Publications of Stephen Vincena

A list of publications authored or co-authored by Stephen Vincena, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The number in brackets after each title indicates the number of citations that the paper has received.

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6468-5710

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 85 (refereed: 80)
No. of citations: 1547
First author papers: 10 (refereed: 10)

2025

  1. Phase mixing of Alfvén waves in the laboratory under conditions scaled to match coronal holes [0]
    Bose, Sayak, Carter, Troy, Hahn, Michael, Vincena, Steve & Savin, Daniel Wolf, MagNetUS Workshop Abstracts, p. E1
  2. Laboratory generation of multiple periodic arrays of Alfvénic vortices [0]
    Gekelman, W., Vincena, S. & Pribyl, P., Physics of Plasmas, 32, 122109
  3. Measurement of Energy Reduction of Inertial Alfvén Waves Propagating through Parallel Gradients in the Alfvén Speed [0]
    Joshi, Garima, Bose, Sayak, Carter, Troy, Savin, Daniel Wolf, Tripathi, Shreekrishna, Vincena, Stephen & Hahn, Michael, ApJ, 982, 52

2024

  1. Experimental Study of Alfvén Wave Reflection from an Alfvén-speed Gradient Relevant to the Solar Coronal Holes [5]
    Bose, Sayak, TenBarge, Jason M., Carter, Troy, Hahn, Michael, Ji, Hantao, Juno, James, Savin, Daniel Wolf, Tripathi, Shreekrishna & Vincena, Stephen, ApJ, 971, 72
  2. Three-wave coupling observed between a shear Alfvén wave and a kink-unstable magnetic flux rope [1]
    Vincena, S., Tripathi, S. K. P., Gekelman, W. & Pribyl, P., Physics of Plasmas, 31, 092302

2023

  1. Design of the Lanthanum hexaboride based plasma source for the large plasma device at UCLA [8]
    Qian, Yuchen, Gekelman, Walter, Pribyl, Patrick, Sketchley, Tom, Tripathi, Shreekrishna, Lucky, Zoltan, Drandell, Marvin, Vincena, Stephen, Look, Thomas, Travis, Phil, Carter, Troy, Wan, Gary, Cattelan, Mattia, Sabiston, Graeme, Ottaviano, Angelica & Wirz, Richard, Review of Scientific Instruments, 94, 085104
  2. Status of high harmonic fast wave experimental campaign on Large Plasma Device [0]
    Yang, X., De Haas, T., Magee, R., Carter, T., Goulding, R., Sibley, A., Song, Y., Schroeder, J., Allfrey, I., Morehouse, M., Feng, P., Pribyl, P., Vincena, S., Lau, C., Bertelli, N., Ono, M. & Shiraiwa, S., American Institute of Physics Conference Series, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 2984, p. 080002

2022

  1. High repetition rate mapping of the interaction between a laser plasma and magnetized background plasma via laser induced fluorescence [3]
    Dorst, R. S., Schaeffer, D. B., Le, A., Pilgram, J. J., Constantin, C. G., Vincena, S., Tripathi, S. K. P., Winske, D., Larson, D., Cowee, M. & Niemann, C., Physics of Plasmas, 29, 082113
  2. Thomson scattering on the large plasma device [3]
    Ghazaryan, S., Kaloyan, M., Gekelman, W., Lucky, Z., Vincena, S., Tripathi, S. K. P., Pribyl, P. & Niemann, C., Review of Scientific Instruments, 93, 083514
  3. Impact of the electron density and temperature gradient on drift-wave turbulence in the Large Plasma Device [1]
    Perks, Conor, Mordijck, Saskia, Carter, Troy, Van Compernolle, Bart, Vincena, Stephen, Rossi, Giovanni & Schaffner, David, Journal of Plasma Physics, 88, 905880405

