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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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  • Demonstration of a Novel Phase-Space Painting Method in a Coupled Lattice to Mitigate Space Charge in High-Intensity Hadron Beams

    Author(s): Nicholas J. Evans, Austin Hoover, Timofey Gorlov, and Vasiliy Morozov Multiturn charge-exchange injection is the primary method of creating high-intensity hadron beams in circular accelerators, and phase space painting during injection enables tailoring of the accumulated phase space distribution. A technique we call eigenpainting allows injection of particles into a … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 075002] Published Fri Feb 20, 2026

  • Transit-Time Oscillations in Nanoscale Vacuum Diode with a Pure Resistive Load

    Author(s): Bjartthór Steinn Alexandersson, Kristinn Torfason, Andrei Manolescu, and Ágúst Valfells We examine the Ramo current in a nanoscale planar vacuum diode undergoing field emission in the presence of a DC voltage supply and an external resistor. We describe a simple mechanism for generating persistent current oscillations in the diode due to the voltage drop across the external resistor (b… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 075003] Published Fri...

  • Fast Turbulence Phase Transition in a Flux-Driven Global Edge-SOL Simulation of a Tokamak Plasma

    Author(s): Wladimir Zholobenko, Frank Jenko, Kaiyu Zhang, Philipp Ulbl, Konrad Eder, Andreas Stegmeir, Clemente Angioni, and Peter Manz A global, confinement-time-long, flux-driven turbulence simulation of the tokamak plasma edge region subject to a power ramp reproduces an abrupt turbulence transition. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 075101] Published Thu Feb 19, 2026

  • Field-Emission-Induced Terahertz Plasma Waves and Instabilities in Microdischarges

    Author(s): Jiandong Chen, Chubin Lin, Peng Zhang, John P. Verboncoeur, Lay Kee Ang, and Yangyang Fu This Letter reports the simultaneous excitation of two terahertz plasma waves in field-emission-driven microdischarges. As demonstrated by first-principle particle-in-cell simulations, we reveal that one wave results from intermittent field emission due to space-charge effects, while the other arise… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 075001] Published Wed...

  • Understanding Large-Scale Dynamos in Unstratified Rotating Shear Flows

    Author(s): Tushar Mondal, Pallavi Bhat, Fatima Ebrahimi, and Eric G. Blackman We combine simulations with new analyses that overcome previous pitfalls to explicate how nonhelical mean-field dynamos grow and saturate in unstratified, magnetorotationally driven turbulence. Shear of the mean radial magnetic field amplifies the azimuthal component. Radial fields are regenerated b… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 075201] Published Wed Feb 18, 2026

  • Energy Bunching from Subcycle Ionization Injection in Laser Wakefield Acceleration

    Author(s): A. Angella, E. Löfquist, C. Gustafsson, V. Poulain, F. D’Souza, C. Guo, A. Persson, P. Eng-Johnsson, C.-G. Wahlström, and O. Lundh We report the first experimental observation of carrier-envelope phase-driven energy bunching in laser wakefield acceleration. Using a few-cycle ($∼9\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{fs}$), multiterawatt laser pulse and ionization injection in a helium-nitrogen gas mixture, we observe electron spectra compose… ...

  • Superchanneling and Radiation of Ultrarelativistic Electron Beams in Disordered Porous Material

    Author(s): P. Chen, K. Jiang, T. W. Huang, R. Li, H. Peng, H. Zhang, S. Z. Wu, H. B. Zhuo, M. Y. Yu, and C. T. Zhou Transport of relativistic electron beams (REBs) in matter underpins a wide range of plasma, accelerator, radiation source, and material physics. Here we report a previously unexplored superchanneling regime of REB propagation in disordered porous materials composed of randomly structured solid-densi… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 055001...
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