Stable confinement of electron plasma and initial results on positron injection in RT-1
Abstract
The Ring Trap 1 (RT-1) device is a dipole field configuration generated by a levitated superconducting magnet. It offers very interesting opportunities for research on the fundamental properties on non-neutral plasmas, such as self-organization of charged particles in the strongly positive and negative charged particles on magnetic surfaces. When strong positron sources will be available in the future, the dipole field configuration will be potentially applicable to the formation of an electron-positron plasma. We have realized stable, long trap of toroidal pure electron plasma in RT-1; Magnetic levitation of the superconducting magnet resulted in more than 300s of confinement for electron plasma of ∼ 1011 m-3. Aiming for the confinement of positrons as a next step, we started a positron injection experiment. For the formation of positron plasma in the closed magnetic surfaces, one of the key issues to be solved is the efficient injection method of positron across closed magnetic surfaces. In contrast to linear configurations, toroidal configurations have the advantage that they are capable of trapping high energy positrons in the dipole field configuration and consider the possibility of direct trapping of positrons emitted from a 22Na source.
- Publication:
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Non-Neutral Plasma Physics VIII: 10th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas
- Pub Date:
- March 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4796062
- Bibcode:
- 2013AIPC.1521...63S
- Keywords:
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- magnetic levitation;
- plasma sources;
- positron sources