First experimental realization of energetic ions driven by intense laser irradiating the world’s thinnest and strongest target. Laser-driven ion acceleration has been studied to develop…
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Nuclear fusion facility: JET interior with superimposed plasma. Credit: UKAEA European joint experiment prepares transition to large-scale ITER project. Following the example of the sun,…
A top-down view of a black hole during the lead-up to a flare. Hot plasma initially flows into the black hole. As the magnetic field…
Visualized are two-dimensional pressure fluctuations within a larger three-dimensional magnetically confined fusion plasma simulation. With recent advances in machine-learning techniques, these types of partial observations…
Credit: U.S. Fusion Energy The new community-wide outreach, education, and workforce development website provides centralized resources for all audiences. The U.S. Fusion Outreach Team, a…
This image shows a parameter scan of maximum ion energy as a function of laser pulse duration and intensity generated by a neural network surrogate…
Rice University graduate student Grant Gorman at work in Rice’s Ultracold Atoms and Plasmas Lab. Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions…
ITER fusion reactor tokamak. Credit: ITER A tokamak is a machine that confines a plasma using magnetic fields in a donut shape that scientists call a…
A schematic of UCLA’s cold atmospheric plasma device with an image of it in operation. Credit: Wirz Research Group, UCLA Using cold atmospheric plasma promises…
Physicist Himawan Winarto with figures from paper behind him. Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications A new method for verifying a widely held…
[embedded content]Computer simulation of ELM crashes at the lower plasma edge of ASDEX Upgrade fusion device. The video shows the evolution of the plasma pressure…
Researchers are fine-tuning the application of plasma to agriculture to speed up germination and help plants grow strong. Ever since scientists discovered that plasma treatment…
Physicist Suying Jin, DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Credit: Suying Jin Scientists have found a novel way to prevent pesky magnetic bubbles in plasma from interfering…
Solar wind. Credit: NASA As the Earth orbits the sun, it plows through a stream of fast-moving particles that can interfere with satellites and global…
Researchers at Drexel University’s C&J Nyheim Plasma Institute have reported that liquid plasma can be used to produce an energy-dense material called polymeric nitrogen. Credit:…