[en] These proceedings cover the technical papers on plasma production, heating, diagnostics, instabilities, laser-produced and waves. Theoretical and experimental works are presented

[en] These proceedings cover the technical papers on general plasma theory and space plasmas. Theoretical and experimental works are presented

[en] These proceedings cover the technical papers on plasma production, heating, diagnostics, laser-produced and waves. Theoretical and experimental works are presented. (l.c.j.a.)

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[en] These proceedings cover the technical papers on plasma production, heating, diagnostics, laser-produced and waves, instabilities and confinement. Theoretical and experimental works are presented. (l.c.j.a.)

[en] These proceedings cover the technical papers on plasma production, heating, diagnostics, laser-produced and waves, instabilities and confinement. Theoretical and experimental works are presented

[en] These proceedings cover the technical papers on plasma production, heating, diagnostics, laser-produced and waves. Theoretical and experimental works are presented

[en] Theoretical and experimental papers are presented covering the following subjects: plasma confinement, heating, production, diagnostic, technology and confinement devices

[en] Production of a hot dense plasma by plasma flows escaping from a cylindrical surface in vacuum (inverted cylindrical corona) and colliding on the symmetry axis is studied analytically. It is shown that a plasma filament with a temperature substantially exceeding the temperature of the ambient medium is formed on the axis. This effect can manifest itself in axial discharges used to generate hard X radiation. Attention is drawn to the possibility of using this effect to heat the plasma to thermonuclear temperatures in inertial confinement fusion systems

[en] The ability to obtain high plasma densities with high fractional ionization using readily available, low-cost components makes the helicon a candidate plasma source for many applications, including plasma rocket propulsion, fusion component testing, and materials processing. However, operation of a helicon can be a sensitive function of the magnetic field strength and geometry as well as the driving frequency, especially when using light feedstock gases such as hydrogen or helium. In this paper, results from a coupled rf and transport model are compared with experiments in the axially inhomogeneous Mini-Radio Frequency Test Facility [Goulding et al., Proceedings of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 99), Torino, Italy, 1999 (Litografia Geda, Torino, 1999), p. 107] (Mini-RFTF). Experimental observations of the radial shape of the density profile can be quantitatively reproduced by iteratively converging a high-resolution rf calculation including the rf parallel electric field with a transport model using reasonable choices for the transport parameters. The experimentally observed transition into the high density helicon mode is observed in the model, appearing as a nonlinear synergism between radial diffusion, the rf coupling to parallel electric fields that damp near the plasma edge, and propagation of helicon waves that collisionally damp near the axis of the device. Power deposition from various electric field components indicates that inductive coupling and absorption in the edge region can reduce the efficiency for high-density operation. The effects of absorption near the lower hybrid resonance in the near-field region of the antenna are discussed. Ponderomotive effects are also examined and found to be significant only in very low density and edge regions of the Mini-RFTF discharge