Magnetic compression of charge-neutralized ion beams. Final report
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:7222841
Magnetic compression of a cold, charge-neutralized ion beam due to passage through a slowly-varying magnetic-mirror field is studied. Conditions on the field and beam parameters are derived which permit the beam to be compressed to order-of-magnitude higher current densities while preserving the laminar nature of the flow. Effects associated with rotation, beam convergence, and velocity shear in the incident beam, and those due to self fields are included in the analysis. Utilization of compressed beams extracted from reflex triodes and ion diodes for heating of thermonuclear plasmas is discussed. (Author)
- Research Organization:
- Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7222841
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-033859; NRL-MR-3413
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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