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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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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. V. Zaytsev et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 346-348
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16950
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Plasma generated electromagnetic oscillations at the frequency an order ion-cyclotron have been investigated in the high energy content regimes of GDT operation. That waves are found to be an Alfvén ion-cyclotron instability. The microinstability threshold scaling law has been defined: with increase of the plasma column radius to Larmor radius ratio the threshold value of the diamagnetism in the midplane decreases. It qualitatively matches the theoretical calculations.
