Research In Applied Electrodynamics

带电流体科学，也就是等离子体物理学，已经将其影响扩展到受控聚变以外的许多领域，这是这门科学的发展目标。这项建议支持由PI的实验，以证明一个新的电气工程研究和教学领域的可行性，他们将其命名为应用电动力学。应用电动力学涉及带电粒子与电磁场的相互作用，因此除聚变外，还包括相干辐射的产生、粒子加速、等离子体诊断、工业等离子体、相对论物质以及在空间物理和凝聚态物理中的某些应用。为了演示这些应用，PI建议进行实验，以测试几个新想法的可行性：拍波加速器，它可能会将现有加速器的高能缩短到原来的10倍；以及电动摇摆器自由电子激光器，它可以产生可调的高频辐射。高密度等离子体源的发展是所有这些方面的共同之处，也是一个需要NSF支持的问题。还将探讨将其应用于固态和短脉冲激光研究领域的想法。

The science of electrified fluids, known as Plasma Physics, has expanded its influence to many fields outside of controlled fusion, the field for which the science was developed. This proposal supports experiments intended by the PI's to demonstrate the viability of a new field of research and instruction in Electrical Engineering which they have named Applied Electrodynamics. Applied Electrodynamics concerns the interaction of charged particles with electromagnetic fields and thus includes, besides fusion, such topics as generation of coherent radiation, particle acceleration, plasma diagnostics, industrial plasmas, relativistic matter, and certain applications to space physics and condensed matter physics. To demonstrate these applications, the PI's propose to carry out experiments to test the feasibility of several new ideas: the Beat Wave Accelerator, which can possibly shorten high-energy of existing accelerators by a factor 10; and the Electric Wiggler FEL, which could produce tunable high- frequency radiation. The development of high-density plasma sources is common to all these and is a problem requiring NSF support. Ideas for applications to solid-state and short-pulse laser research areas will also be explored.