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The Plasma Jet/Laser Driven Compression of Compact Plasmoids to Fusion Conditions

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Magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) is based on both magnetic and inertial confinement. An embedded magnetic field is compressed along with the target plasma to achieve magnetic insulation and fusion condition. Several magnetic systems for plasma confinement may be used for laser-driven (LD) and plasma jet driven (PJ) magnetic flux compression. Estimations show the possibility in principle to realize regimes of PJMIF system with a plasma gain factor Q > 10.

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This work has been supported by the RFBR (grants 09-08-00137-a and 11-08-00700-a), Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Program of the European Union and Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (AVTsP “Development of Scientific Potential in Higher Education (2009–2011)” and Russian Presidential grant MK-1811.2010.8).

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Chirkov, A.Y., Ryzhkov, S.V. The Plasma Jet/Laser Driven Compression of Compact Plasmoids to Fusion Conditions. J Fusion Energ 31, 7–12 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-011-9411-6

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