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DTSTART:20240226T213000Z
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LOCATION:B343 Sterling Hall
SUMMARY:Highlights from the path toward confined e+e- pair plasmas\, P
 lasma Seminar\, Eve Stenson\, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
DESCRIPTION:The grand challenge being pursued by the APEX (A Positron 
 Electron eXperiment) Collaboration is to create and study cold\, confi
 ned\, strongly magnetized\, matter-antimatter “pair plasmas” in th
 e laboratory.  This unusually simple\, symmetric type of plasma has be
 en the subject of theory/simulation predictions going back over four d
 ecades\; we would like to test some of these experimentally.  Our path
  to pair plasmas involves joining together and further developing stat
 e-of-the-art physics and engineering in several disciplines.  This tal
 k will give an overview of recent highlights ---including novel techni
 ques in the areas of positron beams\, non-neutral plasmas\, and gamma 
 diagnostics --- as well as the progress on our two\, complementary\, t
 abletop-sized\, pair-plasma traps: a levitated dipole and an optimized
  stellarator\, both based on small\, non-insulated\, HTS (high-tempera
 ture superconducting) coils.  Finally\, I will outline plans for the f
 ew next year(s)\, during which we will continue to assemble the pieces
  of the pair plasma "puzzle"\, and beyond.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=8625
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