Neutral Beam Injection Experiments: modeling and fusion product diagnostics on Heating on WHAM

The Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM) will utilize advances in high temperature superconductors and recent physics developments to explore the feasibility of axisymmetric magnetic mirrors as a fusion power-plant. WHAM will use neutral beam injection (NBI) to create a sloshing ion population that will confine a warm plasma in the center which helps with kinetic stability and creates a peaked reactivity profile which will be used for plasma facing materials testing. This sloshing population will be diagnosed with fusion product diagnostics including a neutron detector and proton detector array. Modelling is done via CQL3D (a Fokker-Planck diffusion equation solver) to capture the non-thermal effects of a beam dominated plasma. We present the latest simulation results, focusing on the effect of different density and temperature profiles, NBI parameters and RF heating have on the reactivity profile. We also present the current status of fusion diagnostics, emphasizing their ability to spatially resolve the plasma density, temperature and fusion reactivity as well as future upgrades for WHAM-0.8.