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Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences - Faculty
C. Fred Driscoll
Associate Director
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Ph.D., Physics
Professor of Physics
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Research Areas
Transport in nonneutral plasmas
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My experiments have focused on the physics of single species plasmas -- pure electron plasmas and pure ion plasmas. These
nonneutral plasmas exhibit many of the effects found in neutral plasmas. However, the experimental and theoretical simplicity of
the system allows a level of comparison between theory and experiment which is rarely possible for neutral plasmas in complex
geometry. To date, this program has included research on equilibrium, waves, 2D fluid dynamics, statistical mechanics and particle
transport.
For more information, visit http://sdpha2.ucsd.edu
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Selected Publications
C.F. Driscoll, D.Z. Jin, D.A. Schecter, E.J. Moreau and D.H.E. Dubin, “Dynamics, Statistics and Vortex Crystal in the Relaxation
of 2D Turbulence,” Physica Scripta T84, 76-80 (2000).
C.F. Driscoll, D.Z. Jin, D.A. Schecter, and D.H.E. Dubin, “Vortex Dynamics of 2D Electron Plasmas,” Physica C 369,
21 (2002).
Andrey A. Kabanstev and C. Fred Driscoll, “Diagnosing the Velocity-Space Separatrix of Trapped Particle Modes,” Rev. Sci.
Instr. 74, 1925 (2003).
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