FRX-L: A field-reversed configuration plasma injector for magnetized target fusion
We describe the experiment and technology leading to a target plasma for the magnetized target fusion research effort, an approach to fusion wherein a plasma with embedded magnetic fields is formed and subsequently adiabatically compressed to fusion conditions. The target plasmas under consideration...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Review of scientific instruments 2003-10, Vol.74 (10), p.4314-4323 |
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Zusammenfassung: | We describe the experiment and technology leading to a target plasma for the magnetized target fusion research effort, an approach to fusion wherein a plasma with embedded magnetic fields is formed and subsequently adiabatically compressed to fusion conditions. The target plasmas under consideration, field-reversed configurations (FRCs), have the required closed-field-line topology and are translatable and compressible. Our goal is to form high-density
(10
17
cm
−3
)
FRCs on the field-reversed experiment-liner (FRX-L) device, inside a 36 cm long, 6.2 cm radius theta coil, with 5 T peak magnetic field and an azimuthal electric field as high as 1 kV/cm. FRCs have been formed with an equilibrium density
n
e
≈(1
to
2)×10
16
cm
−3
,
T
e
+T
i
≈250
eV
,
and excluded flux ≈2 to 3 mWb. |
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ISSN: | 0034-6748 1089-7623 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.1606534 |