Study of the Equilibrium and Decay of Compact Toroids Generated by a Magnetized CO-Axial Plasma Gun

摘要

We have continued our earlier work on the co-axial gun production of compact toroidal plasmas that are contained in an oblate shaped cylindrically symmetrical flux conserver. Following our observation that the magnetic structure produced by the gun is well described by force-free currents, the analysis of the data has been extended along the lines of J.B. Taylor's theory of the reversed field pinch. Spatial magnetic field profiles are well represented by the lowest energy eigenmode solution to nabla x vector B = k vector B with k = constant. (ERA citation 06:024592)