D-T fusion-born alpha particles are mirror-confined in the central cell of a tandem mirror reactor. The resulting anisotropic loss-cone distribution of the alpha particles in velocity space is capable of destabilizing low ...

The invariance properties of various sets of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are studied using techniques from the theory of differential forms. Equations considered include the ideal MHD equations in different geometries ...

The Faraday shield of an ion cyclotron resonant heating (ICRH) antenna has been identified as a local source of impurities during high-power ICRH experiments on confinement devices. The understanding of the plasma sheath ...

A systematic method of making calculations for finite-strength, i.e., nonself-similar, shock waves is developed. Using concepts of Lie groups, the invariance properties of the spherically symmetric equations of gasdynamics ...

Energy spectra of charged-fusion products escaping laser-imploded deuterium-tritium filled glass microballoon targets were measured with a time-of-flight (TOF) spectrometer. The TOF spectrometer was carefully designed, ...

The semiconductor industry is introducing electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma reactors as reliable wafer etching tools. This industry requires radially uniform etching rate and radially uniform etching anisotropy. ...

Inertial confinement fusion experiments using laser beams have reported the emission of hot electrons in large quantities. This phenomenon has been one of the major hindrances to the efficient compression of a thermonuclear ...

As a new and significant contribution to the tokamak literature, the linear internal MHD kink modes in finite aspect-ratio axisymmetric toroidally rotating tokamak equilibria and their kinetic modifications owing to the ...

Interaction between an ion beam and flowing liquid Li has been studied in the FLIRE facility as a first step towards a plasma/flowing liquid metal interaction experiment. The retained fraction of implanted helium transport ...

A time-dependent theoretical model of flux-surface-averaged radial transport in tokamaks has been constructed and calibrated against a well documented set of temperature and density profiles from a pre-defined set of twelve ...