Parameter Study of a Long, Separated-Shock ○H Pinch with Superconducting Inductive-Energy Storage

摘要

Present θ-pinch experiments Involve high-p plasmas with area compression ratios of the order of 40, using high-voltage capacitors to provide both the early shock heating (during the first few tenths μsec) and the later adiabatic compression, in a single-turn coil. In the separated-shock concept the shock heating is done by high-voltage circuits whose energy content is only a few percent of that of the total system. The compression magnetic energy, which is preponderant, is contained in a multiturn coil with slow rise time (of the order of milliseconds) appropriate to adiabatic compression of the plasma in long systems.