Session GP1 - Poster Session IV.
POSTER session, Tuesday afternoon, October 30
Exhibit Hall B,
The initial stage of establishing the plasma experiment is to be accomplished by the end of 2001. The compact device Rotamak, two 400 kW RF generators and accompanying equipment had been delivered from Flinders University of Australia and are being assembled at PVAMU. The plasma in the Rotamak is created in a 50-liter glass chamber of spherical torus shape. The unique feature of the Rotamak is that the plasma current is driven by the application of a rotating magnetic field, created by two 90^o-dephased RF generators. The Rotamak is capable of operating in field reversed configuration regime. The initial goal for experiments is to achieve T_e \sim 40 eV, n_e \sim 10^13 cm^-3, I_plasma \sim 6 kA, with a pulse duration \sim 50 ms. The next stage will include boronization of the vacuum chamber, experiments with an imposed radial electric field to study the rotation of plasma, and improvement of the diagnostic tools.