"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Kinetic theory. 1. Boltzmann and Vlasov equations in plasma physics / Gianpiero Colonna -- 2. Two-term Boltzmann equation / Gianpiero Colonna and Antonio D'Angola -- 3. Multiterm and non-local electron Boltzmann equation / Detlef Loffhagen -- 4. Particle-based simulation of plasmas / Giovanni Lapenta -- 5. The erg…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Principle of the fluid description of magnetically confined plasmas -- 1.1. Framework of conventional fluid theory -- 1.2. Fluid description of magnetically confined plasmaspart II. Fluid theory in the collision-dominant regime. 2. Braginskii two-fluid theory -- 2.1. Transport equations -- 2.2. Es…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. On the sizes of atoms -- 1.2. Spectroscopy, the quantum concept, and the Balmer formula -- 1.3. Circular orbit forces and energetics -- 1.4. The radiative collapse problem2. The Bohr model I : hydrogenic atoms -- 2.1. Niels Bohr : early life and paper I of the trilogy -- 2.2. The Bohr model : orbi…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Discrete symmetries -- 3. Antiparticles and CP symmetry -- 3.1. Elementary particles -- 3.2. Dirac equation and antiparticles -- 3.3. Left- and right-handed particles -- 3.4. CP transformation of Dirac spinors4. CP violation in the quark sector -- 4.1. Lagrangian of weak interaction -- 4.2. Flavor mi…
"Version: 20210201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Two flavors of hydrogen atoms : a possible explanation of dark matter -- 2.1. The mystery and its resolution through a fundamental discovery -- 2.2. An alternative kind of hydrogen atom as a possible explanation of the latest puzzling observation of the 21 cm radio line from the early Universe -- 2.3…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part IV. Concluding remarks. 11. The beauty and simplicity in controlled fusion research -- Appendix A. Table of integrals and vector formula -- Appendix B. Supplementary derivation of drift kinetic equation -- Appendix C. Acronym list.part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Background for controlled thermonuclear f…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.7. Transport equations for gas discharges -- 7.1. Equations for the charged particles -- 7.2. The drift-diffusion approximation -- 7.3. Summarypart III. Gas discharges and plasmas. 8. Discharge initiation and plasma formation -- 8.1. Townsend behavior below the breakdown threshold -- 8.2. Pressure times distance and reduc…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Rays, matrices, and transfer maps -- 1.1. Paraxial approximation -- 1.2. Thin lenses -- 1.3. Thick lenses -- 1.4. Transfer maps -- 1.5. Computer resources2. Linear magnetic lenses and deflectors -- 2.1. Magnetic rigidity, momentum, and cyclotron frequency -- 2.2. Solenoid focusing -- 2.3. Quadrupole focusing -- 2.4. Th…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Basics of elementary particle physics2. Jet algorithms -- 2.1. Cone or sequential algorithms? -- 2.2. Common issues with jet algorithms -- 2.3. Further jet clustering procedures3. QCD for jet physics -- 3.1. Fixed-order QCD calculations -- 3.2. QCD at all orders -- 3.3. At the boundary of perturbat…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Energy policy options -- 1.2. Fusion -- 1.3. Magnetic confinement -- 1.4. Fusion plasmas : a special class of systems -- 1.5. Transport in fusion plasmas -- 1.6. How important is turbulence? -- 1.7. Unusual transport phenomena -- 1.8. Summary2. Characterization of turbulence in plasmas -- 2.1. Prob…