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The Plasma Universe

On the occasion of the APS DPP 50th Anniversary Curt Suplee was commissioned to write "The Plasma Universe”. This richly illustrated full color book reveals, for the first time, the exciting world of plasma physics to a non-technical audience. The book describes the important developments of the field of plasma physics during the past 50 years, including biographical information on some of the key contributors to that development. (First published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press and reprinted in 2011.)


The Plasma Universe book has been made freely available for download in PDF form:

The Plasma Universe (PDF - 45.9MB)

                                                                         

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  • Light-Matter Interaction near the Schwinger Limit Using Tightly Focused Doppler-Boosted Lasers

    Author(s): Neïl Zaïm, Antonin Sainte-Marie, Luca Fedeli, Pierre Bartoli, Axel Huebl, Adrien Leblanc, Jean-Luc Vay, and Henri Vincenti The interaction of Doppler-boosted light with matter at intensities approaching the Schwinger limit is explored in numerical simulations showing the creation of electron-positron pairs forming high-density relativistic attosecond jets. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175002] Published Wed Apr 24, 2024

  • Pulsed Electron Lenses for Space Charge Mitigation

    Author(s): Adrian Oeftiger and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim 3D tracking simulations show the effectiveness of a space-charge mitigation method that uses pulsed linear electron lenses to effectively increase the space charge limit in hadron synchrotrons by 50%. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175001] Published Mon Apr 22, 2024

  • Millijoule Terahertz Radiation from Laser Wakefields in Nonuniform Plasmas

    Author(s): Linzheng Wang, Zhelin Zhang, Siyu Chen, Yanping Chen, Xichen Hu, Mingyang Zhu, Wenchao Yan, Hao Xu, Lili Sun, Min Chen, Feng Liu, Liming Chen, Jie Zhang, and Zhengming Sheng Millijoule THz emission has been experimentally observed in the backward direction of laser wakefields generated by focusing an intense femtosecond laser pulse on a gas nozzle. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 165002] Published Tue Apr 16, 2024

  • Observation of Skewed Electromagnetic Wakefields in an Asymmetric Structure Driven by Flat Electron Bunches

    Author(s): W. Lynn, T. Xu, G. Andonian, D. S. Doran, G. Ha, N. Majernik, P. Piot, J. Power, J. B. Rosenzweig, C. Whiteford, and E. Wisniewski Relativistic charged-particle beams that generate intense longitudinal fields in accelerating structures also inherently couple to transverse modes. The effects of this coupling may lead to beam breakup instability and thus must be countered to preserve beam quality in applications such as linear co… ...

  • Plasmoid Formation and Strong Radiative Cooling in a Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiment

    Author(s): R. Datta, K. Chandler, C. E. Myers, J. P. Chittenden, A. J. Crilly, C. Aragon, D. J. Ampleford, J. T. Banasek, A. Edens, W. R. Fox, S. B. Hansen, E. C. Harding, C. A. Jennings, H. Ji, C. C. Kuranz, S. V. Lebedev, Q. Looker, S. G. Patel, A. Porwitzky, G. A. Shipley, D. A. Uzdensky, D. A. Yager-Elorriaga, and J. D. Hare Magnetic reconnection under conditions of strong radiative cooling has been studied for the first time in a laboratory...

  • Ion Kinetics and Neutron Generation Associated with Electromagnetic Turbulence in Laboratory-Scale Counterstreaming Plasmas

    Author(s): P. Liu, D. Wu, T. X. Hu, D. W. Yuan, G. Zhao, Z. M. Sheng, X. T. He, and J. Zhang Electromagnetic turbulence and ion kinetics in counterstreaming plasmas hold great significance in laboratory astrophysics, such as turbulence field amplification and particle energization. Here, we quantitatively demonstrate for the first time how electromagnetic turbulence affects ion kinetics und… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 155103] Published Thu Apr...

  • Femtosecond Dynamics of Fast Electron Pulses in Relativistic Laser-Foil Interactions

    Author(s): Guoqian Liao, Fangzheng Sun, Hongyi Lei, Tianze Wang, Dan Wang, Yanyu Wei, Feng Liu, Xuan Wang, Yutong Li, and Jie Zhang We report the femtosecond time-resolved dynamics of relativistic electron pulses in ultraintense laser-foil interactions, by characterizing the terahertz self-radiation with single-shot ultrabroadband interferometry. Experimental measurements together with theoretical modeling reveal that the electr… [Phys. Rev...
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