Plasma Physics Reports -- April 2001 Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 273-361 TOKAMAKS Formation of Electron Transport Barriers under ECR Control of the q(r) Profile in the T-10 Tokamak K. A. Razumova, V. V. Alikaev, I. S. Bondarenko, A. A. Borschegovskii, V. A. Vershkov, A. V. Gorshkov, Yu. V. Gott, Yu. N. Dnestrovskij, V. V. Dreval, M. M. Dremin, L. G. Eliseev, G. S. Kirnev, A. Ya. Kislov, I. V. Klimanov, A. S. Kozachok, A. D. Komarov, V. A. Krupin, L. I. Krupnik, S. V. Krylov, S. E. Lysenko, A. A. Medvedev, A. V. Melnikov, T. B. Myalton, G. E. Notkin, A. Yu. Novikov, Yu. D. Pavlov, D. P. Petrov, V. I. Poznyak, I. N. Roy, P. V. Savrukhin, V. V. Sannikov, S. V. Soldatov, A. V. Sushkov, V. M. Trukhin, S. M. Khrebtov, V. V. Chistyakov, and D. A. Shelukhin pp. 273-277 Full Text: PDF (99 kB) PLASMA KINETICS Residual Electron Momentum and Energy in a Gas Ionized by a Short High-Power Laser Pulse N. E. Andreev, M. E. Veisman, S. P. Goreslavskii, and M. V. Chegotov pp. 278-292 Full Text: PDF (207 kB) Collisional Electron Heating by an Ultraintense Ultrashort Laser Pulse Focused in a Gas S. A. Maiorov pp. 293-302 Full Text: PDF (145 kB) PLASMA DYNAMICS Oscillations, Shocks, and Fine Wave Structures Arising during the Coalescence of Two Force-Free Current Loops H.-M. Zhang, I. V. Sokolov, and J.-I. Sakai pp. 303-314 Full Text: PDF (1106 kB) Three-Dimensional MHD Simulations of Forced Magnetic Reconnection S. V. Bulanov, E. Yu. Echkina, I. N. Inovenkov, F. Pegoraro, and V. V. Pichushkin pp. 315-322 Full Text: PDF (218 kB) BEAMS IN PLASMA Magnetic Field Excitation during Electron Beam Injection from the Intercosmos-25 Satellite (APEX) V. N. Oraevsky, Ya. P. Sobolev, L. N. Zhuzgov, V. V. Afonin, and N. V. Baranets pp. 323-329 Full Text: PDF (158 kB) Relaxation of an Electron Beam during the Onset of the Electromagnetic Filamentation Instability Y. Kazimura, J.-I. Sakai, and S. V. Bulanov pp. 330-334 Full Text: PDF (358 kB) Space Charge Lens for Focusing Negative-Ion Beams V. P. Goretskii, I. A. Soloshenko, and A. I. Shchedrin pp. 335-339 Full Text: PDF (71 kB) DUSTY PLASMA Behavior of a Dust Grain in the Double Layer of an Electric Probe in a Gas-Discharge Plasma S. N. Antipov, A. A. Samarian, O. F. Petrov, and A. P. Nefedov pp. 340-346 Full Text: PDF (89 kB) LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA Construction of Chemical Models of a Partially Ionized Atomic Plasma Based on Exact Asymptotic Expansions A. L. Khomkin, V. S. Vorob'ev, I. A. Mulenko, and E. N. Oleinikova pp. 347-354 Full Text: PDF (100 kB) Kinetics of Heat Release during the Interaction of a Low-Temperature Oxygen Plasma with a Catalytically Active Surface A. N. Magunov pp. 355-361 Full Text: PDF (106 kB)