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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)

                                                                         

From Physical Review

  • Sheath Instabilities Excited by Intense Secondary Electron Emission

    Author(s): Pascal Chabert and Jean-Luc Raimbault Plasma-wall interactions are complex and often determine the overall operating regime of a plasma device. The region bridging the plasma to the wall, where potential and density gradients localize, is called the sheath. Particle-in-cell simulations showed that the sheath may become unstable when sec… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 235302] Published Thu Dec 04, 2025

  • Dual-Time-Scale Ion Acceleration Dynamics in Hall Thrusters

    Author(s): Q. Delavière–Delion, F. Gaboriau, G. Fubiani, and L. Garrigues We report the first direct observation using a retarding potential analyzer of time-resolved ion energy distribution functions (IDFs) in a Hall thruster (HT) on two distinct time scales corresponding to the breathing mode ($∼\mathrm{kHz}$) and the ion transit time oscillation (ITTO, $∼100\text{ }\te… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 235301] Published Wed Dec 03, 2025

  • Combined Influence of Rotation and Scrape-Off Layer Drifts on Recycling Asymmetries in Tokamak Plasmas

    Author(s): E. D. Emdee, L. Horvath, A. Bortolon, R. Gerrú, G. J. Wilkie, S. R. Haskey, and F. M. Laggner Coupled 2D fluid-kinetic simulations of a DIII-D high confinement tokamak plasma show that plasma rotation coupled with drift effects near the plasma edge play a significant role in the creation of the observed poloidal distribution of neutrals. It is observed that including either drift or rotation… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 225101] Published...

  • Proton Acceleration Associated with Sheet Crossing in Petawatt-Laser-Irradiated Nanometer Foils

    Author(s): Yinren Shou, Zheng Gong, Ki Hong Pae, Jin Woo Yoon, Jae Hee Sung, Seong Ku Lee, Seung Yeon Kim, Seong Hoon Kim, Xuezhi Wu, Xueqing Yan, Il Woo Choi, and Chang Hee Nam We explored the physics of efficient proton acceleration in a nanometer-thick polymer foil irradiated by an ultrahigh-contrast petawatt laser pulse. The longitudinal proton dynamics were experimentally investigated, indicating the acceleration of protons to over 90 MeV...

  • First Observation of Synchrotron Radiation Spikes for Transverse Electron Beam Size Measurements at a Free-Electron Laser

    Author(s): Andrei Trebushinin, Svitozar Serkez, Wolfgang Freund, Andreas Koch, Jan Grünert, Gianluca Geloni, Weilun Qin, and Sergey Tomin We report the observation of transverse intensity fluctuations—spikes—in synchrotron radiation from a single undulator cell at the European XFEL after monochromatization. Autocorrelation analysis of the recorded events confirms that these fluctuations originate from the partial transverse coherence … [Phys...

  • Observation of Fine Structure in Channeling of Particles in Bent Crystals

    Author(s): A. Mazzolari, H. Backe, L. Bandiera, N. Canale, D. De Salvador, P. Drexler, V. Guidi, P. Klag, W. Lauth, L. Malagutti, R. Negrello, G. Paternò, M. Romagnoni, F. Sgarbossa, A. Sytov, V. Tikhomirov, and D. Valzani We observed highly efficient manipulation of the 530 MeV positron beam at Mainz Microtron via bent crystals. The low beam divergence revealed a fine structure in the angular distribution of channeled particles. A compact analytical...

  • Coherent Synchrotron Radiation by Excitation of Surface Plasmon Polariton on Near-Critical Solid Microtube Surface

    Author(s): Bifeng Lei, Hao Zhang, Daniel Seipt, Alexandre Bonatto, Bin Qiao, Javier Resta-López, Guoxing Xia, and Carsten Welsch Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is crucial for the development of powerful ultrashort light sources. We present a mechanism for generating CSR in the form of generalised superradiance, based on surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), which are resonantly excited on a solid, near-critical-density inn… [Phys. Rev. Lett...
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