2021

  1. Overview of plasma wave studies using the Basic Plasma Science Facility1 [0]
    Carter, T. A., Bal, G., Larson, J., Compernolle, B. Van, Vincena, S. & Pribyl, P., 2021 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), p. 248
  2. Radially resolved active charge exchange measurements of the hydrogenic isotope fraction on DIII-D [11]
    Haskey, S. R., Stagner, L., Grierson, B. A., Chrystal, C., DeGrandchamp, G. H., Heidbrink, W. W., Van Zeeland, M. A. & Vincena, S., Review of Scientific Instruments, 92, 043535
  3. Laboratory measurements of the physics of auroral electron acceleration by Alfvén waves [25]
    Schroeder, J. W. R., Howes, G. G., Kletzing, C. A., Skiff, F., Carter, T. A., Vincena, S. & Dorfman, S., Nature Communications, 12, 3103

2020

  1. Understanding the role of Alfvén waves in heating solar coronal holes through laboratory experiments [0]
    Bose, Sayak, Carter, Troy, Hahn, M., Tripathi, S., Vincena, S. & Savin, Daniel, Division of Plasma Physics, p. 1
  2. Laser-produced plasmas as drivers of laboratory collisionless quasi-parallel shocks [11]
    Heuer, P. V., Weidl, M. S., Dorst, R. S., Schaeffer, D. B., Tripathi, S. K. P., Vincena, S., Constantin, C. G., Niemann, C. & Winske, D., Physics of Plasmas, 27, 042103
  3. Measurement and modeling of the radio frequency sheath impedance in a large magnetized plasma [4]
    Myra, J. R., Lau, C., Van Compernolle, B., Vincena, S. & Wright, J. C., Physics of Plasmas, 27, 072506
  4. Propagation of shear Alfvén waves in a two-ion plasma and application as a diagnostic for the ion density ratio [1]
    Robertson, J., Carter, T. A. & Vincena, S., Journal of Plasma Physics, 86, 905860613

2019

  1. Measured Reduction in Alfvén Wave Energy Propagating through Longitudinal Gradients Scaled to Match Solar Coronal Holes [9]
    Bose, Sayak, Carter, Troy, Hahn, Michael, Tripathi, Shreekrishna, Vincena, Stephen & Savin, Daniel Wolf, ApJ, 882, 183
  2. Overview of plasma wave studies using the Basic Plasma Science Facility [0]
    Carter, T. A., Dorfman, S., Robertson, J. & Vincena, S., 2019 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), p. 277
  3. Ferrite based antennae for launching Alfvén waves [7]
    Gekelman, W., Pribyl, P., Vincena, S., Tang, S. W. & Papadopoulos, K., Review of Scientific Instruments, 90, 083505
  4. Spiky electric and magnetic field structures in flux rope experiments [11]
    Gekelman, W., Tang, S. W., DeHaas, T., Vincena, S., Pribyl, P. & Sydora, R., Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 116, 18239

2018

  1. Collisionless coupling of a high- β expansion to an ambient, magnetized plasma. II. Experimental fields and measured momentum coupling [11]
    Bonde, Jeffrey, Vincena, Stephen & Gekelman, Walter, Physics of Plasmas, 25, 042110
  2. Nonlocal Ohms Law, Plasma Resistivity, and Reconnection During Collisions of Magnetic Flux Ropes [15]
    Gekelman, W., DeHaas, T., Pribyl, P., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Sydora, R. & Tripathi, S. K. P., ApJ, 853, 33
  3. Observations of a field-aligned ion/ion-beam instability in a magnetized laboratory plasma [23]
    Heuer, P. V., Weidl, M. S., Dorst, R. S., Schaeffer, D. B., Bondarenko, A. S., Tripathi, S. K. P., Van Compernolle, B., Vincena, S., Constantin, C. G., Niemann, C. & Winske, D., Physics of Plasmas, 25, 032104

