Study of density and potential fluctuations in the TEXT tokamakwith a heavy ion beam probe

A heavy ion beam probe was used to study the characteristics of density and potential fluctuations in the TEXT tokamak. Fluctuations of density and space potential are nearly Boltzmann like, n˜/n~φ˜/kT_e, near the edge of the plasma (0.80.9). The turbulent E&oarr;×B&oarr; radial particle flux is sufficient to account for all of the particle loss from the tokamak. No poloidal asymmetries, within a poloidal angle range of about 70°, are observed in the fluctuation levels. The fluctuation spectral shape, the density potential phase angle, and the fluctuation propagation speed show a strong radial dependence     

Determination of the Radial Potential Profile in the Modified Penning Discharge with a Heavy Ion Beam Probe

A heavy ion beam probe is used to examine the radial electrostatic potential profile in the Modified Penning Discharge. The plasma potential in the discharge violates the usual constraint on the ion beam energy in that the primary probing beam energy undergoes large changes in its energy while passing through the plasma. In order to determine the radial potential profile, the primary beam trajectories are calculated to agree with measured trajectories by parametric variation of a potential model in the trajectory calculating program. This iteration calculation provides a first approximation to the profile. This profile can be used to predict observation of secondary ions, and observation of such ions provides a confirmation and cross check on the potential profile model found by the primary beam.     

Direct mapping of space structure of a rotational instability in laboratory plasmas

The investigation of the radial ion density profile in the magnetoplasma is described. The method uses the Langmuir probe which is movable along the tube radius. The radial position of this probe destines the vertical beam position on the CRT. The oscilloscope time base is synchronized with the frequency of the instability and is proportional to the azimuthal position.     

Temperature and density measurements in a non-axisymmetric,continuously operating fusion experiment using a heavy ion beam probe

Two-dimensional electron temperature and density data have been obtained in the midplane of the non-axisymmetric magnetic confinement device ELMO Bumpy Torus (EBT) through the use of a heavy ion beam probe. This beam probe differs from others operated on toroidal or open magnetic geometries in its combination of complete computer control with the steady-state nature of EBT which allows, under normal operating conditions, for extensive calibration of the system in situ, minimizing both alignment and acquisition errors, along with the use of synchronous detection to dramatically improve the quality of the detected signal over what is typically possible in fast pulse devices. These techniques are important and applicable to long pulse devices where the beam probe may be an ideal diagnostic to measure, for example, parameters of the edge plasma. While the EBT beam probe was implemented to obtain profiles of plasma space potential, we have found that it can also be used effectively to measure the temperature and density profiles in the midplane between magnetic field coils. The data obtained support the contention that the formation of a hollow temperature profile in the T-Mode sufficiently inverts the plasma pressure such that stability of the core plasma would be expected even without diamagnetic effects from the hot electron rings which have previously been considered essential     

A short history of heavy ion beam probing

The author describes some aspects of research on controlled thermonuclear fusion as an energy source, starting in the late 1950s. There was a need for new diagnostic techniques for studying high temperature plasmas. The author proposed a diagnostic for measuring plasma density by probing a deuterium plasma with a deuterium beam and measuring the proton production from the D-D nuclear reaction. By the mid 1960s, it was possible to do so. After carrying out a D-D measurement, the author suggested switching over to an H₂⁺ beam and looking for an H⁺ signal. The H+ was loud and clear and that was the last of the nuclear measurements. One of the first things done using the molecular break-up of the H₂⁺ to measure the density of the hollow cathode arc plasma was a study of a coherent instability. The frequency response wasn't sufficient to measure the instability directly, so a Langmuir probe was used to detect the instability. The Langmuir probe gave a signal from a fixed spatial location but the beam probe signal was swept across the plasma giving 2D spatial resolution. This was the first detailed mapping of a plasma instability. Attempts to apply the ion beam probe to measuring the plasma current density in the ST Tokamak are described. Heavy ion beam probing measurements using hollow cathode arcs as target plasmas made it possible to measure T_e at low temperatures and to identify space potential fluctuations. Installation of a beam probe on the Laser Initiated Target Experiment are described, along with work on the ELMO Bumpy Torus, the VERSATOR Tokamak, TMX, TEXT, ISX-B, the Ergodic Magnetic Limiter and ATF     

托卡马克中宏观束-等离子体扭曲模不稳定性研究

本文主要研究了具有单一高能离子分量的托卡马克等离子体扭曲模宏观不稳定性。它基本上模拟了中性束平行注入经过电离和电荷交换后在本底等离子体中维持一个稳恒等离子体流的物理过程。高能和本底都用无碰撞的Vlasov等离子体,并取了低频、小拉莫尔半径极限。由于主要考虑束-等离子体无耗散宏观不稳定性,故可用能量原理来分析。结果表明,高能离子束对本底等离子体的外部模没有影响,只影响内部扭曲模的增长率和扰动振幅。对适当选择的速度剖面,束能够完全稳定体系n≥2,m=1模,与Dunlap线性理论结果相反而与目前实验观测一致。m/n=1/1内部扭曲模增长率在所取得模型下随注入能量β_b,注入功率P_bw,轴上安全因子q(0)和束速度的径向剖面分布参数S的不同而出现增稳、减稳及完全稳定的行为。适当选择S,在q(0)<0.924时,高能束能够稳定m/n=1/1模。 关键词：     

