Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory – UW–Madison

We join our colleagues in frontier plasma science laboratory research at the Basic Plasma Science Facility (University of California at Los Angeles), Magnetized Plasma Research Laboratory (Auburn University) and DIII-D National Fusion Facility at San …

Two projects on MST have been selected for invited talks at the High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics conference in May 2020:   Patrick VanMeter, University of Wisconsin–Madison Robust analysis of space-, time-, and energy-resolved soft x-ray measurements …

The effort to develop fusion for energy generation has been described as “bringing a star to earth.” Recently, a type of instrument similar to those being used to study the emission from hot, extraterrestrial plasma, …

A new study by UW-Madison physicists mimicked solar winds in the lab, confirming how they develop and providing an Earth-bound model for the future study of solar physics. Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/researchers-recreate-the-suns-solar-wind-and-plasma-burps-on-earth/

A recent Physics of Plasmas article by Darren Craig (Wheaton College) is highlighted in the AIP’s Scilight: Spectroscopic technique sheds insights on how confined plasmas flow” DOI: 10.1063/1.5119247. The Scilight reports: Craig et al. have …

WiPPL graduate student Steph Kubala has received a Blewett Fellowship from the American Physical Society (APS). After pausing her research to care for an ailing parent, Ms. Kubala has resumed her research, where she specializes …

In February 2019, the Big Red Ball (BRB) was operated for an initial investigation of compact toroid (CT) collisions as proposed by a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) group. LANL researchers Scott Hsu and Tom …

A UW-Madison Physics Department research team led by Dr. Brett Chapman was awarded a two-year Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for construction of programmable power supply (PPS) modules for experimental …

A collaboration between Dr. Luis? Delgado-Aparicio (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Dr. Lisa Reusch, and Dr. Daniel Den Hartog (UW-Madison) has successfully installed and operated a new soft-x-ray camera based on the Pilatus3 detector made by DECTRIS …

In March, the Big Red Ball at WiPPL was operated for an investigation of compressible MHD turbulence proposed by a collaboration of Swarthmore College professor Mike Brown, Swarthmore undergraduate student Emma Suen-Lewis, and Bryn Mawr …