Sentences with phrase «plasma confinement in»

Results of this research can shed light on the physics behind key obstacles to plasma confinement in spherical facilities and on ways to overcome them in future machines.

One is enhancement of the negative - ion current by optimizing the magnetic configuration for plasma confinement in the ion source.

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The inertial confinement experts, such as those at NIF, are attempting to ignite a fusion reaction by firing powerful lasers at plasma contained in a pellet the size of a pea.

And in the U.S., the National Ignition Facility is using lasers to ignite hydrogen plasma as it experiments with inertia confinement, also known as laser fusion.

Direct asymmetry measurement of temperature and density spatial distributions in inertial confinement fusion plasmas from pinhole space - resolved spectra

The impact of laser plasma interactions on three - dimensional drive symmetry in inertial confinement fusion implosions

In 1982, German researchers discovered that the edge of the plasma can spontaneously bifurcate into a high pedestal with a steep gradient, or transport barrier, that produces the H - mode confinement and maintains the heat of the plasma core.

In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980s.

Twelve scientific divisions are investigating confinement of high - temperature hydrogen plasmas in magnetic fields, heating of plasmas, plasma diagnostics, magnetic field technology, data acquisition and processing, plasma theory, materials research, plasma - wall interaction, and systems studies.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

He is an experimental plasma physicist with interests in the basic physics of plasma confinement and configuration optimization.

The breakthrough is in magnetic confinement fusion, in which hydrogen is heated until it is a plasma 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun, and held in place by strong magnetic fields until fusion reactions occur.

And because we can link confinement improvement to further enhancement of plasma performance, new developments in research are anticipated.

In numerous plasma experiments being conducted in countries around the world, the use of deuterium is improving the confinement of heat and particleIn numerous plasma experiments being conducted in countries around the world, the use of deuterium is improving the confinement of heat and particlein countries around the world, the use of deuterium is improving the confinement of heat and particles.

These promising new directions include higher fusion power densities, and hence smaller reactors; development of «transport barriers» in the plasma, leading to improved energy confinement and smaller sizes; self - driven plasma currents that permit steady - state operation and low recirculating power; and the development of advanced divertor concepts to provide particle control and heat removal over long reactor lifetimes.

«The interesting thing about our ideas on mass separation is that it is a form of magnetic confinement, so it fits well within the Laboratory's culture,» said physicist Nat Fisch, co-author of the paper and director of the Princeton University Program in Plasma Physics.

In a Z - pinch and other inertial confinement (ICF) machines, plasma is compressed to create fusion energy.