Experimental Investigation of Ion Heating Due to Alfven Wave Driven Turbulence

建议的研究涉及的离子加热的快速太阳风加速区的实验室调查。 已经提出了一些在快速太阳风中加热离子的机制，本项目将研究以下可能性：反向传播的低频阿尔芬波产生湍流级联，通过激发对离子进行阻尼的高频波来加热离子，或者通过阿尔芬波的离子回旋阻尼直接加热离子。

The proposed reseach concerns a laboratory investigation of ion heating in the acceleration region of the fast solar wind. A number of mechanisms for ion heating in the fast solar wind have been proposed and this project will examine the possibility that either counter-propagating, low-frequency, Alfven waves generate a turbulent cascade that heats ions by exciting higher frequency waves that damp on the ions or that the ions are directly heated by ion-cyclotron damping of Alfven waves.