Ph.D. UC San Diego, 1965
My area of research is theoretical plasma physics, and I am particularly interested in plasmas with a single sign of charge (nonneutral plasmas). Here at UCSD we have experiments that involve the confinement of pure electron plasmas, pure ion plasmas, and positron plasmas. Much of my theoretical work is motivated by and is strongly correlated with these experiments. Recently, I have developed a new stability theorem for such plasmas and have studied the collisional and turbulent relaxation of the physics.
Selected Publications:
Computer Simulation of Ion Clouds in a Penning Trap. With D.H.E. Dubin. Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 511 (1988).
Nonaxisymmetric Thermal Equilibria of a Cylindrically Bounded Guiding Center Plasma or Discrete Vortex System. With R.A. Smith. Phys. Fluids B 2, 2961 (1990).
Collisional Equipartition Rate for a Magnetized Pure Electron Plasma. With M.E. Glinsky, et al. Phys. Fluids B 4, 1156 (1992).
Stability Theorem for Off-Axis States of a Nonneutral Plasma Column. With R.A. Smith. Phys. Fluids B 4, 2720 (1992).