October 2018 | K. Zhai | APS-DPP | Poster
5-channel bandpass filter polychromators (in collaboration with GA) Four spectral channels are optimized for electron temperature measurement from 10eV to 2keV.
October 2018 | J. Titus | APS-DPP | Poster
Heating, current drive, and partial fueling from neutral beam injection are essential to sustainment of C-2W field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas.
October 2018 | J. Romero | APS-DPP | Poster
Efficient neutral beam capture and retention requires maintenance of plasma axisymmetry to avoid stochastic diffusion losses.
October 2018 | J. Bao | APS-DPP | Poster
Local simulation of FRC finds that the drift wave instability is stable in the core region while is unstable in the SOL region [3,4,5].
October 2018 | I. Allfrey | APS-DPP | Poster
Abstract One of the limiting factors in the lifetime of a field- reversed configuration (FRC) is particle loss.
October 2018 | H. Gota | APS-DPP | Poster
TAE Technologies research is devoted to producing high temperature, stable, long-lived field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas by neutral-beam injection (NBI) and edge biasing/control.
October 2018 | F. Tanaka | APS-DPP | Poster
A magnetized coaxial plasma gun (MCPG) is one of the devices used to generate and accelerate a compact toroid (CT) with a spheromak-like magnetic configuration.
October 2018 | F. Ceccherini | APS-DPP | Poster
Tilt instability in FRC plasmas1 is a well-known MHD phenomenon that has been extensively investigated over the years by different authors and an empirical scaling law
October 2018 | E. Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
Increased stored energy, improved pulsed power reliability, and dynamic control of magnetic fields have allowed creation of FRC targets with improved characteristics.
October 2018 | E. Parke | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2W is a field-reversed configuration (FRC) experiment with goals that include increasing plasma lifetimes and electron temperatures with respect to its predecessor C-2U