Experiments to Understand High Temperature Plasma Confinement in Dipole Magnetic Fields

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Apr 2002

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American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As

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Two new magnetic dipole experiments are discussed in the context of understanding the confinement and stability of high-temperature plasma. The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) is a new device that will enable the first study of the properties of a high-temperature plasma confined by a dipole for many collision times. LDX consists of a large, high-field, superconducting coil magnetically levitated within a large vacuum vessel. Since field lines pass through the floating coil, the plasma is not cooled by contact to the poles. High-temperature plasma having pressure comparable to the confining magnetic pressure β ~ 1 can be produced and studied. LDX will test recent theories showing unique equilibrium and stability properties of confined plasma with stationary profiles. In the smaller Collisionless Terrella Experiment (CTX), a new array of emissive probes will control the radial electric field in order to investigate both curvature-driven and centrifugally-driven interchange instability and convection. Observations of the mode structure of large-amplitude interchange instabilities will be briefly described and compared with numerical simulation.

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