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FIU Experimental Plasma Physics Group (FEPP)

ABOVE: Pierre Avila (FIU), Dr. Douglass Darrow (PPPL), Adrianna Angulo (FIU), RamonaValenzuelaPerez (FIU), Dr. Werner Boeglin (FIU), Omar Leon (FIU), Carlos Lopez (FIU) standing in front of the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

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Current Project

Please visit our TWiki page for our Charged Fusion Products Diagnostic, also called the Proton Detector: Page for MAST Diagnostic new_twiki_image_scaled.png

FIU Group Members

Principal Investigator (PI):

  • Werner Boeglin
Graduate Student: Undergraduate Students:
  • Adrianna Angulo
  • Javierra Latorre
  • Doug Tuckler
FIU Alumni:
  • Pierre Avila
  • Omar Leon
  • Carlos Lopez
Collaborators:
  • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) located in Princeton, New Jersey
  • Culham Science Centre, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) located in Culham, Oxfordshire, England
Past Undergraduate Students:
  • Rahul Patel
Past High School Students:
  • Aram Sargsian

Research Opportunities

Research Facilities:

  • FIU Physics Laboratory CP185
  • National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at the PPPL http://nstx.pppl.gov/overview.html
  • National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) at the PPPL (upgrade not yet completed)
  • Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) at the CCFE http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/MAST.aspx
  • Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U) at the CCFE (upgrade not yet completed)
Undergraduate Research: Graduate Research:

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ABOVE: High Vacuum system for bench testing

Past Projects

3-D reconstruction of dust particle trajectories in the NSTX

The original Charged Fusion Products Diagnostic that would have been installed in NSTX (there was a premature shutdown of NSTX for its upgrade): Screen_Shot_2013-04-12_at_9.58.10_PM.png

LEFT AND RIGHT: Images of 3D cad drawings for detector housing/ probe head with the ability to change detector orientations

-- RamonaValenzuelaPerez - 2013-11-15

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