Renewal of the Basic Plasma Science Facility

该奖项为加州大学洛杉矶分校的基础等离子体科学设施(BaPSF)提供资金。BaPSF的目的是为普通等离子体社区提供访问前沿水平研究设备(LAPD-U)的机会，该设备允许探索在小型设备或大型聚变设施中无法解决的基本等离子体问题。来自大学、国家实验室和工业界的合格研究人员，只要他们的建议得到科学理事会的批准，就可以免费进行实验，科学理事会由广泛代表等离子体界的资深科学家组成。BaPSF提供的等离子体和设备允许在受控条件下对涉及广泛的空间和时间尺度的过程进行详细研究。BaPSF的研究涉及基础等离子体、空间和聚变科学研究的当代课题。这些研究从快电子时间尺度(如电子等离子体波、回旋辐射)的微观现象，到以漂移波湍流和长波磁涨落为特征的慢输运尺度。新的推动力包括计划在对聚变和空间研究人员有重大影响的研究领域协调和实施新的社区驱动的运动，以及理论驱动的模式。主要活动将由加州大学洛杉矶分校以外的一名科学家领导，他将在BaPSF工作人员的协助下组织和指导实验活动。理论驱动模式旨在满足对详细数据的迫切需求，以基准理论和建模社区的主要结果。这些实验将涉及来自理论和模型界的科学家和来自BaPSF工作人员的一名实验者之间的合作。

This award provides funding for the Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) at the University of California, Los Angeles. The purpose of BaPSF is to provide the general plasma community access to a frontier level research device (the LAPD-U) that permits the exploration of fundamental plasma problems that cannot be pursued in small devices or in the large fusion facilities. Qualified researchers from universities, national laboratories and industry can perform experiments, free of charge, upon approval of their proposals by a Scientific Council composed of senior scientists broadly representative of the plasma community. The plasmas and equipment available at BaPSF allow the detailed study, under controlled conditions, of processes involving a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. The studies at BaPSF address contemporary topics at the frontier of basic plasma, space and fusion science research. The studies span microscopic phenomena on thefast electron time scales (e.g, electron plasma waves, cyclotron radiation) to the slowtransport scales characteristic of drift-wave turbulence and long wavelength magneticfluctuations. New thrusts include plans to coordinate and implement new community-driven campaigns in research areas of major impact to fusion and space researchers and a theory driven mode. The major campaigns will be led by a scientist from outside UCLA who will organize and steer the experimental campaign with assistance from the BaPSF staff. The theory driven mode is designed to satisfy the pressing need for detailed data to benchmark major results of the theoretical and modeling communities. These experiments will involve collaborations between scientists from the theoretical and modeling community and an experimentalist from the BaPSF staff.