First implementation of AXUV-based analysis and macro-instability diagnostics on WHAMAbsolute extreme ultraviolet (AXUV) diode arrays are widely used in fusion experiments for time-resolved measurements of plasma radiation. We report the first implementation of an AXUV-based analysis…K. Shih, D. Endrizzi, D. A. Sutherland et al.·Dec 17, 2025SaveLearn
MHD Simulation Study on Impurity Assimilation Efficiency and Disruption Dynamics during Shattered Pellet InjectionShattered Pellet Injection (SPI) has become a critical technique for mitigating plasma disruptions in fusion devices, yet optimizing its efficiency demands a proper understanding of the interaction…Jinqiang Mao, Ping Zhu, Shiyong Zeng·Dec 17, 2025SaveLearn
Effects of Unequal Electron-Ion Plasma Beta on Pressure-Strain Interaction in Turbulent PlasmasA common occurrence in weakly collisional space plasmas is the unequal electron-ion temperatures. The pressure-strain interaction provides a mechanism-agnostic pathway for increasing plasma internal…M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Subash Adhikari·Dec 17, 2025SaveLearn
Permanent magnet optimization of stellarators with coupling from finite permeability and demagnetization effectsPermanent magnets provide an attractive path for shaping university-scale stellarator magnetic fields. Previous work has shown that greedy permanent magnet optimization (GPMO) can produce sparse,…Armin Ulrich, Mason Haberle, Alan A. Kaptanoglu·Dec 17, 2025SaveLearn
Influence of ion motion in a resonantly driven wakefield acceleratorSeveral different schemes for plasma wakefield acceleration using a train of drivers have been pursued, based on the resonant excitation of a plasma wave. Since these schemes rely on the plasma…Erwin Walter, John P. Farmer, Marlene Turner et al.·Dec 16, 2025SaveLearn
Charged particle energization by low-amplitude electrostatic waves at cyclotron harmonicsThe system made by a charged particle interacting with a single electrostatic wave which propagates perpendicularly to the magnetic field, at a frequency larger than the cyclotron one, has been…F. Sattin. L. Martinelli·Dec 15, 2025SaveLearn
Large Errors in Kinetic Temperature Measurements Using Particle Tracking VelocimetryWe report on random errors in kinetic temperature measurements due to finite spatial resolution in particle tracking velocimetry. Using simulated data, we isolate the error caused by finite spatial…Anton Kananovich, Parth Mehrotra, Surabhi Jaiswal·Dec 13, 2025SaveLearn
JAX-in-Cell: A Differentiable Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Physics ApplicationsJAX-in-Cell is a fully electromagnetic, multispecies, and relativistic 1D3V Particle-in-Cell (PIC) framework implemented entirely in JAX. It provides a modern, Python-based alternative to traditional…Longyu Ma, Rogerio Jorge, Hongke Lu et al.·Dec 13, 2025SaveLearn
Numerical investigation of kinetic instabilities in BGK equilibria under collisional effectsAn unstable one-dimensional Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) mode has been studied through high-precision numerical simulations. The initial turbulent, periodic equilibrium state is obtained by solving…Sofia Zanelli, Gabriele Celebre, Sergio Servidio et al.·Dec 12, 2025SaveLearn
Ti/Te Dependence of Core Turbulence and Transport in DIII-D QH-Mode PlasmasThis study investigates the effect of the ion-to-electron temperature ratio (Ti/Te) on microturbulence driven transport in Quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak. Utilizing the…Abhishek Tiwari, Kshitish Barada, Jaya Kumar Alageshan et al.·Dec 12, 2025SaveLearn
Optimized matching conditions for self-guided laser wakefield acceleratorsWe revisit the matching conditions for self-guided laser pulse propagation in plasma and refine their formulation to maximize the energy of electrons produced via laser wakefield acceleration.…P. Valenta, K. G. Miller, B. K. Russell et al.·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
A DC discharge plasma experiment for undergraduate laboratoriesPlasma physics offers a wide range of fundamental phenomena, making it an excellent subject for undergraduate laboratory instruction. In this work, we present the design, construction, and…You-Hsuan Chen, Ting-An Wang, Pisin Chen·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Damped Kinetic Alfv\'en Waves in Earth's Magnetosheath: Numerical Simulations and MMS ObservationsThe Earth's magnetosheath provides a high β (ratio of electron thermal pressure to magnetic pressure) plasma environment where kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs) strongly influence turbulence and…Mani K. Chettri, Hemam D. Singh, Vivek Shrivastav et al.·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
