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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Fermilab center renamed after late particle physicist Helen Edwards
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center, which officially opened in January 2024, is now known as the Helen Edwards Engineering Center. The name was changed to honor the late particle physicist who led the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator and was part of the Water Resources Development Act signed by President Biden in December 2024, according to a Fermilab press release.
K. Furutachi et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 343-345
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16949
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In the tandem mirror GAMMA 10, a gold neutral beam probe (GNBP) has been developed to measure the local electrostatic potential and electric field of the central plasma. The potentials at two points of which separation is about 1cm can be measured simultaneously with high time resolution. The estimation error of the potential is reduced to be ±15V using a new fitting function for the secondary beam profile. The electric field of the plasma maintained by ICRF only (~240 kW) is a little negative (about -5 V/cm), and it increased by about 20 V/cm and became positive due to the plug ECH with the power of 300 kW.
