Particle deconfinement in a bent magnetic mirror

Gueroult, Renaud; Fisch, Nathaniel J.

doi:10.1063/1.4765692

Title: Particle deconfinement in a bent magnetic mirror

Journal Article · Tue Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2012 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4765692· OSTI ID:1257710

Gueroult, Renaud ^[1];

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Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States). Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.

Here, coils misalignment in a magnetic mirror can produce additional particle transport. The magnetic field non axi-symmetry is responsible for radial and longitudinal drifts in a way much similar to the neo-classical transport in a tandem mirror cell distorted by end plugs. Accordingly, a regime exhibiting large radial displacements––similar to the resonant regime in tandem mirrors––can be obtained by confining ions azimuthally, for example by means of a properly tuned radial electric field. Because of the mass dependence of the magnetic field non-homogeneity drift velocities, the azimuthal trapping is mass specific, allowing, in principle, the filtering of a specific species based on its mass.

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Research Organization:: Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)

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OSTI ID:: 1257710

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 19, Issue 11; ISSN 1070-664X

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