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Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences - Faculty
Thomas M. O'Neil
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Ph.D., Physics
Professor of Physics
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Research Areas
Theory of nonneutral plasmas
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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.
For more information, visit http://sdpha2.ucsd.edu
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Selected Publications
S.K. Kuzmin and T.M. O’Neil, “Polarization and Trapping of Weakly Bound Atoms in Penning Traps Fields,” Phys. Rev. Lett.
92, 243401 (2004).
T.M. O’Neil and T.J. Hilsabeck, “Finite Length Diocotron Mode,” Phys. Plasmas 8, 407 (2001).
D.A. Schecter, D.H.E. Dubin, A.C. Cass, C.F. Driscoll, I.M. Lansky, and T.M. O’Neil, “Inviscid Damping of Asymmetries on a
Two-Dimensional Vortex,” Phys. Fluids 12, 2397 (2000).
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