Behavior of a Plasma Produced by a Button-Type Source in Presence of a Magnetic Field

Abstract

In a plasma produced by a hydrogen-loaded titanium electrode gun, the pertinent physical quantities—mass, velocity, angular divergence, ion species, and resistivity—are experimentally determined. This plasma is injected along the axis of the magnetic configuration of a loop coil, and also transverse to the field of two parallel coils. The observed motion of the plasma is described, and explained mainly by macroscopic interaction of the plasma with the field.

A Compact Plasma System for Experimental Study

“…There is a long history about the research on plasma produced by plasma guns. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Plasma guns have a wide range of applications in plasma physics, controlled fusion research and astrophysics. They can be used as a source of target plasma, in mirror experiments [14], trigger toroidal discharges [15], provide high density plasma for ion extraction [16], can be used to accelerate pellets for fuelling fusion devices [17] and to simulate astrophysical phenomena [2,18].…”

Effect of Background Plasma Upon Plasma Structure Fired From a Plasma Gun.

“…They are widely used to accelerate pellets for fuelling fusion devices [4]. A variety of plasma guns have been developed and are in use since last half a century [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Optimization of plasma parameters in the structure fired from a plasma gun is an interesting field of research even today.…”