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.
November 2025 | J. Barrett | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
Maintaining ultra-high vacuum is critical for sustaining high-performance field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in TAE’s latest fusion device—Norm [1]. Titanium gettering plays a pivotal role in maintaining vessel base pressures of 1 ” 10!” Torr or lower, suppressing impurities in the vessel…
November 2025 | S. Karbashewski | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
• Diagnostics, Beams, and Plasma Parameters
• Dynamic mirror shaping
• Magnetic Mirror Experiments
• Mirror-to-FRC Transition
• Multiple Fast-Ion Species
• 2D (Q2D) and 3D (WarpX) observations
• Validation of experimental results
November 2025 | M. Beall | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
Talk Overview:
▪ C-2W now can form plasmas with Neutral Beam Injection (NBI)
▪ Electron density profiles measured by FIR interferometry
▪ Profile shape parameterization
▪ Overall similar, but larger