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Proposal of A Linked Mirror Device for Magnetic Confinement Experiment

magnetic mirror, magnetic mirror, confinement

A new linked mirror device for magnetic confinement experiment is proposed. The new linked mirror device consists of two straight magnetic mirrors connected by two half-torus. The structure of the configuration as a whole is three dimensional because the two linear mirror sections are not parallel. The angle between the two mirror sections generates rotational transform which results in good magnetic confinement of toroidally processing passing particles. In this way the usual loss cone of the traditional linear mirror machines is eliminated. The single particle confinement is similar to that of tokamaks with most of particles well confined. The calculated neoclassical confinement is very good and is even better than that of an equivalent tokamak. These good properties of simple device geometry and plasma confinement are favorable for neutron sources and fusion reactors.