Published April 2, 1980
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Initial results of the Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
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Initial experimental results from the Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) are presented. Axial profiles of the plasma density and potential necessary for electrostatically enhanced confinement of the central-cell ions have been generated and sustained for the duration of neutral-beam injection. The resulting central-cell ion confinement against axial loss is improved by a factor as large as 9 above that given by magnetic confinement alone. The plasma exhibits gross magnetohydrodynamic stability and microstability. Under some conditions, a residual level of ion cyclotron fluctuations in the end cells heats the central-cell ions and degrades their confinement
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 10 p.
- Report number
- UCRL--84221
Conference
- Title
- International conference on plasma physics.
- Dates
- 7 - 11 Apr 1980.
- Place
- Nagoya, Japan.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 11550339
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFINEMENT; CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY; NEUTRAL ATOM BEAM INJECTION; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA INSTABILITY; REVIEWS; TMX DEVICES
- Descriptors DEC
- BEAM INJECTION; DOCUMENT TYPES; INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC MIRRORS; OPEN PLASMA DEVICES; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-800409--5.