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Design of first experiment to achieve fusion target gain > 1
Compton rocket effect due to the action of radiation reaction force in degenerate plasma
Early internal detection of magnetic tearing and implications for tokamak magnetohydrodynamic stability
Calculation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode mode structure in general axisymmetric toroidal geometry
Tunable noninteracting free-energy density functionals for high-energy-density physics applications
Axial confinement of wire array Z-pinch precursor plasmas by a pulsed magnetic mirror field
Hysteresis between gas breakdown and plasma discharge
Interacting dust grains in complex plasmas: Ion wake formation and the electric potential
Issues
EDITORIALS
REVIEW ARTICLE
How numerical simulations helped to achieve breakeven on the NIF
M. M. Marinak; G. B. Zimmerman; T. Chapman; G. D. Kerbel; M. V. Patel; J. M. Koning; S. M. Sepke; B. Chang; C. R. Schroeder; J. A. Harte; D. S. Bailey; L. A. Taylor; S. H. Langer; M. A. Belyaev; D. S. Clark; J. Gaffney; B. A. Hammel; D. E. Hinkel; A. L. Kritcher; J. L. Milovich; H. F. Robey; C. R. Weber
Phys. Plasmas 31, 070501 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0204710
Design of first experiment to achieve fusion target gain > 1
A. L. Kritcher; D. J. Schlossberg; C. R. Weber; C. V. Young; O. A. Hurricane; E. Dewald; A. B. Zylstra; A. Allen; B. Bachmann; K. L. Baker; S. Baxamusa; T. Braun; G. Brunton; D. A. Callahan; D. T. Casey; T. Chapman; C. Choate; D. S. Clark; J.-M. G. Di Nicola; L. Divol; M. J. Edwards; S. Haan; T. Fehrenbach; S. Hayes; D. E. Hinkel; M. Hohenberger; K. Humbird; N. Izumi; O. Jones; E. Kur; B. Kustowski; C. Kong; O. L. Landen; D. Larson; X. Lepro-Chavez; J. D. Lindl; B. J. MacGowan; S. Maclaren; M. Marinak; P. Michel; M. Millot; A. Nikroo; R. Nora; A. Pak; P. K. Patel; J. E. Ralph; M. Ratledge; M. S. Rubery; N. W. Ruof; S. M. Sepke; M. Stadermann; D. J. Strozzi; T. I. Suratwala; R. Tommasini; R. Town; B. Woodworth; B. Van Wonterghem; C. Wild
Phys. Plasmas 31, 070502 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0210904
LETTERS
Compton rocket effect due to the action of radiation reaction force in degenerate plasma
Phys. Plasmas 31, 070702 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0208390
Early internal detection of magnetic tearing and implications for tokamak magnetohydrodynamic stability
M. D. Pandya; B. E. Chapman; K. J. McCollam; R. A. Myers; J. S. Sarff; B. S. Victor; D. P. Brennan; D. L. Brower; J. Chen; W. X. Ding; C. T. Holcomb; N. C. Logan; E. J. Strait
Phys. Plasmas 31, 070706 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0205964
Femtosecond dynamics on the nanoscale of intense laser-induced grating plasma
Phys. Plasmas 31, 070707 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0209106
ARTICLES
Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities
Thermal Weibel instability induced magnetic fields co-exist with linear wakes in laser-ionized plasmas
In Special Collection:
2024 Early Career Collection
Yipeng Wu; Audrey Farrell; Mitchell Sinclair; Chaojie Zhang; Irina Petrushina; Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi; Marcus Babzien; William Li; Igor Pogorelsky; Mikhail Polyanskiy; Mikhail Fedurin; Karl Kusche; Mark Palmer; Kenneth A. Marsh; Chan Joshi
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072108 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0207697
Collisionless heating in Vlasov plasma and turbulence-driven filamentation aspects
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072109 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0205253
Photon emission and radiation reaction effects in surface plasma waves in ultra-high intensities
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072111 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0209316
A dispersion function for the regularized kappa distribution function
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072112 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0212434
Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport
Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement
Drag exerted by drift-acoustic radiation on a magnetic island
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 2023 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072501 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0200902
Isochronous bifurcations of magnetic islands in tokamaks
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072502 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0212655
Plasma pressure profiles in a sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch
C. Goyon; S. C. Bott-Suzuki; A. E. Youmans; J. T. Banasek; L. A. Morton; B. Levitt; J. R. Barhydt; K. D. Morgan; C. Liekhus-Schmaltz; W. C. Young; D. P. Higginson; A. C. Hossack; E. T. Meier; B. A. Nelson; M. Quinley; A. Taylor; P. Tsai; N. van Rossum; A. Shah; A. D. Stepanov; D. A. Sutherland; T. R. Weber; U. Shumlak; H. S. McLean
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072503 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0209351
X-point radiator and power exhaust control in configurations with multiple X-points in TCV
