Plasma and trap-based techniques for science with positrons

JR Danielson, DHE Dubin, RG Greaves… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
In recent years, there has been a wealth of new science involving low-energy antimatter (ie,
positrons and antiprotons) at energies ranging from 10 2 to less than 10-3 eV. Much of this …

Fundamental physics and other applications using nonneutral plasma

G Maero, ED Hunter, DJ Murtagh… - Advances in Physics …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
During the last fifty years, nonneutral plasma physics has developed into a definite subfield
of basic research, whose main focus has been on the collective properties of systems …

A new frontier in laboratory physics: magnetized electron–positron plasmas

MR Stoneking, TS Pedersen, P Helander… - Journal of plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We describe here efforts to create and study magnetized electron–positron pair plasmas, the
existence of which in astrophysical environments is well-established. Laboratory …

Experimental study on chorus emission in an artificial magnetosphere

H Saitoh, M Nishiura, N Kenmochi… - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Wave particle interaction plays an important role in geospace and space weather
phenomena. Whistler mode chorus emissions, characterized by non-linear growth and …

Thermal equilibrium of collisional non-neutral plasma in a magnetic dipole trap

P Steinbrunner, TM O'Neil, MR Stoneking… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This paper discusses thermal equilibrium states of single-species plasmas, such as pure
electron plasmas and pure positron plasmas, that are confined in a dipole trap. Thermal …

Improved beta (local beta> 1) and density in electron cyclotron resonance heating on the RT-1 magnetosphere plasma

M Nishiura, Z Yoshida, H Saitoh, Y Yano… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This study reports the recent progress in improved plasma parameters of the RT-1 device.
Increased input power and the optimized polarization of electron cyclotron resonance …

Physics of plasmas confined by a dipole magnet: insights from compact experiments driven at steady state

S Bhattacharjee, AR Baitha, A Nanda, S Hunjan… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - Springer
Plasmas confined by a dipole magnet host a multitude of intriguing and non-trivial
phenomena, whose physics is not completely well understood yet. We investigate the dipole …

Conceptual design of dipole research experiment (DREX)

X Qingmei, W Zhibin, W ** of a cold positron beam in a dipole
magnetic field configuration. The intense 5 eV positron beam was provided by the NEutron …

Annihilation-gamma-based diagnostic techniques for magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma

J Von der Linden, S Nißl, A Deller… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Efforts are underway to magnetically confine electron–positron pair plasmas to study their
unique behaviour, which is characterized by significant changes in plasma time and length …