Experimental study of shock formation in a dusty plasma

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An experimental investigation of the effect of negatively charged dust on ion acoustic shock formation in a Q machine is described. Ion acoustic compressional pulses were observed to steepen as they traveled through a dusty plasma if the percentage of the negative charge in the plasma on the dust grains was ≳75%.

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Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics High-pressure geophysics and materials

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Published in: Physics of Plasmas

Volume 6, Issue 9, pp. 3455-3458

DOI: 10.1063/1.873605

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 6.50

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Experimental study of shock formation in a dusty plasma

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