Plasma Physics Reports -- December 2001 Volume 27, Issue 12, pp. 1001-1088 TOKAMAKS Effect of the Radial Electric Field on Lower Hybrid Plasma Heating in the FT-2 Tokamak S. I. Lashkul, V. N. Budnikov, E. O. Vekshina, V. V. D'yachenko, V. B. Ermolaev, L. A. Esipov, E. R. Its, M. Yu. Kantor, D. V. Kuprienko, A. Yu. Popov, and S. V. Shatalin pp. 1001-1010 Full Text: PDF (159 kB) STELLARATORS One Possible Way to Affect the Impurity Influx into the Plasma of a Stellarator with Poloidal Slits in the Vacuum Wall D. L. Grekov pp. 1011-1016 Full Text: PDF (94 kB) INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION Fast Ignitor Concept with Light Ions V. Yu. Bychenkov, W. Rozmus, A. Maksimchuk, D. Umstadter, and C. E. Capjack pp. 1017-1020 Full Text: PDF (61 kB) NONIDEAL PLASMA Mechanism for the Disappearance of Spectral Lines in a Nonideal Plasma V. K. Gryaznov, O. B. Denisov, M. I. Kulish, V. B. Mintsev, N. Yu. Orlov, and V. E. Fortov pp. 1021-1024 Full Text: PDF (51 kB) Phase Transition in Superdense Hydrogen and Deuterium M. Bonitz, I. A. Mulenko, E. N. Oleynikova, V. S. Filinov, V. E. Fortov, and A. L. Khomkin pp. 1025-1031 Full Text: PDF (100 kB) ELEMENTARY PROCESSES IN PLASMA Relation between Electron Exchange and Nuclear Vibrations in the H + 2 + H + 2 --> H + 3 + p Exothermic Ion–Molecular Reaction V. A. Belyaev, M. M. Dubrovin, A. A. Terent'ev, A. E. Trenin, and G. V. Sholin pp. 1032-1038 Full Text: PDF (88 kB) PLASMA DYNAMICS Study of the Plasma in a Preformed Z-pinch Constriction Yu. L. Bakshaev, P. I. Blinov, V. V. Vikhrev, E. M. Gordeev, S. A. Dan'ko, V. D. Korolev, S. F. Medovshchikov, S. L. Nedoseev, E. A. Smirnova, V. I. Tumanov, A. S. Chernenko, and A. Yu. Shashkov pp. 1039-1047 Full Text: PDF (198 kB) Acceleration of Dense Electron Bunches at the Front of a High-Power Electromagnetic Wave A. S. Il'in, V. V. Kulagin, and V. A. Cherepenin pp. 1048-1056 Full Text: PDF (134 kB) LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA Streamer Breakdown of Long Gas Gaps N. L. Aleksandrov and E. M. Bazelyan pp. 1057-1078 Full Text: PDF (412 kB) Electron Temperature in a Decaying Molecular Nitrogen Plasma in the Presence of Weak Electric Fields N. A. Gorbunov, N. B. Kolokolov, and F. E. Latyshev pp. 1079-1088 Full Text: PDF (184 kB)