The Gas-Dynamic Trap

A mirror experiment demonstrating stable, high-beta open-ended confinement.

Type

Magnetic mirror

Relevance

Burner heritage

The Gas-Dynamic Trap is a leading magnetic-mirror experiment that has demonstrated stable, high-beta operation and advanced sloshing-ion and plug physics — the modern basis for taking mirrors seriously again.

It is direct heritage for the Kronos burner, whose plug-density requirement (n_p/n_c ≈ 16) builds on this line of work.