Fusion Enhancement from Bunched Ion Beams
October 2018 | B. Scott Nicks | APS-DPP | Poster
Beam-driven ion-Bernstein mode seen theoretically, exhibits wakefield character that creates similar large fast ion tail and fusion enhancement
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Fast-ion D-alpha diagnostic development for the C-2W field-reversed configuration plasma
August 2018 | N. G. Bolte | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
TAE Technologies’s advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration device has a large fast-ion population, allowing for fast-ion D-alpha (FIDA) studies.
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Measuring dynamic fast ion spatial profiles with fusion protons in the Madison Symmetric Torus
July 2018 | R. M. Magee | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
Neutral beam injected fast ions play a dominant role in both the field reversed configuration (FRC) at TAE Technologies and the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) reversed field pinch (RFP), making fast ion diagnosis a major pillar of both research programs.
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Experimental characterization of Alfven modes in a field-reversed configuration plasma
June 2018 | R.M. Magee | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
High power neutral beam injection into the C-2U advanced field-reversed configuration (FRC) stimulates at least three distinct energetic particle modes, none of which have been linked to
a performance limitation. Here we present an experimental characterization of one mode in particular, a high frequency mode ( f > fci ) observed in the decaying phase of the FRC.
Measuring dynamic fast ion profiles with fusion protons in the Madison Symmetric Torus
April 2018 | R. Magee | HTPD2018 | Poster
Neutral beam injected fast ions play a dominant role in both the TAE field-reversed configuration (FRC) and the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) reversed field pinch (RFP), making fast ion diagnosis a major pillar of both research programs.
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An Ion Beam System for Absolute Calibration of Neutral Particle Detectors for C-2W
April 2018 | R. Clary | HTPD2018 | Poster
A high-confinement operating regime with plasma lifetimes significantly ex- ceeding previous empirical scaling laws was recently obtained by combining plasma gun edge biasing and Neutral Beam Injection in the C-2U field-reversed configuration (FRC) experiment[1].
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Effects of Ionization on Beam Parallel Component and Beam-Driven Perpendicular Modes
October 2017 | B. Scott Nicks | APS-DPP | Poster
Experiments indicate beam-driven mode in the vicinity of the ion cyclotron frequency ?=1 seen at low ?—conditions typically found in C2U FRC scrape-off layer and outbound of separatrix.
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Equilibrium properties of hybrid field reversed configurations
January 2017 | M. Tuszewski | Physics of Plasma | Paper
Field Reversed Configurations (FRCs) heated by neutral beam injection may include a large fast ion pressure that significantly modifies the equilibrium. A new analysis is required to characterize such hybrid FRCs, as the simple relations used up to now prove inaccurate.
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Accelerator Technology Development at TAE Technologies
November 2016 | Artem Smirnov | CAARI | Presentation
Neutral beam-driven field reversed configuration offers reactor advantages.
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Phenomenology of beam driven modes in the field reversed configuration
October 2016 | R.M. Magee | APS-DPP | Poster
The C-2U experiment offers a unique plasma environment combining a high beta field reversed configuration (FRC) embedded in a low beta magnetic mirror with high power neutral beam injection.
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