托卡马克离子温度梯度湍流输运同位素定标修正中杂质的影响

托卡马克实验发现,在不同参数条件下,等离子体能量约束经验定标律会有或大或小的修正.为解释这种修正现象发生的原因,应用回旋动理学方法,对含重(钨)杂质等离子体离子温度梯度(ITG)(包括杂质模)湍流输运的同位素效应进行了数值研究.结果表明钨杂质效应极大地修改了同位素定标律和有效电荷效应.随着杂质离子电荷数Z和电荷集中度f_z的变化,同位素定标律在较大范围内变化. ITG模最大增长率定标大约为M_i~(-0.48→-0.12),杂质模的定标为M_i~(-0.46→-0.3),其中, M_i表示主离子质量数.在ITG模湍流中,有效电荷数越大,关于M_i的拟合指数偏离-0.5越远,表现为同位素质量依赖减弱.在两种模中,杂质电荷集中度越大,同位素质量依赖越弱.研究了杂质效应使定标关系发生偏离的原因,证实杂质种类、杂质电荷数和杂质浓度的不同,是引起同位素质量依赖发生改变的重要原因.结果证实并解释了不同参数条件下托卡马克同位素定标的差异性.研究成果可以为ITER实验安排及杂质相关输运实验中选择装置材料、工作气体和设置其他参数提供理论参考.     

Ion Viscosity Stabilization of Tokamak Resistive Internal Kink Modes

For most of small and medium sized Tokamaks, the unstable mode responsible for the sawtooth crash is the resistive internal kink mode. However, the plasma parameters can be in the ion kinetic regime. In this paper, we consider the dependence of the mode growth rate on the magnetic shear which is changeable during a sawtooth cycle and find that the ion viscosity effect can completely stabilize the mode only for shear smaller than some critical value, corresponding to the stable phase of the sawtooth evolution. This is consistent with one of the salient phenomena of the sawtooth, the sudden onset.     

Two-dimensional structure and particle pinch in tokamak H mode

Two-dimensional structures of the electrostatic potential, density, and flow velocity near the edge of a tokamak plasma are investigated. The model includes the nonlinearity in bulk-ion viscosity and turbulence-driven shear viscosity. For the case with the strong radial electric field (H mode), a two-dimensional structure in a transport barrier is obtained, giving a poloidal shock with a solitary radial electric field profile. The inward particle pinch is induced from this poloidal asymmetric electric field, and increases as the radial electric field becomes stronger. The abrupt increase of this inward ion and electron flux at the onset of L- to H-mode transition explains the rapid establishment of the density pedestal, which is responsible for the observed spontaneous self-reorganization into an improved confinement regime.     

Stirring unmagnetized plasma

A new concept for spinning unmagnetized plasma is demonstrated experimentally. Plasma is confined by an axisymmetric multicusp magnetic field and biased cathodes are used to drive currents and impart a torque in the magnetized edge. Measurements show that flow viscously couples momentum from the magnetized edge (where the plasma viscosity is small) into the unmagnetized core (where the viscosity is large) and that the core rotates as a solid body. To be effective, collisional viscosity must overcome the ion-neutral drag due to charge-exchange collisions.     

Confinement physics for thermal, neutral, high-charge-state plasmas in nested-well solenoidal traps

A theoretical study is presented which indicates that it is possible to confine a neutral plasma using static electric and solenoidal magnetic fields. The plasma consists of equal temperature electrons and highly stripped ions. The solenoidal magnetic field provides radial confinement, while the electric field, which produces an axial nested-well potential profile, provides axial confinement. A self-consistent, multidimensional numerical solution for the electric potential is obtained, and a fully kinetic theoretical treatment on axial transport is used to determine an axial confinement time scale. The effect on confinement of the presence of a radial electric field is explored with the use of ion trajectory calculations. A thermal, neutral, high-charge-state plasma confined in a nested-well trap opens new possibilities for fundamental studies on plasma recombination and cross-field transport processes under highly controlled conditions.     