Density of hybrid plasma generated by microwave and laser radiation in the Ar:H2:CH4 mixtureThe atmospheric-pressure hybrid plasma in the Ar:H2:CH4 mixture, maintained by microwave radiation (2.47 GHz) and CO2 laser radiation (10.6 μm) in the chamber of an experimental plasma-chemical…S. V. Avtaeva, V. B. Dolomanova, P. A. Pinaev et al.·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
Surface Ion-Sound Wave in Magnetic Arch With High Pressure PlasmaThe work analytically substantiates the parameters of the surface wave found in numerical modelling of the collision of two oncoming supersonic plasma flows inside a magnetic arc in application to…Sergey A. Koryagin, Mikhail E. Viktorov, Artem V. Korzhimanov et al.·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
A Propagator-based Multi-level Monte Carlo Method for Kinetic Neutral Species in Edge PlasmasWe propose and investigate a new multi-level Monte Carlo scheme for numerical solutions of the kinetic Boltzmann equation for neutral species in edge plasmas. In particular, this method explicitly…Gregory J. Parker, Maxim V. Umansky, Benjamin D. Dudson·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
Generation of Polarization-Tunable Hybrid Cylindrical Vector gamma RaysCylindrical vector (CV) gamma rays can introduce spatially structured polarization as a new degree of freedom for fundamental research and practical applications. However, their generation and…Si-Man Liu, Yue Cao, Kun Xue et al.·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
On How Zonal Fields Suppress Reversed Shear Alfv\'en Eigenmode in Tokamak PlasmasEmploying both nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations and theoretical analyses, we have discovered the novel result that, with energetic particle dynamics kept linear, the nonlinear suppression and…Ruirui Ma, Pengfei Liu, Liu Chen et al.·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
Isotope Production in Fusion SystemsFusion systems producing isotopes via neutron-driven transmutation can achieve economic viability well before reaching energy breakeven. Incorporating carefully selected feedstock materials in a…J. F. Parisi, J. A. Schwartz, S. E. Wurzel et al.·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
Activation of Polylactic Acid and Polycarbonate Surfaces with Non-Thermal PlasmaNon-thermal plasma (NTP) surface activation has become a powerful and versatile strategy to engineer the interfacial properties of biomedical polymers whose intrinsic hydrophobicity limits their…Jairo Rondón, Ginger Urrutia, Angel Gonzalez-Lizardo·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
Quasi-monoenergetic Deuteron Acceleration via Boosted Coulomb Explosion by Reflected Picosecond Laser PulseGeneration of quasi-monoenergetic ions by intense laser is one of long-standing goals in laser-plasma physics. However, existing laser-driven ion acceleration schemes often produce broad energy…Tianyun Wei, Zechen Lan, Yasunobu Arikawa et al.·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
The skin effect in anomalous transport of charged particles in plasma with a microturbulent magnetic field. I. Isotropic plasmaThe influence of electromagnetic skin effect on anomalous charged particle transport in dense, non-relativistic, collisionless plasma with a small-scale turbulent magnetic field was investigated…N. A. Emelyanov, Vl. V. Kocharovsky·Dec 9, 2025SaveLearn
Bayesian Optimization of Laser-Wakefield Acceleration via Spectral Pulse ShapingIn this paper, we investigate the effect of spectral pulse shaping of the laser driver on the performance of channel-guided, laser-plasma accelerators. The study was carried out with the assistance…B. Z. Djordjević, C. Benedetti, A. D. McNaughton et al.·Dec 9, 2025SaveLearn
CIEMAT-QI4X: a reactor-relevant quasi-isodynamic stellarator configuration compatible with an island divertorA four-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator configuration is presented that exhibits small neoclassical and electrostatic turbulent transport, good fast-ion confinement over a wide range of…E. Sánchez, J. L. Velasco, I. Calvo et al.·Dec 9, 2025SaveLearn
Plasma waveguides for high-intensity laser pulsesFundamental to many applications of laser pulses in science and technology is an extended interaction length with matter that significantly exceeds the distance over which the pulse would normally…J. E. Shrock, B. Miao, E. Rockafellow et al.·Dec 9, 2025SaveLearn