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.
August 2011 | L. Galeotti | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Axisymmetric equilibrium of a magnetically confined plasma with multiple ion species is considered. To describe hot plasmas with isothermal surfaces, we adopt a formulation consistent with zero poloidal ion flow.
August 2011 | H. Gota | Proceedings of ICC-2011 | Paper
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, highly supersonic compact toroids (CTs).
August 2011 | H. Gota | ICC Workshop | Presentation
Demonstration of long-lived FRCs by dynamic merging Compact Toroids (CTs). Hot stable FRCs have been produced C-2 using the novel merging FRC technique, and plasma lifetime achieved record exceeding 2ms.
June 2011 | M. Slepchenkov | 2011 ICOPS-SOFE | Paper
This paper Controller for the describes the Limiter-Coil Current Flux-Coil Generated Field-Reversed Configuration plasma confinement device.