Speaker
Ilan Be'ery
Description
See the full Abstract at http://ocs.ciemat.es/EPS2018ABS/pdf/P5.4015.pdf
Heating and stabilization of mirror confined plasma by rotating magnetic
field
I. Be’ery1, O. Seeman1,2
1
Rafael Plasma Laboratory, Israel
2
Technion, Israel institute of technology, Israel
The effect of rotating magnetic field (RMF) on hydrogen plasma confined in magnetic mirror
machine is studied. The coupling and heating of right-handed RMF is much stronger than
left-handed RMF, which indicates the coupling is mainly to helicon modes. At low trap
magnetic field, the right-handed RMF increases the flute instability growth rate and the
angular velocity of plasma rotation. With higher trap magnetic field, the right-handed RMF
stabilizes the flute instability. The mechanisms of RMF coupling and stabilization are
discussed.
