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A review of plasma acceleration and detachment mechanisms in
propulsive magnetic nozzles
Single-point in situ measurements of thermal ions during the KiNET-X ionospheric sounding rocket mission
A physics-constrained deep learning treatment of runaway electron dynamics
An efficient surrogate model of secondary electron formation and evolution
Time delay velocity estimation from a superposition of localized and uncorrelated pulses
Thermal energy mitigation and toroidal peaking effects in JET disruptions
Key advancements toward eliminating the “drive deficit” in ICF hohlraum simulations
A 1.2 THz third-harmonic gyrotron with novel azimuthally segmented electron beam
Study on a bandwidth enhancing mechanism for high-power high-efficiency klystrons
Issues
EDITORIALS
REVIEW ARTICLE
A review of plasma acceleration and detachment mechanisms in
propulsive magnetic nozzles
In Special Collection:
Reviews and Tutorials in Plasma-Based Accelerators, Beams, and Radiation Generation
Phys. Plasmas 32, 040501 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0255878
LETTERS
Enhanced terahertz radiation from nanorod array targets irradiated by ultraintense laser pulses
Hao Liu; Jieya Ruan; Zhangsen Chen; Huaihang Song; Dan Wang; Tianze Wang; Shangqing Li; Sudipta Mondal; Xinyao Zhang; Shuhui Sun; Guoqian Liao; Tsuneyuki Ozaki; Yutong Li
Phys. Plasmas 32, 040701 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0255950
ARTICLES
Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities
A reduced nonlinear model of synergy between wave-particle and wave-wave interactions
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042105 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253814
Single-point in situ measurements of thermal ions during the KiNET-X ionospheric sounding rocket mission

M. L. Moses; K. Lynch; P. A. Delamere; M. Lessard; R. Pfaff; M. Larsen; D. L. Hampton; M. Conde; N. P. Barnes; P. A. Damiano; A. Otto; C. Moser-Gauthier
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042109 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253729
Dispersion properties of neutron star magnetospheric plasmas with relativistic kappa distribution
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042111 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0242852
Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport
Mixed species ionospheric aerodynamics: Effects of charge and mass density variations
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042303 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0244922
Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement
A Grad-Shafranov model for compact quasisymmetric stellarators
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 2024 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042501 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0258308
A physics-constrained deep learning treatment of runaway electron dynamics
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 2024 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042503 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253370
An efficient surrogate model of secondary electron formation and evolution
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 2024 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042504 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253374
Time delay velocity estimation from a superposition of localized and uncorrelated pulses
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042505 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0261066
Experimental demonstration of transient CHI start-up using a floating biased electrode configuration
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
K. Kuroda; R. Raman; T. Onchi; Y. Otsuka; T. Motoki; M. Hasegawa; K. Hanada; M. Ono; J. A. Rogers; R. Ikezoe; H. Idei; T. Ido; M. Nagata; T. Kanki; O. Mitarai; N. Nishino; K. Kono; S. Kawasaki; T. Nagata; A. Higashijima; S. Shimabukuro; I. Niiya; I. Sekiya; K. Nakamura; A. Ejiri; S. Murakami
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042506 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0259035
Disruption mitigation modeling for the SPARC tokamak
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042507 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0254080
Using deep learning for the detection of UFOs within the JET tokamak
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 5th International Conference on Data-Driven Plasma Science
Matthew Field; Steve Etches; Daniel Collishaw-Schepman; Jacob Connors; Pedro Carvalho; Scott Silburn; EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team; JET Contributors
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042508 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0261120
