The GDT Experiment: Status and Recent Progress in Plasma Parameters

This paper presents a brief review of experimental results obtained on the Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT) device during the last few years. Special attention is paid to the problems of longitudinal plasma confinement and suppression of transverse transport caused by magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in mirr...

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Published in:Fusion science and technology 2015-07, Vol.68 (1), p.1-7
Main Authors: Anikeev, A. V., Bagryansky, P. A., Beklemishev, A. D., Ivanov, A. A., Korobeinikova, O. A., Kovalenko, Yu. V., Lizunov, A. A., Maximov, V. V., Murakhtin, S. V., Pinzhenin, E. I., Prikhodko, V. V., Savkin, V. Ya, Soldatkina, E. I., Solomakhin, A. L., Yakovlev, D. V., Zaytsev, K. V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Confinement
Electron cyclotron resonance
Fluctuation
Fluid dynamics
Fluid flow
Heating
Instability
Transport
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Summary:This paper presents a brief review of experimental results obtained on the Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT) device during the last few years. Special attention is paid to the problems of longitudinal plasma confinement and suppression of transverse transport caused by magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in mirror traps with an axisymmetric magnetic field configuration. We also consider problems of auxiliary electron cyclotron resonance heating in the GDT plasma. Electromagnetic fluctuations driven by anisotropic high pressure plasma in GDT will be discussed as well as influence of these fluctuations on plasma confinement.
ISSN:1536-1055
1943-7641
DOI:10.13182/FST14-867