{"id":184385,"date":"2024-03-07T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/plasma-oscillations-propel-breakthroughs-in-fusion-energy"},"modified":"2024-03-07T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:22:26","slug":"plasma-oscillations-propel-breakthroughs-in-fusion-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/plasma-oscillations-propel-breakthroughs-in-fusion-energy","title":{"rendered":"Plasma oscillations propel breakthroughs in fusion energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plasma-oscillations-propel-breakthroughs-in-fusion-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most people know about solids, liquids, and gases as the main three states of matter, but a fourth state of matter exists as well. Plasma\u2014also known as ionized gas\u2014is the most abundant, observable form of matter in our universe, found in the sun and other celestial bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Creating the hot mix of freely moving electrons and ions that compose a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasma\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasma<\/a> often requires extreme pressures or temperatures. In these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/extreme+conditions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extreme conditions<\/a>, researchers continue to uncover the unexpected ways that plasma can move and evolve. By better understanding the motion of plasma, scientists gain valuable insights into solar physics, astrophysics, and fusion.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.132.095101\">paper<\/a> published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, researchers from the University of Rochester, along with colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, discovered a new class of plasma oscillations\u2014the back-and-forth, wave-like movement of electrons and ions. The findings have implications for improving the performance of miniature particle accelerators and the reactors used to create fusion energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know about solids, liquids, and gases as the main three states of matter, but a fourth state of matter exists as well. Plasma\u2014also known as ionized gas\u2014is the most abundant, observable form of matter in our universe, found in the sun and other celestial bodies. Creating the hot mix of freely moving electrons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}