Plasma Physics Reports -- July 2001 Volume 27, Issue 7, pp. 545-633 TOKAMAKS Behavior of Hard X-ray Emission in Discharges with Current Disruptions in the DAMAVAND and TVD Tokamaks E. Farshi, R. Amrollahy, A. V. Bortnikov[dagger], N. N. Brevnov, Yu. V. Gott, and V. A. Shurygin pp. 545-548 Full Text: PDF (66 kB) PLASMA DYNAMICS Experimental Verification of the Effect of Different Preionization Systems on the Implosion Dynamics of an Argon Double Gas Puff A. G. Rousskikh, R. B. Baksht, A. Yu. Labetsky, A. V. Shishlov, and A. V. Fedyunin pp. 549-556 Full Text: PDF (223 kB) Investigation of the Mechanism for Current Switching from the Outer Gas Puff to the Inner Wire Array in a Structured Z-Pinch R. B. Baksht, A. Yu. Labetsky, A. G. Rousskikh, A. V. Fedyunin, A. V. Shishlov, V. A. Kokshenev, N. E. Kurmaev, and F. I. Fursov pp. 557-562 Full Text: PDF (334 kB) Periodic Emission Bursts Accompanying the Interaction of Plasma Flows Propagating Across a Magnetic Field G. N. Dudkin, B. N. Nechaev, V. N. Padalko, and E. G. Furman pp. 563-569 Full Text: PDF (95 kB) Theory of the Near-Wall Conductivity A. I. Morozov and V. V. Savel'ev pp. 570-575 Full Text: PDF (97 kB) Stratification and Filamentation Mechanism for a Multicharged Plasma of a Z-Pinch V. I. Afonin pp. 576-581 Full Text: PDF (84 kB) MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS Microwave Processes in the Octupole Galathea A. I. Morozov, K. P. Kirdyashev, A. I. Bugrova, and A. M. Bishaev pp. 582-590 Full Text: PDF (148 kB) PLASMA OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES Reduced MHD Equations with Allowance for Slow Magnetosonic Waves V. P. Zhukov pp. 591-597 Full Text: PDF (87 kB) PLASMA INSTABILITY Suppression of the Current Instability by Decay Processes B. Atamanyuk and A. S. Volokitin pp. 598-607 Full Text: PDF (418 kB) Role of the Ridley–Watkins–Hilsum Mechanism in the Stabilization of Surface Plasma Waves Yu. O. Averkov and V. M. Yakovenko pp. 608-613 Full Text: PDF (83 kB) BEAMS IN PLASMA Beam–Plasma Interaction in a Hybrid Plasma Waveguide in the Pulsed Mode of Microwave Generation A. N. Antonov, E. A. Kornilov, O. F. Kovpik, K. V. Matyash, and V. G. Svichenskii pp. 614-618 Full Text: PDF (62 kB) PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS Optical Diagnostics of Lead and PbGa2S4 Layered Crystal Laser Plasmas A. K. Shuaibov, A. I. Dashchenko, and I. V. Shevera pp. 619-624 Full Text: PDF (69 kB) LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA Ionization of Sputtered Metal Atoms in a Microwave ECR Plasma Source N. P. Poluektov, V. N. Kharchenko, and I. G. Usatov pp. 625-633 Full Text: PDF (124 kB)