November 2023 | G. Player | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
The C-2W advanced beam-driven FRC device utilizes 15-40 keV neutral beams to create a large population of fast ions, which are critically important for FRC heating, current drive, and stabilization.
February 2023 | R. Magee | Nature Communications | Paper
Proton-boron (p11B) fusion is an attractive potential energy source but technically challenging to implement. Developing techniques to realize its potential requires first developing the experimental capability to produce p11B fusion…
October 2022 | S. Kamio | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Fast ion tail was observed at more than the injection beam energy of 15 keV. In particular, the effective tail temperature of fast deuterium ion was notably high
October 2022 | J. Titus | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
There are eight heating neutral beam injectors and one diagnostics neutral beam injector on the C-2W experiment
October 2022 | G. Player | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
The suite of fast ion diagnostics on the C-2W device include neutral particle analyzers (NPAs), scintillating neutron detectors, silicon proton detectors, and particle bolometers
October 2022 | S. Kamio | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
In order to measure the fast ion using NPAs in the low neutral density core region of a magnetic confinement fusion device, active change exchange measurements are often performed using a NB as a CX target