M. C. Thompson
Tri Alpha Energy, Inc.
39 Papers
207 Citations
M. C. Thompson is an academic researcher from Tri Alpha Energy, Inc.. The author has contributed to research in topics: Field-reversed configuration & Reversed field pinch. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 38 publications.
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Papers
Formation of hot, stable, long-lived field-reversed configuration plasmas on the C-2W device
Hiroshi Gota,Michl Binderbauer,Toshiki Tajima,Sergei Putvinski,M. Tuszewski,Bihe Deng,Sean Dettrick,Deepak Gupta,Sergey Korepanov,R. M. Magee,Thomas Roche,J. Romero,Artem Smirnov,Vladimir Sokolov,Y. Song,L. C. Steinhauer,M. C. Thompson,Erik Trask,A. Van Drie,Xiaokang Yang,Peter Yushmanov,K. Zhai,I. Allfrey,R. Andow,E. Barraza,M. Beall,N. Bolte,E. Bomgardner,F. Ceccherini,A. Chirumamilla,Ryan Clary,T. DeHaas,Jon Douglass,Ami DuBois,A. Dunaevsky,D. Fallah,P. Feng,C. Finucane,Daniel Fulton,Laura Galeotti,K. Galvin,Erik Granstedt,Martin Griswold,U. Guerrero,Saurabh Gupta,Kevin Hubbard,Ivan Isakov,J. S. Kinley,A. Korepanov,S. Krause,Calvin Lau,H. Leinweber,J. Leuenberger,D. Lieurance,M. Madrid,D. Madura,T. Matsumoto,V. Matvienko,M. Meekins,R. Mendoza,R. Michel,Y. Mok,M. Morehouse,M. Nations,Ales Necas,Marco Onofri,D. Osin,A. Ottaviano,E. Parke,Tania Schindler,J. H. Schroeder,L. Sevier,D. Sheftman,A. Sibley,M. Signorelli,Roger Smith,M. Slepchenkov,G. Snitchler,J.B. Titus,J. Ufnal,T. Valentine,W. Waggoner,J. K. Walters,C. Weixel,M. Wollenberg,S. Ziaei,L. W. Schmitz,Zhihong Lin,A. A. Ivanov,Tomohiko Asai,E. A. Baltz,John Platt +91 more
TL;DR: The C-2W experimental device (also called "Norman") as discussed by the authors is the world's largest compact-toroid (CT) device, which has several key upgrades from the preceding C2U device such as higher input power and longer pulse duration of the NBI system as well as installation of inner divertors with upgraded electrode biasing systems.
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Recent breakthroughs on C-2U: Norman’s legacy
M. Binderbauer,T. Tajima,M. Tuszewski,L. W. Schmitz,Artem Smirnov,Hiroshi Gota,E. Garate,Daniel C. Barnes,Bihe Deng,Erik Trask,Xiaokang Yang,Sergei Putvinski,R. Andow,N. Bolte,D. Q. Bui,F. Ceccherini,Ryan Clary,A. H. Cheung,K. D. Conroy,Sean Dettrick,Jon Douglass,P. Feng,Laura Galeotti,Francesco Giammanco,Erik Granstedt,Deepak Gupta,Saurabh Gupta,A. A. Ivanov,J. S. Kinley,K. Knapp,Sergey Korepanov,M. Hollins,Richard Magee,R. Mendoza,Y. Mok,Ales Necas,S. Primavera,Marco Onofri,D. Osin,Nikolaus Rath,Thomas Roche,J. Romero,J. H. Schroeder,L. Sevier,A. Sibley,Y. Song,L. C. Steinhauer,M. C. Thompson,A. Van Drie,J. K. Walters,W. Waggoner,Peter Yushmanov,K. Zhai +52 more
- 25 Mar 2016
TL;DR: In this article, a stable field-reversed FRC with a dominant fast particle population is presented. But the authors do not consider the effect of the neutral beam (NB) injection on the stability of the system.
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A new high performance field reversed configuration operating regime in the C-2 devicea)
M. Tuszewski,Artem Smirnov,M. C. Thompson,T. D. Akhmetov,A. A. Ivanov,R. V. Voskoboynikov,Daniel C. Barnes,M. Binderbauer,R. Brown,D. Q. Bui,Ryan Clary,K. D. Conroy,Bihe Deng,Sean Dettrick,Jon Douglass,E. Garate,F. Glass,Hiroshi Gota,Houyang Guo,Deepak Gupta,Sangeeta Gupta,J. S. Kinley,K. Knapp,Sergey Korepanov,A. Longman,M. Hollins,X. L. Li,Y. Luo,R. Mendoza,Y. Mok,Ales Necas,S. Primavera,E. Ruskov,L. W. Schmitz,J. H. Schroeder,L. Sevier,A. Sibley,Y. Song,Xuan Sun,Erik Trask,A. Van Drie,J. K. Walters,Max Wyman,Tae Team +43 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a plasma gun is installed at one end of the C-2 device to attempt electric field control of the FRC edge layer, which counters the usual FRC spin-up and mitigates the n'='2 rotational instability without applying quadrupole magnetic fields.
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Internal magnetic field measurement on C-2 field-reversed configuration plasmasa)
Hiroshi Gota,M. C. Thompson,K. Knapp,A. Van Drie,Bihe Deng,R. Mendoza,Houyang Guo,M. Tuszewski +7 more
TL;DR: The reversed-field structure of the translated CTs and final merged-FRC state have been directly verified by probing the internal magnetic field structure using a multi-channel magnetic probe array near the midplane of the C-2 confinement chamber.
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Thomson scattering systems on C-2W field-reversed configuration plasma experiment.
K. Zhai,Tania Schindler,A. Ottaviano,H. Zhang,D. Fallah,J. Wells,Eli Parke,M. C. Thompson,Tae Team +8 more
TL;DR: TAE Technologies' newly constructed C-2W experiment aims to improve the ion and electron temperatures in a sustained field-reversed configuration plasma with a suite of Thomson scattering systems.
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