Relation Between Laboratory and Space Plasmas : Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at Gakushi-Kaikan (University Alumni Association) Tokyo, Japan, April 14–15, 1980

This book contains the lectures presented at the International Workshop on Relation between Laboratory and Space Plasmas held at Gakushi-Kaikan (University Alumni Association) Kanda in Tokyo, Japan on 14 - 15 April, 1980. Its aim was to bring together laboratory, fusion and space plasma physicists and to highlight the communality of basic plasma phenomena, similarities and differences observed in the laboratory and in space, thus exchanging information tnd views on new ideas to link both areas. Although similar type of conferences were held in Europe and recently in the States, this is the first time we have had in Japan for such an international meeting, which may be regarded as an extended version of our national Workshop held twice at the Institute of Plasma Physics of Japan (IPPJ) in 1976 and in 1977 (IPPJ Research Report No. 286 and No. 365). The Workshop consisted of seven regular sessions and one special session with approximately ninety participants from allover the world. Thirty-six papers, invited and contributed, were presented, nine from U. S. A., three from U. S. S. R., two of each from Germany, France, India, one of each from Sweden, Canada, Belgium and fifteen from Japan. The topics covered were: (1) The Critical Velocity (2) Beam Plasma Discharges and Interactions (3) Double Layers and Shocks (4) Instabilities in the Equatorial and Auroral Electrojets (5) Turbulent and Anomalous Plasmas (6) Plasma Irregularities (7) Solar Plasma Phenomena (8) Active Experiments in Space Plasmas and Their Simulation in the Laboratory. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction — The Role of High-β Mirror-Cusp Space-Plasma Concept in a New Fusion-Reactor Approach....Pages 1-11 The Critical Ionization Velocity....Pages 13-21 Viability of the Critical Ionization Velocity Concept in Selected Space Situations....Pages 23-44 A Review of the Beam Plasma Discharge....Pages 45-65 Laboratory Simulation of the Injection of Energetic Electron Beams into the Ionosphere—Ignition of the Beam Plasma Discharge....Pages 67-75 Laboratory Experiments on Beam-Plasma Discharge....Pages 77-86 Nonlinear Behavior of High Frequency Electric Field Just Before the Initiation of Beam Plasma Discharge....Pages 87-96 Electron Beam Experiments in Space....Pages 97-99 Formation of double layers....Pages 101-113 Observations of Electrostatic Shocks and Associated Plasma Instabilities by the S3-3 Satellite....Pages 115-126 Formation of Electrostatic Double Layers in a Plasma with Electron-Drift....Pages 127-135 Laboratory Measurements of the Plasma Potential in the Presence of Strong Ion Cyclotron Turbulence....Pages 137-144 Magnetic Field Line Reconnection Experiment....Pages 145-155 Mechanisms for the Excitation of Ion Cyclotron Waves in Auroral Acceleration Region....Pages 157-157 On Plasma Instabilities in the High-Latitude Ionospheric E Region....Pages 159-170 Laboratory Experiments Related to Plasma Instabilities in the Electrojets....Pages 171-185 A 15-Min Period Geomagnetic Pulsation Ps6 Excited by an Instability of Auroral Electrojets....Pages 187-195 Magnetic Field Aligned Currents and the Structure of the Auroral Ionosphere....Pages 197-204 Power Law Spectrum of Relativistic Particles in Space and Possibilities of Its Laboratory Simulation....Pages 205-205 Chasmas in the Laboratory and in Space....Pages 207-230 Numerical Calculations on the Propagation of Microwaves in Highly Over-Dense Magnetized Plasmas....Pages 231-238 The Nonlinear Theory of Current-Driven Instability of Lower-Hybrid Drift Oscillations and Magnetic Field Reconnection in the Magnetopause....Pages 239-239 Instabilities in Current Layers....Pages 241-250 Nonlinear Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with a Weakly-Magnetized Nonuniform Plasma....Pages 251-259 Plasma Densities in the Thermal Magnetosphere Determined from Ion Cyclotron Whistlers....Pages 261-268 Ray Trajectories and Wave Fronts of Radiated Electromagnetic Modes in an Inhomogeneous Magnetoplasma....Pages 269-275 Drift Effect on the Electrostatic Landau Mode in a Maxwellian Plasma....Pages 277-277 Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Beam-Plasma Interaction for the Application to Solar Radio Burst....Pages 279-284 A Model of Type I Solar Radio Bursts....Pages 285-291 Nuclear Fusion Process in 3 He-Rich Flares....Pages 293-298 Space Experiments with Particle Accelerators: SEPAC —SEPAC Program for First Spacelab Mission—....Pages 299-326 Remarks About the Wave Observations During the Rocket Borne Electrons Injection into the Ionospheric Plasma....Pages 327-329 Exos-B/Siple Station VLF Wave-Particle Interaction Experiment....Pages 331-338 Active Stimulation of the Auroral Plasma....Pages 339-383 Summary — Editor’s Note....Pages 385-401 Back Matter....Pages 403-418 Proceedings of the International Workshop held at Gakushi-Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan, April 14-15, 1980