Welcome to Robert Budny's home page (https://w3.pppl.gov/~budny)

I received a B.S in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
a Certificat du Trisieme Cycle in Mathametical Physics from the Universite du Paris,
and a Ph.D in Theortical Particle Physics from the University of Maryland

After active duty in the US Navy I was a Royal Society Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics of Oxford University,
a Post-doctoral fellow in Physics at Stanford University,
and in Theoretical Physics at the Rockefeller University,

I joined Princeton University as a Physics Instructor teaching Physics 101 and 102 "Physics for Poets"

Tokamak and ITER Division
of Princeton University's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The Princeton University home page is www.princeton.edu

The Princeton Plasma Laboratory home page is www.pppl.gov

I conduct research developing controlled thermonuclear fusion in Tokamaks as a potential energy source

Much of my current research uses the TRANSP plasma analysis code and the GS2 and GYRO gyrokinetic microturbulence codes
The TRANSP homepage is w3.pppl.gov/transp
The GS2 homepage is gs2.sourceforge.net
The GYRO homepage is http://fusion.gat.com/comp/parallel/gyro.html

I have also been applying these codes to understand transport in JET, DIII-D, and JT-60U plasmas.
The JET-EFDA home page is: www.jet.efda.org
The DIII-D Experimental Physics home page is: http://www.ga.com/index.php
The JT-60U home page is: http://www-jt60.naka.jaea.go.jp/english/index-e.html

Previously I collaborated on experiments in TFTR
See TFTR physics research

Citations for some of my publications are listed in
Google Scholar

Some of my publications in Elementary Particle Theory:

• "Electric- and weak magnetic-dipole-moment effects in e^+- -> l⁺ l^-" (with B. Kayser and J. Primack)
  published in Physical Review D, Vol 15 (1977) 1222 (pdf file))
• "Manifest Left-Right Symmetry and its Experimental Consequences" (with M.A.B.Beg, R.Mohapatra, and A.Sirlin)
  published in Physical Review Letters, Vol 38 (1977) p 1252-1255) (pdf file)
• "Can couplings of charged heavy leptons to the W⁰ be measured?" (with A. McDonald) published in
  Physical Review D, Vol 16 (1977) p3150 (pdf file)
• "W0 effects in electron-positron collisions on 1^- resonances" published in Physical Review D, Vol 20 (1979) p 2763 (pdf file)

Some of my publications in Tokamak fusion research:

