In a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), a small, thin piece of copper momentarily becomes dense plasma, specifically ...

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Conducted by the Joint European Torus (JET), the new Deuterium-Tritium experiment provides unique characteristics expected in future fusion reactors. These include the presence of ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking method to track the ultra-fast heat progression in warm, dense matter plasmas ...

Sulaiman, A. H. Masters, A. and Dougherty, M. K. 2016. Characterization of Saturn's bow shock: Magnetic field observations of quasi‐perpendicular shocks. Journal of ...

Magnetically confined plasmas are those plasmas that are trapped using magnetic fields. Magnetic fields can prevent high-temperature plasma coming into contact with solid materials that it could ...

Scientists of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna and Umeå University find that under certain conditions ...

In plasma physics, waves in plasmas are an interconnected set of particles and fields which propagate in a periodically repeating fashion. A plasma is a quasineutral, electrically conductive fluid. In ...

Python visualization and post-processing library for particle-in-cell codes ...

Plasmas are ubiquitous in Nature and depending on the specific circumstances, plasmas can sustain various kinds of instabilities leading to turbulence. In addition, presence of an external magnetic ...

Our team of helio physicists published a paper in August 2024 that points to a new source of energy propelling the solar wind ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule.