July 2026 | S. Ishiwata (Nihon Univ.) | Journal of Plasmas Physics | Paper
Collisional merging experiments on field-reversed configurations (FRCs) in the FRC amplification via translation–collisional merging (FAT-CM) device have suggested that the mirror magnetic field strength influences the final merged plasma state.
June 2026 | C.K. Lau | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
The recently developed AAA (“adaptive Antoulas–Anderson,” pronounced as “triple-A”) algorithm, which rapidly produces an accurate rational approximation, is an extremely effective numerical technique for the plasma physics community….
June 2026 | A. Smolyakov (Univ. of Saskatchewan) | Journal of Plasmas Physics | Paper
Axisymmetric cylindrical configurations of the magnetic field are used to confine and guide plasmas in fusion and electric propulsion devices, where plasma equilibria are established as a balance between plasma pressure, magnetic stress (pressure) …
May 2026 | S. Karbashewski | Physical Review Letters | Paper
We report observations of an energetic-particle mode (EPM) in a linear plasma device that corresponds to an axial bounce resonance of fast ions sourced from neutral-beam injection (NBI). In our experiment, novel dynamic shaping of a magnetic mirror field reduces the distance …
May 2026 | R.M. Hedlof (SNL) | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A verification study of a semi-implicit energy-conserving electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm is presented. The algorithm relaxes the time-step and mesh-size constraints that require resolution of the plasma period and Debye length associated with traditional explicit momentum-conserving particle-in-cell algorithms
February 2026 | S. Kamio | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Among various advanced fuel cycles, proton-boron-11 (p-11B) fusion has attracted renewed interest as a potentially clean and sustainable fusion energy source.
This aneutronic fusion concept has long been envisioned as an ultimate cleaner fusion reactor scheme…