2017

  1. Laboratory study of collisionless coupling between explosive debris plasma and magnetized ambient plasma [10]
    Bondarenko, A. S., Schaeffer, D. B., Everson, E. T., Clark, S. E., Lee, B. R., Constantin, C. G., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Tripathi, S. K. P., Winske, D. & Niemann, C., Physics of Plasmas, 24, 082110
  2. Collisionless momentum transfer in space and astrophysical explosions [30]
    Bondarenko, A. S., Schaeffer, D. B., Everson, E. T., Clark, S. E., Lee, B. R., Constantin, C. G., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Tripathi, S. K. P., Winske, D. & Niemann, C., Nature Physics, 13, 573
  3. Non-local Ohm's law during collisions of magnetic flux ropes [4]
    Gekelman, W., DeHaas, T., Pribyl, P., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B. & Sydora, R., Physics of Plasmas, 24, 070701
  4. Fast gated imaging of the collisionless interaction of a laser-produced and magnetized ambient plasma [10]
    Heuer, P. V., Schaeffer, D. B., Knall, E. N., Constantin, C. G., Hofer, L. R., Vincena, S., Tripathi, S. & Niemann, C., High Energy Density Physics, 22, 17

2016

  1. The upgraded Large Plasma Device, a machine for studying frontier basic plasma physics [119]
    Gekelman, W., Pribyl, P., Lucky, Z., Drandell, M., Leneman, D., Maggs, J., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Tripathi, S. K. P., Morales, G., Carter, T. A., Wang, Y. & DeHaas, T., Review of Scientific Instruments, 87, 025105
  2. Experimental study of the dynamics of a thin current sheet [7]
    Gekelman, W., DeHaas, T., Van Compernolle, B., Daughton, W., Pribyl, P., Vincena, S. & Hong, D., Physica Scripta, 91, 054002
  3. Pulsating Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Three-Dimensional Flux-Rope Interactions [26]
    Gekelman, W., De Haas, T., Daughton, W., Van Compernolle, B., Intrator, T. & Vincena, S., Physical Review Letters, 116, 235101
  4. Laboratory evidence for stationary inertial Alfvén waves [3]
    Koepke, M. E., Finnegan, S. M., Vincena, S., Knudsen, D. J., Nogami, S. H. & Vassiliadis, D., Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58, 084006

2015

  1. Electrostatic structure of a magnetized laser-produced plasma [23]
    Bonde, Jeffrey, Vincena, Stephen & Gekelman, Walter, Physical Review E, 92, 051102

2014

  1. Chaos in magnetic flux ropes [31]
    Gekelman, Walter, Van Compernolle, Bart, DeHaas, Tim & Vincena, Stephen, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 56, 064002
  2. Observation of collisionless shocks in a large current-free laboratory plasma [68]
    Niemann, C., Gekelman, W., Constantin, C. G., Everson, E. T., Schaeffer, D. B., Bondarenko, A. S., Clark, S. E., Winske, D., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B. & Pribyl, P., Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 7413
  3. Laser-driven, magnetized quasi-perpendicular collisionless shocks on the Large Plasma Devicea) [25]
    Schaeffer, D. B., Everson, E. T., Bondarenko, A. S., Clark, S. E., Constantin, C. G., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Tripathi, S. K. P., Winske, D., Gekelman, W. & Niemann, C., Physics of Plasmas, 21, 056312

2013

  1. Turbulence and transport suppression scaling with flow shear on the Large Plasma Devicea) [18]
    Schaffner, D. A., Carter, T. A., Rossi, G. D., Guice, D. S., Maggs, J. E., Vincena, S. & Friedman, B., Physics of Plasmas, 20, 055907
  2. Investigation of an ion-ion hybrid Alfvén wave resonator [13]
    Vincena, S. T., Farmer, W. A., Maggs, J. E. & Morales, G. J., Physics of Plasmas, 20, 012111

