Earl Marmar
Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Poland
Biography
Dr. Earl Marmar received his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1977. During his graduate research at Princeton, he helped to develop a technique to introduce an intense beam of low energy neutral atoms into the edge of a tokamak plasma discharge that has found subsequent application in fusion related experiments worldwide. In the late 1970s, working on the Alcator A tokamak at MIT, Dr. Marmar was the co-discoverer of the edge plasma radiative condensation phenomenon which has come to be known as the MARFE. From 1984-87, Dr. Marmar's research on Alcator C included the first unambiguous observations of charge transfer, from excited neutral hydrogen to highly stripped impurity ions in a tokamak plasma, and the lamb shift in the ground state of hydrogen-like argon was measured with unprecedented precision. In his experiments on Alcator C-Mod, Li pellet imaging is being used to measure internal poloidal magnetic field profiles and plasma turbulence.
Research Interest
Atomic physics and spectroscopy of low, medium and high ~Z ions, and particle transport and plasma wall interactions in tokamak plasmas.
