• DocumentCode
    1220163
  • Title

    Mass Scaling of Permanent Magnet Line Cusp Plasma Leaks

  • Author

    Christensen, Thomas ; Hershkowitz, Noah ; Leung, K.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Physics and Astronomy the University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242
  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1977
  • fDate
    3/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    23
  • Lastpage
    26
  • Abstract
    Plasma leaks to permanent magnetic produced "full line cusps" are shown to depend on ion mass as (mj¿). This result is consistent with hybrid gyroradius (i.e., geometric mean of ion and electron gyroradii) leaks but not with ion gyroradius leaks.
  • Keywords
    Electrons; Magnetic confinement; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic flux; Permanent magnets; Plasma confinement; Plasma devices; Plasma measurements; Plasma properties; Plasma temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.1977.4316999
  • Filename
    4316999