November 2025 | Y. Zhou | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
Fast ions confined by the FRC likely cause electrons in the FR to heat up and emit X-rays. We plan to identify the exact location of electron heating by improving the spatial resolution of the X-ray diagnostic. The X-ray diagnostic will also be used to study electron heating induced by an Electron Cyclotron Resonance…
November 2025 | S. Kamio | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
In C-2U experiments, thermal ion acceleration by a beam-driven wave was observed [R. M. Magee et al. Nat. Phys. 15, 281–286 (2019)]. This thermal ion acceleration is pointed out to dramatically enhance the fusion rate because the beam energy is transferred to thermal ions, bypassing the electron channel…
November 2025 | S. Ohshima | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
A new ion energy analyzer for energy- and pitch-angle-resolved measurement has been designed and developed, being optimized for beam-driven FRC, C-2W
November 2025 | L. Schmitz | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
Doppler Backscattering hardware has been used to detect the density peak in C-2W FRC plasmas from transmission/reflection transitions.
Main result: The peak density reconstructed from FIR Interferometry (via ABEL inversion) is on average 20-25% lower than the peak density determined via DBS.
November 2025 | L. Jian | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
High-fidelity measurements of plasma parameters in the fueling region of the C-2W field-reversed configuration (FRC) device [1] are essential for assessing neutral fueling efficiency, stability characteristics, and tandem confinement properties.