scholarly journals T3073 & T3074 Test report: electric energy recovered and large magnetic field due nuclear fusions measured

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Javier Lopez Segura ◽  
Arpan Pal ◽  
Nicolas Urgoiti

The measured results of two tests T3073 and T3074 performed in 28 August, 2020 are presented in this paper. Tests are conducted in the z-pinch type nuclear fusion reactor Pulsotron-3 with the target loaded with Hydrogen-Boron (H+B11) thermonuclear fuel. A group of Energy Recovery Coils (ERCs) were mounted to recover the electric energy directly from the plasma for the first time in the world and ERCs stored the energy in several large capacitors. During the test T3073 and T3074 the energy recovery capacitors recovered 22.59% and 17.74% of the injected energy at the target. A magnetic sensor MAG-4 consisting of inductor coils and dipoles were installed in Pulsotron-3 to measure the Time Of Flight (TOF) of the plasma and the magnetic field generated due to nuclear fusion. Magnetic fields more than 4 megateslas are obtained during the two tests. It is also observed that Pulsotron-3 with the target loaded with thermonuclear fuel generated 20-34 times larger peak magnetic fields and 12-18 times larger stabilized magnetic fields compare to the tests done using unloaded target (dummy loads). In this proposed technology Pulsotron-3 utilizes thermonuclear fuel to generate clean electric power without CO2 footprint and reduce the operational cost. This industrial approach is a promising solution that can reduce world emissions to zero in less than 8 years.

This year marks not only the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon ( Apollo 11 ) but also the thirty-fifth anniversary of the first planetary missions. The latter was the Soviet Luna 1 and 2 carrying magnetometers to test whether the Moon possessed a global magnetic field. Luna 1 passed the Moon but Luna 2 crash landed, both showed that the Moon had no magnetic field as large as 50 or 100 y (1 y = 10 -5 G = 10 -9 T). Such an experiment had been proposed by S. Chapman ( Nature 160, 395 (1947)) to test a speculative hypothesis concerning magnetic fields of cosmic bodies by P. M. S. Blackett ( Nature 159, 658 (1947)). Chapman’s suggestion was greeted by general amusement: 12 years later it was accomplished. Also two years after the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, Luna 3 was launched and for the first time viewed the far side of the Moon on 9 October, 1959. Laboratories from many countries were invited by NASA to take part in the analysis of rocks returned from the Apollo missions and later from the Soviet automated return of cores from the lunar regolith. British laboratories were very active in this work, and a review of the results of the new understanding of the Moon as a result of space missions formed the subject of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting in 1975 (published in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond . A 285). British laboratories received samples from the automated Soviet missions that took cores from the regolith and returned them to Earth. Work on Luna 16 and 20 samples were published in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond . A 284 131-177 (1977) and on Luna 24 in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond . A 297 1-50 (1979).


2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S259) ◽  
pp. 433-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renada Konstantinova-Antova ◽  
Michel Aurière ◽  
Klaus-Peter Schröder ◽  
Pascal Petit

AbstractRed giants offer a good opportunity to study the interplay of magnetic fields and stellar evolution. Using the spectro-polarimeter NARVAL of the Telescope Bernard Lyot (TBL), Pic du Midi, France and the LSD technique we began a survey of magnetic fields in single G-K-M giants. Early results include 6 MF-detections with fast rotating giants, and for the first time a magnetic field was detected directly in an evolved M-giant: EK Boo. Our results could be explained in the terms of α–ω dynamo operating in these giants.


1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Jiri Galas

This paper surveys fundamental aspects of the problem of rinsing matrices in high gradient magnetic separators. This is done, for the first time, in terms of the magnetic circuit design. Equations have been constructed to describe the effects of spurious remanent magnetic fields on the rinsing process.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Javier Lopez Segura ◽  
Nicolas Urgoiti

An AC magnetic sensor is presented for measuring the high speed and high strength magnetic field generated in Z-pinch fusion machines. The proposed magnetic sensor provides the measurement of magnetic fields across a broadband frequency range. The simulation of magnetic probe is presented using a SPICE simulation software LTspice. The magnetic sensors are installed in a Pulsotron-3 Z-pinch machine and measured performance of the sensor are presented. This sensor also can be used to check the ignition conditions of the Z-Pinch by measuring the magnetic field generated by the output streams of large number of reacted alpha particles. The equations for measuring non-stationary magnetic field due to rapidly varying electric currents and a LTspice simulation file are provided to help the engineers to design, build, and install this kind of sensors.


