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60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS (BINP), SB RAS. 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF G I BUDKER

Multiple-mirror trap: a path from Budker magnetic mirrors to linear fusion reactor

A. V. Burdakov^ab, V. V. Postupaev<sup>ac

a</sup> Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
^b Novosibirsk State Technical University
^c Novosibirsk State University

Abstract: This review is focused on multiple-mirror traps for high-temperature plasma confinement that were proposed by Budker, Mirnov, and Ryutov and independently by Logan, Lichtenberg, and Lieberman in the early 1970s. The proposed magnetic system solved problems with the kinetic instabilities of classical open traps and significantly increased the plasma lifetime. We review the history of this field and discuss its achievements and prospects.

Keywords: G I Budker, plasma, multiple-mirror trap, GOL-3, fusion reactor.

PACS: 28.52.Av, 52.50.Gj, 52.55.Jd

Received: January 15, 2018
Revised: March 1, 2018
Accepted: March 1, 2018

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2018.03.038342

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2018, 61:6, 582–600

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