Conveners
Session 9
- Tom Wallace-Smith (Astral Systems)
Over the past ~40 years, many theoretical papers have predicted the remarkable stability properties of magnetized pair plasmas – largely due to the mass symmetry of the opposite charge species. However, there is a nearly complete lack of experimental validation. The mission of the APEX (A Positron-Electron eXperiment) collaboration is to confine and study a low-temperature, long-lived,...
Stellarators are a leading concept for magnetic confinement of plasmas -- usually with the goal of enabling terrestrial fusion power plants. At small scales, they are also attractive for fundamental science, such as studies of non-neutral plasmas or matter-antimatter plasmas; this is the goal of EPOS (Electrons and Positrons in an Optimized Stellartor), part of the APEX Collaboration, which...
Nuclear fusion offers the promise of a sustainable, low-carbon energy future. However, the success of this technology hinges on our ability to understand and manage the intense neutron environment within a fusion reactor. Unlike fission systems, fusion reactors generate high-energy neutrons (approximately 14.1 MeV) that interact with structural materials, leading to activation and potentially...
