A. E. Zakharchenko, P. A. Domnin, E. V. Kalinin, A. G. Grosheva, A. V. Petryakov, M. A. Medvedev, E. A. Fefelova, K. Hajisharifi, E. Heydari, H. Mehdian, E. Robert, A. Stancampiano, S. A. Ermolaeva, Yu. S. Akishev
{"title":"Irradiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells with an Argon Plasma Jet with Various Oxygen Admixtures","authors":"A. E. Zakharchenko, P. A. Domnin, E. V. Kalinin, A. G. Grosheva, A. V. Petryakov, M. A. Medvedev, E. A. Fefelova, K. Hajisharifi, E. Heydari, H. Mehdian, E. Robert, A. Stancampiano, S. A. Ermolaeva, Yu. S. Akishev","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X24602207","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X24602207","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The results of experiments on the usage of a low-temperature plasma (LTP) jet to activate the nutrient liquid medium αMEM containing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated from the bone marrow of Wistar rats are presented. The LTP jet had been created by an axially symmetric barrier discharge with a thin rod electrode located inside a quartz tube along its axis. The tube has been purged with argon at a flow rate of about 25 m/s at the tube output. The conditions under which LTP activation of the αMEM medium can accelerate MSC proliferation have been studied. It turns out that the final effect of the activated liquid medium on cells strongly depends on the purity of argon used to form the plasma jet. A small admixture of oxygen in argon at a level of 700 ppm leads to the formation of active oxygen species in the discharge and in the plasma jet, as well as ozone at a fairly high concentration. Ozone supplied by a jet into a liquid medium dissolves well in it and, as a strong oxidizer, can have a detrimental effect on stem cells. The results on the difference in the composition of active particles in plasma jets in pure argon and in argon with a small admixture of oxygen are presented, as well as the results of microbiological studies on the effect of two types of plasma jets on mesenchymal stem cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"133 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. I. Kuznetsov, A. B. Gerasimenko, M. A. Zakharov
{"title":"On the Stability Features of Stationary States in a Plasma Diode with a Reactive External Circuit","authors":"V. I. Kuznetsov, A. B. Gerasimenko, M. A. Zakharov","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X24601925","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X24601925","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The feasibility of developing an alternating current generator based on a plasma diode is being explored. Under certain conditions, in a collisionless regime, electron instability can arise in such a diode, leading to an abrupt breakdown of the current flowing through the inter-electrode gap. Technically, a generator utilizing this effect can be implemented by connecting the electrodes through an inductive element. To determine the optimal operating conditions of the generator, it is crucial to first investigate the effect of the external circuit with an inductive element on the stability of the diode’s stationary states. This study theoretically examines the problem for both over-neutralized and under-neutralized regimes. Dispersion equations are derived for both cases. It is established that the presence of external inductance shifts the instability threshold, lowering it below the Pierce threshold. In this scenario, oscillatory instability develops instead of aperiodic one. The ranges of inductance values that allow the instability to develop are also determined.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"155 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ion Motion upon Propagation and Collisions of the Ion-Acoustic Solitary Waves in Plasma","authors":"Yu. V. Medvedev","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X24601901","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X24601901","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ion motion upon propagation and collisions of ion-acoustic solitary waves in the electron–ion plasma and in the negative-ion plasma is analyzed. Ion displacement after wave propagation is calculated for a number of cases, and its dependence on the wave amplitude is found. The back action of the processes that occurs in plasma upon collisions of the ion-acoustic solitary waves on the waves themselves is described. Physical mechanisms that prevent preservation of the wave identity upon their mutual collisions are discussed. The influence of ion displacement on formation of caustics upon collisions of the ion-acoustic solitary waves in the negative-ion plasma is analyzed.