The plasma and beams group conducts research at the crossroads of plasma physics, particle beam physics, and laser physics. Our goal is to study particle beam acceleration in strong plasma waves that ...

Sword, Hammer, and Bomb are all here, but so is the new Ranger power, which gives Kirby a gun. Some beloved and iconic powers like Plasma, Wheel, and even Beam are absent. In other Kirby games ...

In inertial confinement fusion experiments indirectly driven with lasers, many beams overlap in the plasma inside a hohlraum, and cross-beam energy transfer by Brillouin scattering has been ...

In their latest study, scientists propose a new method to enhance the quality of electron beams produced by laser-plasma accelerators. “Using a clever correction system, a research team was able ...

Scientists have directly demonstrated for the first time how laser beams modify the conditions of a plasma, addressing one of the challenges in the longstanding quest to achieve fusion. New ...

Credit: Tom Cogill / UVA After repeated tests and observations of the phenomenon, the team determined the plasma beam must be first striking a micro-thin layer of carbon and water molecules ...

The ions, now forming a high-speed plasma beam, push the spacecraft forward. Compared to chemical rockets, EP systems are ...

The SaberLight is safer, less toxic, and TSA-approved! There are many advantages of using an electricity-generated plasma beam to ignite things. Unlike your typical butane flame, the plasma beam ...

Laser-driven ICF experiments require that many laser beams propagate through a plasma--a hot soup of free moving electrons and ions--to deposit their radiation energy precisely at their intended ...