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Energy Spectrum of Lost Alpha Particles in Magnetic Mirror Confinement
Alejandro Mesa Dame, Ian E. Ochs, Nathaniel J. Fisch
In a magnetic mirror fusion reactor, capturing the energy of fusion-produced alpha particles is essential to sustaining the reaction. However, since alpha particles are born at ene…
Enhanced Collisional Losses from a Magnetic Mirror Using the Lenard-Bernstein Collision Operator
Maxwell H. Rosen, Wrick Sengupta, Ian Ochs +2
Collisions are crucial in governing particle and energy transport in plasmas confined in a magnetic mirror trap. Modern gyrokinetic codes model transport in magnetic mirrors, but s…
Synchrotron-driven instabilities in relativistic plasmas of arbitrary opacity
Ian E. Ochs
Recent work has shown that synchrotron emission from relativistic plasmas leads the electron distribution to form an anisotropic ring in momentum space, which can be unstable to bo…
Electron Tail Suppression and Effective Collisionality due to Synchrotron Emission and Absorption in Mildly Relativistic Plasmas
Ian E. Ochs, Mikhail E. Mlodik, Nathaniel J. Fisch
Synchrotron radiation losses are a significant cause of concern for high-temperature aneutronic fusion reactions such as proton-Boron 11. The fact that radiation losses occur prima…
Flowing plasma rearrangement in the presence of static perturbing fields
T. Rubin, I. E. Ochs, N. J. Fisch
Charged particles interacting with electromagnetic waves have a portion of their energy tied up in wave-driven oscillations. When these waves are localized to the exhaust of linear…