Laboratory observations of electron heating and non-Maxwellian distributions at the kinetic scale during electron-only magnetic reconnection

P Shi, P Srivastav, MH Barbhuiya, PA Cassak… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Non-Maxwellian electron velocity distribution functions composed of a warm bulk population
and a cold beam are directly measured during electron-only reconnection with a strong out …

Laboratory plasma devices for space physics investigation

Y Liu, P Shi, X Zhang, J Lei, W Ding - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In the past decades, laboratory experiments have contributed significantly to the exploration
of the fundamental physics of space plasmas. Since 1908, when Birkeland invented the first …

Using Direct Laboratory Measurements of Electron Temperature Anisotropy to Identify the Heating Mechanism in Electron-Only Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection

P Shi, EE Scime, MH Barbhuiya, PA Cassak… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Anisotropic electron heating during electron-only magnetic reconnection with a large guide
magnetic field is directly measured in a laboratory plasma through in situ measurements of …

Self-organized magnetic equilibria in tokamak plasmas with very low edge safety factor

NC Hurst, BE Chapman, AF Almagri, BS Cornille… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Tokamak plasmas often exhibit self-organizing behavior in which internal modes shape the
toroidal current density profile, a common example being the sawtooth instability. However …

Characterization of a new variable magnetic field linear plasma device

F Filleul, A Caldarelli, C Charles, RW Boswell… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A radio frequency plasma device is presented in which the regions of plasma creation and
maximum plasma magnetization can be separated along a 1.5-m tube. Measurements of the …

[HTML][HTML] Electron-only reconnection and associated electron heating and acceleration in PHASMA

P Shi, P Srivastav, MH Barbhuiya, PA Cassak… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Using incoherent Thomson scattering, electron heating and acceleration at the electron
velocity distribution function (EVDF) level are investigated during electron-only reconnection …

Multi-dimensional incoherent Thomson scattering system in PHAse Space MApping (PHASMA) facility

P Shi, EE Scime - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A multi-dimensional incoherent Thomson scattering diagnostic system capable of measuring
electron temperature anisotropies at the level of the electron velocity distribution function …

Development of a diamagnetic loop in KAIMIR

M Choe, D Oh, JG Bak, GW Baek… - Review of Scientific …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We developed a diamagnetic loop for the estimation of plasma stored energy in the KAIST
Magnetic Mirror magnetic mirror device [Oh et al., J. Plasma Phys. 90, 975900202 (2024)] …

Local dynamic responses of magnetic reconnection to three-dimensional perturbations in a laboratory plasma

J Xie, P Shi, H Ji, J Jara-Almonte, J Yoo… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamic responses of magnetic reconnection to localized three-dimensional (3D)
magnetic field perturbations imposed by a pair of figure-8-shaped coils are investigated in …

[HTML][HTML] Three-wave coupling observed between a shear Alfvén wave and a kink-unstable magnetic flux rope

S Vincena, SKP Tripathi, W Gekelman, P Pribyl - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Results from a laboratory experiment are presented in which, for the first time, a shear Alfvén
wave is launched using an antenna in a current-carrying plasma column that is tailored to be …