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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)

• ### Ion Heating and Flow Driven by an Instability Found in Plasma Couette Flow

Author(s): J. Milhone, K. Flanagan, J. Egedal, D. Endrizzi, J. Olson, E. E. Peterson, J. C. Wright, and C. B. Forest We present the first observation of instability in weakly magnetized, pressure dominated plasma Couette flow firmly in the Hall regime. Strong Hall currents couple to a low frequency electromagnetic mode that is driven by high-$β$ ($>1$) pressure profiles. Spectroscopic measurements show heating ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185002...
• ### Novel Target Designs to Mitigate Hydrodynamic Instabilities Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion

Author(s): Xiumei Qiao and Ke Lan High density carbon (HDC) ablator is one of the promising candidates toward thermonuclear ignition in inertial confinement fusion (ICF), but it shows the largest ablation front instability growth as compared to other traditional ablator materials. In this Letter, we propose a novel HDC-CH capsule de... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185001] Published Tue May 04, 2021
• ### Demonstration of Safe Termination of Megaampere Relativistic Electron Beams in Tokamaks

Author(s): Cédric Reux, Carlos Paz-Soldan, Pavel Aleynikov, Vinodh Bandaru, Ondrej Ficker, Scott Silburn, Matthias Hoelzl, Stefan Jachmich, Nicholas Eidietis, Michael Lehnen, Sundaresan Sridhar, and JET contributors For the first time it is experimentally demonstrated on the JET tokamak that a combination of a low impurity concentration bulk plasma and large magnetohydrodynamic instabilities is able to suppress relativistic electron beams without...
Author(s): F. Batsch et al. (AWAKE Collaboration) We use a relativistic ionization front to provide various initial transverse wakefield amplitudes for the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in plasma. We show experimentally that, with sufficient initial amplitude [$≥(4.1±0.4)\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MV}/\mathrm{m}$], the phase of the modulation... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164802] Published Tue Apr 20, 2021
Author(s): S. X. Tang, T. A. Carter, N. A. Crocker, W. W. Heidbrink, J. B. Lestz, R. I. Pinsker, K. E. Thome, M. A. Van Zeeland, and E. V. Belova Fast-ion driven Alfvén waves with frequency close to the ion cyclotron frequency ($f=0.58{f}_{ci}$) excited by energetic ions from a neutral beam are stabilized via a controlled energetic ion density ramp for the first time in a fusion research plasma. The scaling of wave amplitude with injection ra...