Power flow in a gun-injected spheromak plasma
- 16 March 1992
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (11), 1718-1721
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.1718
Abstract
We describe results from the gun-injected spheromak device SPHEX, which show that the power required to sustain the plasma is initially deposited in a column, about 8 cm in radius, along the geometric axis of the device, and is transmitted from the column to the remainder of the plasma by a radially propagating oscillation at about 20 kHz. These results are relevant to the process of relaxation in spheromak systems.Keywords
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