November 2013 | S. Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
The Neutral beam current drive mechanism, originally known as Ohkawa Current, is investigated for FRC plasmas using small amounts of high Z impurities.
November 2013 | R. Magee | APS-DPP | Poster
The C-2 field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are created via the dynamic merging of two compact toroids and partially sustained through the injection of high power neutral beams.
January 2013 | S. Dettrick | 2013 Energetic Particles Workshop UCI | Presentation
Without magnetic perturbations, NB Ion energy confinement time is τE~ 500us. Most NB ion energy goes to heating electrons.
November 2012 | E. Garate | APS-DPP | Poster
We are implementing additional scintillator based neutron detectors on the TAE Technologies C-2 system.
November 2012 | A. Smirnov | APS-DPP | Poster
A high-confinement operating regime [1] with plasma lifetimes significantly exceeding past empirical scaling laws was recently obtained by combining plasma gun edge biasing and tangential Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) in the C-2 field-reversed configuration (FRC) experiment [2, 3].
September 2012 | S. Dettrick | US-Japan CT Workshop | Presentation
Without magnetic perturbations, NBI energy confinement time is ~500ms. Most NBI energy goes on heating electrons. Supports the interpretation of HPF results.