Pyrotron high energy experiments

Abstract

Experiments were performed to explore the creation and confinement of a high temperature plasma produced by the trapping of beams of energetic particles originating outside of a magnetic confinement volume. This method of creating a hot plasma has the advantage that the initial heating problem is eliminated. Its application, however, presents substantial problems of a fundamental kind, as well as practical problems of vacuum technique and high-current particle source technology. In the investigations several aspects of the theory are compared with the results of experimental studies of the initial behavior of the injected particles and their subsequent confinement. (auth)