Renewal of The Basic Plasma Science Facility

该奖项更新了加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）基础等离子体科学设施（BaPSF）的运营，并支持BaPSF科学人员的积极研究计划，以及继续改进科学仪器，以保持基础等离子体研究的全球领先地位。BaPSF为国家和国际科学家提供独特的研究设备和诊断工具，允许探索影响聚变，空间科学和等离子体技术前沿主题的广泛的基本等离子体问题。在BaPSF下操作的等离子体设备中可获得的宽参数范围允许研究跨越快电子时间尺度上的微观现象（例如，来自大学、国家实验室和工业界的合格研究人员和研究小组可以在BaPSF免费进行实验，前提是他们的建议得到BaPSF科学理事会的批准，该理事会由广泛代表等离子体界的资深科学家组成。BaPSF等离子体设备提供了有效的平台，为研究生的培训，因为他们的最佳，中等规模的大小。它们还为年轻教授的发展提供了一个肥沃的环境，使他们能够完全专注于科学研究，而无需承担硬件维护和建设的负担。BaPSF还运营着一个小型的专用等离子体设备，用于培训参加外展LAPTAG计划的高中教师和学生。BaPSF允许在受控条件下详细研究等离子体科学中无法在任何其他实验室解决的基本问题。所获得的结果对聚变和空间等离子体研究中的一系列前沿课题产生了影响。它也为等离子体技术的未来发展奠定了基础。通过等离子体源的创造性开发和通过重点活动开发的互补等离子体设备的操作，BaPSF的操作构成了等离子体科学中的变革性概念。BaPSF的更广泛的影响之一是，它为来自大型和小型机构的年轻研究人员以及高中学生和教师提供了独特的培训机会。BaPSF促进和促成国内和国际机构与来自不同领域的科学家之间的合作，如聚变，空间和工业应用。BaPSF开展的专题活动为来自不同背景的实验家、理论家和建模者提供了一个互动的论坛，促进了思想和技术的相互交流。

This award renews operation of the Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and supports the vigorous research program of the BaPSF scientific staff, as well as continuing the improvements in scientific instrumentation required to maintain worldwide leadership in fundamental plasma research. BaPSF provides national and international scientists access to unique research devices and diagnostic tools that permit the exploration of a wide range of fundamental plasma problems that impact topics at the frontiers of fusion, space science and plasma technology. The broad parameter ranges accessible in the plasma devices operated at BaPSF allow studies that span microscopic phenomena on the fast electron time scales (e.g., electron plasma waves, cyclotron radiation) to the slow time scales characteristic of plasma transport driven by drift-wave turbulence and long wavelength magnetic fluctuations.Qualified researchers and research teams from universities, national laboratories and industry can perform experiments at BaPSF, free of charge, upon approval of their proposals by the BaPSF Scientific Council composed of senior scientists broadly representative of the plasma community. The BaPSF plasma devices provide effective platforms for the training of graduate students because of their optimum, mid-scale size. They also provide a fertile environment for the development of young professors by allowing them to focus entirely on scientific research without the burden of hardware maintenance and construction. BaPSF also operates a small, dedicated plasma device to train high school teachers and students enrolled in the outreach LAPTAG program.The BaPSF allows the detailed study, under controlled conditions, of fundamental questions in plasma science that cannot be addressed in any other laboratory. The results obtained impact a wide range of frontier topics in fusion and space plasma research. It also lays the foundation for future developments in plasma technology. Through creative development of plasma sources and the operation of complementary plasma devices exploited through focused campaigns, the operation of BaPSF constitutes a transformative concept within plasma science.One of the broader impacts of the BaPSF is that it provides unique opportunities in the training of young researchers from both large and small institutions, as well as high school students and teachers. BaPSF fosters and engenders collaborations between domestic and international institutions and scientists from diverse areas, such as fusion, space and industrial applications. The topical campaigns made possible by BaPSF provides a forum for the interaction of experimentalists, theoreticians and modelers from varied backgrounds, promoting the cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques.