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Los Alamos Scyllac—A Better Theta Pinch

MAR 01, 1967
Physics Today

If Congress will approve, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is ready to build Scyllac, fifth in its series of Scyllas. The new device, according to its designers’ hopes, would have a time‐density product within a factor of 10–20 of the 6×1013sec/cm3 required for energy breakeven in a deuterium‐tritium plasma. The time‐density product is the product of plasma density (particles per cubic centimeter) and containment time.

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