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Generalized Scaling Laws of the Formation and Effects of Plasma-Confining Potentials for Tandem-Mirror Operations in GAMMA 10

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: The main operations from 1979 to 2000 in the GAMMA 10 tandem-mirror, characterized in terms of the high-potential mode having kV-order plasma-confining potentials and the hot-ion mode yielding fusion neutrons with 10-20 keV bulk-ion temperatures, are summarized and generalized as a result of scalings of the formation and the effects of the potentials. The wide validity of potential-formation physics from Cohen's theory and the validity of the generalized Pastukhov's theory for the effects of thermal-barrier potentials on electron confinement are verified and consolidated through electron-energy balance.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.86.4310

Authors: T. Cho, J. Kohagura, T. Numakura, M. Hirata, H. Hojo, M. Ichimura, K. Ishii, A. Itakura, I. Katanuma, Y. Nakashima, T. Saito, Y. Tatematsu, M. Yoshikawa, R. Minami, S. Nagashima, M. Yoshida, T. Tamano, K. Yatsu, S. Miyoshi

Institutions: University of Tsukuba, Plasma Research Center, University of Tsukuba

Language: English

Topic: Magnetic confinement fusion research

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1994683406

FWCI: 4.508

Cites: 21

Cited by: 51

Related to: 10