Recent Breakthroughs on C-2U: Norman's Legacy

被引：54

作者：

Binderbauer, M. W. ^{[1
]}

Tajima, T. ^{[1
]}

Tuszewski, M. ^{[1
]}

Schmitz, L. ^{[1
,2
]}

Smirnov, A. ^{[1
]}

Gota, H. ^{[1
]}

Garate, E. ^{[1
]}

Barnes, D. ^{[1
]}

Deng, B. H. ^{[1
]}

Trask, E. ^{[1
]}

Yang, X. ^{[1
]}

Putvinski, S. ^{[1
]}

Andow, R. ^{[1
]}

Bolte, N. ^{[1
]}

Bui, D. Q. ^{[1
]}

Ceccherini, F. ^{[1
]}

Clary, R. ^{[1
]}

Cheung, A. H. ^{[1
]}

Conroy, K. D. ^{[1
]}

Dettrick, S. A. ^{[1
]}

Douglass, J. D. ^{[1
]}

Feng, P. ^{[1
]}

Galeotti, L. ^{[1
]}

Giammanco, F. ^{[3
]}

Granstedt, E. ^{[1
]}

Gupta, D. ^{[1
]}

Gupta, S. ^{[1
]}

Ivanov, A. A. ^{[4
]}

Kinley, J. S. ^{[1
]}

Knapp, K. ^{[1
]}

Korepanov, S. ^{[1
]}

Hollins, M. ^{[1
]}

Magee, R. ^{[1
]}

Mendoza, R. ^{[1
]}

Mok, Y. ^{[1
]}

Necas, A. ^{[1
]}

Primavera, S. ^{[1
]}

Onofri, M. ^{[1
]}

Osin, D. ^{[1
]}

Rath, N. ^{[1
]}

Roche, T. ^{[1
]}

Romero, J. ^{[1
]}

Schroeder, J. H. ^{[1
]}

Sevier, L. ^{[1
]}

Sibley, A. ^{[1
]}

Song, Y. ^{[1
]}

Steinhauer, L. C. ^{[1
]}

Thompson, M. C. ^{[1
]}

Van Drie, A. D. ^{[1
]}

Walters, J. K. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Tri Alpha Energy Inc, POB 7010, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688 USA

[2] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

[3] Univ Pisa, Dept Phys, Largo B Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

[4] Budker Inst Nucl Phys, 11 Lavrentyev Ave, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

来源：

PHYSICS OF PLASMA-DRIVEN ACCELERATORS AND ACCELERATOR-DRIVEN FUSION | 2016年 / 1721卷

关键词：

PLASMA; INSTABILITY; TRANSPORT;

D O I：

10.1063/1.4944019

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Conventional field-reversed configurations (FRC) face notable stability and confinement concerns, which can be ameliorated by introducing and maintaining a significant fast ion population in the system. This is the conjecture first introduced by Norman Rostoker multiple decades ago and adopted as the central design tenet in Tri Alpha Energy's advanced beam driven FRC concept. In fact, studying the physics of such neutral beam (NB) driven FRCs over the past decade, considerable improvements were made in confinement and stability. Next to NB injection, the addition of axially streaming plasma guns, magnetic end plugs, as well as advanced surface conditioning lead to dramatic reductions in turbulence driven losses and greatly improved stability. In turn, fast ion confinement improved significantly and allowed for the build-up of a dominant fast particle population. This recently led to the breakthrough of sustaining an advanced beam driven FRC, thereby demonstrating successful maintenance of trapped magnetic flux, plasma dimensions and total pressure inventory for times much longer than all characteristic system time scales and only limited by hardware and electric supply constraints.

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