Abstract

A single stage mirror compression experiment was used to study the cyclotron resonance absorption of 3 cm and 8 mm wavelength radiation injected into the plasma early in the compression phase. The results indicate that while the high energy tail of the distribution function was altered by a few electrons that gained significant energy, the main body of the plasma electron distribution function was not significantly heated by the r.f. power. Based on a single particle analysis we are led to believe that the plasma is mainly confined to the midplane region of the magnetic mirror.

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