Measurements of the space potential of electron cyclotron heatedplasmas in the Advanced Toroidal Facility

A heavy ion beam probe has been used to measure the space potential of electron cyclotron heated plasmas in the Advanced Toroidal Facility. The results of the measured potential profiles are presented along with the radial electric field strength profiles derived from these measurements. The measured potential profiles have been compared to those predicted by a simple model of the plasma based upon an ambipolarity constraint on the ion and electron particle fluxes in steady state. The trends of the measured and modeled profiles are in agreement, although the strength of the electric field predicted by the model is much greater than that inferred from the potential profile measurement. When an oxygen-like impurity ion species is added to the model, the predicted electric field strengths are altered significantly and become much closer to the measured values     

LBNL14GHz离子源AECR-U的最新进展

A radial sputter probe has been developed for the AECR-U as an additional method of producing metal ion beams.Negative voltage is applied to the probe to incite collisions with target atoms,thereby sputtering material into the plasma.The sputter probe is positioned through one of the 6 radial access slots between the permanent hexapole structure of the AECR-U.The probe position can be varied with respect to the inner edge of the hexapole magnet structure.Charge state distributions and peak beam intensities at bias voltages up to-5kV were obtained for gold samples at varying distances of the probe with respect to the plasma.For high charge states production the radial position with respect to the plasma was more sensitive than for the medium and lower charge states.For high charge state ion production the probe was optimized at a distance of 0.6cm inside the chamber wall(4.1cm from the center of the chamber).Stable beams with peak intensities of up to 28eμA of Au~(24 ) and 1.42eμA of Au~(41 ) have been produced using the sputter probe technique. In addition,a solid state circuit under development by Scientific Solutions,Inc which provides a bandwidth up to 100MHz was used to drive the 14GHz klystron amplifier for the LBNL AECR-U ion source.Various broadband and discrete heating modes were tested and the results for high charge state ion production were compared with single frequency heating.     

Performance of a Feedback Controlled Electrostatic Energy Analyzer for Use with an Ion Beam Probe Diagnostic System

The performance of a feedback controlled electrostatic energy analyzer has been investigated for use as the basic detection mechanism in an ion beam probe plasma diagnostic system. This system provides the only direct, spatially resolved measurement of plasma space potential. The principles involved in analyzer operation are presented, leading to an analyzer system with a design entrance angle of 33°. The voltage correction function which results when the probing beam is swept across the plasma has been measured experimentally and is in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions. The measured amplitude and phase response of the system show that the entire analyzer/detector system may be modeled as a linear feedback system. Finally, a dual beam technique is described for making absolute space potential measuremermts and is substantiated with experimental data from an arc plasma using a Rb-K combination.     

Heavy Ion Beam Probe Plasma Diagnostic System for the Deep Magnetic Well Lite Device

A heavy ion beam probe plasma diagnostic system has been developed for the Laser Initiated Target Experiment (LITE) at UTRC. This is the first application of ion beam probing to a plasma confined by a strongly three dimensional magnetic field. The deep magnetic well, minimum-B field produced by the "baseball" magnet coil results in complex trajectories and severe defocusing of both the injected primary beam and detected secondary beam. Spatial resolution can be maintained by aperturing the entrance slit to the detector or installing compensating ion optics. The system is capable of space and time resolved measurements of plasma density and space potential near the central region of the mirror-confined plasma.     

Fast switchable electro-optic radial polarization retarder

A fast and switchable electro-optic radial polarization retarder (EO-RPR) fabricated using the electro-optic ceramic Pb(Mg(1/3)Nb(2/3))O(3)-PbTiO(3) is presented. This EO-RPR is useful for fast and switchable generation of a pure cylindrical vector beam. When used together with a pair of half-wave plates, the EO-RPR can change circularly polarized light into any cylindrical vector beam of interest, such as radially or azimuthally polarized light. Radially and azimuthally polarized light with purities greater than 95% are generated experimentally. The advantages of using EO-RPR include fast response time, low driving voltage, and transparency in a wide spectral range (500 to 7,000 nm).     

