@inproceedings{aceeb728ddbb4e45a122abe02ca25cd0,
title = "Coaxial Helicity Injection plasma start-up coupled to inductively driven sustainment on the National Spherical Torus Experiment",
abstract = "Using the method of transient CHI, world-record non-inductive start-up plasma current flowing on closed field lines in a toroidal confinement device of 160 kA has been unambiguously achieved. The resulting plasmas have electron temperatures of about 20 eV and decay resistively in several ms. Planned future experiments will include studying the effect of Li conditioning to reduce low Z impurities and its impact on the ability to demonstrate flux savings with CHI start-up.",
author = "D. Mueller and R. Raman and Jarboe, \{T. R.\} and Nelson, \{B. A.\} and Bell, \{M. G.\} and R. Bell and B. LeBlanc and L. Roquemore and V. Soukhanovskii",
year = "2008",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781622763351",
series = "35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2008, EPS 2008 - Europhysics Conference Abstracts",
number = "3",
pages = "1550--1553",
booktitle = "35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2008, EPS 2008 - Europhysics Conference Abstracts",
edition = "3",
note = "35th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, EPS 2008 Combined with the 10th International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets ; Conference date: 09-06-2008 Through 13-06-2008",
}