High-Temperature, High-Density Plasma Production by Vortex-Ring Compression
- 17 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 41 (3), 166-170
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.41.166
Abstract
The TRISO PS III machine at the University of Miami has been modified by improving the preionization of the plasma and increasing the ring frequency of the conical -pinch coils. The secondary magnetic compression field has been increased to 120 000 G at the conjugate points of the mirror. It has been possible, with this modified machine, TRISO PS IV, to obtain ion temperatures of 5 keV with corresponding electron temperature of less than 300 eV. The electron density was 2× . This plasma was held in stable equilibrium for 5 μsec.
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