Auxiliary Heating of a-Pinch Plasma by Radial Magnetoacoustic Standing Waves
- 4 October 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 37 (14), 897-899
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.37.897
Abstract
Auxiliary heating of a linear -pinch plasma column by an externally driven radial magnetoacoustic oscillation has been experimentally investigated. The axial field of the pinch was modulated in time at the frequency of the plasma's fundamental radial magnetoacoustic oscillation. The dissipation in the plasma column was sufficient to transfer into the plasma at least 9% of the energy stored in the auxiliary capacitor bank used to drive the oscillation.
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