| Alfven, Hannes | <person> Nobel Prize winning plasma physicist and astronomer who first suggested the possibility of magneto-hydrodynamic waves in 1942. Now deceased. (13 Nov 1997) |
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| Hannes Alfven | <person> Nobel Prize winning plasma physicist and astronomer who first suggested the possibility of magneto-hydrodynamic waves in 1942. Now deceased. (13 Nov 1997) |
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| Alfven ion cyclotron instability | <radiobiology> An electromagnetic microinstability near the ion cyclotron frequency, driven by the ion loss cone in a mirror device. Acronym: AIC (13 Nov 1997) |
| Alfven velocity | <physics, radiobiology> Phase velocity of the Alfven wave, equal to the speed of light divided by the square root of (1 plus the ratio of the plasma frequency to the cyclotron frequency for a given species). Va = c / SQRT(1 + plasma frequency / cyclotron frequency) (13 Nov 1997) |
| Alfven waves | <physics, radiobiology> Transverse electromagnetic waves that are propagated along lines of magnetic force in a plasma. The waves have frequency significantly less than the ion cyclotron frequency, and are characterised by the fact that the field lines oscillate (wiggle) with the plasma. The propagation velocity depends on the particle density and the strength of the magnetic field. [Relatively] Low frequency ion oscillation in the presence of an equilibrium magnetic field. Also called the transverse hydromagnetic wave along B_0. The torsional Alfven wave in cylindrical geometry was first measured in liquid mercury by B. Lehnert. Alfven waves were first generated and detected in plasma by Allen, Baker, Pyle, and Wilcox in Berkeley and by Jephcott in England in 1959. (13 Nov 1997) |
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