Progress on the CMTX (Colliding Micro-Tori eXperiment)
Abstract
Progress on the CMTX effort will be reported. The CMTX project has the goal of reproducing and moving beyond the results of the TRISOPS(Dan Wells et. al Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 41,3, (1978) pp. 167.) experiment, which was a compact torus experiment utilizing spinning tori created by CTP (Conical Theta Pinches). Opposing CTP create colliding tori which stagnate on each other and are then compressed by a simple pulsed mirror coil. The spin of the tori is apparently created by electron-ion drag and stabilizes the tilt instability. This stability to tilt modes allows stable tori in FRC (Field Reversed Configurations) to be compressed without nearby conducting walls. This allows nearly adiabatic compression of FRC tori to fusion temperatures to be achieved.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- November 1998
- Bibcode:
- 1998APS..DPP.G4S62B