Method and apparatus for heating and compressing plasma

Details Method and apparatus for heating and compressing plasma Method and apparatus for heating and compressing plasma

1975-11-06

1978-01-10

LaRoche, Eugene R.

Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems

Discharge device load with fluent material supply to the...

Plasma generating

176 3, 3151112, 3151117, G21B 100

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040681475

ABSTRACT:
Plasma vortex structures generated by coaxial theta pinch guns are compressed and amplified by secondary adiabatic compression. A pair of vortex rings originating at opposite ends of a vacuum chamber are caused to meet at the chamber center by the confining and guiding effects of a primary magnetic mirror. A secondary magnetic mirror starts to compress the plasma as soon as the collision has occurred. The secondary compression amplifies the electrical currents and mass motions already in the vortex rings when they leave the conical theta pinch guns. The amplification process heats the plasma by a process of turbulent heating to very high temperatures.

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