System for rapid injection of metal atoms into plasmas

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Authors

E. Marmar · Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

J.L. Cecchi · Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Abstract

A system for producing 300-μsec bursts of 1017 metal atoms with 3-eV average energy is described. It is shown that this system can be successfully used to introduce impurities into CTR-oriented tokamaks for transport and confinement studies.

Topics & Keywords

Magnetic confinement fusion research Nuclear physics research studies Particle accelerators and beam dynamics

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: Review of Scientific Instruments

Volume 46, Issue 9, pp. 1149-1154

DOI: 10.1063/1.1134432

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