Research In Applied Electrodynamics

应用电动力学研究

• 批准号: 8712089
• 负责人: Francis Chen
• 金额: $ 8.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-09-15 至 1989-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8712089&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Applied; Electrodynamics

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.

被称为等离子体物理学的带电流体科学，已经将其影响扩展到控制核聚变以外的许多领域，而控制核聚变是该科学发展的领域。该提案支持了PI的实验意图，以证明一个新的研究领域和电气工程教学的可行性，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，因此除了核聚变之外，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、相对论性物质以及空间物理和凝聚态物理的某些应用等主题。为了演示这些应用，PI提议进行实验来测试几个新想法的可行性：节拍波加速器，它可能会将现有加速器的高能缩短10倍；以及可以产生可调谐高频辐射的电子摇摆器FEL。高密度等离子体源的发展是所有这些共同的，是一个需要NSF支持的问题。在固态和短脉冲激光研究领域的应用思路也将被探索。