June 2012 | H. Gota | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A long-lived field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma has been produced in the C-2 device by dynamically colliding and merging two oppositely directed, highly supersonic compact toroids (CTs).
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June 2012 | T. Roche | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A 16 chord optical tomography system has been developed and implemented in the flux coil generated-field reversed configuration (FRC).
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May 2012 | R. Clary | HTPD | Poster
A neutral particle bolometer (NPB) has been designed and implemented on the TAE Technologies C-2 device in order to spatially and temporally resolve the charge-exchange losses of fast-ion populations originating from neutral beam injection into field reversed configuration plasmas.
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May 2012 | B. Deng | HTPD | Poster
Improvements of the 9-point Thomson scattering diagnostic system for C2 field reversed configuration plasmas and measured electron temperature profiles consistent with theoretical expectations are presented.
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May 2012 | H. Gota | HTPD | Poster
A reversed-field structure of the translated CTs and final merged FRC state have been directly verified by probing the internal magnetic field structure using a multi-channel magnetic probe array near the midplane of the C-2 confinement chamber.
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May 2012 | D. Gupta | HTPD | Poster
In C-2 FRC device, low neutral density outside the FRC separatrix is required to minimize the loss of fast particles.
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May 2012 | S. Korepanov | HTPD | Poster
A diagnostic technique for measuring the fast-ion energy distribution in a field-reversed configuration plasma was developed and tested on the C-2 experiment.
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May 2012 | M. Thompson | HTPD | Poster
Magnetic measurements are a fundamental part of determining the size and shape of field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in the C-2 device.
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December 2011 | A. Ivanov | ICIS | Presentation
Based on several decades of experimental and theoretical research of Plasma Configuration with a Reversed magnetic Field (FRC) , it is presently considered as an alternative venue for steady state and/or pulsed CTF.
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November 2011 | R. Clary | APS-DPP | Poster
The TAE Technologies C-2 device [1,2] aims to explore confinement properties of colliding Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasmas, augmented with neutral beam injection.
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