Why care about magnetic surfaces?
Novel plasma physics (theory and experimental)
- Equilibrium and stability of a pure electron plasma is different from previously studied configurations
- Confines both quasi-neutral and single component plasmas and presumably the whole spectrum in between
- Injection/nucleation of toroidal pure electron plasma is easier than in pure toroidal field
Application to antimatter research
- A stellarator may be ideal confinement device for laboratory positron-electron plasmas
- Neutral antihydrogen creation?
Basic device to explore the physics of strongly rotating toroidal plasmas
- Important to fusion research (ExB rotation important for confinement)