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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
Non-Neutral Plasmas
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My experiments utilize well-diagnosed single-species plasmas to make quantitative tests of theory and to discover new effects. Laser-diagnosed pure ion plasma experiments have ranged from "ExB drift collisional" transport, to thermally excited modes, to collisionality in cryogenic "near-crystallized" regimes. The camera-diagnosed pure electron plasmas are ideal 2-dimensional vortex systems,exhibiting turbulent relaxation to novel "vortex crystal" states. Recently, electron plasma data on "trapped-particle-mediated" damping and transport effects has motivated and tested new theory.
For more information, visit http://nnp.ucsd.edu/index.html
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Selected Recent Publications
A. A. Kabantsev, T. M. O'Neil, Yu. A. Tsidulko, and C. F. Driscoll, "Resonant drift-wave coupling modified by nonlinear separatrix dissipation," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 065002 (2008).
J. H. Yu, T. M. O'Neil, and C. F. Driscoll, "Fluid echos in a pure electron plasma," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 025005 (2005).
J. R. Danielson, F. Anderegg, and C. F. Driscoll, "Measurement of Landau Damping and the Evolution of a BGK Equilibrium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 245003 (2004).
F. Anderegg, N. Shiga, J. R. Danielson, D. H. E. Dubin, C. F. Driscoll, and R. W. Gould, "Thermally excited modes in a pure electron plasma," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 115001 (2003).
A. A. Kabantsev, J. H. Yu, R. Lynch, and C. F. Driscoll, "Trapped particles and asymmetry-induced transport," Phys. Plasmas 10, 1628 (2003).
For a complete publication list and direct access to articles, please visit: http://nnp.ucsd.edu/publications.html
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