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Description
The Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) at UCLA is a collaborative research facility for studies of fundamental processes in magnetized plasmas, supported by US DOE and NSF. The centerpiece of the facility is the Large Plasma Device (LAPD), a 20m long, magnetized linear plasma device. The LAPD is used to study a number of fundamental processes, including: collisionless shocks; dispersion and damping of kinetic and inertial Alfv\'{e}n waves; turbulence and transport; flux ropes and 3D reconnection; and interactions of energetic ions and electrons with plasma waves. An overview of research using the facility will be given, followed by a more detailed discussion of recent studies of the physics of ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) waves, including generation of RF sheaths and scattering/mode conversion on turbulent structures in LAPD.
