November 2025 | R. Groenewald | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
Overview of NORM (C-2W) Fusion Device –
NORM uses Neutral Beams and End-Biasing Systems to form and sustain either Mirror Plasmas or Field-Reversed
Configurations (FRCs) – see Roche et al., Nature Comm, 16, 3487 (2025) for NBI formed FRC report.
November 2025 | T. Roche | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady-state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current …
November 2025 | T. Roche | APS DPP 2025 | Paper
We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady-state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current …
October 2025 | N. Sheth (Univ. of Saskatchewan) | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
It is shown that transonic plasma acceleration in the converging–diverging magnetic field (magnetic nozzle) follows the unique global solution which is fully defined by the magnetic field.
July 2025 | J. Larson | Journal of Plasma Physics | Paper
A set of experiments were conducted on the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at UCLA to test the operational principles of a traveling wave antenna of the comb-line type. This antenna was designed to launch helicon waves (fast waves in the lower hybrid range of frequencies) on DIII-D.