FRC collider

Abstract

A method for the formation of a compact torus (CT or FRC) – a closed current loop in plasma – using an inductive energy storage device is proposed. This method has shown a high efficiency of magnetic energy conversion of the accumulator. Two compact tori accelerated towards each other, at the point of collision, gave a plasma temperature of more than 1 keV and a duration of soft X-ray radiation of about one microsecond, which is three orders of magnitude longer than the duration of such radiation at the Z-machine facility, USA.