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
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2024 Early Career Collection
S. Gorno; O. Février; C. Theiler; T. Ewalds; F. Felici; T. Lunt; A. Merle; F. Bagnato; C. Colandrea; J. Degrave; R. Ducker; G. Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud; B. P. Duval; K. Lee; L. Martinelli; D. S. Oliveira; A. Perek; H. Reimerdes; L. Simons; G. Sun; B. Tracey; M. Wischmeier; C. Wüthrich; TCV Team; EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072504 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0201401
Calculation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode mode structure in general axisymmetric toroidal geometry
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072505 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0213242
A gyrokinetic simulation model for 2D equilibrium potential in the scrape-off layer of a field-reversed configuration
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 2023 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072507 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0189761
Inertially Confined Plasmas, Dense Plasmas, Equations of State
First observations from the Kr multi-monochromatic x-ray imager for time and spatially resolved diagnosis of hot implosion cores
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
E. Gallardo-Diaz; R. C. Mancini; J. Clapp; P. Adrian; T. E. Evans; J. Frenje; R. Florido; M. K. G. Kruse; T. Nagayama
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072701 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0207826
Tunable noninteracting free-energy density functionals for high-energy-density physics applications
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072702 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0191091
Simulations of nozzle gas flow and gas-puff Z-pinch implosions on the Weizmann Z-pinch
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072703 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0202237
Axial confinement of wire array Z-pinch precursor plasmas by a pulsed magnetic mirror field
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072704 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0207561
A Gaussian process based surrogate approach for the optimization of cylindrical targets
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072705 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0204411
Analytical derivation and numerical simulation of the ablation rate of a spherical target
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072706 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0196305
Design and analysis of dudded fuel experiments at the National Ignition Facility
A. R. Christopherson; D. Schlossberg; S. MacLaren; C. Weber; A. Zylstra; O. A. Hurricane; A. Kritcher; D. Hinkel; B. K. Spears; A. Pak; R. Nora; B. Kustowski; K. Baker; J. Milovich; D. Munro; D. Clark; S. Sepke; C. Shroeder; S. Bhandarkar; J. Sater; D. T. Casey; A. Moore; E. Hartouni; O. L. Landen
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072709 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0212668
Non-equilibrium and self-organization evolution in hot-spot ignition processes
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072710 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0211691
Development of a high performance MagLIF target platform using high aspect ratio coated liners and low-mix laser preheat
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
A. J. Harvey-Thompson; M. E. Geissel; W. E. Lewis; D. A. Yager-Elorriaga; M. R. Weis; C. A. Jennings; J. R. Fein; D. J. Ampleford; M. R. Gomez; E. C. Harding; S. B. Hansen; D. E. Bliss; G. A. Chandler; G. S. Dunham; E. S. Field; B. R. Galloway; M. Glinsky; K. D. Hahn; P. F. Knapp; D. C. Lamppa; L. M. Lucero; M. A. Mangan; R. R. Paguio; L. Perea; K. J. Peterson; J. L. Porter; P. K. Rambo; G. K. Robertson; G. A. Rochau; D. E. Ruiz; C. L. Ruiz; M. A. Schaeuble; J. Schwarz; J. E. Shores; D. B. Sinars; S. A. Slutz; G. E. Smith; I. C. Smith; C. S. Speas; K. Whittemore; E. P. Yu
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072711 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0201770
Electrical conductivity of copper in the low temperature region of warm dense matter
Phys. Plasmas 31, 072712 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0215384
Plasma-Based Accelerators, Beams, Radiation Generation
Design of a compact coaxial distributed intense relativistic electron beam focusing system
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073101 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0209954
Optimized laser production of thermonuclear neutrons from plasma of submicron-sized clusters
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073103 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0206751
Effect of off-axis electron beam on the performance of a gyroklystron amplifier
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073104 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0219399
Toward machine-learning-assisted PW-class high-repetition-rate experiments with solid targets
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 4th International Conference on Data-Driven Plasma Science
