Operation of the Tandem-Mirror Plasma Experiment with Skew Neutral-Beam Injection
- 23 May 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (21) , 1668-1671
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.1668
Abstract
Tandem-mirror plasma with sloshing-ion end plugs has been produced. Ion-velocity distribution functions are peaked at 47° to the magnetic field lines. Low-level ion-cyclotron fluctuations were detected at 1.8 times the plug-midplane frequency and with properties predicted by theory; they did not degrade plasma confinement in the plugs or central cell.Keywords
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