Renewal of The Basic Plasma Science Facility

更新基本等离子体科学设施

• 批准号: 1036140
• 负责人: Walter Gekelman
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1036140&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renewal; Basic; Plasma; Science; Facility

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.

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）的运作，支持了BaPSF科学人员的积极研究计划，并继续改进科学仪器，以保持基础等离子体研究的全球领先地位。BaPSF为国内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基本等离子体问题。在BaPSF运行的等离子体装置中可以获得的广泛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，电子等离子体波，回旋辐射）到由漂波湍流和长波磁波动驱动的等离子体输运特征的慢时间尺度。来自大学、国家实验室和工业界的合格研究人员和研究团队可以在BaPSF免费进行实验，只要他们的建议得到BaPSF科学委员会的批准，该委员会由广泛代表等离子体界的资深科学家组成。BaPSF等离子体设备为研究生的培训提供了有效的平台，因为它们具有最佳的中等规模的尺寸。它们还为年轻教授的发展提供了肥沃的环境，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还运营一个小型的专用等离子设备，用于培训参加外联LAPTAG项目的高中教师和学生。BaPSF允许在受控条件下详细研究等离子体科学中的基本问题，这些问题在任何其他实验室都无法解决。所获得的结果影响了聚变和空间等离子体研究的广泛前沿课题。它也为等离子技术的未来发展奠定了基础。通过创造性地开发等离子体源和通过重点活动开发的互补等离子体装置的操作，BaPSF的操作构成了等离子体科学中的一个变革性概念。BaPSF的一个更广泛的影响是，它为培训来自大型和小型机构的年轻研究人员以及高中生和教师提供了独特的机会。BaPSF促进国内外机构和来自核聚变、空间和工业应用等不同领域的科学家之间的合作。BaPSF为来自不同背景的实验学家、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交流。