Axial confinement in the Novatron mirror machine
The Novatron magnetic mirror fusion reactor concept features significant advantages. These include stability against MHD interchange and kinetic drift cyclotron loss cone modes, axisymmetry, and minimized radial particle drifts and neoclassical losses. For achieving a ratio $Q \unicode{x2A7E} 30$ of...
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| description | The Novatron magnetic mirror fusion reactor concept features significant advantages. These include stability against MHD interchange and kinetic drift cyclotron loss cone modes, axisymmetry, and minimized radial particle drifts and neoclassical losses. For achieving a ratio $Q \unicode{x2A7E} 30$ of fusion power to heating power, axial particle confinement is uniquely designed to rely on the simultaneous use of three distinct forces; magnetic mirrors, electrostatic potentials, and ponderomotive forces in a tandem-like configuration. Axial confinement physics theory is here analyzed and compared to earlier mirror configurations. Scenarios for D-T, D-D, and catalyzed D-D fusion plasmas are outlined. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a47bd2948ebd4a14a1a17a98f7bc27bc2025-08-20T02:16:11ZengIOP PublishingNuclear Fusion0029-55152025-01-0165606601110.1088/1741-4326/add173Axial confinement in the Novatron mirror machineJ. Scheffel0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6379-1880J. Jäderberg1K. Bendtz2R. Holmberg3https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0276-0747K. Lindvall4Novatron Fusion Group , Teknikringen 31, Stockholm, Sweden; Electromagnetic Engineering and Fusion Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Teknikringen 31, Stockholm, SwedenNovatron Fusion Group , Teknikringen 31, Stockholm, SwedenNovatron Fusion Group , Teknikringen 31, Stockholm, SwedenNovatron Fusion Group , Teknikringen 31, Stockholm, SwedenNovatron Fusion Group , Teknikringen 31, Stockholm, SwedenThe Novatron magnetic mirror fusion reactor concept features significant advantages. These include stability against MHD interchange and kinetic drift cyclotron loss cone modes, axisymmetry, and minimized radial particle drifts and neoclassical losses. For achieving a ratio $Q \unicode{x2A7E} 30$ of fusion power to heating power, axial particle confinement is uniquely designed to rely on the simultaneous use of three distinct forces; magnetic mirrors, electrostatic potentials, and ponderomotive forces in a tandem-like configuration. Axial confinement physics theory is here analyzed and compared to earlier mirror configurations. Scenarios for D-T, D-D, and catalyzed D-D fusion plasmas are outlined.https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/add173Novatronmagnetic mirror fusionaxial confinementponderomotive forcetandem mirrorelectrostatic plugging |
| spellingShingle | J. Scheffel J. Jäderberg K. Bendtz R. Holmberg K. Lindvall Axial confinement in the Novatron mirror machine Nuclear Fusion Novatron magnetic mirror fusion axial confinement ponderomotive force tandem mirror electrostatic plugging |
| title | Axial confinement in the Novatron mirror machine |
| title_full | Axial confinement in the Novatron mirror machine |
| title_fullStr | Axial confinement in the Novatron mirror machine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Axial confinement in the Novatron mirror machine |
| title_short | Axial confinement in the Novatron mirror machine |
| title_sort | axial confinement in the novatron mirror machine |
| topic | Novatron magnetic mirror fusion axial confinement ponderomotive force tandem mirror electrostatic plugging |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/add173 |
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