Plasma heating by collisional magnetic pumping in a steady-state modified Penning discharge

Author

Wu, Min ; Roth

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tennessee Univ., Knoxville, TN, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

0-0 1989

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

74

Abstract

Summary Form only given, as follows. The experimental application of collisional magnetic pumping to heat a plasma by a sawtooth magnetic perturbation is reported. Results have been obtained relating to the energy transfer process between the perturbed magnetic field and the parallel and perpendicular energy components of the heated species in a steady-state modified Penning discharge apparatus with a magnetic mirror configuration. Plasma characteristics have been measured, and heating of ions and electrons as a function of magnetic induction, electron number density, and neutral gas pressure has been investigated.<>

Keywords

discharges (electric); magnetic traps; plasma density; plasma diagnostics; plasma heating; plasma transport processes; collisional magnetic pumping; electron heating; electron number density; energy transfer process; ion heating; magnetic induction; magnetic mirror configuration; neutral gas pressure; parallel energy components; perpendicular energy components; plasma heating; sawtooth magnetic perturbation; steady-state modified Penning discharge; Charge carrier processes; Gas discharges; Magnetic confinement; Plasma heating; Plasma measurements; Plasma properties;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 1989. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts., 1989 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Buffalo, NY, USA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.1989.166054

Filename

166054