Basic Plasma Science Facility

美国国家科学基金会和加州大学洛杉矶分校之间的合作协议，为加州大学洛杉矶分校基础等离子体科学研究的国家设施的运作提供资金。该设施的核心是大型等离子体装置（LAPD-II），这是一种独特的研究仪器，非常适合多用户的合作研究。该设施提供了一个地方，在其中进行需要物理条件不适合小型设备的前沿级实验。除了日常维护和升级的必要暂停外，LAPD将以24小时为基础运行，以1赫兹的重复率提供研究级等离子体，并在用户控制下有广泛的可能参数选择。该项目由美国国家科学基金会和能源部联合资助，是美国国家科学基金会/能源部基础等离子体科学与工程合作项目的一部分。国家科学基金会的资金由数学和物理科学理事会的物理部和地球科学理事会的大气科学部分配。

This Cooperative Agreement between the National Science Foundation and the University of California, Los Angeles, provides funding for the operation of a national facility for research in basic plasma science at the University of California, Los Angeles. The core of the facility is the Large Plasma Device (LAPD-II), a unique research instrument well suited for collaborative studies by multiple users. The facility provides a place in which to perform frontier-level experiments that require physical conditions not suitable for small devices. The LAPD will be operated on a 24-hour basis, except for necessary pauses for routine maintenance and upgrades, providing research-grade plasmas at a one Hertz repetition rate and having a wide range of possible parameter choices under the user's control. This project is jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy as part of the NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering. NSF funding is divided between the Physics Division in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate and the Division of Atmospheric Sciences in the Directorate for Geosciences.