October 2016 | Michel Tuszewski | APS-DPP | Poster
Experimentally measured inverted core density fluctuations spectra show the absence of ion-scale modes in the FRC core, in agreement with linear, local gyrokinetic simulations.
October 2016 | Matt Thompson | APS-DPP | Poster
TAE Technologies (TAE) seeks to study the evolution of advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas sustained and heated by neutral beam (NB) injection.
October 2016 | Artem Smirnov and Richard Magee | APS-DPP | Presentation
Provide fast learning cycles and large experimental dataset. Demonstrate sustainment via Neutral Beam Injection for > 5ms with high repeatability.
October 2016 | S. Dettrick | APS-DPP | Poster
Simulation of High Performance Beam Driven FRC shows that hot FRC is formed by thermalization of fast colliding FRCs.
October 2016 | Hiroshi Gota | IAEA-FEC | Poster
The world’s largest compact-toroid device, C-2, has been upgraded to C-2U at TAE Technologies to achieve sustainment of field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas by neutral-beam (NB) injection (NBI) and edge biasing, and the C-2U experiment is characterized by the following key system upgrades.