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M W Binderbauer1, H Y Guo, M Tuszewski, S Putvinski, L Sevier, D Barnes, N Rostoker, M G Anderson, R Andow, L Bonelli, F Brandi, R Brown, D Q Bui, V Bystritskii, F Ceccherini, R Clary, A H Cheung, K D Conroy, B H Deng, S A Dettrick, J D Douglass, P Feng, L Galeotti, E Garate, F Giammanco, F J Glass, O Gornostaeva, H Gota, D Gupta, S Gupta, J S Kinley, K Knapp, S Korepanov, M Hollins, I Isakov, V A Jose, X L Li, Y Luo, P Marsili, R Mendoza, M Meekins, Y Mok, A Necas, E Paganini, F Pegoraro, R Pousa-Hijos, S Primavera, E Ruskov, A Qerushi, L Schmitz, J H Schroeder, A Sibley, A Smirnov, Y Song, X Sun, M C Thompson, A D Van Drie, J K Walters, M D Wyman.
Abstract
A hot stable field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the C-2 experiment by colliding and merging two high-β plasmoids preformed by the dynamic version of field-reversed θ-pinch technology. The merging process exhibits the highest poloidal flux amplification obtained in a magnetic confinement system (over tenfold increase). Most of the kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy with total temperature (T{i}+T{e}) exceeding 0.5 keV. The final FRC state exhibits a record FRC lifetime with flux confinement approaching classical values. These findings should have significant implications for fusion research and the physics of magnetic reconnection.Entities:
Year: 2010 PMID： 20867853 DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.045003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN： 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161