• "What made TFTR supershots super and JET Hot ion H-modes hot" R.V. Budny and JET contributors
  draft manuscript
• "Alpha heating, isotopic mass, and fast ion effects in deuterium-tritium experiments" R.V. Budny and JET contributors
  published in Nuclear Fusion Vol 58 (2018) 096011 (pdf file)
• "Core fusion power gain and alpha heating in JET, TFTR, and ITER" R.V. Budny, J.G. Cordey and JET contributors
  published in Nuclear Fusion Vol 56 (2016) 056002 (pdf file)
• "Alpha heating and isotopic mass effects in JET plasmas with sawteeth" R.V. Budny and JET contributors
  published in Nuclear Fusion Vol 56 (2016) 036013 (pdf file)
• "TRANSP tests of TGLF and predictions for ITER" R.V. Budny, Xingqiu Yuan, S. Jardin, G. Hammett, B.A. Grierson, G.M. Staebler, J.E. Kinsey and JET EFDA Contributors,
  presented at the European Physical Society meeting Espoo, June, 2013 (pdf file)
• "Benchmarking full-wave ICRH solvers for ITER" R. V. Budny, L. Berry, R. Bilato, P. Bonoli, M. Brambilla, R. J. Dumont, et al.,
  published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 52 (2012) 023023 (pdf file)
• "Alpha heating in L-mode and H-mode ITER plasmas" R.V. Budny,
  published in Nuclear Fusion Vol 52 (2012) 013001 (pdf file)
• "Transport in JET H-mode plasmas with beam and ion cyclotron heating" R.V. Budny, M.N. Beurskens, P. de Vries, D. Dodt, C. Giroud, M. Lehnen, E. Lerche, M.-L. Mayoral, D. McDonald, S. Pamela,
  R. Sartori, S. Schmuck, D. Van Eester, T.W. Versloot, I. Voitsekhovitch, and JET EFDA Contributors,
  presented at the European Physical Society meeting Stockholm, June, 2012 (pdf file)
• "ITER predictions using GYRO verified and experimentally validated trapped gyro-Landau fluid transport model" J.E. Kinsey, G.M. Staebler, J. Candy, and R.V. Budny,
  published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 51 (2011) 083001 (pdf file)
• "Comment on Li pellet conditioning in TFTR" R.V. Budny,
  published in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 18 (2011) 092506 (pdf file)
• "Current control in ITER steady state plasmas with neutral beam steering" R.V. Budny,
  published in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 17 (2010) 042506 (pdf file)
• "Progress testing TRANSP-TORIC simulations of ICRH in JET" R.V. Budny, K. Indireshkumar, D. McCune, M.-L. Mayoral, J.~Ongena, D. Van Eester,
  J. Conboy, I. Voitsekhovitch, T. Johnson, R. Sartori, and EFDA-JET contributors,
  presented at the European Physical Society meeting Sophia, June, 2009 (pdf file)
• "Comparisons of predicted plasma performance in ITER H-mode plasmas with various mixes of external heating" R.V. Budny,
  published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 49 085008 August (2009) (pdf file)
• "Predictive simulations of ITER including neutral beam driven toroidal rotation" R.V. Budny, R. Andre, G. Bateman, F. Halpern, C.E. Kessel, A. Kritz, and D.McCune,
  published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 48 075005 July (2008) (pdf file)
• "Predictions of H-mode performance in ITER" Federico D. Halpern, Arnold H. Kritz, Glenn Bateman, Alexei Y. Pankin, Robert V. Budny, and Douglas C. McCune,
  published in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 15 062505 June (2008) (pdf file)
• "Gyrokinetic simulations of electron density fluctuations and comparisons with measurements" European Physical Society 2007 (Warsaw, Poland) (pdf file)
• "Progress testing TRANSP-TORIC simulations of ICRH in JET" Paper for European Physical Society meeting Sophia, Bulgaria, June, (2009) (pdf file)
• "GYRO Simulations of Core Momentum Transport in DIII-D and JET Plasmas" presented at the European Physical Society meeting Tarragona, Spain, June, (2005) (pdf file)
• "Testing gyrokinetic turbulence simulations" Talk at University of Wisconsin, Madison, (2008) (pdf file)
• "Comparisons of simulations with transport and fluctuation measurements" Talk at the APS meeting, Orlando, (2007) (pdf file)
• "The GYRO animation shown in APS talk" Talk for the APS meeting, Orlando, (2007) (wmv file)
• "GYRO simulations of recent JET plasmas" Talk at the JET annual TFT meeting, January 22-26, (2007) (pdf file)
