UCLA Basic Plasma Science Facility
The Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) is a US national collaborative research facility for fundamental plasma physics, supported by the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
The purpose of BaPSF is to provide the scientific community access to frontier-level research devices (principally the Large Plasma Device) that permit the exploration of plasma processes which can not be studied in smaller devices or are difficult to diagnose in larger facilities, such as magnetic confinement fusion experiments.
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Magnetosphere studies
Physicists researching at UCLA’s Basic Plasma Science Facility have succeeded in recreating in miniature the magnetic fields that surround the Earth and other planets. Read more.
CAREER Award
Physicist Saskia Mordijck was recently awarded
a CAREER award by the National Science Foundation. She’ll study the fourth
state of matter at the LArge Plasma Device at UCLA. Read more.
DOE Funding
The U.S. DOE announced a plan to provide up to $6 million to support frontier plasma science experiments at plasma research facilities across the nation. Read more.
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The Plasma Science and Technology Institute at UCLA consists of affiliated laboratories and research groups that investigate fundamental questions related to the fourth state of matter known as "plasma".
This video describes the Basic Plasma Science Facility in detail.
The Plasma Science and Technology Institute at UCLA consists of affiliated laboratories and research groups that investigate fundamental questions related to the fourth state of matter known as "plasma".