Electron and ion temperature profiles during merging of two FRC plasmas

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Abstract

Plasma temperature profiles are measured in the C-2 field reversed configuration (FRC) experiment during the coaxial merging of two FRCs plasmas. Electron temperatures are measured using a nine spatial point Thomson scattering system and ion temperature profiles are estimated from multi-chord ion Doppler spectroscopy. Results are used to refine MHD simulations performed using the LamyRidge code.

Authors

  • Fenton Glass

    • Tri Alpha Energy, Inc.

  • Deepak Gupta

  • Sean Dettrick

  • Bihe Deng

  • Eusebio Garate

  • Michel Tuszewski