User:RBudny
RBudny (talk) 12:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)This is Robert Budny's user page. I am an American physicist who has contributed to the fields of Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics and Magnetic confinement fusion. I studied abstract mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). My senior thesis advisor was Abner Shimony. After graduating I attended graduate school in the University of Paris, and then I was commissioned into the U.S. Navy and served for two years in the headquarters of the Defense Atomic Support Agency. Later I recieved my PhD from the University of Maryland.
After recieving my PhD I researched and taught at sequentially in the Departments of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, Stanford University, Rockefeller University, and Princeton University.
Later I joined the [[1]] to study Tokamak physics with the goal of developing a practical, minimally poluting fusion energy source. I collaborated with experiments at other tokamak research facilities, including the Joint European Torus near Oxford, UK, JT-60 in Japan, KSTAR in Korea, HL-2A in China, and Tore Supra in France. I also published predictions of fusion performance in the ITER tokamak being constructed in the south of France.
Some of my references are: Isotopic mass scaling in TFTR deuterium-tritium experiments [1];
Achieved and predicted fusion power in JET, TFTR, and ITER [2];
Alpha heating in JET [3];
Energetic-particle-driven off-axis-fishbone-like modew in JT60-U Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
Vector boson W0 - electromagnetic effects in
storage ring annihilations [4];
Exotic weak effects in magnetic dipole moments of leptons [5]
- ^ 'Isotopic mass effects of tritium-fueled high-performance TFTR supershots' R.V. Budny, E Fredrickson, and C. Skinner 2025 Nucl. Fusion 65 056005 DOI 10.1088/1741-4326/adbe8f
- ^ 'Core fusion power gain and alpha heating in JET, TFTR, and ITER' R. Budny, J.G. Cordey and TFTR Team and JET Contributors, 2016 Nuclear Fusion Volume 56 056002 DOI 10.1088/0029-5515/56/5/056002
- ^ 'Alpha heating and isotopic mass effects in JET plasmas with sawteeth' Nuclear Fusion 56 036013
- ^ Weak effects in e+ e- R. Budny, Physics Letters B 58 338
- ^ 'Electric-and weak magnetic-dipole-moment effects in e+ e- - l+ l-' R. Budny, B. Kayser, and J. Primack 1997 Physical Review D 15 1222