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# Three ANR Projects Awarded to the LPP Cold Plasmas Team in 2026: A Remarkable Collective Achievement! The Cold Plasma team at the Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP - UMR 7648) has achieved a remarkable success this year, with three projects selected under the 2026 Generic Call for Proposals of the French National Research Agency (ANR). Led or supported at the LPP by Jean-Paul Booth, Svetlana Starikovskaia and Olivier Guaitella, these projects...

Romain Pioch (postdoctoral researcher), Marie-Alix Sagnimorte (École Polytechnique intern), Benjamin Esteves (Safran), and Cyril Drag (CNRS) have recently published a study in Physical Review E focusing on the diagnostics of iodine plasmas for space electric propulsion. This research also earned Marie-Alix Sagnimorte the “École polytechnique Department of Physics Research Internship Award” for the 2026 edition. Iodine is currently considered a...

Congratulations to Ambre Ghisalberti, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Statistical Study of the Location of Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause.” Abstract Magnetic reconnection constitutes the primary coupling mechanism between the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind, driving the formation of the boundary layer between these two plasmas. The efficiency of this phenomenon depends heavily on the position of the X-line, where...