Fundamental Processes in Plasmas

这个研究小组结合理论和实验来研究“非中性等离子体”的基本物理学，即完全由一种电荷组成的等离子体。研究将以电子等离子体为中心，但主导物理也适用于正电子或反质子等离子体。在非中性等离子体的许多独特特征中，也许最引人注目的是它们在冷却到极低温度时的行为。在低温下，液态和晶体相变可以在受限的等离子体内发生。

This research team combines theory and experiment to investigate the fundamental physics of the "non-neutral plasma", i.e. a plasma consisting entirely of one charge species. The investigations will center on electron plasmas but the governing physics applies to positron or antiproton plasmas as well. Of the many unique features of non-neutral plasmas perhaps the most striking is their behavior when cooled to very low temperatures. At cryogenic temperatures liquid and crystal phase transitions can occur within the confined plasma body.