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Physics of Plasmas, published by AIP Publishing in cooperation with the APS Division of Plasma Physics, is committed to the publication of original research in all areas of experimental, computational, and theoretical plasma physics. Physics of Plasmas publishes in-depth review manuscripts, forward-looking perspectives, Tutorials on active topics, and Special Topics highlighting new developments. Every year a special issue publishes the invited and review papers from the most recent meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics.
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April 11 2025
Hui Chen, D. T. Woods et al.
This paper, extended from a Letter [Chen et al., Phys. Rev. E 110 , L013201 (2024)] published in Phys. Rev. E in 2024, presents detailed results from a set of experiments studying the x-ray drive ...
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April 02 2025
Christopher J. McDevitt, Jonathan S. Arnaud et al.
An adjoint formulation leveraging a physics-informed neural network (PINN) is employed to advance the density moment of a runaway electron (RE) distribution forward in time. A distinguishing feature ...
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April 02 2025
Christopher J. McDevitt, Jonathan S. Arnaud et al.
This work extends the adjoint-deep learning framework for runaway electron (RE) evolution, developed by McDevitt et al. [Phys. Plasmas 32 , 042503 (2025)], to account for large-angle collisions. By ...
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April 08 2025
Xianfei Chen, Houxiu Xiao et al.
We present the development of a 1.2 THz third-harmonic continuous-wave gyrotron, designed to deliver tens of watts of output for dynamic nuclear polarization nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. ...
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April 04 2025
Kunlong Wu, Zhiyuan Chen et al.
The magnetic nozzle is a magnetic structure composed of a convergent-divergent (or simply divergent) coaxial magnetic field. Similar to the de Laval nozzle used in traditional chemical propulsion, ...
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April 02 2025
J. M. Losada, O. E. Garcia
This study investigates a method for estimating two-dimensional velocities from coarse-grained imaging data tailored for plasma diagnostics. The method utilizes measurements from three non-collinear ...
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April 17 2025
Youhui He, Guowu Ma et al.
In this paper, a novel G-band high-power sheet electron beam traveling wave tube (TWT) is designed by integrating piece-wise sine waveguide and sheet electron beam. First, a sheet-beam ...
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April 17 2025
Satyam Prakash, Ashok S. Vudayagiri
When ultracold plasma is generated using the photoionization of laser-cooled atoms, some atoms reach only up to Rydberg states. These, in turn, interact with the free electrons of the plasma and get ...
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April 16 2025
V. A. Izzo, B. Stein-Lubrano et al.
Two primary systems planned for disruption mitigation in the SPARC tokamak, massive gas injection (MGI), and the runaway electron mitigation coil (REMC), are modeled with the 3D MHD code NIMROD. MGI ...
Pitfalls in the interpretations of Langmuir probe currents
Hans L. Pécseli
A physics-constrained deep learning treatment of runaway electron dynamics
Christopher J. McDevitt, Jonathan S. Arnaud, et al.
Why is there no generally accepted theory of the plasma-sheath transition and the Bohm criterion?
M. S. Benilov, N. A. Almeida