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James Chen, a plasma physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., says that predicting the future might not be so simple.

The data may be quite important for another reason, says Philippe Escoubet, a plasma physicist at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

A device based on a 100 - PW laser could be at least 10 times shorter and cheaper than the roughly $ 10 billion machine now envisaged, says Stuart Mangles, a plasma physicist at Imperial College London.

Two young plasma physicists at Chalmers University of Technology have now taken us one step closer to a functional fusion reactor.

Not exact matches

The physicists calculated that tiny fibers called «fractals,» because they look the same when viewed at different scales, can trap electrons dislodged from the interior surfaces by other electrons zooming in from the plasma.

Over lunch in the staff cafeteria, theoretician John Ellis explains that this idea has already fallen out of fashion, mainly because that theory supposed to be a quark - gluon plasma smooth, disconnected gas, but earlier this year, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory caught a glimpse of the quark - gluon plasma and discovered that it looks much more like a thick, viscous liquid.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have simulated the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reacPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have simulated the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reacplasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reactions.

The New Calculus Other physicists, meanwhile, are employing string theory methodologies in their study of extreme matter states — from the intensely hot plasmas produced in particle colliders to materials created in laboratories at temperatures close to absolute zero.

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reacPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reacplasma that fuels fusion reactions.

«We have made, by far, the most precise extraction to date of a key property of the quark - gluon plasma, which reveals the microscopic structure of this almost perfect liquid,» says Xin - Nian Wang, physicist in the Nuclear Science Division at Berkeley Lab and managing principal investigator of the JET Collaboration.

Physicists running a competing experiment at the CERN lab outside Geneva announced that they had created such a plasma in 2000.

Storms on the sun catapult charged particles into space at tremendous speeds, says plasma physicist Ruth Bamford of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, England.

«This new way of looking at burning plasma physics allowed us to understand this previously impenetrable problem,» said Mr Qu, a theoretical physicist in ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering.

Shi developed the paper with assistance from co-authors Nat Fisch, director of the Program in Plasma Physics and professor and associate chair of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, and Hong Qin, a physicist at PPPL and executive dean of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped develop a new computer model of plasma stability in doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped develop a new computer model of plasma stability in doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokplasma stability in doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks.

«Novel plasma jet offshoot phenomenon explains blue atmospheric jets: Physicists identify mysterious right - angle side - jet occurring off the plasma arc in air at ambient pressure conditions.»

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are proposing a new way to process nuclear waste that uses a plasma - based centrPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are proposing a new way to process nuclear waste that uses a plasma - based centrplasma - based centrifuge.

«Controlling and suppressing the instabilities helps improve the fast - ion confinement and plasma performance,» said Kramer, a research physicist at the Laboratory.

Physicist Peter Steinberg explains the nature of the quark gluon plasma (QGP), a new state of matter produced at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

She also explained how physicists, including those using the PHENIX detector at RHIC, are exploring the geometry of the nuclei's impact zones to determine just how small quark - gluon plasma can be.

She then explained how collisions at RHIC enable physicists to probe deeper into the mysteries of quark - gluon plasma and the strong force.

New research indicates that understanding the combined heating shows how we could improve the production of fusion in ITER and other next - generation fusion facilities — a key finding of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates for the DOE, and other collaborators.

Lithium compounds improve plasma performance in fusion devices just as well as pure lithium does, a team of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has plasma performance in fusion devices just as well as pure lithium does, a team of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has found.

They include a scientific code that physicist Seung - Hoe Ku runs on two of the world's most powerful supercomputers to study turbulence at the volatile edge of fusion plasmas.

Tilo Döppner is an experimental physicist who has significantly contributed to the exploration of HED plasmas and matters at extreme conditions, with relevance to fundamental science, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and national security applications.

«So, the question was whether lithium will have the same effect on tungsten walls as it does with carbon walls,» said PPPL physicist Rajesh Maingi, lead author with Jiansheng Hu of the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) of a paper describing the results in the journal Nuclear Fusion.

The award honors Katherine Weimer, a pioneering research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University, and was established by DPP to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in plasma science research by a woman physicist in the early years of her cPlasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University, and was established by DPP to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in plasma science research by a woman physicist in the early years of her cplasma science research by a woman physicist in the early years of her career.

PPPL collaborations with physicists at Princeton University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook have now uncovered a method for speeding the growth of nanoparticles — a step toward understanding, predicting and controlling the synthesis of plasma to produce the prized material.

Deeply involved in the new 15 - week run are PPPL physicists Sam Lazerson and Novimir Pablant, who are spending two years at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany.

In a potentially major advance, physicists at PPPL and the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates for the DOE have discovered a way to reduce the loss of heat and particles from fusion plasmas.

Now, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) appear to have gained important new insights into what affects this turbulence, which can impact the leakage of heat from the fusion plasma within tokPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) appear to have gained important new insights into what affects this turbulence, which can impact the leakage of heat from the fusion plasma within tokplasma within tokamaks.

The cause, according to a theory advanced by PPPL physicist David Gates and colleagues at the Laboratory, lies in the tendency of bubble - like islands that form in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to shed heat and grow exponentially — a runaway growth that disrupts the crucial current that completes the magnetic field that holds the plasma together.

Schweickhard «Schwick» von Goeler, an award - winning physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for more than 35 years and the inventor of numerous X-ray diagnostics used in fusion experiments worldwide, died of leukemia on Dec. 6 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Imène Goumiri, a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to simulate a method for limiting instabilities that reduce the performance of fusion plasmas.

Speaking at a Ronald E. Hatcher Science on Saturday lecture on March 5 at the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Synakowski traced the discoveries that have led to this moment as well as his own personal journey as a plasma physPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Synakowski traced the discoveries that have led to this moment as well as his own personal journey as a plasma physplasma physicist.

Ronald C. Davidson, a pioneering plasma physicist for 50 years who directed the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) during a crucial period of its history and was a founding director of the Plasma Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), passed away on May 19 at his home in Cranbury, New Jersey, due to complications from pneuplasma physicist for 50 years who directed the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) during a crucial period of its history and was a founding director of the Plasma Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), passed away on May 19 at his home in Cranbury, New Jersey, due to complications from pneuPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) during a crucial period of its history and was a founding director of the Plasma Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), passed away on May 19 at his home in Cranbury, New Jersey, due to complications from pneuPlasma Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), passed away on May 19 at his home in Cranbury, New Jersey, due to complications from pneumonia.

«I love telling mind - blowing facts, like every time we do a shot at NIF, we are one of the hottest places in the solar system,» said experimental plasma physicist Tammy Ma (NIF implosions reach peak temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Centigrade — more than five times hotter than the core of the Sun).