SoLaBo-X: a cross-disciplinary research activity for heating, transport, and turbulence dynamics in solar/astrophysical and laboratory plasmas

A cross-disciplinary research activity for solar/astrophysical and laboratory plasmas “SoLaBo-X (Solar + Laboratory + Cross-disciplinary)” is presented. Multi-scale interactions and the energy transfer processes among the microscopic fluctuations and the macroscopic structures are key ingredients to elucidate long-standing issues, e.g., solar coronal heatings, solar wind accelerations, and turbulence suppressions by spontaneously generated zonal flows in laboratory plasmas. Beyond large difference of the mean plasma parameters, our project focuses on the turbulence dynamics and associated heating and transport processes in solar and magnetically confined plasmas. Two topics will mainly be addressed, i.e., (1)energy transfer analyses based on the higher order turbulence correlations for multiple-component and multiple-spatio-temporal field data, and (2)Machine learning assisted fast and accurate evaluations/predictions by utilizing observation data from the solar-observing satellites Hinode and SDO. The outcomes can also contribute to the future solar telescopes such as SUNRISE-3, DKIST, and Solar-C_EUVST.