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    Pinch phenomena A pinch (or: Bennett pinch (after Willard Harrison Bennett), electromagnetic pinch, magnetic pinch, pinch effect, or plasma pinch.) is...
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    fusion power research, the Z-pinch (zeta pinch) is a type of plasma confinement system that uses an electric current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field...
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  • unincorporated community Pinch, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Kanawha County Pinch (plasma physics), the compression of a plasma filament by magnetic...
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  • the z-pinch concept. Both the DPF and pinch use large electrical currents run through a gas to cause it to ionize into a plasma and then pinch down on...
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    Hall-effect thruster Solar plasma Plasma spraying Plasma in a tokamak Laboratory plasma Physics portal Quark-gluon plasma Liddell, Henry George; Scott...
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    Tokamak (redirect from Tokamak plasma)
    demonstrated that a stable plasma equilibrium requires magnetic field lines that wind around the torus in a helix. Devices like the z-pinch and stellarator had...
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  • This is a list of physicists who have worked in or made notable contributions to the field of plasma physics. Whistler (radio) waves Langmuir waves...
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    In plasma physics, plasma stability concerns the stability properties of a plasma in equilibrium and its behavior under small perturbations. The stability...
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    Ghulam Murtaza (physicist) (category Plasma physicists)
    pinch, Plasma Physics, (Arshad M. Mirza, Zahoor Ahmad, N.A.D Khattak, G Murtaza) Study of Plasma Parameters in a Spinning Thick-Gas-Puff Staged Pinch...
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    A reversed-field pinch (RFP) is a device used to produce and contain near-thermonuclear plasmas. It is a toroidal pinch that uses a unique magnetic field...
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    capsule. Z-pinch: A current travels in the z-direction through the plasma. The current generates a magnetic field that compresses the plasma. Pinches were the...
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  • This is a list of plasma physics topics. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Physics portal G.S. Miller, E.E. Salpeter...
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    of a fusion plasma precludes the use of material vessels for direct containment. Magnetic confinement fusion attempts to use the physics of charged particle...
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    1960s, the theory behind plasma cosmology was introduced by Alfvén, a plasma expert who won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics...
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  • produced by a generator a metre in diameter composed of three modules. Pinch (plasma physics) Explosive-driven ferroelectric generator Explosive-driven ferromagnetic...
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    by Martin David Kruskal and Vitaly Shafranov, who noticed that the plasma in pinch effect reactors would be stable if q was larger than 1. Macroscopically...
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  • A nonthermal plasma, cold plasma or non-equilibrium plasma is a plasma which is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, because the electron temperature is...
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  • through the plasma itself. Systems using only magnets are generally built using the stellarator approach, while those using current only are the pinch machines...
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    Hannes Alfvén (category Swedish plasma physicists)
    April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)....
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  • Z‐pinch." Physics of Plasmas 3.2 (1996): 554-560 Shumlak, Uri, et al. "Increasing plasma parameters using sheared flow stabilization of a Z-pinch." Physics...
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  • physics at the University of Hong Kong and pursued graduate study in plasma physics at the University of Western Ontario, completing his doctoral thesis...
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    Kink instability (category Plasma physics stubs)
    machines with Z-pinch configurations in the 1950s. It is one of the common magnetohydrodynamic instability modes which can develop in a pinch plasma and is sometimes...
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  • cold plasma 1985: Increasing the current density in a plasma 1986: In the accretion column of a neutron star 1986: By pinches in cosmic plasma regions...
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    creates a corresponding magnetic field around the conductor (see Pinch (plasma physics)). Because of Lenz's Law, the magnetic fields created within the...
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    Nuclear technology portal Energy portal National Ignition Facility Pinch (plasma physics) Zap Energy Hailong, Zhao; et al. (12 May 2020). "Preliminary exploration...
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    and plasma current 0.25 MA, predecessor to the first tokamak (1955, USSR) Trisops – 2 facing theta-pinch guns FF-2B, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, United...
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  • History of nuclear fusion (category History of physics)
    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). Tuck returned to LANL and arranged local funding to build his machine. By this time it was clear that the pinch machines...
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    George Paget Thomson (category Nobel laureates in Physics)
    economist and mountaineer Johannes de Villiers Graaff. Matter wave Pinch (plasma physics) Z-pinch Moon, P. B. (1977). "George Paget Thomson 3 May 1892 – 10 September...
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    experiment in the early history of fusion power research. Based on the pinch plasma confinement technique, and built at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment...
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  • field pinch (MST, RFX-Mod Italy) Spherical tokamak (MAST, NSTX) Spheromak (SSPX Lawrence Livermore) Stellarator (Wendelstein 7-X) Non-neutral plasma (Columbia...
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