Project Grant DESC0024910

This three-year, $223,760 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of California, Los Angeles to study energetic electron interactions with oblique whistler-mode chorus waves. Under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to enhance understanding of the integrated Earth system, this award will quantitatively analyze wave-particle dynamics using numerical models. Researchers will compare simulations of oblique chorus wave...

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was awarded a $534,210 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports research titled "Time Domain Structures Driven by Whistler and Kinetic Alfven Waves in a Laboratory Plasma" from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. Under this award, UCLA researchers will investigate time-dependent structures in plasma driven by whistler and kinetic Alfven waves. This work furthers...

This $378,011 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will fund controlled whistler mode wave injection experiments at the High Altitude Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility in Alaska. The project aims to understand how certain radio waves launched into space can be amplified by energetic particles, which is critical for improving models of space weather phenomena and radiation belt dynamics. The award supports graduate and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $589,888 to the Space Science Institute (SSI) to conduct a series of laboratory experiments to better understand wave-wave interaction processes that may control imbalanced solar wind turbulence at ion scales. Specifically, the project will investigate the behavior of two interactions between co-propagating Alfvén waves: a novel interaction driven by Hall physics, and the dispersive...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $607,923 Project Grant to Nmc, Inc., doing business as New Mexico Consortium, to conduct research on "The Role of Kinetic Electrons in Alfvén Wave Parametric Instabilities at Low Plasma Beta" under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). This project aims to reconcile the complex dynamics of Alfvén waves observed in theory, simulation, and laboratory experiments through full particle modeling of Alfvén...

This $590,898 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into modeling chorus wave generation using particle-in-cell simulations. Led by New Mexico Consortium, the project aims to study chorus waves—commonly observed plasma waves in Earth's inner magnetosphere—through large-scale first-principles simulations. The simulations will use realistic magnetic field topology and plasma parameters from observations to test existing theories of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $249,000 to The Regents of the University of Colorado for a project titled "EAGER: NEW APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATING ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON (EMIC) WAVES IN EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE--LISTENING FOR WAVE STRUCTURE THROUGH SONIFICATION". The project aims to explore the use of sonification techniques (converting data into sound) to study EMIC waves, which are important plasma...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports research to develop a high-density, axially homogeneous helicon plasma source for the AWAKE (Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment) project at CERN. The research aims to qualify the helicon plasma generation technology for application in next-generation particle accelerator systems, which could significantly reduce the size and cost of future linear accelerators...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $662,579 to Boston University to conduct a comparative assessment of energetic electron precipitation driven by whistler-mode waves at Earth and Jupiter. The key objectives of this 4-year project are to: (1) characterize whistler-mode wave properties, (2) evaluate energetic electron precipitation, (3) examine nonlinear effects on electron precipitation, and (4) quantify the effects...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $134,481 to Saint Michael's College for theoretical development of reduced plasma kinetic models that allow simultaneous treatment of charged particles and electromagnetic fields. The award supports derivation of new theoretical structures for reduced plasma models, including gyrokinetic plasma models, that preserve exact conservation properties and enable...