Session KP01 - Poster Session III.
POSTER session, Tuesday afternoon, March 23
Exhibit Hall, GWCC
As part of the innovative confinement concepts initiative, a series of experiments is being conducted at Los Alamos to determine the suitability of Penning traps as fusion confinement devices. Early experiments concentrated on achieving enhanced densities by inducing spherical flow in a nonthermal, nonneutral plasma confined in a traditional Penning trap. The present experiment seeks to overcome the limitations of this method by forming a well for positive ions from the space charge of a uniform cloud of electrons confined in a modified Penning trap. The radial well thus provided will allow spherical convergence in a multi-species plasma. After a brief summary of the first-stage experiments, we will present results on electron recirculation in the present experiment.