Alpha channeling in rotating plasma with stationary waves

Abraham J. Fetterman, Nathaniel J. Fisch
2010 Physics of Plasmas  
An extension of the alpha channeling effect to supersonically rotating mirrors shows that the rotation itself can be driven using alpha particle energy. Alpha channeling uses radiofrequency waves to remove alpha particles collisionlessly at low energy. We show that stationary magnetic fields with high n θ can be used for this purpose, and simulations show that a large fraction of the alpha energy can be converted to rotation energy.
doi:10.1063/1.3389308 fatcat:ismsrw2c5bbbpcsud3kjia7o5m