FRC Particle Confinement

• Principal loss mechanism is particle diffusion

  • For uniform diffusivity
  • Mixture of closed and open field line confinement d µ lD^/rsvA ~ rio

• Measured diffusivity D^ ~ 2/n1/2(1021 m-3) m2/s

s » a/rio

w = d/rio

l

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