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The editorial team of the Journal of Plasma Physics would like to call your attention to a Special Issue of JPP edited by Richard Buttery (Georgia Institute of Technology), Troy Carter (University of California, Los Angeles), Will Fox (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Yutaka Kamuda (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan), Piero Martin (University of Padova), Ulrich Stroth (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik) and Hartmut Zohm (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics) as Advancing Plasma Physics Frontiers Through Collaboration with Fusion Science.
Special Issue editors:
Richard Buttery
Yutaka Kamada
Hartmut Zohm
Troy Carter
Piero Martin
Will Fox
Ulrich Stroth
The different branches of plasma physics share common foundations and fundamental questions. Issues such as global MHD stability, magnetic reconnection, wave-particle interactions and particle energization are shared between solar physics, astrophysics, magnetosphere, and magnetic confinement fusion, with aspects extending to implosion physics and low temperature, industrial plasma behavior. Research in one branch of plasma physics can provide critically valuable insights to another, underpinning scientific innovation and development.
Recent progress and scientific collaboration has highlighted this with new insights, for example in how energetic ions drive ion cyclotron waves in the magnetosphere or in how energetic electrons interact with high frequency Whistler waves in astrophysical environments and tokamak disruptions. Much can be learned by collaboration between these traditionally separate branches of plasma physics.
To celebrate this and encourage further creative interactions, we would like to solicit papers for a dedicated session at the 2019 APS-DPP meeting this fall, with a subsequent special issue planned in the Journal of Plasma Physics (JPP). Papers are solicited that illustrate the benefit of collaboration between discovery plasma science (also termed frontier, fundamental or basic plasma science) and fusion science with the following scope:
- Use of fusion research facilities to advance fundamental plasma science in other fields (such as solar, astrophysics, magnetosphere, low temperature plasma physics).
- Studies in fusion science that inform foundations of fundamental plasma science.
Proposals for presentation slots at the APS-DPP dedicated session should be submitted to the APS-DPP conference in the usual way by July 3 (https://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/annual/), and communicated to Richard Buttery (buttery@fusion.gat.com) or Troy Carter (tcarter@physics.ucla.edu), for consideration in the dedicated session of contributed oral presentations at conference. Associated papers from these presentations or other qualifying work are invited for submission to a special issue of JPP by the end of 2019.
We hope this meeting and the special issue will provide an exciting forum for exchange of ideas, stimulating new thoughts, insights and collaboration in the field. If you have questions, please contact a guest editor: Richard Buttery, Troy Carter, Will Fox, Piero Martin, Hartmut Zohm or Ulrich Stroth.
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