Kinetic instabilities in a mirror-confined plasma sustained by high-power microwave radiation

AG Shalashov, ME Viktorov, DA Mansfeld… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This paper summarizes the studies of plasma kinetic instabilities in the electron cyclotron
frequency range carried out over the last decade at the Institute of Applied Physics in Nizhny …

Correlation of bremsstrahlung and energy distribution of esca** electrons to study the dynamics of magnetically confined plasma

BS Bhaskar, H Koivisto, O Tarvainen… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A combination of electron and bremsstrahlung diagnostics was used to study the properties
of the highly charged plasma of an electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS). The …

Diagnostic techniques of minimum-B ECR ion source plasma instabilities

V Toivanen, BS Bhaskar, IV Izotov, H Koivisto… - Review of Scientific …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The performance of a minimum-B Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source (ECRIS) is
traditionally quantified by measuring the beam current and quality of the extracted ion …

Cyclotron-resonance maser driven by magnetic compression of rarefied plasma

SV Golubev, AG Shalashov - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
Conditions are found at which adiabatic magnetic compression of plasma confined in a
mirror magnetic trap is accompanied by the accumulation of significant energy in a hot …

Plasma instability in the afterglow of electron cyclotron resonance discharge sustained in a mirror trap

I Izotov, D Mansfeld, V Skalyga, V Zorin, T Grahn… - Physics of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The work presented in this article is devoted to time-resolved diagnostics of non-linear
effects observed during the afterglow plasma decay of a 14 GHz electron cyclotron …

Dynamic regimes of cyclotron instability in the afterglow mode of minimum-B electron cyclotron resonance ion source plasma

D Mansfeld, I Izotov, V Skalyga… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper is concerned with the dynamic regimes of cyclotron instabilities in non-
equilibrium plasma of a minimum-B electron cyclotron resonance ion source operated in …

Laboratory study of kinetic instabilities in a nonequilibrium mirror-confined plasma

M Viktorov, D Mansfeld, S Golubev - Europhysics Letters, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Kinetic instabilities of nonequilibrium plasma heated by powerful radiation of gyrotron in
electron cyclotron resonance conditions and confined in a mirror magnetic trap are reported …

Observation of pulsed fast electron precipitations and the cyclotron generation mechanism of burst activity in a decaying ECR discharge plasma

AV Vodopyanov, SV Golubev, AG Demekhov… - Journal of Experimental …, 2007 - Springer
We have detected and investigated quasi-periodic series of pulsed energetic electron
precipitations in the decaying plasma of a pulsed ECR discharge in a mirror axisymmetric …

Interpretation of complex patterns observed in the electron-cyclotron instability of a mirror confined plasma produced by an ECR discharge

AG Shalashov, SV Golubev… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A specific nonlinear regime of electron-cyclotron instability is discussed aimed at explaining
the complex temporal patterns of stimulated electromagnetic radiation from a mirror trap with …

Electron cyclotron emission at the fundamental harmonic in GDT magnetic mirror

AG Shalashov, AL Solomakhin, ED Gospodchikov… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
New electron cyclotron emission (ECE) diagnostics has been installed to facilitate the
successful experiment of electron cyclotron plasma heating (ECRH) in a large open …