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EPL
Volume 116, Number 4, November 2016
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| Article Number | 45001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Physics of Gases, Plasmas and Electric Discharges | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/116/45001 | |
| Published online | 28 December 2016 | |
Experimental investigations of strongly coupled Coulomb systems of diamagnetic dust particles in a magnetic trap under microgravity conditions
1 IETP, Al Farabi Kazakh National University - Al Farabi av., 71, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2 NNLOT, Al Farabi Kazakh National University - Al Farabi av., 71, Almaty, Kazakhstan
3 Joint Institute for High Temperatures, RAS - 125412 Moscow, Russia
4 S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation “Energia” - 141070 Korolev, Moscow region, Russia
5 National Center of Space Research and Technology, KazCosmos - Almaty, Kazakhstan
6 Institute of Applied Science and Information Technology - Shashkina str. 40, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Received: 5 October 2016
Accepted: 8 December 2016
A series of experiments on the modernized “Coulomb crystals” setup on board of the International Space Station (ISS) was performed. Formation of a cluster of charged and uncharged particles was observed. Excitation and damping of cluster oscillations, as well as its destruction in the high electric field were investigated. Charges of the particles were evaluated on the basis of their rate of expansion from the cluster. Some conclusions about the cluster structure have been presented.
PACS: 52.27.Lw – Dusty or complex plasmas; plasma crystals / 45.50.Jf – Few- and many-body systems / 85.70.Rp – Magnetic levitation, propulsion and control devices
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