Magnetic fusion with high energy self-colliding ion beams
Abstract
Self-consistent equilibria are obtained for high beta plasma where almost all of the ions are energetic with a gyroradius of the order of the plasma scale length. Magnetohydrodynamics would not apply to such a plasma. Recent experiments with tokamaks suggest that it would be insensitive to microinstabilities. Several methods are described for creating the plasma with intense neutralized ion beams.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1818
- Bibcode:
- 1993PhRvL..70.1818R
- Keywords:
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- 52.55.Lf;
- Field-reversed configurations rotamaks astrons ion rings magnetized target fusion and cusps