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Thu Jun 5, 2014, 08:49 PM Jun 2014

EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0133

High Energy Electron Confinement in a Magnetic Cusp Configuration

Jaeyoung Park, Nicholas A. Krall, Paul E. Sieck, Dustin T. Offermann, Michael Skillicorn, Andrew Sanchez, Kevin Davis, Eric Alderson, Giovanni Lapenta

(Submitted on 1 Jun 2014)

We report experimental results validating the concept that plasma confinement is enhanced in a magnetic cusp configuration when beta (plasma pressure/magnetic field pressure) is order of unity. This enhancement is required for a fusion power reactor based on cusp confinement to be feasible. The magnetic cusp configuration possesses a critical advantage: the plasma is stable to large scale perturbations. However, early work indicated that plasma loss rates in a reactor based on a cusp configuration were too large for net power production. Grad and others theorized that at high beta a sharp boundary would form between the plasma and the magnetic field, leading to substantially smaller loss rates. The current experiment validates this theoretical conjecture for the first time and represents critical progress toward the Polywell fusion concept which combines a high beta cusp configuration with an electrostatic fusion for a compact, economical, power-producing nuclear fusion reactor.


Via http://talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=5425
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EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv (Original Post) bananas Jun 2014 OP
Glad to be the 1st to rec this. Phlem Jun 2014 #1
Kicked and recommended for shit I don't understand but sounds good. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #2
IIRC arxiv isn't peer-reviewed struggle4progress Jun 2014 #3
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