Physics modeling reveals loss-cone dynamics and particle confinement in a tandem-mirror burner, highlighting critical operational limits for direct-energy-conversion systems.
Fast-alpha and fusion-product confinement in the deuterium-helium-3 tandem-mirror burner. The mirror-trapped charged products and their loss-cone dynamics set the ash accumulation and the axial power that the direct-energy-conversion and alpha-channeling systems must handle. Reported with its confinement caveats; physics only, no economics.
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