Discharge characteristics and dynamics of a magnetized current-carrying line-tied plasma
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Abstract
Discharge characteristics and dynamic behaviors of a current-carrying line-tied (screw pinch) plasma have been experimentally studied. Besides its compactness, the novelty of this design is to utilize a single plasma source for both arc discharge and beam extraction, providing a plasma current of up to 2 kA with an injection voltage of 1.2 kV. The electron density and temperature of the screw pinch plasma were measured to be ∼1020 m−3 and ∼6 eV, respectively, depending on the operating parameters and magnetic field topology. The estimated Kruskal–Shafranov instability current limit of 1.58 kA was confirmed by high-speed camera measurement. The initial experimental results showed that the strength and topology of the magnetic field played a crucial role in the discharge characteristics and dynamic behaviors of the current-carrying line-tied plasma.
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OpenAlex topics: Plasma Diagnostics and Applications · Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma · Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena
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Affiliations
Department of Nuclear Engineering, Seoul National University 1 , Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University 2 , Cairo, Egypt
Funding
National Research Foundation
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