3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2021
The effect of rigid electron rotation on the Grad-Shafranov equilibria of a class of FRC devices
C. P. S. Swanson, S. A. Cohen
Rigid electron rotation of a fully penetrated Rotamak-FRC produces a pressure flux function that is more peaked than the Solov'ev flux function. This paper explores the implication…
physics.plasm-ph2019
Spontaneous multi-keV electron generation from Fermi acceleration and magnetic moment non-adiabaticity
C. Swanson, S. A. Cohen
X-ray emission shows the existence of multi-keV electrons in low-temperature, low-power, capacitively-coupled RF-heated magnetic-mirror plasmas that also contain a warm (300 eV) mi…
physics.plasm-ph2017
Using Poisson-regularized inversion of Bremsstrahlung emission to extract full EEDFs from x-ray pulse-height detector data
C. Swanson, P. Jandovitz, S. A. Cohen
We measured Electron Energy Distribution Functions (EEDFs) from below 200 eV to over 8 keV and spanning five orders-of-magnitude in intensity, produced in a low-power, RF-heated, t…