Formation of collisionless high-β plasmas by odd-parity rotating magnetic fields

S. A. Cohen; B. Berlinger; C. Brunkhorst; A. Brooks; N. Ferraro; D. P. Lundberg; A. Roach; A. H. Glasser

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.145002

Formation of collisionless high-β plasmas by odd-parity rotating magnetic fields

S. A. Cohen, B. Berlinger, C. Brunkhorst, A. Brooks, N. Ferraro, D. P. Lundberg, A. Roach, A. H. Glasser

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Odd-parity rotating magnetic fields (RMFo) applied to mirror-configuration plasmas have produced average electron energies exceeding 200 eV at line-averaged electron densities of ∼1012cm-3. These plasmas, sustained for over 103τAlfven, have low Coulomb collisionality, vc* L/λC∼10-3, where λC is the Coulomb scattering mean free path and L is the plasma's characteristic half length. Divertors allow reduction of the electron-neutral collision frequency to values where the RMFo coupling indicates full penetration of the RMFo to the major axis.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	145002
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	98
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.145002
State	Published - Apr 5 2007

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