2012

  1. Measurements of interactions between waves and energetic ions in basic plasma experiments [12]
    Heidbrink, W. W., Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Preiwisch, A., Zhang, Y., Zhao, L., Zhou, S., Bovet, A., Fasoli, A., Furno, I., Gustafson, K., Ricci, P., Carter, T., Leneman, D., Tripathi, S. K. P. & Vincena, S., Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 54, 124007
  2. Modification of Turbulent Transport with Continuous Variation of Flow Shear in the Large Plasma Device [49]
    Schaffner, D. A., Carter, T. A., Rossi, G. D., Guice, D. S., Maggs, J. E., Vincena, S. & Friedman, B., Physical Review Letters, 109, 135002
  3. Sheared-flow induced confinement transition in a linear magnetized plasma [13]
    Zhou, S., Heidbrink, W. W., Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Carter, T. A., Vincena, S., Friedman, B. & Schaffner, D., Physics of Plasmas, 19, 012116
  4. Thermal plasma and fast ion transport in electrostatic turbulence in the large plasma devicea) [3]
    Zhou, Shu, Heidbrink, W. W., Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Carter, T. A., Vincena, S., Tripathi, S. K. P. & Van Compernolle, B., Physics of Plasmas, 19, 055904

2011

  1. Resonant drive and nonlinear suppression of gradient-driven instabilities via interaction with shear Alfvén wavesa) [7]
    Auerbach, D. W., Carter, T. A., Vincena, S. & Popovich, P., Physics of Plasmas, 18, 055708
  2. Design and use of an Elsässer probe for analysis of Alfvén wave fields according to wave direction [9]
    Drake, D. J., Kletzing, C. A., Skiff, F., Howes, G. G. & Vincena, S., Review of Scientific Instruments, 82, 103505-103505-7
  3. The many faces of shear Alfvén wavesa) [59]
    Gekelman, W., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Morales, G. J., Maggs, J. E., Pribyl, P. & Carter, T. A., Physics of Plasmas, 18, 055501
  4. Generation of shear Alfvén waves by a rotating magnetic field source: Three-dimensional simulations [13]
    Karavaev, A. V., Gumerov, N. A., Papadopoulos, K., Shao, Xi, Sharma, A. S., Gekelman, W., Wang, Y., Van Compernolle, B., Pribyl, P. & Vincena, S., Physics of Plasmas, 18, 032113
  5. Debye-scale solitary structures measured in a beam-plasma laboratory experiment [23]
    Lefebvre, B., Chen, L.-J., Gekelman, W., Kintner, P., Pickett, J., Pribyl, P. & Vincena, S., Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 18, 41
  6. Laboratory realization of an ion-ion hybrid Alfvén wave resonator [11]
    Vincena, S. T., Farmer, W. A., Maggs, J. E. & Morales, G. J., Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L11101
  7. Dependence of fast-ion transport on the nature of the turbulence in the Large Plasma Device [16]
    Zhou, Shu, Heidbrink, W. W., Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Carter, T. A., Vincena, S. & Tripathi, S. K. P., Physics of Plasmas, 18, 082104

