Titanium Gettering: Towards a Physics Diagnostic in Norm

November 2025 | J. Barrett | APS DPP 2025 | Poster

Maintaining ultra-high vacuum is critical for sustaining high-performance field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in TAE’s latest fusion device—Norm [1]. Titanium gettering plays a pivotal role in maintaining vessel base pressures of 1 ” 10!” Torr or lower, suppressing impurities in the vessel…

Numerical study of FRC stabilization in C-2W with external actuators

November 2025 | R. Groenewald | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation

Overview of NORM (C-2W) Fusion Device –
NORM uses Neutral Beams and End-Biasing Systems to form and sustain either Mirror Plasmas or Field-Reversed
Configurations (FRCs) – see Roche et al., Nature Comm, 16, 3487 (2025) for NBI formed FRC report.

Generation of field-reversed configurations via neutral beam injection

November 2025 | T. Roche | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation

We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady-state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current …

Generation of field-reversed configurations via neutral beam injection

November 2025 | T. Roche | APS DPP 2025 | Paper

We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady-state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current …

Integral expressions for self and mutual inductances of circular coils with rectangular winding cross sections

June 2025 | A. Ivanov | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper

The method of extracting inductance based on formulas has been widely used due to its simplicity and efficiency. The literature primarily
includes various formulas for inductance, which have been derived using different approximations.

Ion particle confinement in field-reversed configurations

June 2025 | L. Steinhauer | Physics of Plasmas | Paper

A system for analyzing equilibria with fully kinetic ions is developed, aimed at understanding ion end-loss rates in field-reversed configurations. The method builds upon the constants of motion in energy-momentum phase space.