October 2016 | A. Necas | APS-DPP | Poster
Robust BUT non-destructive instability during beam injection. Predicted modes for various beta. Experimental observations consistent with modeling.
October 2016 | D.P. Fulton | APS-DPP | Poster
5 ms sustainment on C-2U heralds transport limited confinement in advanced beam driven FRCs.
June 2016 | Niko Rath | AIP Publishing | Paper
We show that in a field-reversed-configuration, the plasma is unstable to either transverse or axial rigid displacement, but never to both.
May 2016 | S. Gupta | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A significant improvement of field reversed configuration (FRC) lifetime and plasma confinement times in the C-2 plasma, called High Performance FRC regime, has been observed with neutral beam injection (NBI), improved edge stability, and better wall conditioning.
May 2016 | Daniel Fulton | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Following the recent remarkable progress in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability control in the C-2U advanced beam driven field-reversed configuration (FRC), turbulent transport has become one of the foremost obstacles on the path towards an FRC-based fusion reactor.
April 2016 | Sean Dettrick | Sherwood | Presentation
The TAE research program has been successful due to the agility and close interaction between experiment, theory, and engineering groups.