• "GYRO simulations of momentum transport" Talk at the JET annual TFT meeting, (2007) (pdf file)
• "Transport Physics of Hybrid Scenario Plasmas in the International Multi-Tokamak Database and Implications for ITER" Paper at the 21th IAEA meeting, Chengdu, China, (2006) (pdf file)
• "Transport in H-mode and Hybrid scenario plasmas" Talk at JET, Sep 11, 2006 (pdf file)
• "Time-dependent Integrated Predictive Modeling of ITER plasmas" Talk at JET, July 3, 2006 (pdf file)
• "Core Thermal Ion Transport and Transport Simulation Issues" Talk at the Burning Plasma Organization meeting Oak Ridge TN, Dec 8, 2005 (pdf file)
• "Methods for Modeling Burning Plasmas and Validation using TFTR and JET DT Plasmas" Talk at the APS meeting Denver, CO, Oct, 2005 (pdf file)
• "Gyrokinetic Simulation and Measurements of Transport and Density Fluctuations in a JT-60U Plasma with Box-like ITB" (Poster for H-mode and Transport Barrier Meeting, St. Perersburg, Russia, Sept, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Time-Dependent Integrated Modeling of Burning Plasmas" (Talk at the Kritz Fest Symposium on the future on integrated modeling, PPPL, July, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Time-Dependent Integrated Modeling of Burning Plasmas" (with R. Andre and C. Kessel) Talk for IAEA W60 meeting on Burning Plasma Physics in Tarragona, Spain, June, 2005) (pdf file)
• "GYRO Simulations of Core Momentum Transport in DIII-D and JET Plasmas" R. V. Budny and J.Candy and R. E.Waltz, (Poster for European Physical Society meeting, Tarragona, Spain, June, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Preliminary GYRO Studies of Momentum Transport with two Ion Species" (Talk at ITPA Transport Working Group meeting) Kyoto, April, 2005 (pdf file)
• "Proposal for Submissions of New ITER Plasmas to the Profile Database" (Talk at ITPA Core Modeling and Data Base Working Group meeting, Kyoto, April, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Time-dependent Integrated Modeling of Burning Plasmas Talk for the Transport Task Force meeting Napa, Cal, April, 2005 (pdf file)
• "Flow shear, Magnetic shear, and Shafranov shift effects on transport in DIII-D plasmas" poster at the 46th APS meeting, Savannah, GA, Nov 15-19, 2004 (pdf file)
• "Time-dependent Integrated Modeling of AT, Hybrid, and ELMy H-mode plasmas in ITER" talk at the ITPA meeting), Lisboa, Portugal, Nov 10, 2004: (pdf file)
• "Simulations of Microturbulence in JET and DIII-D plasmas" talk at the 45th APS meeting, Albuquerque, NM, Oct 27-31, 2003 (pdf file)
• "Simulations of fast ions in ITER" poster at the 8th IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement at General Atomics, San Diego, CA, Oct 6-8, 2003 (pdf file)
• "Microturbulence, heat, and particle fluxes in JET and DIII-D plasmas with highly reversed magnetic shear" talk at the 30th European Physical Society conference, 5-8 July, 2003, Saint Petersburg, Russia (pdf file)
• "Microturbulence and flow shear in high-performance JET ITB plasma" published in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol 44 (2002), 1215 (pdf file)
• "Fusion alpha parameters in tokamaks with high DT fusion rates" published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 42 (2002) 1383-1393 (pdf file)
• "TRANSP simulations of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor plasmas" published in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 3 (1996) 4583-4593 (pdf file)
• "Simulations of Temperatures in Burning Tokamak Plasmas Using the GLF23 Model in the TRANSP Code"(2002) PPPL-3736 (pdf file)
• "Simulations of the neutral-beam-induced rotation, radial electric field, and flow shearing rate in next-step burning plasmas" (2002) PPPL-3737 (pdf file)
• "Microstability and Flow Shear Analysis in High Performance JET ITB Plasma" published in Plasma Physics Controlled Fusion Vol 44 (2002), 1215-1228 (pdf file)
• "Local Physics Basis of Confinement Degradation in JET ELMy H-mode Plasmas and Implications for Tokamak Reactors" published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 42 (2002), 66-75 (pdf file)

