April 2018 | N. Bolte | HTPD2018 | Poster
TAE’s advanced, beam-driven field-reversed configuration device has a large fast-ion population, allowing for fast-ion D-alpha (FIDA) studies. Development of a FIDA spectrometer for the new C-2W device is underway.
April 2018 | M. Thompson | HTPD2018 | Poster
The new C-2W experiment (also called “Norman”) at TAE Technologies, Inc. studies the evolution of field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas sustained by neutral beam injection. Data on the FRC plasma performance is provided by a comprehensive suite of diagnostics that includes over 600 magnetic sensors.
April 2018 | M. Nations | HTPD2018 | Poster
The presence of impurities can significantly affect plasma performance since they can account for substantial radiative power losses. To keep impurity content of the plasma low, mitigating strategies (e.g., wall conditioning by titanium gettering) are employed to help pump neutrals and reduce wall recycling
April 2018 | M. Griswold | HTPD2018 | Poster
An array of diagnostics was installed across the divertor electrode plates of C-2W.
They are well-situated to study electron heat transport on the open field line plasma that surrounds the FRC.
April 2018 | M. Beall | HTPD2018 | Poster
The C-2W experiment is an axially symmetric device with formation sections producing and accelerating plasmoids via theta-pinch which collide in a central confinement vessel (CV) and form a hot, stable FRC
April 2018 | L. Schmitz | HTPD2018 | Poster
A versatile combination Doppler Backscattering (DBS) and Cross-Polarization Scattering (CPS) diagnostic for the C-2W Beam- Driven Field-Reversed Configuration is described.