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High-magnetic-confinement mode in partially magnetized E x B plasmas
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- Issue Date
- 2022-05
- Publisher
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
- Citation
- Physical Review e, Vol.105 No.5, p. L053202
- Abstract
- The suppression of the gradient-drift driven instability and the transition to the high-magnetic-confinement mode are experimentally observed in a cylindrical partially magnetized E x B plasma using an additional biasable electrode installed at the radial edge. When a positive voltage is applied to the electrode, an electron-loss channel forms in its direction, breaking the spatially symmetric nonambipolar flow. Finally, in the steady state, the plasma density tends to peak in the plasma core, approaching plasma densities that are four times larger than those observed in the case where the instability is the strongest. A high-magnetic-confinement mode with a reduced edge-to-center density ratio of 0.16 is observed, which demonstrates that the saturation of magnetic confinement due to the gradient-drift driven instability can be prevented by an asymmetric nonambipolar flow.
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- 2470-0045
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