2018 ◽  
Vol 617 ◽  
pp. A11 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gitti ◽  
G. Brunetti ◽  
R. Cassano ◽  
S. Ettori

Context. Diffuse synchrotron radio emission has been observed in a number of cool-core clusters on scales comparable to that of the cooling region. These radio sources are called “mini-halos”. In order to understand their origin, which is still unclear, joint radio and X-ray statistical studies of large cluster samples are necessary to investigate the radio mini-halo properties and their connection with the cluster thermodynamics. Aims. We here extend our previous explorative study and investigate the perspectives offered by surveys in the radio continuum with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), in particular examining the effect of the intracluster magnetic field in the mini-halo region for the first time. Methods. By considering the minimum flux detectable in radio surveys and exploiting the Pradio − LX correlation observed for known mini-halos, we estimate the detection limits achievable by future radio observational follow-up of X-ray cluster samples, such as HIFLUGCS and eROSITA. This allows us to estimate the maximum number of radio mini-halos that can potentially be discovered in future surveys as a function of redshift and magnetic field strength. Results. Under the optimistic assumption that all cool-core systems host a mini-halo and that the radio versus X-ray scaling relation extends to systems with lower X-ray luminosity, we show that future radio surveys with LOFAR and SKA1 (at ∼140 MHz and ∼1.4 GHz) have the potential to discover ∼1000–10 000 radio mini-halo candidates up to redshift z =  1. This shows that these surveys may be able to produce a breakthrough in the study of these sources. We further note that future SKA1 radio surveys at redshift z > 0.6 will allow us to distinguish between different magnetic fields in the mini-halo region, because higher magnetic fields are expected to produce more powerful mini-halos, thus implying a larger number of mini-halo candidates detected at high redshift. For example, the non-detection with SKA1 of mini-halos at z > 0.6 will suggest a low magnetic field (B < few μG). The synergy of these radio surveys with future X-ray observations and theoretical studies is essential in establishing the radio mini-halo physical nature.


2021 ◽  
Vol 95 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Johann ◽  
David Becker ◽  
Matthias Becker ◽  
Matthias Hoss ◽  
Alexander Löwer ◽  
...  

AbstractIn recent strapdown airborne and shipborne gravimetry campaigns with servo accelerometers of the widely used Q-Flex type, results have been impaired by heading-dependent measurement errors. This paper shows that the effect is, in all likelihood, caused by the sensitivity of the Q-Flex type sensor to the Earth’s magnetic field. In order to assess the influence of magnetic fields on the utilised strapdown IMU of the type iMAR iNAV-RQH-1003, the IMU has been exposed to various magnetic fields of known directions and intensities in a 3-D Helmholtz coil. Based on the results, a calibration function for the vertical accelerometer is developed. At the example of five shipborne and airborne campaigns, it is outlined that under specific circumstances the precision of the gravimetry results can be strongly improved using the magnetic calibration approach: The non-adjusted RMSE at repeated lines decreased from 1.19 to 0.26 mGal at a shipborne campaign at Lake Müritz, Germany. To the knowledge of the authors, a significant influence of the Earth’s magnetic field on strapdown inertial gravimetry is demonstrated for the first time.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (24) ◽  
pp. 1550140 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Kuznetsov ◽  
A. A. Okrugin ◽  
A. M. Shitova

Various forms of expressions for the propagators of charged particles in a constant magnetic field that should be used for investigations of electroweak processes in an external uniform magnetic fields are discussed. Formulas for the propagators of the Standard Model charged [Formula: see text]- and scalar [Formula: see text]-bosons in an arbitrary [Formula: see text]-gauge, expanded over Landau levels, are derived for the first time.


1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 91-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Matsumoto ◽  
L. H. Spangler ◽  
D. W. Pratt

Pyrazine (1,4-diazabenzene) has played a central role in the development of the theory of radiationless transitions. In this paper, we will describe studies of the decay behavior and fluorescence quantum yield of the isolated molecule and several of its isotopically labelled derivatives following pulsed dye laser excitation of “single” rotational levels of the 1B3u (nπ*) state in a seeded supersonic jet, both in the presence and absence of an external magnetic field. We shall demonstrate that pyrazine can be transformed from a “small” molecule to a “large” molecule by very small perturbations; e.g., by climbing up the rotational ladder of the first excited singlet state, by isotopic labeling, and/or by applying dc magnetic fields of the order of 100 G. Thus, the experiments provide important tests of the predictions of the theory for the first time. Specifically, we will show that, under “intermediate-case” conditions, (1) the fast component of the decay is indeed coherent in nature, (2) the coupled state is triplet in character (and, thus, that the process we are monitoring is intersystem crossing (ISC)), (3) nuclear spin is conserved in ISC, (4) rotations and small magnetic fields play an important role because of the angular momentum selection rules for ISC, and (5) the levels mixed by the magnetic field are most likely the fine-structure components of the different angular momentum levels of the mixed, singlet–triplet state. The relationship of these results to those of other workers in the field will also be discussed.


1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 559-564
Author(s):  
P. Ambrož ◽  
J. Sýkora

AbstractWe were successful in observing the solar corona during five solar eclipses (1973-1991). For the eclipse days the coronal magnetic field was calculated by extrapolation from the photosphere. Comparison of the observed and calculated coronal structures is carried out and some peculiarities of this comparison, related to the different phases of the solar cycle, are presented.


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