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Transport of microparticles in weakly ionized gas-discharge plasmas under microgravity conditions
V E Fortov1, O S Vaulina, O F Petrov
1Institute for High Energy Densities, RAS, Izhorskaya 13/19, 125412 Moscow, Russia.
Physical Review Letters
|July 15, 2003
Abstract:
Measurements of effective structural (pair correlation function) and transport (diffusion constant) characteristics of the system of microparticles in dc and rf gas-discharge plasmas under microgravity conditions are reported. The comparison between these measurements and numerical simulations is used for complex plasma diagnostics.