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Magnetic cusp confinement in low-β plasmas revisited

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Magnetic cusps have been used for more than 50 years to limit charged particle losses to the walls and confine the plasma in a large variety of plasma sources or ion sources. Quantification of the effective loss area has been the subject of many experimental as well as theoretical investigations in the 1970-1990's. In spite of these efforts there is no fully reliable expression of the effective wall loss as a function of cusp magnetic field, electron temperature, ion mass, gas pressure, etc… We describe in this paper a first attempt at obtaining scaling laws for the effective loss width of magnetic cusps, based on two-dimensional PIC MCC (Particle-In-Cell Monte Carlo Collisions) simulations. The results show that the calculated leak width follows a 1/B scaling in the collisionless low B limit, is approximately proportional to the hybrid gyroradius with an ion velocity equal to the Bohm velocity and is proportional to the square root of gas pressure in the collisional limit.

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hal-02998908 , version 1 (24-11-2020)

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Yuchao Jiang, G. Fubiani, Laurent Garrigues, Jean-Pierre Boeuf. Magnetic cusp confinement in low-β plasmas revisited. Physics of Plasmas, 2020, 27 (11), pp.113506. ⟨10.1063/5.0014058⟩. ⟨hal-02998908⟩
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