Production of hot plasmas in a mirror system by means of a gas-discharge arc source
Gilev E. A., Dimov G. I. , Kabaniev A. A. , Sokolov V. G. , Taskaev S. Yu.
A hot plasma with a density n~3x 10 cm , an ion temperature 1 keV, and an electron temperature Te> 50 eV has been produced by filling the AMBAL-YuM mirror system with plasma from a quasisteady gas-discharge source. No auxiliary heating methods were used.