October 2023 | F. Ceccherini | IAEA-FEC 2023 | Poster
Plasma heating through fast waves, from ion cyclotron and high harmonic fast wave (HHFW) resonances up to helicon regime, represents a key topic in the development of a nuclear fusion device.
August 2023 | S. Gupta | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
The formation of electrostatic potential in an expanding magnetic field divertor is numerically simulated using a kinetic model. As theoretically expected, the electrostatic potential is formed in the expanding magnetic field…
May 2022 | R. Groenewald | Sherwood 2023 | Poster
Enable steady-state simulations of the FRC reactor to study global stability and particle transport.
May 2022 | F. Ceccherini | Sherwood 2023 | Poster
HHFW in FRC configurations requires a hot-plasma approach that can be investigated through the RFP.
First results show that energy deposition is expected to depend
strongly on parallel refractive index.
February 2023 | R. Magee | Nature Communications | Paper
Proton-boron (p11B) fusion is an attractive potential energy source but technically challenging to implement. Developing techniques to realize its potential requires first developing the experimental capability to produce p11B fusion…