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The device was the first of its kind to test the levitated dipole concept and was funded by the US Department of Energy. [1] The machine was also part of a collaboration between the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Columbia University, where another (non-levitated) dipole experiment, the Collisionless Terrella Experiment (CTX), was ...
The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) The concept of the levitated dipole was first realized when Jay Kesner of MIT and Michael Mauel of Columbia University made a joint proposal to test the concept in 1997. [3] This led to the development of two experiments: the Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) at MIT and the Collisionless Terrella Experiment ...
Toroidal machines can be axially symmetric, like the tokamak and the reversed field pinch (RFP), or asymmetric, like the stellarator.The additional degree of freedom gained by giving up toroidal symmetry might ultimately be usable to produce better confinement, but the cost is complexity in the engineering, the theory, and the experimental diagnostics.
Levitated dipole; LIDAR; Lightcraft; Lightning; LINUS (Fusion Experiment) List of hydrodynamic instabilities; List of plasma physicists; LOFAR, Low Frequency Array; Longitudinal wave; Lorentz force; Low-energy electron diffraction; Lower hybrid oscillation; Low-pressure discharge; Luminescent solar concentrator; Lundquist number; Luttinger liquid
The Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device (ETPD) is an experimental physics device housed at the Basic Plasma Science Facility at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).It previously operated as the Electric Tokamak (ET) between 1999 and 2006 and was noted for being the world's largest tokamak [1] before being decommissioned due to the lack of support and funding. [2]
The Princeton Field Reversed Configuration (PFRC) is a series of experiments in plasma physics, an experimental program to evaluate a configuration for a fusion power reactor, at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The experiment probes the dynamics of long-pulse, collisionless, [1] low s-parameter [2] field-reversed configurations ...
HIDRA being assembled as of December 2014 (photo: Daniel Andruczyk) The Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (HIDRA) is a medium-sized toroidal magnetic fusion device housed in the Nuclear Radiation Laboratory and operated by the Center for Plasma-Material Interactions (CPMI) within the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at ...
The Z-pinch is an application of the Lorentz force, in which a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field experiences a force.One example of the Lorentz force is that, if two parallel wires are carrying current in the same direction, the wires will be pulled toward each other.