Focuslab - Plasma Focus Laboratory - Institute for Plasma Physics (INFIP)

The activities of this laboratory are oriented to investigate pulsed dense plasmas of interest for nuclear fusion, and some of their technological applications. Our main topics of current research are: neutron prospection methods, and ultrafast introspective imaging of metallic objects using, respectively, neutrons and high-energy x-rays produced by Mather-type Plasma Focus devices of small and medium energy.

In conjunction with the PLADEMA, three-dimensional tomographic methods are investigated that allow to reconstruct 3D images of metallic objects from a reduced number of views. Tomographies of metallic pieces were obtained, and also the first known x-ray image of metallic objects in fast movement, as it is the rotor of an airplane turbine turning at 6100 rpm. The feasibility to detect water using scattering of DD neutrons was also demonstrated.

Our team is integrated by young scientists belonging to the Departamento de Física of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and to the Institute for Plasma Physics - CONICET. The Plasma Focus Laboratory is conducted by Dr César Moreno since 1999.

Our laboratory is associated to the Interinstitutional Network of Dense Plasmas - PLADEMA.

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