On The Nonthermal Power Laws In Magnetized Turbulent PlasmasBuilding on recent progress in the understanding of particle transport in magnetized plasmas, we derive a scaling law for the formation of nonthermal spectral tails in mildly and strongly magnetized…Rostom Mbarek, Daniel Grošelj, Alexander Philippov·May 27, 2026SaveLearn
Nitrogen-induced ELM suppression and confinement improvement in the EAST tokamak with a full metal wallThis paper reports the achievement of an ELM-free H-mode regime with confinement improvement enabled by nitrogen (N2) seeding on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) with a full…Jingyan Hu, Peng Shi, Chu Zhou et al.·May 27, 2026SaveLearn
Inverse energy transfer in decaying MHD turbulence: A shell-to-shell analysisIn decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, energy can be transported from small to large scales, known as inverse transfer. We explore the mechanism behind this phenomenon using shell-to-shell…Lenard Kasselmann, Philipp Grete, Pranjal Trivedi et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Compact Experimental Negative TriAngUlarity Reactor (CENTAUR): A design study for a compact, affordable breakeven tokamakThis work presents the compact experimental negative triangularity reactor (CENTAUR), a low overnight cost, high-field tokamak, breakeven reactor design, achieving a predicted total fusion power of…The CENTAUR Collaboration, Samuel W. Freiberger, Evan Bursch et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
ITER ECE front-end design, alignment and in-situ calibrationThe electron cyclotron emission (ECE) diagnostics suite at ITER utilizes a front-end quasi-optical (QO) system whose design is fundamentally constrained by a field-stop concept. The field-stop…Saeid Houshmandyar, W. L. Rowan, J. P. Ziegel et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
On Phase Transition of ITG Turbulence in the Dimits shiftThe transition between turbulent and zonal flow dominated states is investigated by varying the ion temperature gradient in nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations. Independent gradient scans reveal three…L. N. Marquant, P. Morel, Ö. D. Gürcan·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Hydrodynamic Assessment of Direct Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion with Mixed 2ω-3ω LasersAblation with mixed 2ω--3ω lasers is investigated as a possible drive strategy for balancing drive efficiency and ablative stabilization in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion.…Guannan Zheng, Tao Tao, Qing Jia et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Enhancement of Ponderomotive End Plugs with Low-Mass DopantsDuring conventional confinement of a linear plasma using ponderomotive end plugs, a repulsive potential is created at the axial ends by employing a perpendicularly-polarized wave with a wave…Ian E. Ochs, Elijah J. Kolmes, Nathaniel J. Fisch·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Pulse magnet of 10 T for power laser experiments with x-ray free-electron laser diagnosticsThe importance of investigating magnetized plasmas/solids in extreme conditions has grown over the last decades, particularly in the field of high energy density physics (HEDP), such as laboratory…Akihiko Ikeda, Kosuke Noda, Yutaro Yamanaka et al.·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
Optimized design of a Penning ion source for sealed neutron tubeSealed neutron tubes have a wide range of applications, and the ion source is their core component. Penning ion sources commonly suffer from issues such as uneven magnetic field distribution and a…Shiwei Jing, Jia Song, Shengduo Liu et al.·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
Bayesian Estimation of Spectroscopic Parameters: Application to the Atomic Nitrogen Bound-Bound SystemAtomic nitrogen bound-bound radiation is a major component of the radiative heat flux on hypersonic vehicles entering nitrogen-dominated atmospheres, yet its prediction is limited by substantial…Tae Woong Jeong, Sung Min Jo·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
3D Dynamics of a Premagnetized Gas-puff Z-pinch implosionWe present the first simultaneous, spatially-resolved measurement of all three velocity components (radial, azimuthal, and axial) in an annular magnetized argon gas-puff Z-pinch, performed using…P. Phillips, M. Escalona, P. Retamales et al.·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
Effects of laser-plasma parameters on sub-nanosecond evolution of cross-beam energy transferCross-beam energy transfer (CBET) between two lasers is investigated through theoretical analysis and two-dimensional hybrid simulations over sub-nanosecond to nanosecond timescales and millimeter…Yilin Xu, Yao Zhao, Hongwei Yin et al.·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
