The research activities conducted at Project Matterhorn have been described in Tanner, Earl. "Project Matterhorn: an informal history" [Princeton, N.J.]: Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory (1977).

Tanner, Earl. "Project Matterhorn: an informal history" [Princeton, N.J.]: Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory (1977), consulted during preparation of scope and biographical note.

Further accruals are expected. A circulation copy and an archival copy of each publication issued by the Laboratory through its Publications and Reports Office is retained by the library.

Digital reproductions of the reports in the PM-S series are available at http://www.pppl.gov/library/archive/reports/

The originals are located at Furth Plasma Physics Library.

Scientific and technical information produced by PPPL employees is disseminated by the laboratory's Publications and Reports (P&R) Office.

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Report pages were detached from their original bindings and filed in archival containers

Finding aid written by Adriana Popescu in September, 2004. Revised by Adriana Popescu on November 11, 2004. Contributions by Daniel Adiletta, July, 2004.

Periodic status reports (PM), quarterly reports (PM-Q) and publications (Pub) related to Project Matterhorn activities during the period 1951-1958 have also been issued and are part of the library collection. A collection of Lyman Spitzer's papers is available in the Manuscripts Collection of Princeton's Special Collections Department.

Subject

• Controlled fusion
• Difference equations
• Fusion reactors--Design and construction
• Ionization
• Magnetic fields
• Mathematical physics
• Particles (Nuclear physics)
• Plasma (Ionized gases)
• Plasma confinement
• Plasma heating
• Plasma instabilities
• Plasma oscillations
• Stellarators
• Stellarators--Design and construction

Publisher

Lewis Science and Engineering Library

Finding Aid Author

Adriana Popescu

Finding Aid Date

2005

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