Bulletin of the American Physical Society
49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics
Volume 52, Number 11
Monday–Friday, November 12–16, 2007; Orlando, Florida
Session CP8: Poster Session II: Reconnection and Non-Neutral I; Spheromaks and MCX; MFC Diagnostics; Simulation: Algorithm; Simulation: Kinetic/Edge
Monday, November 12, 2007
Rosen Centre Hotel
Room: Grand Ballroom, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.DPP.CP8.27
Abstract: CP8.00027 : Confinement Time Exceeding One Second in a Toroidal Electron Plasma
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Authors:
M.R. Stoneking
J.P. Marler
Bao Ha
J.C. Smoniewski
(Lawrence University)
Pure electron plasmas ($n=2\times 10^7$ cm$^{-3}$, $a=1.27$ cm, $R_p=17.4$ cm) are confined for times exceeding one second in a new toroidal device, the Lawrence Non-neutral Torus II. The plasma is trapped in a 270$^{\circ}$ toroidal arc by application of gate potentials to sections of a sectored gold-plated toroidal boundary ($b=3.81$ cm, $R_0=18$ cm). At base vacuum pressures below $10^{-8}$ torr and magnetic field strengths approaching 700 gauss, the $m=1$ diocotron mode is excited by applying several cycles of rf near the resonant frequency to a section of the wall. The $m=1$ frequency, which is approximately proportional to the trapped charge, decays on a three second timescale, a confinement time that exceeds by at least an order of magnitude the confinement observed in all other toroidal traps for non-neutral plasmas. Numerical simulations that include toroidal effects are employed to accurately extract plasma charge and $m=1$ mode amplitude from the experimental data. Future work will include attempts to withdraw the electron source in order to study confinement in a full torus. This work is supported DOE-NSF Grant 0317412.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2007.DPP.CP8.27
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