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"165 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mutual Effect of the Ionization Wave and the Surface Charge of the Wall During the Breakdown in the Discharge Tube","authors":"A. V. Meshchanov, Yu. Z. Ionikh, A. Z. Devdariani","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X25602287","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X25602287","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The propagation of the ionization wave along the discharge tube with a precharged wall was studied. Pure inert gases, from neon to xenon, were used, as well as the Ne–Ar mixture, at pressures ~1 Torr. The discharge tubes had a length of 80 cm and a diameter of about 1.5 cm. The ionization wave was excited by a positive- or negative-polarity voltage pulse. The wall charge appeared as a result of the passage of the previous ionization wave initiated in the single-electrode mode. In this mode, the ionization wave is not accompanied by the ignition of the glow discharge. It was established that the time dependence of the longitudinal coordinate of the wave and its instantaneous velocity at each point were determined not by the exciting pulse amplitude but by its excess over the potential of the charged wall. This excess also determines the breakdown voltage in the tube with a precharged wall. This fact confirms the concept of the primary breakdown between the high-voltage electrode and the wall (Nedospasov and Novik, 1960) as the mechanism of the appearance of the ionization wave during the ignition of the glow discharge. Estimates of the characteristic lifetime of the wall charge were obtained.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"194 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Possibility of Parametric Excitation of Two-Dimensional Eigenmodes of Ion Bernstein Wave in ECRH Experiments at the TCV Tokamak","authors":"A. Yu. Popov, E. Z. Gusakov","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X25602196","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X25602196","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For typical conditions of the ECRH experiments at the TCV tokamak, a new scenario of low-threshold decay of the extraordinary wave, the frequency of which corresponds to the second harmonic of electron cyclotron frequency at the axis of the plasma column, is considered. Within the scenario, the parametric decay of the pump wave is accompanied by the excitation of a two-dimensional eigenmode of the ion Bernstein (IB) wave and a traveling (non-localized) electron Bernstein wave. It is shown that the saturation of this parametric decay instability occurs at a relatively low level, as a result of stochastic amplitude-dependent damping of the IB wave. It was discovered that there is a “second threshold” in the pump wave power, above which the stochastic damping only reduces the growth rate of primary instability, and the saturation occurs at considerably higher level, as a result of a cascade of secondary decays of the primary IB wave, accompanied by the excitation of eigenmodes of the plasma waveguide of the IB wave.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"118 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Possibility of Achieving Thermonuclear Ignition by Magnetohydrodynamic Compression of a Solid Target by the Current of a Disc Explosive Magnetic Generator","authors":"A. V. Ivanovskii, V. I. Mamyshev","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X24602220","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X24602220","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One of the fields of thermonuclear research is gas-dynamic thermonuclear fusion based on spherical cumulative compression of deuterium–tritium (DT) gas using an explosive charge. Unfortunately, due to high compression asymmetry, it was not possible to achieve the ignition threshold, despite more than half a century of the development. The work considers an alternative path based on cylindrical cumulative compression of DT gas by a magnetic field. This method may be free from the drawback associated with compression symmetry. The possibility of achieving the ignition threshold in this way is shown by calculations. At the same time, modern technologies based on explosive magnetic generators make it possible to implement the conditions required for this. However, the analysis shows that the efficiency of converting magnetic field energy into thermonuclear neutron energy, DT plasma burnup, and neutron radiation yield are significantly inferior to the developed approach associated with the compression of preheated magnetized DT plasma (previously MAGO/MTF, now MagLIF).</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"148 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134/S1063780X24602220.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy Transfer in a Plasma Crystal","authors":"A. M. Ignatov","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X25602263","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X25602263","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The influence of non-reciprocity of interparticle forces on the energy transfer in a planar plasma crystal is theoretically studied. It is shown that the energy exchange between the dust component and the surrounding plasma plays a significant role. The distribution of the average kinetic energy of particles in the vicinity of a point source of random noise is calculated.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"185 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134/S1063780X25602263.