGH and N. N. RAO Nonlinearly coupled Langmuir and dust-acoustic waves in a dusty plasma S. V. SINGH, N. N. RAO and P. K.SHUKLA Solitary-wave decay in a cold plasma IGOR’ BAKHOLDIN and ANDREJ IL’ ICHEV lonizing drift-wave instability in a low-temperature plasma S. V. VLADIMIROV and LIN I A class of driven, dissipative, energy-conserving magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with flow MICHAEL L. GOODMAN Modelling RF heating in toroidal geometry : on the discrete bounce spectrum and the continuous bounce average D. VAN EESTER Contents Part 4 November/December 1998 Magnetogravitational instability of a rotating anisotropic plasma with finite-ion-Larmor-radius corrections and generalized polytropic laws G. D. SONI and R. K. CHHAJLANI Structure of small-amplitude quasiparallel magnetohydrodynamic shock waves in plasmas with anisotropic viscosity and thermal conductivity M.S. RUDERMAN Oblique penetration of solar-wind filaments into the magnetosphere WENLONG DAI and PAUL R. WOODWARD The effect of neutral-gas friction on Alfvén surface waves propagating along a plasma—vacuum interface NAGENDRA KUMAR and KRISHNA M. SRIVASTAVA Measured laser fusion gains reproduced by self-similar volume compression and volume ignition for NIF conditions HEINRICH HORA, H. AZECHI, Y. KITAGAWA, Kk. MIMA, M. MURAKAMI, 8S. NAKAI, K. NISHIHARA, H. TAKABE, C. YAMANAKA, M. YAMANAKA and T. YAMANAKA Self-consistent EMHD penetration ofa magnetic field into a plasma K. V. CHUKBAR, A. A. IVANOV Jr and V. V. SMIRNOV Solar-energy liberation from water by electric ares GEORGE HATHAWAY, PETER GRANEAU and NEAL GRANEAU Photoabsorption by an ion immersed in a plasma at any temperature K. ISHIKAWA, B. U. FELDERHOF, T. BLENSKI and B. CICHOCK]I Relativistic cross-focusing of two coaxial Gaussian laser beams in a plasma RAJ KUMAR, H. D. PANDEY, R. P. SHARMA and M. KUMAR Dielectric screening and stopping power ofa test charge moving in a plasma B. K. SHIVAMOGGI and P. MULSER A nonlinear equation for electron surface waves at a plasma boundary V.V. BYCHKOV and L. STENFLO Solitons in multi-ion plasmas PETER HACKENBERG, GOTTFRIED MANN and ECKART MARSCH Hydrodynamical equation for electron swarms JOEL L. LEBOWITZ and A. ROKHLENKO AUTHOR INDEX TO VOLUME 60