Quasistatic formation of the spheromak plasma configuration

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Jan 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981phrvl..46..188y&link_type=abstract

Physical Review Letters, vol. 46, Jan. 19, 1981, p. 188-191.

Physics

77

Magnetic Field Configurations, Plasma Control, Spherical Plasmas, Spheromaks, Plasma Diffusion, Poloidal Flux, Toroids

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Results of an investigation of a means for the slow (quasi-static) and electrodless formation of the spheromak plasma configuration are presented. The experimental scheme is based on a transfer of poloidal and toroidal magnetic fluxes into a plasma from a ring-shaped flux core, resulting in magnetic reconnection of the poloidal field on a time scale that is slow compared with the dynamic time but rapid compared with the resistive diffusion time, and the creation of a separated plasma toroid. The feasibility and effectiveness of the spheromak formation scheme have been verified experimentally on a prototype spheromak device, in which a spheromak configuration lasting about 15-20 microsec (on the order of the classical magnetic diffusion time of the plasma) was obtained.

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