Thermal energy mitigation and toroidal peaking effects in JET disruptions
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
B. Stein-Lubrano; R. Sweeney; J. Lovell; L. Baylor; D. Bonfiglio; P. Carvalho; R. Granetz; S. Jachmich; E. Joffrin; M. Lehnen; C. Maggi; E. Marmar; P. Puglia; J. Rice; U. Sheikh; D. Shiraki; S. Silburn; JET Contributors; WPTE Team
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042510 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0261146
Inertially Confined Plasmas, Dense Plasmas, Equations of State
Distortions in charged-particle images of laser direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions
P. V. Heuer; J. L. Peebles; J. Kunimune; H. G. Rinderknecht; J. R. Davies; V. Gopalaswamy; J. Frelier; M. Scott; J. Roberts; R. B. Brannon; H. McClow; R. Fairbanks; S. P. Regan; J. A. Frenje; M. Gatu Johnson; F. H. Séguin; A. J. Crilly; B. D. Appelbe; M. Farrell; J. Stutz
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042702 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0251899
Saturation of stimulated Raman side-scattering in inertial confinement fusion plasmas with a suprathermal electron tail
R. J. Cheng; X. X. Li; Qing Wang; D. J. Liu; Z. M. Huang; S. Y. Lv; Z. Y. Xu; Z. J. Chen; S. T. Zhang; Qiang Wang; Z. J. Liu; L. H. Cao; C. Y. Zheng
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042703 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0252884
Key advancements toward eliminating the “drive deficit” in ICF hohlraum simulations

Hui Chen; D. T. Woods; W. A. Farmer; N. A. Aybar; D. A. Liedahl; S. A. MacLaren; M. B. Schneider; H. A. Scott; J. A. Harte; D. E. Hinkel; O. L. Landen; J. D. Moody; M. D. Rosen; J. S. Ross; S. Rogers; N. Roskopf; G. Swadling; S. Vonhof; G. B. Zimmerman
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042704 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0256856
An experimentally informed design process for future inertial confinement fusion facilities
In Special Collection:
Progress in Inertial Fusion Energy Research: Two Years After Ignition
R. K. Follett; A. Colaïtis; I. V. Igumenshchev; D. Cao; R. Nora; V. N. Goncharov; D. N. Polsin; R. Betti; J. P. Palastro; T. J. B. Collins; D. H. Froula; C. Stoeckl; J. P. Knauer; V. Yu. Glebov; C. J. Forrest; L. Ceurvorst; M. J. Rosenberg; A. S. Joglekar; W. Trickey; D. Turnbull
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042705 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253853
Theory and simulations of cross-beam energy transfer between speckled laser beams
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042706 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0240578
Simulated thermonuclear performance of auto-magnetizing helical liner MagLIF target implosions
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042707 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0261965
Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas
Solar wind penetration into dusty magnetospheres creates electrostatic waves and structures
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042901 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0247622
A theoretical explanation of the density of backstreaming ion beams at oblique collisionless shocks
Phys. Plasmas 32, 042904 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253987
Plasma-Based Accelerators, Beams, Radiation Generation
Hunting for sources of variability in laser-proton acceleration with thin foils
Ying Gao; Jianhui Bin; Daniel Haffa; Jens Hartmann; Thomas F. Rösch; Florian H. Lindner; Martin Speicher; Rong Yang; Tobias M. Ostermayr; Franz S. Englbrecht; Peter Hilz; Christian Kreuzer; Sebastian Lehrack; Johannes Gebhard; Hao Ding; Leonard Doyle; Stefan Karsch; Paul R. Bolton; Katia Parodi; Wenjun Ma; Jörg Schreiber
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043102 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0246173
A 1.2 THz third-harmonic gyrotron with novel azimuthally segmented electron beam
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043105 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0259327
Characterization and performance of the Apollon main short-pulse laser beam following its commissioning at 2 PW level
Weipeng Yao; Ronan Lelièvre; Itamar Cohen; Tessa Waltenspiel; Amokrane Allaoua; Patrizio Antici; Yohann Ayoul; Arie Beck; Audrey Beluze; Christophe Blancard; Daniel Cavanna; Mélanie Chabanis; Sophia N. Chen; Erez Cohen; Philippe Cossé; Quentin Ducasse; Mathieu Dumergue; Fouad El Hai; Christophe Evrard; Evgeny Filippov; Antoine Freneaux; Donald Cort Gautier; Fabrice Gobert; Franck Goupille; Mickael Grech; Laurent Gremillet; Yoav Heller; Emmanuel d'Humières; Hanna Lahmar; Livia Lancia; Nathalie Lebas; Ludovic Lecherbourg; Stéphane Marchand; Damien Mataja; Gabriel Meyniel; David Michaeli; Dimitris Papadopoulos; Frédéric Perez; Sergey Pikuz; Ishay Pomerantz; Patrick Renaudin; Lorenzo Romagnani; François Trompier; Edouard Veuillot; Thibaut Vinchon; François Mathieu; Julien Fuchs
