Plasma Physics: IX Latin American Workshop, La Serena, Chile, 13-17 November, 2000 Book

	Preface
	Sheared Flow Generation in the Imploding Large Larmor Radius Z. Pinch	3
	Anomalous Transport Effects on Magnetic Field Profile in a Motional Current Sheath	11
	Determination of Temperature in an Arc Discharge Plasma by Using a Double Probe	17
	Ionization Waves in the Pre-breakdown Phase of a Pulsed Capillary Discharge	23
	Study of an RF Discharge with Mercury and Argon: Effect of Argon Metastable Quenching by Mercury Reactions	29
	Study of an RF Mercury Discharge: Effect of Metastable Atoms	35
	Temporal Statistical Analysis of Ionization Events in the Final Pre-breakdown Phase of a Transient Hollow Cathode Discharge	41
	The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Compressible Plasmas with Magnetic Field Shear	47
	Variation of Plasma Parameters as Function of the Pressure	53
	Analysis of the Ion Energy Distribution in a Pulsed Vacuum Arc	61
	Automated Power Source to Generate Repetitive Electric Pulsed Arcs in a PAPVD Process	67
	Carbon-Based Coatings Production by Arc Plasma	73
	Characterization of Polymeric Films Produced by Glow Discharge	78
	Droplets Presence in Tin Hard Coatings Produced by Arc Plasma with Varying Process Parameters	84
	Electrostatic Probe and Calorimetric Measurements in a DC Cathodic Arc	90
	Non-conventional High Voltage Pulsers for Advanced Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation	96
	Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation Description Using Child Current Law	102
	Electron-Acoustic and Dispersive Alfven Waves Coupling in Nonuniform Magnetoplasmas	111
	Emission of Type III Solar Radio Bursts by Two Oppositely Propagating Langmuir Waves	117
	Excitation and Parametric Decays of Electron Ion Whistler Waves	123
	Heliospheric MeV Energization due to Resonant Interaction	129
	Kinetic Effects on the Parametric Decays of Circularly Polarized Electromagnetic Waves in an Electron-Positron Plasma	135
	q-Yang-Mills-Vlasov System	141
	A Model for Plasma Discharges Simulation in Tokamak Devices	149
	An Alternative Method for Multipass Thomson Scattering Diagnostics	155
	Bolometric Calibration for TCABR Performed with a Synchrotron Light Source	161
	Chaotic Field Line Diffusion in Tokamaks	167
	Electrical Probe Diagnostic with Fast Data Acquisition Systems of the Novillo Tokamak	173
	Gas Breakdown in the TCABR Tokamak: Model, Simulation and Experimental Results	179
	Mirnov Oscillation in the TCABR Tokamak	185
	Preliminary Results on Alfven Wave System in the TCABR Tokamak	191
	RF Current Driven Profile and Neoclassical Tearing Mode Stabilisation	197
	Runaway Discharges in TCABR	200
	Scanning Control and Data Acquisition Interface for a Spectroscopy Diagnostic	209
	Spectroscopy Diagnostics in the NOVA-UNICAMP Tokamak	215
	Statistics of Plasma Edge Turbulence in Tokamaks	221
	Computational Simulation of Plasma Focus	229
	Design and Construction of a Very Small Plasma Focus in the Limit of Low Energy	235
	Fast and Small Capillary Discharge: MHD Simulation	240
	MHD Simulation of Gas-Embedded Z-Pinch	246
	Numerical Simulation of a Z-pinch Compressed by Imploding Liner	252
	On the Beam-Target Nature of Neutron Production in the FN-II Dense Plasma Focus Device	258
	Plasma Dynamics and VUV Spectroscopy Diagnostics in a Fast Capillary Discharge	264
	Plasma Jet Formation in X-pinch Plasmas	270
	Small-Chamber 4.7 kJ Plasma Focus for Applications	276
	Time and Space Resolved VUV-Spectroscopy of a Pulsed Hollow Cathode Capillary Discharge	282
	Time of Flight Technique for Neutron Spectroscopy in Pulsed Nuclear Fusion Devices	288
	Time Resolved Studies of Plasma Evolution in a Laser Initiated Capillary Discharge	294
	Using a 4.7 kJ Plasma Focus for Instrospective Imaging of Metallic Objects and for Neutronic Detection of Water	300
	Author Index	307