Electromagnetic Signatures of Kinetic Alfvén Wave Turbulence at Ion Inertial Scales in Earth's High-β MagnetosheathWe present a multi-diagnostic electromagnetic study of kinetic Alfvén wave (KAW) activity in Earth's magnetosheath using burst-mode measurements from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission.…Mani K Chettri, Rupak Mukherjee, Hemam D. Singh·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
Impact of non-equilibrium radiation in a high-enthalpy inductively coupled plasma wind tunnelHigh-power inductively coupled plasma (ICP) wind tunnels are widely used to reproduce high-enthalpy environments relevant to atmospheric entry and hypersonic testing. Despite their importance,…Sanjeev Kumar, Sung Min Jo, Alessandro Munafò et al.·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
Exact solution of the Gaunt-modified Landau-Lifshitz equation in a plane waveWe analyze electron dynamics in a plane electromagnetic wave using the Landau-Lifshitz equation with a quantum radiation reaction correction modeled by a Gaunt factor. In this geometry, the quantum…S. A. Shekhanov, C. P. Ridgers·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
NeSST: A Python Tool for Neutron Spectra and Synthetic Diagnostics in Inertial Confinement FusionWe present the Neutron Scattered Spectra Tool (NeSST), an open-source Python package for rapidly constructing primary and singly scattered neutron spectra from inertial confinement fusion (ICF)…Aidan Crilly·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
A quasi-neutral electromagnetic hybrid model with drift-kinetic electrons and fully kinetic ionsIn this work, we propose a hybrid model that combines drift-kinetic electrons with fully kinetic ions under the quasi-neutrality assumption, discretized using a geometric particle-in-cell framework…Guo Meng, Nishant Narechania, Eric Sonnendrücker·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
The two-stream instability generation around Moon: Effect of Interplanetary Magnetic Field during Solar Wind - Lunar Plasma InteractionThe relative motion of two interpenetrating streams of charged particles usually leads to the generation of two stream instability (TSI) and eventually result in the onset of non-linear plasma…Vipin K. Yadav, Abhinav Singh, Rajneesh Kumar·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
NIMROD-to-IMAS workflow for extended-magnetohydrodynamic data with reusable datasets and implications for IMAS schema developmentExtended magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of tokamak plasmas regularly produce outputs in multi-dimensional, multiple-field formats; these code-specific formats make it difficult to do…Alexei Y. Pankin, Fatima Ebrahimi, Qian Gong et al.·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Compressible Turbulence as a Source of Particle Beams and Ion Bernstein Waves in Collisionless PlasmasUnraveling the origin of proton beams and ion Bernstein waves is important to understanding kinetic dissipation in the solar wind. Here we focus on their generation mechanisms, rather than their…Chuanpeng Hou, Huirong Yan, Siqi Zhao·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Asymptotic-preserving semi-implicit finite volume scheme for Extended MagnetohydrodynamicsA Finite Volume (FV) scheme is developed for solving the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) equations, yielding accurate results in the ideal, resistive, and Hall MHD limits. This is accomplished by…Yi Han Toh, Joshua Dolence, Karthik Duraisamy·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Stochastic simulation of partial discharge inceptionWe present a Monte Carlo method for simulating the inception of electric discharges in gases. The input consists of an unstructured grid containing the electrostatic field. The output of the model is…Jannis Teunissen, Yuting Gao·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Pre L-H Transition Radial Electric Field and Transport Validations of Edge and Scrape-off Layer Gyrokinetic Simulations at ASDEX UpgradeThis work presents a stepwise validation of the evolution of the radial electric field (Er) and heat transport during the pre L-H transition phase using full-f gyrokinetic simulations of the edge and…B. J. Frei, C. Angioni, G. Lo-Cascio et al.·May 21, 2026SaveLearn
First-Principles Explanation of the Drift Configuration Dependence of the Radial Electric Field and High-Confinement Access in TokamaksThe origin of the difference in the high-confinement (H-mode) power threshold between favorable and unfavorable drift configurations in tokamaks, experimentally linked to a deeper radial electric…B. J. Frei, R. Bilato, O. Grover et al.·May 21, 2026SaveLearn