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Plasma vortex structures generated by conical theta-pinch guns have been successfully compressed and amplified by secondary adiabatic compression. A pair of vortex rings meet at the center of a primary magnetic mirror. A secondary mirror starts to compress them as soon as the collision has occurred. Peak ion temperatures of 170 eV have been obtained at an nτ of 10¹² sec/cm³ by utilizing a capacitor bank that stores 250 kJ.
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