Signatures of ring currents in a magnetic mirror plasma experiment

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dc.check.date2020-12-19
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dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Patrick J.
dc.contributor.authorKnott, Sean
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-19T10:30:08Z
dc.date.available2020-08-19T10:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-19
dc.date.updated2020-08-18T11:57:58Z
dc.description.abstractSpatial profiles of electron density and temperature obtained from Langmuir probe data in a magnetic mirror plasma experiment using permanent rare-earth magnet stacks show clear signatures of azimuthal or ring currents generated by grad B and curvature drifts. The plasma-generating hot cathode filament is placed within the mirror so that the primary electrons generated with energies sime75 eV are confined by the magnetic mirror effect resulting in a combination of a rapid bounce motion with a slower azimuthal drift whose direction is determined by the orientation of the magnet stacks. A spatial scan using a movable Langmuir probe system shows two peaks of unequal amplitude in the hot electron density profile at locations along the probe path corresponding to phgr = 90° and phgr = 270° where the filament is located at phgr = 0. The position of the stronger peak is consistent with the shorter path in the electron drift direction for the choice of orientation of the magnets. Reversing the magnetic orientation exchanges the locations of the strong and weak hot electron density peaks. The dependence of the ratio of the two peak amplitudes on gas pressure p is consistent with exponential attenuation of the hot electron density along the drift orbit with a mean free path λ mfp ∝ 1/p.en
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dc.identifier.articleid045006en
dc.identifier.citationMcCarthy, P. J. and Knott, S. (2019) 'Signatures of ring currents in a magnetic mirror plasma experiment', Plasma Research Express, 1(4), 045006 (12pp). doi: 10.1088/2516-1067/ab5821en
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/2516-1067/ab5821en
dc.identifier.eissn2516-1067
dc.identifier.endpage12en
dc.identifier.issued4en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePlasma Research Expressen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10407
dc.identifier.volume1en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::COFUND-EJP/633053/EU/Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon 2020 through a Joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion consortium/EUROfusionen
dc.rights© 2019, University College Cork. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Plasma Research Express. The publisher is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1067/ab5821. As the Version of Record of this article has been published on a subscription basis, this Accepted Manuscript will be available for reuse under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence after a 12 month embargo period.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectMagnetic mirror plasmaen
dc.subjectRing currentsen
dc.subjectAzimuthal driftsen
dc.subjectMovable Langmuir probeen
dc.subjectBi-Maxwellian fiten
dc.titleSignatures of ring currents in a magnetic mirror plasma experimenten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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