Overview of C-2 Experiments
February 2013 | H. Guo | EPR Workshop | Presentation
FRC offers an ideal configuration for an economic reactor and may allow use of aneutronic fuels.
Simulation of Fast Ion Transport in the C-2 FRC Experiment
January 2013 | S. Dettrick | 2013 Energetic Particles Workshop UCI | Presentation
Without magnetic perturbations, NB Ion energy confinement time is τE~ 500us. Most NB ion energy goes to heating electrons.
Rotational stability of FRC
November 2012 | D. Barnes | APS-DPP | Presentation
Charge separation and transport of the n=2 instability in C-2 FRC plasmas
November 2012 | B. Deng | APS-DPP | Poster
Bolometer data show that the plasma spin is in the ion diamagnetic direction, while the plasma column wobbles in the electron diamagnetic direction.
Upgrades to TAE Technologies C-2 Neutron Detector System
November 2012 | E. Garate | APS-DPP | Poster
We are implementing additional scintillator based neutron detectors on the TAE Technologies C-2 system.
High Performance Field-Reversed Configurations in the C-2 Device
November 2012 | H. Gota | APS-DPP | Poster
A high temperature, stable, long-lived field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma state has been produced in the C-2 device by dynamically colliding and merging two oppositely directed compact toroids, by biasing edge plasma near the FRC separatrix from a plasma-gun (PG) located at one end of the C-2 device, and by neutral-beam (NB) injection.
Impurity behavior in high performance FRC plasmas in the C-2 device
November 2012 | D. Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
In the C-2 FRC plasma, low impurities densities are essential to keep the radiation losses low as well as to achieve stable high performance FRC (HPF) plasma operation.
FRC edge physics using NIMROD
November 2012 | A. Necas | APS-DPP | Poster
We have studied issues related to edge physics of the HPF regime FRC [1] ” using the NIMROD extended MHD code [2].
Interaction of Fast Ions with Global Plasma Modes in the C-2 Field Reversed Configuration Experiment
November 2012 | A. Smirnov | APS-DPP | Poster
A high-confinement operating regime [1] with plasma lifetimes significantly exceeding past empirical scaling laws was recently obtained by combining plasma gun edge biasing and tangential Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) in the C-2 field-reversed configuration (FRC) experiment [2, 3].
High-Frequency Magnetic Fluctuations in Field-Reversed Configuration Plasmas with Neutral Beam Injection
November 2012 | M. Thompson | APS-DPP | Poster
The C-2 experiment [1] seeks to study the properties of field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas with significant super-thermal ion populations generated by neutral beam injection.