Welcome to the
Department of Plasma Physics
KFKI-Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics
Konkoly-Thege ut 29-33, Budapest, Hungary
Letters: KFKI-RMKI, P.O.Box 49, Budapest-114, H-1525
Tel: (36-1) 392 2519
Fax: (36-1) 395 9151
The Department of Plasma Physics studies phenomena in plasma physics,
atomic physics, laser physics and their interdisciplinary fields.
Experimental
investigations are performed in the laser laboratory of our department
and in many other foreign/Hungarian laboratories.
Research areas and goals:
- Investigation of processes which determine the motion of
these
particles
in the plasma.
- Derive different plasma parameters (e.g. temperature,
density,
magnetic
field) by observing the motion of these particles in the plasma.
- Study how plasma parameters effect the spectrocopically
observed atomic
stucture.
Study
of motion and interaction of laser light induced plasmas (laser
plasmas).
- Due to the interaction of the laser light with the plasma,
high order
harmonic laser light is generated. This is a coherent, ultrashort laser
light pulse in the vacuum ultraviolet and soft X-ray wavelength range.
- Investigation of soft X-ray radiation from the laser
plasma.
Generation
of short X-ray pulses.
- Study of excitation and recombination processes of highly
charged ions
in the laser plasma.
Investigation
of collisions between atoms and molecules and their interaction with
laser
light, in order to:
- change the speed, i.e. accelerate (heat) or decelerate
(cool)
molecules
or atoms, ( in a recent experiment trapping and cooling of
rubidium
atoms in a magneto-optical trap was demonstrated)
- observe the correlated change in internal excitational
state
and velocity
(molecule recoil and atom traps), transmission of optical properties in
collisions.
- perform optical and quantum mechanical experiments with
cooled
atoms.
Hungarian and international cooperations
Plasma physics related investigations are done at the TEXTOR tokamak at
KFA-Jülich(Germany)
, at the ASDEX
Upgrade tokamak, at the Wendelstein
7-AS stellarator(Germany)at IPP-Garching(Germany)
, at the Institute of Electronic
Structure
and Laser (Greece) and at the TCV
tokamak (Switzerland).These investigations are supported in part by
the EURATOM.
Laser plasma investigations are done in cooperation with MPQ-Garching
and the
Department
of Experimental Physics of the Szeged University.
Staff:
Head of department:
Researchers:
- Bakos, Joseph S.
- Bencze, Attila
- Demeter,
Gábor
- Djotyan, Gagik
- Földes,
István
- Gál, Kinga
- Giese, Piroska
- Ignácz, Péter
- Kardon, Béla
- Kálvin,
Sándor
- Kedves,
Miklós
- Kocsis,
Gábor
- Petravich,
Gábor
- Rácz, Ervin
- Sörlei, Zsuzsa
- Szepesi, Tamás
- Szigeti, János
- Veres,
Gábor
- Zoletnik,
Sándor
Ph.D. students:
Engineers:
- Bürger, Gábor
- Bede, Ottó
- Mészáros,
Botond
- Nagy, Dániel
- Szulman, Márton
- Baross, Tétény
- Grunda, Gábor
- Ilkei, Tamás
- Kiss, István Gábor
- Krizsanóczi, Tibor
- Németh, József
- Sárközi János
- Szabolics, Tamás
- Tulipán, Szilveszter
Technicians:
Other documents of interest
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Hungarian homepage
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változat
Please send your comments in E-mail to veres@rmki.kfki.hu.
Last updated: in 2010.