Flux conversion and evidence of relaxation in a high-β Plasma formed by high-speed injection into a mirror confinement structure

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Guo, H Y ^a   Huffman, A L ^a   Miller, K E ^a   Steinhauer, L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM; DOPPLER EFFECT; HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; REFLECTION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

FIELD REVERSED CONFIGURATION (FRC); MAGNETIC HELICITY; PLASMOIDS; SUPER-ALFVENIC SPEED;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 3242667259     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.245001     Document Type: Article

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