This National Science Foundation project grant award of $540,000 provides funding from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to support research into relativistic plasmas under extreme conditions. The award is made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields.
Specifically, the principal investigator at Arizona State University will investigate the role of super-strong magnetic fields on observable properties of relativistic plasmas, study the possibility of novel quantum phenomena, and generalize chiral kinetic theory to quantizing magnetic fields. The research focuses on physical systems where neither the weak-field limit nor the lowest Landau-level approximation apply well. Results of the plasma research will enhance understanding of phenomena in heavy ion collisions, compact stars, pulsar magnetospheres, and the early universe. The principal investigator will also mentor students and continue an international online theoretical physics colloquium.
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