Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma accelerator. This work, published in Nature Communications, resolves several ...

Their findings, published in the journal Nature, represent an important step ... For fusion to happen, extremely hot, dense ...

The study is published in the journal Nature Physics. The measurements were obtained by the team at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, a fusion device located at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma ...

Given the rarefied nature of the ambient particles at the altitudes of interest ... The simulations below show neutral (top) and plasma (bottom) densities under one set of conditions. Using an updated ...