Confinement-induced differences between dielectric normal modes and segmental modes of an ion-conducting polymer

Dielectric measurement in the range 0.1 Hz to 1 MHz were used to study the motions of polymers and ions in an ion-conducting polymer, polypropylene oxide containing small quantities (on the order of 1%) of lithium ions (LiClO₄), confined as a sandwich of uniform thickness between parallel insulating mica surfaces. In the dielectric loss spectrum, we observed three peaks; they originated from the normal mode of the polymer, segmental mode of the polymer, and ion motions. With decreasing film thickness, the peak frequencies corresponding to the normal mode and ion motion shifted to lower frequencies, indicating retardation due to confinement above 30 nm. This was accompanied by diminished intensity of the dielectric normal-mode relaxation, suggesting that confinement diminished the fluctuations of the end-to-end vector of the chain dipole in the direction between the confining surfaces. On the contrary, the segmental mode was not affected at that thickness. Finally, significant retardation of the segmental mode was observed only for the thinnest film (14 nm). The different dynamical modes of the polymer (segmental and slowest normal modes) respond with different thickness and temperature dependence to confinement. Received 31 August 2001 and Received in final form 30 October 2001     

Synergetic Effects of Runaway Electron and Vertical Instability on the Wall Damage on HL-2A Tokamak

1 Generation of vertical instability Tokamak experiments show that the energy confinement time and performance are better, and the larger plasma current can be achieved for non-circular cross-sectional shape of plasma than circular cross-section. However, the external magnetic fields which are used to produce the non-circular cross sectional shape also cause the confined plasma to become unstable to small vertical displacement. In general, the ratio of elongation k is larger, the possibility of instability is more. In practice, this vertical displacement mode stabilized by feedback control system or other provided external radial magnetic field to balance out the plasma motion. Under some of situations the control system may be fail due to rapid growth rate of instability exceeding the ability of controlling. The plasma will then move vertically upwards or downwards depending upon the characteristics of instability and control failure.     

Production of Negative Ion-Rich Plasma by Electron Attachment in Low Pressure Gases

The scope of this research is to investigate experimentally electron (ne), negative ion (n-) and positive ion (n+) densities characterizing laboratory negative ion-rich plasmas, produced by electron attachment in N2O3, O2 and I2, and to find out the factors limiting the achievement of very low ? (relative electron density ? = ne/n+). These plasmas may be of great interest for the production of negative ion beams. It is shown experimentally that it is possible to produce plasmas with a high proportion of negative ions (n-/n+ ? 90 %) and a low proportion of electrons, at densities n+ up to 1011 cm-3. The comparison of mass spectrometric data with kinetic calculations leads to the conclusion that the loss of negative ions by diffusion limits the lowest ? achieved at low ion density (n+ < 109 cm-3). At higher ion density, mutual neutralization seems to control the ? values. A general limitation seems to exist for the lowest ? attainable in small plasmas produced by electron attachment : the confinement of negative ions in a plasma is due to the presence of electrons and therefore this confinement becomes inefficient when ? drops to values as low as 10-3.     

Magnetogravitational Instability of a Thermally Conducting Rotating Plasma through a Porous Medium

Magnetogravitational instability of an infinite homogeneous, viscous, thermally conducting, rotating plasma flowing through a porous medium has been studied with the help of relevant linearized perturbation equations, using the method of normal mode analysis. Rotation is taken parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field for both, the longitudinal and the transverse modes of propagation. The joint influence of the various parameters do not, essentially, change the Jeans' criterion but modifies the same. The adiabatic velocity of sound is being replaced by the isothermal one due to the thermal conductivity. Porosity reduces the effects of both, the magnetic field and the rotation, in the transverse mode of propagation, whereas the rotation is effective only along the magnetic field for an inviscid plasma. The viscosity removes the effect of rotation in the transverse mode of propagation.     

The effects of parallel viscosity on stationary convection in plasmas

Stationary convection in a simple cylindrical plasma model driven interchange-unstable by an applied heat source is considered in the presence of large parallel ion viscosity. The nature of the spectrum and the cellular convective pattern at marginal stability are quite different from that obtained using only perpendicular ion viscosity.     

MM-4U中等离子体约束位形和不稳定性的实验研究

给出了MM-4u中等离子体约束位形和不稳定性的实验结果。测得的等离子体电位轴向分布表明,该装置中能够建立起负电位轴对称串级镜约束位形;测得的密度分布与电位分布有相似形式。初步探索了等离子体参数与工程参数的关系。实验还发现在低密度情况下存在低频振荡。通过对振荡信号进行线性相关分析,根据扰动的振荡和传播特性,推断出这种振荡为离子声不稳性。不稳定性产生的可能机制是由于电子束穿过低密度本底等离子体的漂移速度超过离子声速而激发起来的。 关键词：     

表面约束稳态装置中高频离子声波的激发特性

高频离子声波由于Landau阻尼很大,一般难以激发。本文研究了表面约束稳态装置上高频离子声波的激发特性。实验表明,仔细控制放电参数可以激发起纯离子声波,密度涨落n/n_o最大可以达到7.5％。     

Trapped ion instability in two component torus

The enhanced diffusion rate due to the trapped ion instability for a two component toroidal plasma is estimated. The energy confinement time is substantially reduced for the cases where the energy density of the hot component is comparable to that of the background plasma.     

