Plasma Physics Reports -- April 2000 Volume 26, Issue 4, pp. 283-373 PLASMA DYNAMICS Formation of Electrode Sheaths during the Acceleration of a Magnetized Plasma S. F. Garanin pp. 283-291 Full Text: PDF (103 kB) Generation of Vortex Electric Fields in the Pinch Constriction V. I. Afonin pp. 292-297 Full Text: PDF (341 kB) Cumulative Gas-Compression Configuration Intermediate between Spherical and Cylindrical V. I. Tarzhanov pp. 298-302 Full Text: PDF (60 kB) PLASMA OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES Emission Spectra of a Cherenkov Plasma Relativistic Maser P. S. Strelkov and D. K. Ul'yanov pp. 303-307 Full Text: PDF (66 kB) NONLINEAR PHENOMENA Helical Waves in the Vortex Electron Anisotropic Hydrodynamic Model V. A. Terekhin, V. T. Tikhonchuk, and E. V. Uvarov pp. 308-313 Full Text: PDF (77 kB) PLASMA INSTABILITIES Parametric Decay Instability of an Inhomogeneous Plasma in a Frequency-Modulated Pump Wave V. I. Arkhipenko, V. N. Budnikov, E. Z. Gusakov, A. K. Kapanik, V. A. Pisarev, and L. V. Simonchik pp. 314-319 Full Text: PDF (83 kB) LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMAS Long Laser Spark and Electric Gas Breakdown A. V. Shelobolin pp. 320-327 Full Text: PDF (243 kB) Scanning Calorimetry Measurements of the Gas Temperature in an RF-Discharge Fluorine-Containing Plasma A. N. Magunov and O. V. Lukin pp. 328-334 Full Text: PDF (95 kB) PLASMA ELECTRONICS AND NEW ACCELERATION METHODS Plasma Electronics and Plasma Acceleration of Charged Particles Ya. B. Fainberg pp. 335-343 Full Text: PDF (99 kB) Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the Excitation of High-Frequency Oscillations in an Ion Collective Accelerator Model Based on the Doppler Effect V. I. Butenko, D. V. Gorozhanin, A. M. Egorov, B. I. Ivanov, V. V. Ognivenko, I. N. Onishchenko, and V. P. Prishchepov pp. 344-350 Full Text: PDF (93 kB) Focusing of High-Energy Particles by a Plasma Current Lens Controlled by an External Magnetic Field V. N. Belan, V. I. Butenko, A. M. Egorov, B. I. Ivanov, V. A. Kiselev, A. F. Linnik, I. N. Onishchenko, and V. P. Prishchepov pp. 351-355 Full Text: PDF (59 kB) The Maximum Electron Energy Achievable in Conventional Resonant Linear Accelerators A. N. Opanasenko pp. 356-359 Full Text: PDF (50 kB) Formation and Emission of Intense Electromagnetic Pulses by Means of an Insulated Rod Antenna Excited by a Short-Duration High-Current Relativistic Electron Beam N. I. Gaponenko, A. M. Gorban', D. V. Gorozhanin, V. I. Kurilko[dagger], S. M. Latinskii, Yu. F. Lonin, and I. F. Kharchenko[dagger] pp. 360-362 Full Text: PDF (45 kB) Multimode Parametric Instability during Electron Cyclotron Heating Yu. R. Alanakyan, A. A. Ivanov, A. A. Luk'yanov, K. S. Serebrennikov, and V. Yu. Fedotov pp. 363-365 Full Text: PDF (47 kB) Effect of an External RF Field on the Beam–Plasma Discharge in a Magnetic Field A. A. Ivanov, L. N. Knyazev, A. A. Luk'yanov, S. V. Murav'ev, A. A. Serov, and V. Yu. Fedotov pp. 366-368 Full Text: PDF (48 kB) Nonlinear Electromagnetic Pulse with a Superwide Frequency Bandwidth A. M. Egorov and V. I. Maslov pp. 369-371 Full Text: PDF (43 kB) Semen Samoilovich Moiseev (In Honor of His 70th Birthday) pp. 372-373 Full Text: PDF (167 kB)