Plasma physics; elementary and collective mechanisms of radiation; wave-particle and wave-wave types of interaction; instability
Main publications:
V. A. Buts, A. N. Lebedev, V. I. Kurilko, The Theory of Coherent Radiation by Intense Electron Beams, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2006, 259 pp.
V. A. Buts, A. N. Lebedev, Kogerentnoe izluchenie intensivnykh elektronnykh puchkov, Fizicheskii institut im. P. N. Lebedeva RAN, M., 2006, 333 pp.
V. A. Buts, V. V. Ognivenko, “Stokhasticheskaya neustoichivost dvizheniya chastits v lazerakh na svobodnykh elektronakh”, Pisma v ZhETF, 38:9 (1983), 434–436
V. A. Buts, K. N. Stepanov, “Stokhasticheskii nagrev plazmy polem lazernogo izlucheniya”, Pisma v ZhETF, 58:7 (1993), 520–523
V. A. Buts,, “The mechanism of suppression of quantum transitions (quantum whirligig)”, Problems of atomic science and technology, 4(68) (2010), 259–263