Summary
Non-neutral plasmas confined in magnetic surfaces:
- Equilibrium equations are fundamentally different from previously explored configurations - involves new physics
- Equilibrium, stability, and transport looks promising and interesting
Magnetic surface configurations have inherent advantages:
- They confine multi-component plasmas, non-neutral or neutral
- Strongly rotating electron-ion plasmas (fusion, basic physics)
- Electron-positron plasmas (basic plasma physics, fusion, astrophysics)
- They confine high energy particles (exotic antimatter plasmas)
Can be addressed in a modest laboratory experiment (CNT)
- Ultrahigh vacuum table-top stellarator
- Simple and elegant coil design with excellent port access