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Radiofrequency Plasma Heating

A method of heating fusion plasma by launching high-power electromagnetic waves tuned to particle cyclotron or hybrid resonance frequencies.

Resonance Matching: ω_wave = ω_ce (ECRH) or ω_wave = n ω_ci (ICRH) MW (RF Power Input)
Plasma Physics

Relativistic Plasma

A high-energy density plasma where thermal electron energies approach or exceed rest mass energy (511 keV), requiring relativistic plasma…

k_B T_e ≳ m_e c² ≈ 511 keV, γ_e ≫ 1 keV or MeV (Thermal Energy)
Plasma Physics

Reversed Field Pinch (RFP)

A toroidal magnetic confinement device in which the toroidal magnetic field self-reverses direction near the outer edge of the plasma…

B_toroidal reverses direction near plasma edge (q < 1) T (Toroidal Field B_T)