RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE
UCLA BASIC PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY

1. Whistler Instabilities
2. Properties of Nonlinear Whistlers
3. Whistler Spheromaks and FRCs
4. Electron Current Rings
5. Magnetic Field Annihilation
6. Nonlinear Vortices with Magnetic Null Points
7. Collision and Interaction Between Vortices
8. Linear Whistler Vortices
9. Field Reversed Configurations
10. Helicity Injection and Conservation
11. EMHD Turbulence in High-Beta Plasmas
12. Transport of Pulsed Currents by Whistlers
13. Laboratory Modeling of Tethers in Space
14. Magnetic Antennas
15. Nonlinear EMHD Effects
16. Thermal Noise
17. Lower Hybrid Turbulence
18. Beam-Plasma Interactions
19. Free Plasma Expansion
20. Sheath-Plasma Instability
21. Plasma Diagnostics
    • Distribution Function Measurements
    • Electric Field Measurements
    • Sensitive Electron Temperature Measurements

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