Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Confinement of Charged Particles by a Magnetic Field

  • Letter
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Abstract

DIFFUSION which is caused by collisions in an ionized gas and which takes place across a magnetic field is known to be reduced by the field. The gas may be confined to a limited region, provided that particles can escape neither by motion along the field nor by drift motion across it. In the longitudinal direction, the particles may be trapped by strong field inhomogeneities1 or simply by having the field lines closed within the gas volume.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Spitzer, L., “Physics of Fully Ionized Gases” (Interscience Pub., New York, 1956).

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  2. Alfvén, H., “Cosmical Electrodynamics” (Oxford Univ. Press, 1950).

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  3. Post, R. F., Rev. Mod. Phys., 28, 347 (1956). Nucleonics, 23 (1955); 42 (1956). Carruthers, R., and Davenport, P. A., Proc. Phys. Soc., B, 70, 49 (1957).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Electronics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 70

    B. LEHNERT

Authors
  1. B. LEHNERT
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

LEHNERT, B. Confinement of Charged Particles by a Magnetic Field. Nature 181, 331–332 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181331a0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/181331a0

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation