The Tormac V experiment
Author(s) -
I.G. Brown,
B. Feinberg,
W. B. Kunkel,
Morton A. Levine,
R.A. Niland,
R. S. Shaw,
B. Vaucher
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
the physics of fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
0eISSN - 2163-4998
pISSN - 0031-9171
DOI - 10.1063/1.863631
Subject(s) - physics , plasma , toroid , magnetohydrodynamic drive , cusp (singularity) , magnetohydrodynamics , plasma confinement , magnetic field , field line , field (mathematics) , trapping , mechanics , geometry , classical mechanics , computational physics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , pure mathematics , ecology , biology
Tormac (Toroidal Magnetic Cusp) is a plasma confinement concept combining the favorable MHD stability properties of a cusp geometry with the good particle confinement inherent to closed field geometry, A Tormac plasma has two regions: an interior region in which a toroidal bias or studding field is embedded, and an exterior or surface region confined by mirror trapping along open field lines. The combination of these two regions is expected to lead to a configuration having confinement substantially superior to that of a mirror. and to allow the plasma to be stable at high {beta}. The Tormac V experiment is an attempt to establish such a configuration and to investigate characteristic behavior of the Tormac plasma. In this paper we describe the Tormac concept. the Tormac V experimental set-up. and the results obtained
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