Electrostatic Ion Confinement in a Magnetic Mirror Field
Abstract
The electrostatic ion stoppering in a magnetic mirror field is demonstrated experimentally in rather high plasma density (1010<n0≲1013cm-3). The ion loss from the mirror throat expressed by a loss factor δ, is reduced to about one quarter of the initial value. It is discussed as a confinement mechanism of ions that particles are reflected back adiabatically by the electrostatic field at the mirror throats of the magnetic field.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- October 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1143/JPSJ.43.1364
- Bibcode:
- 1977JPSJ...43.1364N
- Keywords:
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- Collisional Plasmas;
- Fusion Reactors;
- Magnetic Mirrors;
- Plasma Control;
- Adiabatic Conditions;
- Electric Fields;
- Electrostatics;
- Ion Motion;
- Plasma Density;
- Reactor Technology;
- Plasma Physics