A High Efficiency I.C.F. Driver Employing Magnetically Confined Plasma Rings

Instrumentation for magnetically confined fusion plasma diagnostics

Negative specific heat of a magnetically self-confined plasma torus.

It is shown that the thermodynamic maximum-entropy principle predicts negative specific heat for a stationary, magnetically self-confined current-carrying plasma torus. Implications for the magnetic self-confinement of fusion plasma are considered.

Intermittency and turbulence in a magnetically confined fusion plasma

We investigate the intermittency of magnetic turbulence as measured in reversed field pinch plasmas. We show that the probability distribution functions of magnetic field differences are not scale invariant; that is, the wings of these functions are more important at the smallest scales, a classical signature of intermittency. We show that scaling laws appear also in a region very close to the ...

European Heavy Ion Icf Driver Development

Approaches in Europe to heavy ion induced Inertial Confinement Fusion are oriented toward the linac-plusstorage ring technique. Despite the very limited support of this work, technical progress was achieved in some important areas. For the immediate future, a substantial intensity upgrade of the GSI accelerator facilities at Darmstadt is being implemented, leading to specific energy depositions...

Possibility of Microturbulence Diagnostics in a Magnetically Confined Plasma Using Multiple Scattering Effects

The idea of new diagnostics method for the small-scale irregular structures of magnetically confined plasma is suggested in the present paper. The method can be based on measurements of intensity attenuation of the normal sounding waves. Anomalous attenuation arises due to multiple scattering effects investigated earlier for ionospheric radio propagation. It has been shown that multiple scatter...