NEWS: Chikang Li

An artist's rendering of a neutron star against the black background of space surrounded by a purple accretion disk and ejecting a bright white stream of x-rays from either pole.

July 31, 2024

Rishabh Datta is recreating celestial X-ray bursts in a lab

Rishabh Datta, a 5th year PhD student who recently defended his thesis, recently published a paper called “Plasmoid formation and strong radiative cooling in a driven magnetic reconnection experiment”. The article, which was an Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters, demonstrated that it's possible to recreate extreme astrophysical evens in a lab. His paper was also featured on the cover of the April issue of Physics of Plasma and was a Research Highlight in Nature Astronomy. 

PSFC News

Skylar Dannhoff in grey chair in lounge area

September 26, 2022

Finding community in high-energy-density physics

As part of the PSFC's High-Energy-Density Physics Division, graduate student Skylar Dannhoff is discovering the collaborative world of fusion research.

Plasma Science and Fusion Center

bow shock in the Orion Nebula

August 7, 2019

Astrophysical shock phenomena reproduced in laboratory

PSFC's Chikang Li and an international team of researachers have reproduced critical conditions of collisionless shocks in the laboratory, allowing for detailed study of the processes taking place within giant cosmic smashups.

MIT News

Members of the HEDP division, MIT

January 28, 2019

Stronger together

Officially entitled the Center for Advanced Nuclear Diagnostics and Platforms for Inertial ICF and HEDP at Omega, NIF and Z, the new Center will focus on the properties of plasma under extreme conditions of temperature, density and pressure.

PSFC

February 9, 2018

Measuring the magnetized universe

A measurement technique developed at MIT was recently used to demonstate the existence of turbulent dynamo in the laboratory for the first time. The findings are reported in an article published this week in Nature Communications. 

University of Chicago News

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