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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 8, 1201003 (2013)

Rapid Communications


Not Only Independently Producing but Simultaneously Confining of Lithium and Electron Plasmas
Haruka SHIMOMURA, Haruhiko HIMURA, Takahiro OHTA, Takafumi NAKASE, Shuichi NISHIOKA, Akio SANPEI, Sadao MASAMUNE and Akihiro MOHRI1)
Department of Electronics, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
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Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
(Received 8 November 2012 / Accepted 7 December 2012 / Published 13 February 2013)

Abstract

In order to test extended MHD models experimentally, we develop a new linear machine in which pure ion and electron plasmas are not only produced separately but also trapped simultaneously. At the first series of experiments, both lithium ion and electron plasmas are successfully confined at the same time. Values of density of those plasmas are in each range of critical values where ion and electron fluids could keep their own motions independently as a two-fluid plasma.


Keywords

non-neutral plasma, lithium ion plasma, electron plasma, extended MHD model, two-fluid plasma

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.8.1201003


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This paper may be cited as follows:

Haruka SHIMOMURA, Haruhiko HIMURA, Takahiro OHTA, Takafumi NAKASE, Shuichi NISHIOKA, Akio SANPEI, Sadao MASAMUNE and Akihiro MOHRI, Plasma Fusion Res. 8, 1201003 (2013).