What is it about?
Plasmas are often heated by injecting a particle beam. This can lead to instabilities that transfer energy to the electric field which is then not available for heating. We show that the mentioned instability can be largely suppressed by choosing a beam intensity that varies in time (i.e. is modulated). The paper determines good choices for the modulated beam intensity by performing numerical optimization.
Featured Image
Photo by Bamdad Norouzian on Unsplash
Why is it important?
Beam heating is commonly used to heat plasmas, e.g. in fusion reactors like ITER. In such situations, it is important to avoid instabilities and have control over the evolution of the plasma.
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Stabilization of beam heated plasmas by beam modulation, Physics of Plasmas, December 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0238408.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
