PROTO-SPHERA: a magnetic confinement experiment which emulates the jet plus torus astrophysical plasmas
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION(2024)
摘要
The PROTO-SPHERA experiment, built at the CR-ENEA laboratory in Frascati, was in part inspired by the jet + torus astrophysical plasmas, a rather common morphology in Astrophysics. This paper illustrates how the said plasma morphology can be reproduced in a laboratory with the setup of the PROTO-SPHERA experiment. The experiment as such displayed the appearance and sustainment of a plasma torus around an internal magnetized plasma centerpost (jet) by self-organisation; an entirely unexplored phenomenon to date. The remarkable ideal MHD stability of the PROTO-SPHERA plasma is extremely significant, as it is obtained in a simply connected geometry, inside a perfectly insulating vacuum vessel, and without the need of a nearby stabilizing conducting shell. The concluding sections of this paper deal with application of force-free fields to the Pulsar Wind Nebulae morphology and present an extension of the well-known split-dipole model. Such an extension provides a natural description of the presence of tori around the Pulsar plasma jets. In addition, similarities and differences between the laboratory and the astrophysical jet + torus plasmas are detailed.
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magnetic confinement,pulsar wind nebulae,force-free fields,magnetic reconnection,ideal MHD stability,3D tomography,tokamak,plasma self-organisation
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