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].
September 2012 | A. Smirnov | US-Japan CT Workshop | Presentation
A versatile, robust and highly reliable NBI system was built, tested and integrated with the C-2 experiment. NBI improves the plasma performance.
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.
June 2011 | A. Smirnov | ICOPS-SOFE | Presentation
FRC Offers Significant Reactor Advantages. Compact Toroid Plasma with zero toroidal field and closed field lines produced by diamagnetic currents.
March 2011 | A. Smirnov | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
An incomplete neutral beam capture can degrade the plasma performance in neutral beam driven plasma machines.