Extraction of positive and negative ions from a saddle antenna radio-frequency surface plasma source (SA RF SPS) is considered. Several versions of new plasma generators with different antennas and magnetic field configurations were tested in the small Test Stand. The efficiency of positive ion generation in plasma has been improved up to 80 times from 2.5 mA/cm kW to ~0.2 A/cm per 1 kW. For ce...

The actual source of coronal heating is one of the longest standing unsolved mysteries in all of astrophysics, but it is only in recent years that observations have begun making significant contributions. Coronal loops, their structure and sub-structure, their temperature and density details, and their evolution with time, may hold the key to solving this mystery. Because spatial resolution of ...

The ion heating mechanism in the context of laser interacting with plasma immersed a strong magnetic field is studied. chosen to be for electromagnetic propagation inside governed by magnetized dispersion relation. Both X and RL mode configurations have been studied detail using Particle - In Cell (PIC) simulations. It shown that energy absorption process resonant wherein frequency matches an u...

A method is presented for the measurement of the electron density in an experimental plasma fusion device by means of microwave reflectometry. Since microwaves with increasing frequency can penetrate deeper into the plasma, it is possible to sample the electron density distribution by frequency-sweep techniques. For the first time the system allows a non-contact measurement of the electron dens...

We investigated the phase transformation of hot dense fluid hydrogen using static high-pressure laser-heating experiments in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. The results show anomalies in the heating efficiency that are likely to be attributed to the phase transition from a diatomic to monoatomic fluid hydrogen (plasma phase transition) in the pressure range between 82 and 106 GPa. This study...

Anomalous ion and impurity heating in reversed field pinch plasmas is addressed. Previous work #N. Mattor et al., Comments Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 15, 65 !1992"$, which calculated the heating of bulk ions by gyro and Landau resonances with turbulent fluctuations cascading from unstable tearing modes, is extended to impurity species measured in Madison symmetric torus !MST". The heavier m...

A spatiotemporal study of neutral gas temperature during the first 100 s of operation for a radio-frequency electrothermal plasma micro-thruster operating on nitrogen at 60 W and 1.5 Torr is performed to identify the heating mechanisms involved. Neutral gas temperature is estimated from rovibrational band fitting of the nitrogen second positive system. A set of baffles are used to restrict the ...