Calculation of the inverse bremsstrahlung absorption in unmagnetized plasmas

Inverse bremsstrahlung is one important way to deliver laser energy to the plasma in inertial confinement fusion. In this article, we study the collisional absorption rate as obtained from the Fokker–Planck treatment of an unmagnetized plasma in harmonic laser field. The electron–ion collision rate is considered in the Krook approximation, and the electron distribution function is considered a Maxwellian function. We evaluate the inverse bremsstrahlung absorption near the irradiated plasma surface in the critical layer. We observe that absorption increases with shorter laser wavelength and lower electron temperatures. When the maximum electron velocity in the limit of q → 1 reaches infinity, the q-non-extensive distribution function reduces to the standard Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.     

高频ECR离子源的最新进展

As they are first optimized for their ion losses,ECRISs are always under a fundamental compromise: having high losses and strong confinement at the same time.To help ECR ion source developers in the design or improvement of existing machines,general comments are presented in a review article being soon published. In this 160 pages contribution,fundamental aspects of ECRISs are presented,with a discussion of electron temperature and confinement and ion confinement.Then,as microwaves play a key role in these machines, a chapter presents major guidelines for microwave launching and coupling to ECR plasma.Moreover,once ECR plasma is created,understanding this plasma is important in ion sourcery;and a section is dedicated to plasma diagnostics with an emphasis on the determination of electron and ion density and temperature by vacuum ultraviolet(VUV)spectroscopy.Another chapter deals with the role of magnetic confinement and presents updated scaling laws.Next chapter presents different types of ECRISs designed according to the main parameters previously described.Finally,some industrial applications of ECRISs and ECR plasmas in general are presented like ion implantation and photon lithography.Some hints taken from this review article are presented in the following article.     

托卡马克高约束模边缘等离子体不稳定性研究

托卡马克高约束模运行可大幅提高磁约束核聚变等离子体约束品质,该模式下的等离子体不稳定性研究对于控制约束和保护装置有重要意义。本文主要介绍了高约束模及其边缘等离子体不稳定性的研究概况,并重点介绍了中国环流器二号A托卡马克装置上关于高约束模转换、边缘局域模特征和控制方法、台基区不稳定性和台基饱和机制等方面的研究进展。研究结果表明,实验上有望通过粒子和射频波注入等外部激励的方法,影响台基区等离子体湍流,进行控制台基动力学演化以及ELM,实现既保持高约束又降低高热负荷的等离子体稳态运行。     

低能辐照离子源设计及性能

简要介绍了低能辐照离子源的设计及性能。采用热阴极磁约束ＰＩＧ放电,并用两极多孔加减速系统引出离子束。调试结果：离子束能量在２００－２０００ｅＶ范围内可调,最大引出束流１５０ｍＡ,灯丝工作寿命１６０ｈ。     

Tunable resonant optical microcavities by self-assembled templating

Micrometer-scale optical cavities are produced by a combination of template sphere self-assembly and electrochemical growth. Transmission measurements of the tunable microcavities show sharp resonant modes with Q factors of >300 and 25-fold local enhancement of light intensity. The presence of transverse optical modes confirms the lateral confinement of photons. Calculations show that submicrometer mode volumes are feasible. The small mode volumes of these microcavities promise to lead to a wide range of applications. in microlasers, atom optics, quantum information, biophotonics, and single-molecule detection.     

Model for the transition to the radiatively improved mode in a tokamak

A model for the transition to the radiatively improved (RI) mode triggered in tokamaks by seeding of impurities is proposed. This model takes into account that with increasing plasma effective charge the growth rate of the toroidal ion temperature gradient (ITG) instability, considered nowadays as the dominant source of anomalous energy losses in low-confinement (L) mode, decreases. As a result the plasma density profile peaks due to an inward convection generated by trapped electron turbulence. This completely quenches ITG induced transport and a bifurcation to the RI mode occurs. Conditions necessary for the L-RI transition are investigated.     

Self-acceleration of a tokamak plasma during ohmic H mode

Core plasma rotation is observed to change from counter direction to co-current direction during the transition from low (L) to high (H) confinement mode, in Alcator C-Mod plasmas that are heated purely Ohmically and, hence, have no momentum input. The changes of the toroidal velocities, deduced independently from impurity Doppler measurements and from magnetic perturbations associated with sawteeth, agree. The magnitude of the change is consistent with the previously documented scaling for rotation in ion cyclotron rf-heated H modes. The rotation in this Ohmic experiment is obviously not an rf effect but demonstrates unequivocally a transport effect accelerating the plasma.