October 2017 | M. C. Thompson | APS-DPP | Poster
Tri Alpha Energy (TAE) studies the evolution of advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas sustained by neutral-beam injection.
October 2017 | Marcel Nations | APS-DPP | Poster
In magnetically confined fusion plasmas, the effective ionic charge (????) is a measure of the plasma contamination from impurities
October 2017 | L. Schmitz | APS-DPP | Poster
Ion-scale modes have been shown to be stable in the C-2/C-2FRC core, in agreement with initial gyrokinetic simulation results, with a characteristic inverted toroidal wavenumber spectrum confirmed via Doppler Backscattering (DBS) measurements.
October 2017 | Gabriel Player | APS-DPP | Poster
An attempt to experimentally determine electron heating due to neutral beam injection highlighted a diagnostic gap – lack of time resolution on single-shot Thomson measurements.
October 2017 | E. Granstedt | APS-DPP | Poster
Pre-ionization (PI) study Test stand constructed to improve RMF PI. Black anodized “light-blind” reduced reflections from flange.