2010

  1. Control of Gradient-Driven Instabilities Using Shear Alfvén Beat Waves [13]
    Auerbach, D. W., Carter, T. A., Vincena, S. & Popovich, P., Physical Review Letters, 105, 135005
  2. Magnetic field line reconnection in the current systems of flux ropes and Alfvén waves [13]
    Gekelman, W., Lawrence, E., Collette, A., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Pribyl, P., Berger, M. & Campbell, J., Physica Scripta Volume T, 142, 014032
  3. Generation of whistler waves by a rotating magnetic field source [25]
    Karavaev, A. V., Gumerov, N. A., Papadopoulos, K., Shao, Xi, Sharma, A. S., Gekelman, W., Gigliotti, A., Pribyl, P. & Vincena, S., Physics of Plasmas, 17, 012102
  4. Measurements of Inertial Limit Alfvén Wave Dispersion for Finite Perpendicular Wave Number [24]
    Kletzing, C. A., Thuecks, D. J., Skiff, F., Bounds, S. R. & Vincena, S., Physical Review Letters, 104, 095001
  5. Laboratory Measurements of Electrostatic Solitary Structures Generated by Beam Injection [41]
    Lefebvre, Bertrand, Chen, Li-Jen, Gekelman, Walter, Kintner, Paul, Pickett, Jolene, Pribyl, Patrick, Vincena, Stephen, Chiang, Franklin & Judy, Jack, Physical Review Letters, 105, 115001
  6. Effect of two ion species on the propagation of shear Alfvén waves of small transverse scale [13]
    Vincena, S. T., Morales, G. J. & Maggs, J. E., Physics of Plasmas, 17, 052106
  7. Turbulent transport of fast ions in the Large Plasma Device [22]
    Zhou, Shu, Heidbrink, W. W., Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Carter, T., Vincena, S., Tripathi, S. K. P., Popovich, P., Friedman, B. & Jenko, F., Physics of Plasmas, 17, 092103

2009

  1. Collisionless interaction of an energetic laser produced plasma with a large magnetoplasma [38]
    Constantin, C., Gekelman, W., Pribyl, P., Everson, E., Schaeffer, D., Kugland, N., Presura, R., Neff, S., Plechaty, C., Vincena, S., Collette, A., Tripathi, S., Muniz, M. Villagran & Niemann, C., Astrophysics and Space Science, 322, 155
  2. Correlation Analysis of Waves above a Capacitive Plasma Applicator [6]
    Gekelman, W., Barnes, M., Vincena, S. & Pribyl, P., Physical Review Letters, 103, 045003
  3. Generation of polarized shear Alfvén waves by a rotating magnetic field source [40]
    Gigliotti, A., Gekelman, W., Pribyl, P., Vincena, S., Karavaev, A., Shao, X., Sharma, A. Surjalal & Papadopoulos, D., Physics of Plasmas, 16, 092106
  4. Tests of collision operators using laboratory measurements of shear Alfvén wave dispersion and damping [18]
    Thuecks, D. J., Kletzing, C. A., Skiff, F., Bounds, S. R. & Vincena, S., Physics of Plasmas, 16, 052110
  5. Doppler-shifted cyclotron resonance of fast ions with circularly polarized shear Alfvén wavesa) [8]
    Zhang, Yang, Heidbrink, W. W., Zhou, Shu, Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Carter, T. A., Vincena, S. & Lilley, M. K., Physics of Plasmas, 16, 055706

2008

  1. Visualizing Three-Dimensional Reconnection in a Colliding Laser Plasma Experiment [2]
    Gekelman, Walter, Vincena, Stephen & Collette, Andrew, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36, 1122
  2. Integrated campaign to study the stationary inertial Alfvén wave in the laboratory and space regimes [6]
    Koepke, M. E., Finnegan, S. M., Vincena, S., Knudsen, D. J. & Chaston, C., Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 50, 074004
  3. Quasielectrostatic whistler wave radiation from the hot electron emission of a laser-produced plasma [9]
    Vincena, Stephen, Gekelman, Walter, Van Zeeland, M. A., Maggs, James & Collette, Andrew, Physics of Plasmas, 15, 072114
  4. Observation of fast-ion Doppler-shifted cyclotron resonance with shear Alfvén waves [11]
    Zhang, Yang, Heidbrink, W. W., Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Vincena, S., Carter, T. A., Gekelman, W., Leneman, D. & Pribyl, P., Physics of Plasmas, 15, 102112
  5. Spectral gap of shear Alfvén waves in a periodic array of magnetic mirrors [33]
    Zhang, Yang, Heidbrink, W. W., Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Chen, Guangye, Breizman, B. N., Vincena, S., Carter, T., Leneman, D., Gekelman, W., Pribyl, P. & Brugman, B., Physics of Plasmas, 15, 012103

