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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 879-882
Magnetic Fusion Reactors/Beam-Driven Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946953
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An intense current in a hypothetical superconducting ring wire creates circular symmetric magnetic field. The calculation of such a field is performed numerically. Complete elliptic integrals of the first and second kind with modulus “k” approaching unity in the vicinity of the current carrying wire are used. The trajectories of charged particles moving along the current carrying wire are calculated neglecting space charge effect. With proper parameter selection toroidal magnetic field confines charged particles. Cycloid type trajectories without touching the axial current carrying wire are obtained. Such an arrangement could be used as charged particle beam guiding or storage system.