Plasma Physics Reports -- September 2003 Volume 29, Issue 9, pp. 727-801 STELLARATORS Compact Torsatron with Improved alpha-Particle Confinement M. Yu. Isaev, S. E. Grebenshchikov, S. V. Shchepetov, J. Nührenberg, and W. A. Cooper pp. 727-739 Full Text: PDF (344 kB) BEAMS IN PLASMA Unsteady Beam–Plasma Discharge: I. Mathematical Model and Linear Theory Yu. P. Bliokh, M. G. Lyubarsky, V. O. Podobinsky, and Ya. B. Fainberg pp. 740-747 Full Text: PDF (102 kB) PLASMA DYNAMICS Formation of a Z-Pinch during Electromagnetic Compression of a Nonquasineutral Current Filament A. V. Gordeev and T. V. Losseva pp. 748-756 Full Text: PDF (124 kB) Material Transport in a Low-Inductance Vacuum Spark A. N. Dolgov and G. Kh. Salakhutdinov pp. 757-763 Full Text: PDF (90 kB) Feasibility of Igniting Thermonuclear Reaction during the Gas-Dynamic Compression of a Capsule Filled with a Gaseous DT Mixture by a Compact High-Speed Plasma Liner G. V. Dolgoleva, V. F. Ermolovich, A. V. Ivanovsky, and A. P. Orlov pp. 764-767 Full Text: PDF (54 kB) PLASMA INSTABILITY Ponderomotive Force of the Low-Frequency Field and Modulational Instability of Drift Waves D. N. Klochkov and S. I. Popel pp. 768-778 Full Text: PDF (138 kB) Drift Stabilization of Internal Resistive-Wall Modes in Tokamaks S. V. Konovalov, A. B. Mikhailovskii, V. S. Tsypin, R. M. O. Galvão, and I. C. Nascimento pp. 779-784 Full Text: PDF (68 kB) PLASMA KINETICS Nonlocal Equation for the Symmetric Part of the Electron Distribution Function in an Inhomogeneous Plasma O. G. Bakunin pp. 785-788 Full Text: PDF (48 kB) LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA Controlling Plasma Composition during Carbon Film Deposition in Microwave Discharges by Means of Optical-Emission Spectroscopy V. V. Dvorkin, N. N. Dzbanovskii, P. V. Minakov, N. V. Suetin, and A. Yu. Yur'ev pp. 789-795 Full Text: PDF (317 kB) Glow Intensity Profile in a Spherically Stratified Gas Discharge O. A. Nerushev, S. A. Novopashin, V. V. Radchenko, G. I. Sukhinin, and V. V. Sukhovskii pp. 796-801 Full Text: PDF (91 kB)