Introduction to Plasma Physics

Gérard Belmont is Emeritus Researcher at CNRS, France. His main research interest is in space plasmas and their different descriptions, kinetic and fluid, of non-collision plasmas. Laurence Rezeau is Professor of Astrophysics at Sorbonne University, France. Her main research interest is in the interactions between solar wind and the Earth. Caterina Riconda is Professor of Physics at Sorbonne University, France. Her main research interest is in the theory and simulations of laser-plasma interaction. Arnaud Zaslavsky is Maître de Conferences in Physics at Sorbonne University, France. His main research interest is in astrophysical plasmas.

1. What is Plasma?
2. Individual Trajectories in an Electromagnetic Field
3. Kinetic Theory of Plasma
4. Plasma Fluid Modeling and MHD Limit
5. Waves in Plasmas in the Fluid Approximation
6. Kinetic Effects: Landau Dumping
7. Shockwaves and Discontinuities