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Switching Autowaves in the Lightning Channel","authors":"D. I. Iudin","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X2560224X","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X2560224X","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lightning is presented as a multistable system demonstrating the ability to self-regulation by maintaining its own electrical neutrality. A nonlinear parabolic equation is obtained within the description of the lightning channel using telegraph equations with a nonlinear voltage dependence of the rate of change of the linear charge of the plasma core. The analysis of the model shows that the lightning channel is alternately developed in one of the two modes, each of which is characterized by the attenuation of the longitudinal current from one end of the lightning to the other. The transition between the modes is carried out by exciting a fast switching wave. The lightning development within each mode is accompanied by recharging of the leader system sheath and the movement of the point of the zero charge of the sheath (called the lightning reversal point) towards an increase in the longitudinal current. The movement of the reversal point is due to a change in the average potential of the discharge tree during the recharging of the sheath and explains the observed dynamics of lightning transients.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"207 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. D. Marenkov, E. G. Kaveeva, I. Yu. Senichenkov, A. A. Pshenov, P. S. Semenov, A. V. Gorbunov
{"title":"Influence of Drifts and Currents on the Main Operating Parameters of the Tokamak T-15MD Divertor","authors":"E. D. Marenkov, E. G. Kaveeva, I. Yu. Senichenkov, A. A. Pshenov, P. S. Semenov, A. V. Gorbunov","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X24602293","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X24602293","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The work presents the results of the first calculations of the T-15MD tokamak near-wall plasma in the SOLPS-ITER code taking into account the effects of drifts and currents. The modes with the power passing through the separatrix <i>P</i><sub>SOL</sub> = 6 MW and different H gas puff intensities, corresponding to the average electron density on the separatrix, <i>n</i><sub>esep</sub> = (2–4.5) × 10<sup>19</sup> m<sup>–3</sup>, are considered. The same as in other tokamaks of similar size, <b>E</b> × <b>B</b> drift leads to the flow of hydrogen from the outer divertor to the inner one, which changes the load distribution between the divertor targets. Drifts also affect the flow of the carbon impurity. As a rule, when describing the dependence on the H gas puff, either <i>n</i><sub>esep</sub> or the total amount of hydrogen in the scrape off layer (SOL), <i>N</i><sub>tot</sub>, is used as a parameter characterizing the discharge. In this case, these quantities are considered as equivalent plasma characteristics in the SOL. It is shown that, from the point of view of estimating the influence of drifts, these quantities are not equivalent: the dependence of some divertor parameters on <i>n</i><sub>esep</sub> does not change with the inclusion of drifts, but the dependence on <i>N</i><sub>tot</sub> can change. It is also seen that drifts lead to a more pronounced maximum in the dependence of the saturation current on the electron density, <i>I</i><sub>sat</sub>(<i>n</i><sub>esep</sub>). This is explained by changes in the emission of the carbon impurity and the power of the recombination source of hydrogen in the divertor.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"103 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. A. Mareev, Yu. V. Shlyugaev, M. V. Shatalina, F. G. Sarafanov, A. A. Belov, V. V. Bogomolov, A. F. Iyudin, P. A. Klimov, N. A. Popov, R. E. Saraev, S. I. Svertilov, I. V. Yashin
{"title":"X-Ray Radiation of Long Spark Discharges in a Laboratory Experiment","authors":"E. A. Mareev, Yu. V. Shlyugaev, M. V. Shatalina, F. G. Sarafanov, A. A. Belov, V. V. Bogomolov, A. F. Iyudin, P. A. Klimov, N. A. Popov, R. E. Saraev, S. I. Svertilov, I. V. Yashin","doi":"10.1134/S1063780X24602256","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063780X24602256","url":null,"abstract":"<p>X-ray photons (with an energy of more than 10 keV) have been detected using photometers-spectrometers developed at the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, similar to those used to detect X-rays from high-altitude discharges in orbital experiments, during the laboratory simulation using the Marx GROZA GIN-1MV generator installed at the Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Several cases of the appearance of X-ray photons with an energy of ~20 to 160 keV have been detected, including those simultaneously in several detectors. Indications are received that it was possible to detect real X-ray photons during the laboratory experiments on the simulation of lightning discharges, which corresponds to the predictions of theoretical models and data of orbital and ground-based observations.</p>","PeriodicalId":735,"journal":{"name":"Plasma Physics Reports","volume":"51 2","pages":"219 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}