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043106 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0252874
Manipulation of annular electron beams in plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043107 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0250040
Study on a bandwidth enhancing mechanism for high-power high-efficiency klystrons

Zixuan Su; Jinchi Cai; Jian Zhang; Xiancai Lin; Xinke Zhang; Muhammad Asad; Zhen Zhang; Lin Zeng; Cheng Zhang; Guanyu Pan; Zhixin Liang; Pengcheng Yin; Jin Xu; Lingna Yue; Hairong Yin; Yong Xu; Guoqing Zhao; Wenxiang Wang; Yanyu Wei
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043109 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0270541
Radiation: Emission, Absorption, Transport
Experimental and numerical characterization of high-energy point-like x-ray sources for radiography applications at the LMJ-PETAL laser facility
G. Sary; W. Cayzac; X. Vaisseau; X. Davoine; F. Audo; N. Blanchot; G. Boutoux; T. Caillaud; S. Cavaro; C. Chappuis; H. Coïc; S. Debesset; A. Denoeud; R. Diaz; A. Duval; R. Du Jeu; P. Dupré; M. Ferri; T. Fonseca; I. Geoffray; L. Gremillet; I. Lantuejoul; S. Le Tacon; L. Le-Deroff; E. Lefebvre; J. P. Leidinger; P. E. Masson-Laborde; C. Reverdin; F. Scol; B. Vauzour
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043301 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0257921
Low-Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Applications, Plasma Sources, Sheaths
Characterization of individual spontaneous arcs on fuzzy tungsten surfaces irradiated in a radiofrequency helium plasma
Andrey V. Kaziev; Dobrynya V. Kolodko; Maksim M. Kharkov; Alexander V. Tumarkin; Kristina V. Smirnova; Margarita S. Kukushkina; Mikhail M. Tsventoukh
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043503 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0252765
Study of the collisional effects on kinetic instabilities in Hall thruster devices
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043505 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0255252
Hydrogen atom under the joint influence of non-ideal plasma and a static electric field
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043508 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0261111
Electron Monte Carlo simulations of single- and dual-frequency RF breakdown
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043509 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0257043
Ionization of Rydberg atoms embedded in ultracold plasma due to electron–atom interaction
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043510 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0260474
On the nature of subharmonics of the electron emission from ultracold plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043512 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0255769
Dusty Plasmas
Numerical Methods, Verification and Validation in Plasma Physics
Computational methods for focused arbitrary laser fields in plasma simulations
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043901 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0250718
Embedded grid refinement for semi-Lagrangian parallelized relativistic Vlasov–Maxwell solver
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043905 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0252704
Verification of the Shafranov shift in free-boundary VMEC, DESC, and SPEC calculations with elliptical geometry
In Special Collection:
Celebrating the Contributions of Emeritus Professor Robert (Bob) Dewar
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043906 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253843
The accuracy of multi-group models for nonlocal electron transport in magnetized plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 32, 043908 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0250147
COMMENTS
Response to “Comment on ‘Modeling ablator defects as a source of mix in high-performance implosions at the National Ignition Facility’ [Phys. Plasmas 32, 034701 (2025)]”
D. S. Clark; A. Allen; S. H. Baxamusa; J. Biener; M. M. Biener; T. Braun; S. Davidovits; L. Divol; W. A. Farmer; T. Fehrenbach; C. Kong; M. Millot; J. Milovich; A. Nikroo; R. C. Nora; A. E. Pak; M. S. Rubery; M. Stadermann; P. Sterne; C. R. Weber; C. Wild
Phys. Plasmas 32, 044701 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0255085
ERRATA
A future of inertial confinement fusion without laser-plasma instabilities
D. H. Froula, C. Dorrer, et al.
Summary report from the mini-conference on Digital Twins for Fusion Research
D. P. Schissel, R. M. Nazikian, et al.
Model-free Rayleigh weight from x-ray Thomson scattering measurements
T. Dornheim, H. M. Bellenbaum, et al.