April 2018 | 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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April 2018 | 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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October 2017 | 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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January 2017 | 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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November 2016 | CAARI | Presentation
Neutral beam-driven field reversed configuration offers reactor advantages.
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October 2016 | 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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October 2016 | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2U Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) experiment proved substantial reduction in turbulence-driven losses via tangential neutral beam injection (NBI) coupled with electrically biased plasma guns at the plasma ends.
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October 2014 | APS-DPP | Poster
Recently, improved high confinement regime is observed in C2 FRC plasma due to better wall conditions and higher formation magnetic field.
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September 2014 | Proceedings of NIBS | Paper
The negative-ion based injector of a hydrogen neutral beam with the energy of 500- 1000 keV is being developed in the Budker Institute.
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August 2014 | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
Measurements of the flux of fusion products from high temperature plasmas provide valuable insights into the ion energy distribution, as the fusion reaction rate is a very sensitive function of ion energy.
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