The phrase "a confinement time" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing the duration of confinement or restriction, but it is better to clarify the meaning.
Example: "The study examined the effects of a confinement time on the behavior of the subjects."
Alternatives: "a period of confinement" or "a duration of restriction".
Cowley says a successful fusion plant will have a confinement time of around three seconds.
Using the abundances of the β-decay species 10Be, 26Al, 36Cl, and 54Mn measured by CRIS, we find a confinement time τesc ∼ 15 Myr.
Cowley says if the Lockheed team had produced temperatures in the range of 23-30 million C with a confinement time of 1/10 of a second, "that would be interesting".
Our measurements yield a confinement time, τ∝B1.41.
A strategy is proposed which employs a predictive confinement time scaling derived from 1-D neoclassical and 3-D turbulence simulations.
We describe a method to measure the confinement time of an electron cloud under weak magnetic fields (0.01 T - 0.1 T).
While that point hasn't yet been reached, a recent new advance by a small fusion company deserves a bit of attention: they've figured out an inexpensive way to increase the density, temperature and confinement time of a plasma to make nuclear fusion via this method an intriguing possibility.
In measuring the confinement time of an electron plasma in a CPT it is shown that the confinement time departs from the expected B 2 dependence at low pressures and is governed by other loss mechanisms apart from elastic binary collisions with background neutrals present [9, 14].
We have presented results on measurements of the confinement time of an electron plasma in a quadrupole Penning trap, and the dependence of the same on external magnetic fields.
Successful fusion also requires that the product of three factors — a plasma's particle density, its confinement time, and its temperature — reaches a certain value.
In this work, we carry out investigations of the dependence of the confinement time of an electron plasma on the external magnetic field in a different trap geometry, namely, that of the Quadrupole Penning Trap (QPT).
