Nonneutral plasmas in magnetic surfaces - why care?
Non-neutral plasma physics
- Essentially unexplored configuration
- Equilibrium is fundamentally different from closed or open field line configurations (closed: pure toroidal field, open: Penning trap)
- Has some practical advantages (nucleation, multi-species)
- May stabilize diocotron modes
Antimatter research
- Has advantages for positron trapping
- Is a leading candidate for creation of the first confined positron-electron plasma
- Future: Antihydrogen creation?
Physics of strongly rotating toroidal plasmas
- Important to fusion research (ExB rotation and shear)
- Equilibrium is fundamentally different from conventional MHD