A kinetic theory is developed to describe the longitudinal decay of two-ion decay (TID): The
pump ion-acoustic wave (IAW) decays into two daughter IAWs with a longer wavelength …

This Letter describes a new parametric instability mechanism caused by a distribution f T of
particles trapped in the potential wells of a wave train. The mechanism explains a nonlinear …

Large amplitude, near-acoustic plasma waves have a temperature-dependent harmonic
content and nonlinear frequency shifts. On cold plasmas, experiments show that fluid …

This paper considers the frequency, spatial form, and stability of nonlinear Trivelpiece-Gould
(TG) waves on a cylindrical plasma column of length L and radius rp, treating both traveling …

Quantitative experiments on the parametric decay instability of near-acoustic plasma waves
provide strong evidence that trapped particles reduce the instability threshold below fluid …

This Final Technical Report gives a brief overview of the apparatus upgrades, experimental
results, and theory development which was funded by DOE grant DE-SC0008693 from 1 …