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Adiabatic Compression of Plasma Vortex Structures

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Plasma vortex structures generated by conical theta pinch guns have been successfully compressed and amplified by secondary adiabatic compression. A pair of vortex rings meet at the center of a primary magnetic mirror. A secondary mirror starts to compress them as soon as the collision has occurred. Peak ion temperatures of 170 eV have been obtained at an nτ of 1012 sec/cm3 utilizing a capacitor bank that stores 250 kilojoules. As an aid to the understanding of the stability’of vortex structures, an outline of the theory of quasi-force-free collinear equilibria is given in the appendix.

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    D. R. Wells, E. Nolting, F. Cooke Jr., J. Tunstall, P. Jindra & J. Hirschberg

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Wells, D.R., Nolting, E., Cooke, F., Tunstall, J., Jindra, P., Hirschberg, J. (1976). Adiabatic Compression of Plasma Vortex Structures. In: Bostick, W.H., Nardi, V., Zucker, O.S.F. (eds) Energy Storage, Compression, and Switching. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2214-6_25

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