The SHIP Experiment at GDT: Physical Concept and Pre-Calculations

At present, the GDT facility of the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics Novosibirsk is being upgraded. The first stage of the upgrade is the Synthesised Hot Ion Plasmoid (SHIP) experiment. It aims, on the one hand, at the investigation of plasmas the parameters of which are expected to appear in the region of high neutron production in a GDT based fusion neutron source as proposed by the Budker Institute and, on the other hand, at the investigation of plasmas the parameters of which have never been achieved before in magnetic mirrors. The expected record values of plasma parameters and several peculiarities of the plasma offer a great field
for interesting investigations. In order to simulate the particle fields inside the GDT device and later in a GDT based neutron source an Integrated Transport Code System (ITCS) is being developed in collaboration between Forschungszentrum Rossendorf and Budker Institute. It consists of modules which allow the calculations of neutral gas, background plasma and of the fast ion component considering their mutual interactions. This contribution explains the concept of the SHIP experiment and presents the
results of first calculations by means of the ITCS modules.