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cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use Helicon in your research, please cite it as below."
type: software
title: "Helicon: GPU-Accelerated Magnetic Nozzle Simulation & Detachment Analysis Toolkit"
version: 2.9.0
date-released: "2026-03-05"
license: MIT
repository-code: "https://github.com/lulzx/helicon"
abstract: >
  Helicon is a Python toolkit for simulating plasma detachment and thrust
  generation in magnetic nozzle thrusters. It combines GPU-accelerated
  Biot-Savart field computation (via MLX on Apple Silicon), WarpX PIC
  integration, analytical pre-screening models, Bayesian coil optimization,
  and Sobol sensitivity analysis. Validated against published experimental
  data from the VASIMR VX-200 and theoretical predictions from resistive
  detachment theory (Moses 1991, Dimov 2005).
keywords:
  - magnetic nozzle
  - plasma propulsion
  - electric propulsion
  - Biot-Savart
  - WarpX
  - particle-in-cell
  - plasma detachment
  - MLX
  - GPU
  - optimization
references:
  - type: article
    authors:
      - family-names: Olsen
        given-names: "C. S."
    title: "Investigation of plasma detachment from a magnetic nozzle in the plume of the VX-200 magnetoplasma thruster"
    journal: "IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science"
    volume: 43
    issue: 1
    pages: "252-268"
    year: 2015
    doi: "10.1109/TPS.2014.2320259"
  - type: article
    authors:
      - family-names: Breizman
        given-names: "B. N."
      - family-names: Arefiev
        given-names: "A. V."
    title: "Paraxial model of a magnetic nozzle"
    journal: "Physics of Plasmas"
    volume: 15
    year: 2008
    doi: "10.1063/1.2912440"
  - type: article
    authors:
      - family-names: Little
        given-names: "J. M."
      - family-names: Choueiri
        given-names: "E. Y."
    title: "Thrust and efficiency model for electron-driven magnetic nozzles"
    journal: "Physics of Plasmas"
    volume: 20
    year: 2013
    doi: "10.1063/1.4826508"
  - type: conference-paper
    authors:
      - family-names: Moses
        given-names: "R. W."
      - family-names: Gerwin
        given-names: "R. A."
      - family-names: Schoenberg
        given-names: "K. F."
    title: "Resistive plasma detachment in nozzle based coaxial thrusters"
    collection-title: "AIP Conference Proceedings"
    volume: 246
    year: 1991