D. A. Mariscal; B. Z. Djordjevic; R. Anirudh; J. Jayaraman-Thiagarajan; E. S. Grace; R. A. Simpson; K. K. Swanson; T. C. Galvin; D. Mittelberger; J. E. Heebner; R. Muir; E. Folsom; M. P. Hill; S. Feister; E. Ito; K. Valdez-Sereno; J. J. Rocca; J. Park; S. Wang; R. Hollinger; R. Nedbailo; B. Sullivan; G. Zeraouli; A. Shukla; P. Turaga; A. Sarkar; B. Van Essen; S. Liu; B. Spears; P.-T. Bremer; T. Ma
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073105 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0190553
Source size of x rays from self-modulated laser wakefield accelerators
I. M. Pagano; N. Lemos; P. M. King; D. Rusby; M. Sinclair; A. Aghedo; S. Khan; M. C. Downer; C. Joshi; F. Albert
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073110 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0191435
Radiation: Emission, Absorption, Transport
X-ray tomography system concept for stellarator TJ-II
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073301 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0205657
Investigation on the intensity contrast of line emission from laser–matter interactions
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073302 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0202193
Low-Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Applications, Plasma Sources, Sheaths
Integrative implementation of scattering reduction and radiation enhancement for an electrically small antenna by subwavelength plasmas
Peiqi Chen; Qiuyue Nie; Zhonglin Zhang; Shu Lin; Zhuotao Meng; Changshi Yan; Xingyu Zhao; Xin Ai; Guoqiang Wei; Zhixin Shi
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073503 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0211317
Ion induced nucleation of charged droplets enhanced by external electric field
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073505 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0196881
Jump and hysteresis of plasma density in the spatial afterglow of inductively coupled plasmas
In Special Collection:
Plasma Sources for Advanced Semiconductor Applications
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073506 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0213329
Characterization of water propellant in an electron cyclotron resonance thruster
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073507 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0211716
New insights in the stratification of an argon positive column plasma. I. Theory
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073508 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0214367
Hysteresis between gas breakdown and plasma discharge
In Special Collection:
Plasma Sources for Advanced Semiconductor Applications
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2024 Early Career Collection
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073510 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0198151
Plasma heating characterization of the large area inductively coupled plasma etchers with the plasma information for managing the mass production
In Special Collection:
Plasma Sources for Advanced Semiconductor Applications
Seolhye Park; Yoona Park; Jaegu Seong; Haneul Lee; Namjae Bae; Ki-baek Roh; Rabul Seo; Bongsub Song; Gon-Ho Kim
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073512 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0202363
Time-dependent electron Boltzmann equation for hypersonic plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073514 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0218016
Dusty Plasmas
Interacting dust grains in complex plasmas: Ion wake formation and the electric potential
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073701 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0203902
Numerical Methods, Verification and Validation in Plasma Physics
Realizing laser-driven deuteron acceleration with low energy spread via in situ D2O-deposited target
Tianyun Wei; Yasunobu Arikawa; Seyed Reza Mirfayzi; Yanjun Gu; Takehito Hayakawa; Alessio Morace; Kunioki Mima; Zechen Lan; Ryuya Yamada; Kohei Yamanoi; Koichi Honda; Sergei V. Bulanov; Akifumi Yogo
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073903 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0213175
Development of a gyrokinetic-MHD energetic particle simulation code. I. MHD version
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073904 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0203252
Development of a gyrokinetic-MHD energetic particle simulation code. II. Linear simulations of Alfvén eigenmodes driven by energetic particles
In Special Collection:
2024 Early Career Collection
Phys. Plasmas 31, 073905 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0206762
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Summary report from the mini-conference on Digital Twins for Fusion Research
D. P. Schissel, R. M. Nazikian, et al.
A future of inertial confinement fusion without laser-plasma instabilities
D. H. Froula, C. Dorrer, et al.
Simulation of an inductively coupled plasma with a two-dimensional Darwin particle-in-cell code
Dmytro Sydorenko, Igor D. Kaganovich, et al.