September 2025 | J.B. Titus | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Neutral beam injection has been shown to create field-reversed configuration plasmas on C-2W. Recent advances in optimization and control of eight neutral beam injectors help deliver customized current drive for a plethora of plasma regimes.
July 2025 | J. Larson | Journal of Plasma Physics | Paper
A set of experiments were conducted on the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at UCLA to test the operational principles of a traveling wave antenna of the comb-line type. This antenna was designed to launch helicon waves (fast waves in the lower hybrid range of frequencies) on DIII-D.
July 2025 | A.I. Smolyakov | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Plasma flow and acceleration in the converging-diverging magnetic field configuration, such as magnetic nozzle in electric propulsion and open magnetic mirrors for fusion applications are considered.
July 2025 | M. Onofri | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
In the Norm experiment at TAE Technologies, a reversed field configuration (FRC) is formed by reversing the magnetic field of a mirror
configuration using neutral beam injection.
January 2024 | T. Asai | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Rapid magnetic reconnection was experimentally observed to occur within a microsecond timescale, leading to the field-reversed configuration (FRC) comprising a single closed magnetic field structure.
November 2023 | I. Allfrey | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Newly developed magnetized coaxial plasma guns (MCPG) where counter-helicity spheromak merging
generates a high-flux FRC have been investigated for use in FRC fueling and re-fluxing