Introduction
This Special Issue of JPP, edited by Cary Forest and Troy Carter, is entitled Experiments at the Frontier of Fundamental Plasma Physics and assembles a useful catalogue of the current devices under operation that can be used by graduate students and postdocs entering the field, but also to call attention to this very central area of plasma physics, at the intersection of many different applications and scientific communities.
Editors of the Special Issue:
Cary Forest
Troy Carter
The papers need not contain new results (though they would also be welcome) and should be written in the style of a review.
We are proposing a common outline for these papers:
1. Machine description and unique parameters/capabilities.
2. Description of the major physics question or set of questions being addressed along with a short tutorial about how the particular device addresses the question.
3. Summary of major results (where appropriate).
4. Future opportunities including both scientific opportunities as well as information about potential upgrades.
We would also entertain "concept" papers in which you might consider describing a plasma process or set of processes and a new facility that could be constructed to address these issues.
Expected contributors include:
Kian Rhabarnia (VINETA, Max Planck Greifswald)
Uli Stroth/Mirko Ramisch/Alf Kohn (TJ-K, University of Stuttgart/Max Planck Garching)
Scott Hsu (Shock experiment, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Tom Intrator (MSX and RSX, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Mike Mauel (LDX and CTX, Columbia University)
Mike Brown (SSX, Swarthmore College)
Ivo Furno (TORPEX, EPFL)
Earl Scime (LEIA, West Virginia University)
Shinji Yoshimura (Hyper-I, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan)
Troy Carter/Walter Gekelman (LAPD/ETPD, University of California, Los Angeles)
Cary Forest/David Weisberg (MPDX, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Jan Egedal (TREX, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Indexing and arxiv
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