Dynamic Formation of a Hot Field Reversed Configuration with Improved Confinement by Supersonic Merging of Two Colliding High-beta Compact Toroids
- Binderbauer MW
- Guo HY
- Tuszewski M
- Putvinski S
- Sevier L
- Barnes D
- Rostoker N
- Anderson MG
- Andow R
- Bonelli L
- Brandi F
- Brown R
- Bui DQ
- Bystritskii V
- Ceccherini F
- Clary R
- Cheung AH
- Conroy KD
- Deng BH
- Dettrick SA
- Douglass JD
- Feng P
- Galeotti L
- Garate E
- Giammanco F
- Glass FJ
- Gornostaeva O
- Gota H
- Gupta D
- Gupta S
- Kinley JS
- Knapp K
- Korepanov S
- Hollins M
- Isakov I
- Jose VA
- Li XL
- Luo Y
- Marsili P
- Mendoza R
- Meekins M
- Mok Y
- Necas A
- Paganini E
- Pegoraro F
- Pousa-Hijos R
- Primavera S
- Ruskov E
- Qerushi A
- Schmitz L
- Schroeder JH
- Sibley A
- Smirnov A
- Song Y
- Sun X
- Thompson MC
- Van Drie AD
- Walters JK
- Wyman MD
Publication date
January 2010
DOI Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)Abstract
A hot stable field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the C-2 experiment by colliding and merging two high-beta plasmoids preformed by the dynamic version of field-reversed theta-pinch technology. The merging process exhibits the highest poloidal flux amplification obtained in a magnetic confinement system (over tenfold increase). Most of the kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy with total temperature (T(i) + T(e)) exceeding 0.5 keV. The final FRC state exhibits a record FRC lifetime with flux confinement approaching classical values. These findings should have significant implications for fusion research and the physics of magnetic reconnection
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