Some of my previous publications in controlled thermonuclear fusion:

• "Local transport in JET ELMy H-mode discharges with H, D, DT, and T isotopes" published in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 7 (2000) p 5038-5050 (pdf file)
• "Comparison of Theory with Rotation Measurements in JET ICRH Plasmas" presented at the 28th European Physical Society conference, 18-22 June, 2001, Madeira, Portugal (pdf file)
• "Comparison of RF-heated with NBI-heated ELMy H-mode Plasmas in JET" presented at the APS conference, 23-27 October, 2000, Quebec City, Canada (pdf file)
  
• "Simulations of alpha parameters in a TFTR DT supershot with high fusion power" published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 35 (1995) p 1497-1507 (pdf file)
• "A standard DT supershot simulations" published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 34 (1994) p 1247-1262 (pdf file)
• "Isotopic Mass and Alpha Heating Effects in TFTR DT Plasmas" R.V. Budny, M.G. Bell, D.K. Mansfield, et al proceedings of the 21st Europhysics Conference Montpellier, France (1994) EPS_21_Vol1_1994.pdf p82 (pdf file)
• "Simulations of deuterium-tritium experiments in TFTR" published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 32 (1992) p 429-447 (pdf file)
• "Particle Balance in a TFTR supershot" published in Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol 196-198 (1992) p 462-465 (pdf file)
• "Deuterium recycling, confinement and limiter flux in TFTR" published in Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol 176-177 (1990) p 427-431 (pdf file)
• "PASMA-LIMITER INTERACTIONS DURING THE q-MODE IN TFTR" published in Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol 162-164 (1989) p 214-220 (pdf file)
• "EVOLUTION OF TFTR SCRAPE-OFF PLASMAS WITH NEUTRAL BEAM INJECTION" published in Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol 145-147 (1987) p 245-249 (pdf file)
• "HIGH ENERGY AND PARTICLE CONFINEMENT TIMES IN PDX SCOOP DISCHARGES" published in Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol 128-129 (1984) p 4125-429 (pdf file)
• "PARTICLE AND HEAT FLUX MEASUREMENTS IN PDX EDGE PLASMAS" published in Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol 121 (1984) p 41-47 (pdf file)
• "THERMAL RESPONSES OF LARGE AREA TOROIDAL LIMITERS IN TFTR" published in Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol 93-94 (1980) p 449-453 (pdf file)

Some papers about TFTR with other first-authors which I co-authored:

• Effective temperatures, sawtooth mixing, and stochastic diffusion ripple loss of fast H minority ions driven by ion cyclotron heating in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor"
  M.P Petrov, R. Bell, R.V. Budny, et al., published in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 6 (1999) p 2430-1074 (pdf file)
• First Observation of Alpha Particle Loss Induced by Kinetic Ballooning Modes in TFTR Deuterium-Tritium Experiments"
  Z. Chang, R.V. Budny, L. Chen, et al., published in Physics Review Letters, Vol 76 (1996) p 1071-2436 (pdf file)

I have collaborated with predictions for the EAST tokamak in China:

• "Performance predictions of RF heated plasma in EAST"
  S. Ding, B. Wan, X. Zhang, R.V.Budny, Y. Guo, et al., published in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol 53 (2011), 015007 (pdf file)

I have collaborated with predictions for the HL-2A Tokamak in China
two of my publications with Q. Gao, et al., for the HL-2A tokamak:

• "Predictive study of high performance scenarios in HL-2A tokamak"
  published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 43 (2003), p982 (pdf file)
• "Sustained reversed magnetic shear mode of operation in the HL-2A tokamak"
  published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 40 (2000), p1897-1906 (pdf file)

I have collaborated with analysis of results from the Tore Supra tokamak in France

Several of my publications with G.T.Hoang et al.:

• "Experimental Determination of Critical Threshold in Electron Transport in Tore Supra"
  published in Physical Review Letters, Vol 87 (2001), p 4593-4596 (pdf file)
  

• "Internal Transport Barrier with Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance Minority Heating on Tore Supra"
  published in Physical Review Letters, Vol 84 (2000), p4593-4596 (pdf file)
  

• "A H minority heating regime in Tore Supra showing improved L mode confinement"
  published in Nuclear Physics, Vol 40 (2000), p913-921 (pdf file)
  

Some of my previous publications in Elementary Particle Theory are:

• "Manifest Left-Right Symmetry and its Experimental Consequences" (with M.A.B.Beg, R.Mohapatra, and A.Sirlin published in Physical Review Letters, Vol 38 (1977) p 1252-1255) (pdf file)
• "W0 effects in electron-positron collisions on 1- resonances" published in Physical Review D, Vol 20 (1979) p 2763 (pdf file)

My work address is:
Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton University
PO Box 451
Princeton, NJ 08543-0451
E-mail: budny@princeton.edu
Phone: +1 609 243 2730
FAX: +1 609 243 3233

A clip of my interview on "CarTalk" cartalk.cars.com from National Public Radio about 10 years ago is:
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This has been re-broadcast from time to time. I'm the second in this recent re-broadcast in the February 20, 2010 Show (#1008):

My interview about international collaborations in tokamak research is
DOE Pulse October, 1999

My interview about the shutdown of the TFTR tokamak is in:
CNN archive, April 5, 1997

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