SP-345 Evolution of the Solar System

 

FIGURE 15.3.3. Geometry of the Lindberg plasma ring experiment.

FIGURE 15.3.3. Geometry of the Lindberg plasma ring experiment. (a) Before leaving the gun, me plasma has a toroidal magnetization B. It is shot through the radial field N-S. (b) On leaving the gun, the plasma ring pulls out the lines of force of the static magnetic field. (c) Plasma ring with captured poloidal field. If the toroidal magnetic energy is too large, a part of it is transferred to poloidal magnetic energy (through kink instability of the current). (d) The poloidal magnetic flux mathematical symbol during the above experiment. The upper curve shows how the ring, when shot out from the gun, first acquires a poloidal flux mathematical symbol . An instability of the ring later transforms toroidal energy into poloidal energy thus increasing the flux from mathematical symbol to mathematical symbol , The upper and lower curves represent the flux measured by two loops at 15 and 30 cm distance from the gun, respectively.

 
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