Electrostatic Plasma-Confinement Experiments in a Tandem Mirror System
Abstract
Results from the tandem mirror experiment are described. The configuration of axial density and potential profiles are created and sustained by neutral-beam injection and gas fueling. Plasma confinement in the center cell is shown to be improved by the end plugs by as much as a factor of 9. The electron temperature is higher than that achieved in our earlier 2XIIB single-cell mirror experiment.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.1132
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhRvL..44.1132C
- Keywords:
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- Controlled Fusion;
- Plasma Control;
- Tandem Mirrors;
- Electron Energy;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Plasma Density;
- Plasma Physics;
- Plasma Physics;
- 52.55.Mg;
- 52.55.Ke