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Large Superconducting Baseball Magnet

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A principal objective of controlled, thermonuclear fusion research has been the stable confinement of a hydrogen plasma. Material containers are not suitable, but magnetic fields are known to exert strong forces on the electrically charged particles of a plasma. A cusped field, increasing in all directions away from the plasma (creating a magnetic well), has been found to be most favorable for confinement, as was experimentally demonstrated by Ioffe [1] in 1961 with a mirror-pair and a superimposed hexapole.

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  1. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California, USA

    C. D. Henning, R. L. Nelson, M. O. Calderon, A. K. Chargin & A. R. Harvey

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  1. Engineering Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    K. D. Timmerhaus

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Henning, C.D., Nelson, R.L., Calderon, M.O., Chargin, A.K., Harvey, A.R. (1969). Large Superconducting Baseball Magnet. In: Timmerhaus, K.D. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0549-2_12

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