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The Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Reactor (IEC Fusion) is a potential method for controlled fusion power. The IEC fusion reactor confines plasma via a strong electrostatic potential between two concentric grids as ions stream... more
This paper is the first in a series of three papers to summarize the recent work of an European-wide collaborationwhich is ongoing since about one decade using Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods in low temperature plasma physics. In the... more
Molecular motors perform active movements along cytoskeletal filaments and drive the traffic of organelles and other cargo particles in cells. In contrast to the macroscopic traffic of cars, however, the traffic of molecular motors is... more
In this phd dissertation thesis I present results from simulations of streaming plasmas in relativistic collisionless shocks, which are believed to produce Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows. Further, results from simulations of detailed... more
Several applications of PIC simulations for understanding basic physics phenomena in low-temperature plasmas are presented: capacitive radiofrequency discharges in Oxygen, dusty plasmas and negative ion sources for heating of fusion... more
The prospects for achieving net energy production with pB11 fuel have recently considerably brightened. Studies have shown that the multi-GG field potentially obtainable with modest dense plasma focus devices have the effect of reducing... more
Plasma-based accelerators can sustain accelerating gradients on the order of 100 GV/m. If the plasma is not fully ionized, fields of this magnitude will ionize neutral atoms via electron tunneling, which can completely change the dynamics... more
We provide a guide to implementing the particle-in-cell algorithm, which is useful for simulating diverse phenomena in plasmas. We focus on two-dimensional systems which have vector fields with three Cartesian components but depend only... more
The construction of the initial part of the J-PARC linac has been started at KEK for beam tests before moving to the JAERI Tokai campus, where J-PARC facility is finally to be constructed. The RFQ and MEBT (Medium Energy Beam Transport)... more
The concept for Electron Fast Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion demands sufficient laser energy be transferred from the ignitor pulse to the assembled fuel core via MeV electrons. We have assembled a suite of diagnostics to... more