The upgraded Large Plasma Device, a machine for studying frontier basic plasma physics
Review of Scientific Instruments2016Vol. 87(2), pp. 025105–025105
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Walter Gekelman, Patrick Pribyl, Z. Lucky, M. Drandell, D. Leneman, J. E. Maggs, S. Vincena, B. Van Compernolle, S. K. P. Tripathi, G. J. Morales, Troy Carter, Y. Wang, T. DeHaas
Abstract
In 1991 a manuscript describing an instrument for studying magnetized plasmas was published in this journal. The Large Plasma Device (LAPD) was upgraded in 2001 and has become a national user facility for the study of basic plasma physics. The upgrade as well as diagnostics introduced since then has significantly changed the capabilities of the device. All references to the machine still quote the original RSI paper, which at this time is not appropriate. In this work, the properties of the updated LAPD are presented. The strategy of the machine construction, the available diagnostics, the parameters available for experiments, as well as illustrations of several experiments are presented here.
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