Laboratory simulation of ion acceleration in the presence of lower hybrid waves

The UCI Q-machine has been used to simulate the effect of lower hybrid waves on ion acceleration. Laser induced fluorescence was used for high resolution, nonperturbing measurements of the ion velocity distribution function. The plasma consisted of a 1 m long, 5 cm diameter barium plasma of densities on the order of 10 to the 10th per cu cm contained by a 3 kG magnetic field. Substantial changes in the perpendicular ion distribution were found. Main-body ion heating occurred along with non-Maxwellian tail production. 6 references