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Overview of FLARE Commissioning and Diagnostic Systems

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Abstract

The newly commissioned DOE collaborative research facility FLARE (Facility of LAboratory Reconnection Experiments) is designed to primarily investigate multiple X-line reconnection regimes relevant to space and astrophysical plasmas. The first FLARE plasmas have been achieved in April 2025. In this poster, we will present the main facility subsystems, e.g., capacitor banks, experimental coils, vacuum, control and data acquisition systems. The commissioning results will be highlighted to demonstrate the device capabilities of FLARE. The design of key diagnostics including magnetic probe arrays, interferometer, ion tomography spectroscopy and Langmuir probes will also be described along with preliminary results obtained during initial operations.

Presenters

  • Peiyun Shi

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Authors

  • Peiyun Shi

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Hantao Ji

    Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Sofia Avrutsky

  • Sayak Bose

    Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Euichan Jung

    Princeton University

  • Kush Maheshwari

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

  • Yang Ren

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Adam T Robbins

    Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Masaaki Yamada

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory