Three-dimensional tearing instability of flux-tube-like magnetic fieldsMagnetic reconnection, a fundamental plasma process, is pivotal in understanding energy conversion and particle acceleration in astrophysical systems. While extensively studied in two-dimensional…Vinay Kumar, Pallavi Bhat·Dec 13, 2024SaveLearn
Accessing thermonuclear detonation with the shock front induced by the alpha particle depositionThe detonation behaviors during thermonuclear burning indicate a state of robust hot spot burning and are widely present in astronomical phenomena, such as supernovae. In this work, we propose an…Bohan Shen, Junjue Liao, Renjie He et al.·Dec 13, 2024SaveLearn
Lower-Hybrid Drift Instabilities in a magnetic nozzleMagnetic nozzles are a key component of electrodeless plasma thrusters, acting as their main acceleration stage. Non-stationary phenomena common to the entire range of E × B devices, such as…Matteo Ripoli, Eduardo Ahedo, Mario Merino·Dec 13, 2024SaveLearn
Global electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations of internal transport barriers in reversed-shear tokamaksThis work aims at improving our understanding of the conditions enabling the development of an Internal transport barriers (ITB), using a more comprehensive physical model, including low-β…Giovanni Di Giannatale, Arnas Volčokas, Justin Ball et al.·Dec 13, 2024SaveLearn
Gyrokinetic simulations of the effects of magnetic islands on microturbulence in KSTARGyrokinetic simulations are utilized to study effects of magnetic islands on the ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence in the KSTAR tokamak with resonant magnetic perturbations. Simulations show…Xishuo Wei, Javier H Nicolau, Gyungjin Choi et al.·Dec 12, 2024SaveLearn
Anomalous pinch in electron-electron beam collisionWe show that an anomalous pinch can occur in ultrarelativistic electron-electron or positron-positron beam interaction, caused by the combined interplay of collective beam motion (disruption) and…W. Zhang, T. Grismayer, L. O. Silva·Dec 12, 2024SaveLearn
Targeting Cholangiocarcinoma Cells By Cold Piezoelectric Plasmas: In Vitro Efficacy And Cellular MechanismsCold piezoelectric plasma (CPP) is a novel approach in cancer therapy, enabling the development of portable treatment devices capable of triggering cancer cell death. While its effectiveness remains…Manon Soulier, Bouchra Lekbaby, Imane Houari et al.·Dec 12, 2024SaveLearn
Advancements in Maize Cultivation: Synergistic Effects of Dry Atmospheric Plasma Combined with Plasma-Activated WaterIn this study, we investigate the effects of pre-germinative and post-germinative plasma treatments, applied separately or in combination, to improve maize germination and early seedling development.…Jean-Paul Kamseu-Mogo, Manon Soulier, Georges Kamgang-Youbi et al.·Dec 12, 2024SaveLearn
Zonal fields as catalysts and inhibitors of turbulence-driven magnetic islandsA novel coalescence process is shown to take place in plasma fluid simulations, leading to the formation of large-scale magnetic islands that become dynamically important in the system. The…Daniele Villa, Nicolas Dubuit, Olivier Agullo et al.·Dec 12, 2024SaveLearn
Characterization and performance of the Apollon main short-pulse laser beam following its commissioning at 2 PW levelWe present the results of the second commissioning phase of the short-focal-length area of the Apollon laser facility (located in Saclay, France), which was performed with the main laser beam (F1),…Weipeng Yao, Ronan Lelièvre, Itamar Cohen et al.·Dec 12, 2024SaveLearn
Implementation of Light Diagnostics for Wakefields at AWAKEWe describe the implementation of light diagnostics for studying the self-modulation instability of a long relativistic proton bunch in a 10m-long plasma. The wakefields driven by the proton bunch…Jan Mezger, Michele Bergamaschi, Lucas Ranc et al.·Dec 12, 2024SaveLearn
Integrated modeling of RF-Induced Tungsten Erosion at ICRH Antenna Structures in the WEST TokamakThis paper introduces STRIPE (Simulated Transport of RF Impurity Production and Emission), an advanced modeling framework designed to analyze material erosion and the global transport of eroded…A. Kumar, W. Tierens, T. Younkin et al.·Dec 11, 2024SaveLearn
Ray-tracing laser-deposition model for plasma particle-in-cell simulationWe develop a ray-tracing model for laser-plasma interaction suitable for coupling in-line into kinetic particle-in-cell plasma simulation. The model is based on inverse Bremsstrahlung absorption and…Abdullah Hyder, Will Fox, Kirill Lezhnin et al.·Dec 11, 2024SaveLearn
Gromov ground state in phase space engineering for fusion energyPhase space engineering by RF waves plays important roles in both thermal D-T fusion and non-thermal advanced fuel fusion. But not all phase space manipulation is allowed, certain fundamental limits…Hong Qin, Elijah J. Kolmes, Michael Updike et al.·Dec 11, 2024SaveLearn
Particle-in-cell methods in edge plasma physics: the PICLS codeOver the past decades, multiple gyrokinetic codes have shown to be able to simulate turbulence and associated transport in the core of Tokamak devices. However, their application to the edge and…Alberto Bottino, Annika Stier, Mathias Boesl et al.·Dec 11, 2024SaveLearn
Discharge properties of a magnetized cylindrical capacitively coupled plasma dischargeThis work investigates the discharge properties of a cylindrical magnetized capacitive coupled plasma discharge produced between a pair of coaxial cylinders. For the purpose of diagnosing plasma…Akanshu Khandelwal, Dhyey Raval, Narayan Sharma et al.·Dec 11, 2024SaveLearn
A Unified Hamiltonian Formulation for Energy Loss, Entropy Evolution, and Fusion Performance in PlasmasWe develop a comprehensive Hamiltonian formulation for plasma dynamics that unifies collisionless gyrokinetic and collisional processes. Our framework rigorously describes the evolution of free…Joseph Samper Finberg·Dec 10, 2024SaveLearn
Dark energy as a battery for magnetic field generation in plasmasIt is shown that in the spacetime dominated by a cosmological constant, in the far region of a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole, a seed magnetic field can be generated in an ambient plasma (in a…Nicolás Villarroel-Sepúlveda, Pablo S. Moya, Felipe A. Asenjo et al.·Dec 10, 2024SaveLearn
Effects of Artificial Collisions, Filtering, and Nonlocal Closure Approaches on Hermite-based Vlasov-Poisson SimulationsKinetic simulations of collisionless plasmas are computationally challenging due to phase space mixing and filamentation, resulting in fine-scale velocity structures. This study compares three…Opal Issan, Oleksandr Chapurin, Oleksandr Koshkarov et al.·Dec 10, 2024SaveLearn
Torsional Alfven Oscillation in the Regime of Firehose Instability as a Mechanism of Plasma Stratification in a Laboratory Experiment on Modeling a Coronal ArchThe compact laboratory stand ``Solar Wind'' (Inst. Appl. Phys. of Russ. Acad. Sci.) forms an arch structure of the coronal loop type, in which the plasma pressure varies from zero to values…Sergey A. Koryagin, Mikhail E. Viktorov·Dec 10, 2024SaveLearn
Invasiveness of pico- and nanosecond E-FISH on plasma bullets in nitrogenThe electric field is the driving force behind every plasma. Electric field induced second harmonic generation (E-FISH) is a diagnostic able to obtain the electric field with high temporal and…A. A. A. Limburg, T. E. W. Keur, R. F. E. Pleijers et al.·Dec 10, 2024SaveLearn
Alfvén pulse at chromospheric footpoints of magnetic loops and generation of the super-Dreicer electric fieldA self-similar solution of the linearised magnetohydrodynamic equations describing the propagation of the Alfvén pulse in an axially symmetric magnetic tube of variable diameter is obtained. The…N. A. Emelyanov, Vl. V. Kocharovsky·Dec 9, 2024SaveLearn
The electron cyclotron maser instability in laser-ionized plasmasWe show that circularly polarized lasers create plasmas with long-lasting ring-shaped weakly relativistic momentum distributions which, in the presence of an ambient magnetic field, are prone to the…Thales Silva, Pablo J. Bilbao, Luis O. Silva·Dec 9, 2024SaveLearn
Numerical modeling of two magnetized counter-propagating weakly collisional plasma flows in arch configurationNumerical modeling of the interaction process of two counter-streaming supersonic plasma flows with an arched magnetic field configuration in the regime of a magnetic Mach number of the order of…Artem V. Korzhimanov, Sergey A. Koryagin, Andrey D. Sladkov et al.·Dec 8, 2024SaveLearn
Energy Spectrum of Lost Alpha Particles in Magnetic Mirror ConfinementIn a magnetic mirror fusion reactor, capturing the energy of fusion-produced alpha particles is essential to sustaining the reaction. However, since alpha particles are born at energies much higher…Alejandro Mesa Dame, Ian E. Ochs, Nathaniel J. Fisch·Dec 8, 2024SaveLearn