May 2012 | R. Clary | HTPD | Poster
A neutral particle bolometer (NPB) has been designed and implemented on the TAE Technologies C-2 device in order to spatially and temporally resolve the charge-exchange losses of fast-ion populations originating from neutral beam injection into field reversed configuration plasmas.
May 2012 | B. Deng | HTPD | Poster
Improvements of the 9-point Thomson scattering diagnostic system for C2 field reversed configuration plasmas and measured electron temperature profiles consistent with theoretical expectations are presented.
May 2012 | H. Gota | HTPD | Poster
A reversed-field structure of the translated CTs and final merged FRC state have been directly verified by probing the internal magnetic field structure using a multi-channel magnetic probe array near the midplane of the C-2 confinement chamber.
May 2012 | D. Gupta | HTPD | Poster
In C-2 FRC device, low neutral density outside the FRC separatrix is required to minimize the loss of fast particles.
May 2012 | S. Korepanov | HTPD | Poster
A diagnostic technique for measuring the fast-ion energy distribution in a field-reversed configuration plasma was developed and tested on the C-2 experiment.
May 2012 | M. Thompson | HTPD | Poster
Magnetic measurements are a fundamental part of determining the size and shape of field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in the C-2 device.
March 2012 | M. Tuszewski | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Large field reversed configurations (FRCs) are produced in the C-2 device by combining dynamic formation and merging processes.
December 2011 | A. Ivanov | ICIS | Presentation
Based on several decades of experimental and theoretical research of Plasma Configuration with a Reversed magnetic Field (FRC) , it is presently considered as an alternative venue for steady state and/or pulsed CTF.
November 2011 | M. Tuszewski | APS-DPP | Presentation
November 2011 | R. Clary | APS-DPP | Poster
The TAE Technologies C-2 device [1,2] aims to explore confinement properties of colliding Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasmas, augmented with neutral beam injection.