Long-time containment of a pure electron plasma
Abstract
A pure electron plasma has been confined in cylindrical geometry for many minutes. Confinement scalings with background pressure and magnetic field show that the maximum confinement times, while long, are 100-5000 times shorter than the limit set by electron-neutral collisions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.654
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhRvL..44..654M
- Keywords:
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- Electron Plasma;
- Electron Scattering;
- Long Term Effects;
- Plasma Control;
- Plasma Cylinders;
- Angular Momentum;
- Helium;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Plasma Density;
- Plasma Physics