Bulletin of the American Physical Society
64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Volume 67, Number 15
Monday–Friday, October 17–21, 2022; Spokane, Washington
Session YO07: Space/Heliospheric Plasmas
9:30 AM–12:30 PM,
Friday, October 21, 2022
Room: 401 ABC
Chair: Arya Afshari, University of Iowa
Abstract: YO07.00007 : Preliminary Results for Experiment at WiPPL*
10:42 AM–10:54 AM
Presenter:
Khalil J Bryant
(University of Michigan)
Authors:
Khalil J Bryant
(University of Michigan)
Rachel Young
(University of Michigan)
Joseph R Olson
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Cary B Forest
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Carolyn C Kuranz
(University of Michigan)
Collaboration:
WiPPL
Some eruptions may be more powerful than others, resulting in an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) that can cause major damage to our modern electrical systems without warning.
We want to form a better understanding of how the ICMEs interact to create a more predictive model for them to more effectively defend our systems from a potentially devastating ICME.
For this project, we use the Big Red Ball (BRB) facility at the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory (WiPPL). The BRB is a 3-meter diameter plasma confinement system equipped with around 200 ports for diagnostic acess. Using the BRB, we affirmatively answer the question, ``Can we create a scaled analog of an ICME in a laboratory environment?'' My presentation will show some preliminary data from this experiment and provide some insight to the methods of analysis.
*This work is funded by the US Department of Energy Office of Science Fusion Energy Sciences under award DE-SC0021288 and is partially supported by the DoE collaborative research facility WiPPL under award DE-SC0018266.
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