2007

  1. Three-dimensional current systems generated by plasmas colliding in a background magnetoplasma [19]
    Gekelman, W., Collette, A. & Vincena, S., Physics of Plasmas, 14, 062109
  2. Lithium ion sources for investigations of fast ion transport in magnetized plasmas [17]
    Zhang, Y., Boehmer, H., Heidbrink, W. W., McWilliams, R., Leneman, D. & Vincena, S., Review of Scientific Instruments, 78, 013302-013302-8

2006

  1. Drift-Alfvén wave mediated particle transport in an elongated density depression [11]
    Vincena, Stephen & Gekelman, Walter, Physics of Plasmas, 13, 064503

2005

  1. Imaging Complex Three Dimensional AlfvéN Wave Currents [3]
    Gekelman, Walter & Vincena, Stephen, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 33, 546
  2. Measurement of ion motion in a shear Alfvén wave [21]
    Palmer, Nathan, Gekelman, Walter & Vincena, Stephen, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 072102
  3. Visualizing Shear Alfvén Wave Currents Near the Ion-Cyclotron Frequency [1]
    Vincena, Stephen & Gekelman, Walter, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 33, 552
  4. Measurements of classical transport of fast ions [15]
    Zhao, L., Heidbrink, W. W., Boehmer, H., McWilliams, R., Leneman, D. & Vincena, S., Physics of Plasmas, 12, 052108

2004

  1. Shear Alfvén Wave Perpendicular Propagation from the Kinetic to the Inertial Regime [43]
    Vincena, Stephen, Gekelman, Walter & Maggs, James, Physical Review Letters, 93, 105003

2003

  1. Laboratory experiments on Alfvén waves caused by rapidly expanding plasmas and their relationship to space phenomena [34]
    Gekelman, W., van Zeeland, M., Vincena, S. & Pribyl, P., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 108, 1281
  2. Currents and shear Alfvén wave radiation generated by an exploding laser-produced plasma: Perpendicular incidence [19]
    VanZeeland, M., Gekelman, W., Vincena, S. & Maggs, J., Physics of Plasmas, 10, 1243

2002

  1. A laboratory investigation of Alfvén wave refraction in a parallel ? gradient [5]
    Mitchell, C. C., Maggs, J. E., Vincena, S. T. & Gekelman, W. N., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 107, 1469

2001

  1. Laboratory observation of Alfvén resonance [16]
    Mitchell, C., Vincena, S., Maggs, J. & Gekelman, W., Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 923
  2. Production of Alfvén Waves by a Rapidly Expanding Dense Plasma [38]
    Vanzeeland, M., Gekelman, W., Vincena, S. & Dimonte, G., Physical Review Letters, 87, 105001
  3. Shear Alfvén waves in a magnetic beach and the roles of electron and ion damping [36]
    Vincena, S., Gekelman, W. & Maggs, J., Physics of Plasmas, 8, 3884

2000

  1. Experimental measurements of the propagation of large-amplitude shear Alfvén waves [26]
    Gekelman, Walter, Vincena, S., Palmer, N., Pribyl, P., Leneman, D., Mitchell, C. & Maggs, J., Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 42, 15

1999

  1. Three-dimensional observations of electromagnetic ion cyclotron wave propagation in a laboratory plasma column [6]
    Vincena, S. T. & Gekelman, W. N., IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 27, 144

1997

  1. Laboratory experiments on shear Alfvén waves and their relationship to space plasmas [91]
    Gekelman, Walter, Vincena, Stephen, Leneman, David & Maggs, James, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 7225

1996

  1. A whistler wave interaction with a density striation: a laboratory investigation of an auroral process [0]
    Gekelman, W., Maggs, J., Bamber, J. & Vincena, S., IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 24, 20

1994

  1. Experimental observation of Alfvén wave cones [73]
    Gekelman, Walter, Leneman, David, Maggs, James & Vincena, Stephen, Physics of Plasmas, 1, 3775

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