November 2011 | X. Sun | APS-DPP | Poster
Edge biasing has long been used in various fusion devices to actively control the plasma potential profile in order to suppress radial transport by decorrelating density and potential fluctuations through flow shear.
November 2011 | M. Thompson | APS-DPP | Poster
In any magnetic plasma confinement device, it is advantageous to limit hot-ion loss through charge-exchange with cold neutral gas by minimizing the gas density near the plasma.
November 2011 | E. Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
The TAE Technologies C-2 experimental system[1] is a linear device consisting of two separate multi-coil theta-pinch formation sections and a central confinement vessel.
November 2011 | M. Tuszewski | APS-DPP | Poster
New high performance FRC (HPF) regime. HPF includes plasma gun and neutral beams. Plasma gun provides E, Control via Edge Layer.
October 2011 | A. Smirnov | PPPL Seminar | Presentation
The merged FRCs in C-2 are suitable for high powered neutral beam injection (NBI) experiments. A versatile, robust and highly reliable NBI system was built.
September 2011 | S. Dettrick | ICNSP | Poster
We examine the use of the Thrust library [1] to accelerate on the GPU a Monte Carlo code used for Neutral Beam Injection in FRCs.