Sentences with phrase «energy plasma particles»

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

Not exact matches

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Giant eruptions of hot plasma and high - energy particles spewed forth, a Mount Everest's weight of gas in a single belch.

These particles, which physicists inject as neutral atoms, are ionized inside the plasma and increase its thermal energy.

High energy particles are born inside the plasma and, as they undergo an orbit, they intersect two different waves that eventually kick them to the wall and the particle detector.

Fusion energy requires confining high energy particles, both those produced from fusion reactions and others injected by megawatt beams used to heat the plasma to fusion temperatures.

By arranging their detectors at the edge of a fusion device, researchers have found that they are able to measure high energy particles kicked out of the plasma by a type of wave that exists in fusion plasmas called an Alfvén wave (named after their discoverer, the Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén).

This plasma of high - energy electron particles then release a controlled beam of ultra-energized photons, the gamma rays.

These applications require an understanding of energy absorption and momentum transfer from the high - intensity lasers to plasma particles.

Since the experiment fires protons at boron plasma, it effectively mimics cosmic rays crashing into plasmas in space, which may aid studies of high - energy particle behaviour, says Mac Low.

The high voltage is delivered only in very short bursts, using just enough energy to accelerate the tiny electrons without heating up the heavy gas particles pulses; thus, plasma is generated.

Neutral particles provide the buoyancy the gnarled knots of magnetic energy need to rise through the sun's boiling plasma and reach the chromosphere.

Magnetic reconnection, in addition to pushing around clouds of plasma, converts some magnetic energy into heat, which has an effect on just how much energy is left over to move the particles through space.

«Accelerating particles to high energies: A plasma tube to bring particles up to speed.»

In this new work, Wang's team refined a probe that makes use of a phenomenon researchers at Berkeley Lab first theoretically outlined 20 years ago: energy loss of a high - energy particle, called a jet, inside the quark gluon plasma.

A team led by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has reached another milestone in developing a promising technology for accelerating particles to high energies in short distances: They created a tiny tube of hot, ionized gas, or plasma, in which the particles remain tightly focused as they fly through it.

Neutral particles facilitate the buoyancy the marled knots of magnetic energy need to rise through the boiling plasma and reach the surface.

Does matter break down into a soup of subatomic particles — called a quark - gluon plasma — and then into energy?

The tokamak is an experimental chamber that holds a gas of energetic charged particles, plasma, for developing energy production from nuclear fusion.

These promising new directions include higher fusion power densities, and hence smaller reactors; development of «transport barriers» in the plasma, leading to improved energy confinement and smaller sizes; self - driven plasma currents that permit steady - state operation and low recirculating power; and the development of advanced divertor concepts to provide particle control and heat removal over long reactor lifetimes.

J.F.: I would look at charged particle transport, or how energy and particles are transported in plasmas.

All that energy packed into such a tiny space creates a plasma of matter's fundamental building blocks, quarks and gluons, and thousands of new particles - matter and antimatter in equal amounts.

While high - energy particle physics often focuses on detection of subatomic particles, such as the recently discovered Higgs Boson, the new quark - gluon - plasma research instead examines behavior of a volume of such particles.

The results, demonstrated by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators on China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) found that lithium powder can eliminate instabilities known as edge - localized modes (ELMs) when used to coat a tungsten plasma - facing component called the «divertor» — the unit that exhausts waste heat and particles from plasma that fuels fusion reacPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators on China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) found that lithium powder can eliminate instabilities known as edge - localized modes (ELMs) when used to coat a tungsten plasma - facing component called the «divertor» — the unit that exhausts waste heat and particles from plasma that fuels fusion reacplasma - facing component called the «divertor» — the unit that exhausts waste heat and particles from plasma that fuels fusion reacplasma that fuels fusion reactions.

New PMI solutions are required for practical heat and particle exhaust in future plasma systems as these considerations limit the operating space and drive the overall size and cost of net - energy producing fusion systems.

Davidson also wrote «Theory of Nonneutral Plasmas» (1974), «Physics of Nonneutral Plasmas» (1990), and, with PPPL physicist Hong Qin, «Physics of Intense Charged Particle Beams in High - Energy Accelerators» (2001).

Scientists now are teasing out the secrets of complex multi-scaled layers of turbulence in plasmas, the movement of particles through those plasmas, their interaction with magnetic fields, and numerous other phenomena that impact the plasma's ability to be harnessed as an energy source.

This plasma consists of mostly electrons, protons and alpha particles with thermal energies between 1.5 and 10 keV.»

The plasma sheet particles with higher energies penetrate deeper in the atmosphere and produce additional ionization in the E-layer.

Other energy from the sun, such as plasmas, and particles are very important.