Microwave heating significantly alters Alfvén waves, offering insights into the physics of the waves themselves.
Scientists map electrical currents emanating from the boundary of a tokamak plasma, providing new information for reactor design.
International collaborators advance physics basis for tokamak plasma confinement at low rotation, potentially benefiting a fusion reactor.
New supercomputing capabilities help understand how to cope with large-scale instabilities in tokamaks.
For the first time, scientists modeled the spontaneous bifurcation of turbulence to high-confinement mode, solving a 35-year-old mystery.
Researchers perform first spectroscopic measurements on antihydrogen in pursuit of one of our biggest scientific mysteries: why is there so little antimatter in the universe?
New work seeks to explain a strange phenomenon occurring in fusion reactor materials.
A new type of lens improves the focusing precision at the world’s most powerful X-ray light sources.
A new fast and robust algorithm for computing stellarator coil shapes yields designs that are easier to build and maintain.
Fast imaging of frozen argon pellets enables measurement of fast electrons formed during disruption for first time.
Heating the core of fusion reactors causes them to develop sheared rotation that can improve plasma performance.
New atomic transition found in xenon accurately calibrates neutral hydrogen density measurements in plasma experiments important in the pursuit of fusion energy.
