October 2010 | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
Two Doppler spectroscopy diagnostics with complementary capabilities are developed to measure the ion temperatures and velocities of FRC plasmas in the C-2 device.
October 2010 | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
One aim of the flux-coil generated field reversed configuration at Tri Alpha Energy TAE is to establish the plasma where the ion rotational energy is greater than the ion thermal energy.
October 2010 | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A six-channel two-color interferometer has been developed for plasma electron density measurements in the C-2 field reversed configuration experiment.
October 2010 | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A two-chord IR3.39 m He–Ne laser interferometer system was developed for a flux-coil-generated field-reversed configuration to estimate the electron density and the total temperature of the field-reversed configuration FRC plasma.
October 2010 | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A Thomson scattering diagnostic has been developed for the C-2 field-reversed configuration device. Based on a multipulse ruby laser, the system measures the electron temperature at nine spatial points.
July 2010 | Physical Review Letters Paper | Paper
A hot stable field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the C-2 experiment by colliding and merging two high- ß plasmoids preformed by the dynamic version of field-reversed -pinch technology.
July 2010 | Open Systems | Presentation
The C-2 experiment aims at FRC sustainment.
June 2010 | Open Systems | Presentation
Unlike tokamaks, where the neutral beam shine through is rarely an issue, open magnetic systems with neutral beam injection oftentimes suffer from incomplete beam capture, which necessitates the handling of the shine through power load and beam particle recycling.
June 2010 | ICOPS | Presentation
Demonstration of long-lived FRCs by dynamic merging CTs.
May 2010 | HTPD | Poster
Two theta-pinch field-reversed configured plasmas generated in opposing quartz tubes.