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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
T. D. Akhmetov et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 23-26
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A603
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Experimental studies of a high- plasma in a long solenoid of the axisymmetric mirror trap AMBAL-M are being continued. In order to increase the density of the initial warm plasma generated by a plasma source, additional gas puffing was used. Optimization of gas puffing through a gas-box and reduction of magnetic field in the solenoid aimed at enhancement were performed. Another way of increasing consists in forming a small local mirror-trap in the solenoid where the plasma volume is much smaller than that of the whole solenoid plasma, and it is easier to achieve high -values. A preliminary result on the local-mirror-trap experiment is presented. Further steps on increase in the solenoid are proposed and discussed.
