Accession Number:

ADA399757

Title:

Stabilization and Confinement of Hot, Dense, High-Beta Plasma

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Sep 1998-31 Dec 2002

Corporate Author:

NEVADA UNIV RENO

Personal Author(s):

• Bauer, Bruno S.
• Kantsyrev, Victor L.
• Le Galloudec, Nathalie
• Makhin, Volodymyr
• Mancini, Roberto C.

Report Date:

2002-02-14

Pagination or Media Count:

409.0

Abstract:

A calibrated, high-repetition rate 2-terawatt z-pinch Zebra was developed, and new z-pinch physics was investigated. Investigation of axial-shear-flow z-pinch stabilization was initiated, with experiments, computer modeling, and theory. An experiment on single wires driven by current prepulses similar to, and faster than, those at Z SNL found that faster rising pulses are much more effective at exploding single tungsten wires than Z-like pulses. Experiments on x-pinches driven at 900 kA characterized x-pinches in an almost unexplored regime.

Descriptors:

• *PLASMAS(PHYSICS)
• *CONFINEMENT(GENERAL)
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• LINEAR SYSTEMS
• TUNGSTEN
• PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
• EXPLODING WIRES
• PLASMA INSTABILITIES
• Z PINCH PLASMAS

Subject Categories:

• Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE