Source: U. of Iowa. The instrument that made the discovery, the Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS), can trace its lineage back at least as far as 1958. That’s when Donald Gurnett, an electrical ...

Static fields of this order generated in a solid target can be used to accelerate protons and ions, whereas ‘travelling’ electric fields supported by the creation of electron plasma waves by a ...

This challenge may now have been met. Electron cyclotron waves not only provide a useful means of heating an ITER-scale fusion plasma, but are expected to play a key role in controlling ...

Our goal is to study particle beam acceleration in strong plasma waves that are generated by the passage of a dense particle beam or an intense laser pulse in a scheme known as plasma wakefield ...

The surfer leaves footprints on the wave when riding it. In a plasma, the energetic particle interacts with the MHD wave (the ELM) and can change its spatio-temporal pattern,” said lead author ...

These ELMs, which are magnetohydrodynamic waves (MHD), can cause significant energy and particle losses. They can damage the walls of fusion devices and hinder the efficiency of fusion reactions.

including the interaction of electrons with various plasma waves, transient structures in the foreshock, and Earth's bow shock. All of those mechanisms act together to accelerate electrons from ...