采用罗戈夫斯基线圈诊断径向束流

 罗戈夫斯基线圈具有结构简单、高频特性好等特点而被广泛应用于脉冲电流测量。提出了用两个自积分式罗戈夫斯基线圈诊断径向束流的方法,在此基础上设计了两个用于径向束流诊断的自积分式罗戈夫斯基线圈,对其进行了标定。当标准电流的上升沿为30 ns时,罗氏线圈响应时间约为10 ns;整个系统的测量误差约为4.7%。从标定结果来看,该系统的频率响应特性和测量精度能够满足ns级束流诊断的要求,该方法可以用于径向结构高功率微波器件的束流强度测量。     

Study on the Relation Between Discharge Voltage and Magnetic Field Topography in a Hall Thruster Discharge Channel

The relation between magnetic field topography and operating voltage is investigated in a 1kW Hall thruster discharge channel in order to focus the ion beam effectively and optimize the performance. The curvature of magnetic field line (α) is introduced to characterize the differences of topologies. The optimized magnetic field distribution under each operating voltage is obtained by experiment. Through the curvature transformation, we find that the area of (α > 1) in the channel gradually decreases with the increase of the operating voltage. In response to the results above, two dimensional plasma flows are simulated employing Particle‐in‐Cell method. The distributions of the electric potential, ion density and ion radial velocity are calculated to understand the important influence of the relation above on ion beam focusing. The numerical results indicate that magnetic field curvature and thermal electric field control the ion beam in the ionization and acceleration zone, respectively. The magnetic field topography and discharge voltage interact with each other and together form the focusing electric field. The ion radial mobility is suppressed effectively and the ion beam is focused to the channel centerline. In addition, for a given voltages, when the area of (α > 1) is larger than the optimal scope, the electric potential lines excessively bend to the anode causing ion over focus; contrarily, the electric potential lines will bend to the exit and defocus ions. All these results suggest the relation between magnetic field topography and discharge voltage is important to the ion radial flow control and performance optimization of the Hall thruster (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Intensive ion beams in the transverse magnetic field of anelectromagnetic separator

Based on state-of-the-art knowledge, the processes of the formation of intense ion beams in the transverse magnetic field of a commercial electromagnetic separator are analyzed. It is shown that, given the conditions of closed electron drift, the potentials will surely equalize along the fast ion trajectories all the way through the beam length; hence, no improvement in dynamic decompensation is caused by the low-frequency noise of the source. It is established that increasing the full beam current forces the maximum amplitude of the current density oscillations out to the beam periphery crosswise. For the first time, it is shown that suppressing noise oscillations in the arc discharge of an ion source for the formation of a highly stable ion beam with a minimum inner potential drop is possible. At low pressures, with collective interaction out of play, the drop is determined by Coulomb's collisions between the beam particles and compensating electrons. The analysis of collective phenomena likely to occur in the ion-beam plasma of a separator gives evidence of an experimental space potential buildup with increasing residual gas pressure in the calutron, leading to a high-frequency ion-electron beam instability. It is pointed out that this instability combined with an additional decompensation results in a noticeable broadening of the beam energy spectrum, which in turn makes for a lower quality of separation     

Modeling of beam ions loss and slowing down with Coulomb collisions in EAST

This paper uses the implicit Monte-Carlo full-orbit-following parallel program ISSDE to calculate the prompt loss and slowing down process of neutral beam injection (NBI)-generated fast ions due to Coulomb collisions in the equilibrium configuration of Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). This program is based on the weak equivalence of the Fokker-Planck equation under Rosenbluth MacDonald Judd (RMJ) potential and Stratonovich stochastic differential equation (SDE). The prompt loss with the LCFS boundary and the first wall (FW) boundary of the two co-current neutral injection beams are studied. Simulation results indicate that the loss behavior of fast ions using the FW boundary is very different from that of the LCFS boundary, especially for fast ions with a large gyration radius. According to our calculations, about 5.11% of fast ions generated by perpendicular injection drift out of the LCFS and then return inside the LCFS to be captured by the magnetic field. The prompt loss ratio of fast ions and the ratio of orbital types depend on the initial distribution of fast ions in the P_ζ-$\varLambda$ space. Under the effect of Coulomb collisions, the pitch-angle scattering and stochastic diffusion happens, which will cause more fast ion loss. For short time scales, among the particles lost due to collisions, the fraction of banana ions reaches 92.31% in the perpendicular beam and 58.65% in the tangential beam when the fraction of banana ions in the tangential beam is 3.4% of the total ions, which means that the effect of Coulomb collisions on banana fast ions is more significant. For long time scales, the additional fast ion loss caused by Coulomb collisions of tangential and perpendicular beams accounted for 16.21% and 25.05% of the total particles, respectively. We have also investigated the slowing down process of NBI fast ions.     

环位形下鱼骨模驱动快离子输运的数值模拟研究

考虑包含动理学效应的鱼骨模结构,使用导心轨道程序 ORBIT,在磁面坐标下研究了不同的扰动模 幅度、频率对快离子再分布的影响,并分析了粒子与扰动发生共振的条件。模拟得出,鱼骨模扰动会使快离子在 实空间、相空间中发生再分布,芯部( ψ_p/ψ _w≤0.2 ,ψ_p 为极向磁通,ψ_w 为最后一个闭合磁面的磁通)快离子密 度下降约 20%,中间磁面位置上( ψ_p/ψ _w≥0.2,ψ_p/ψ _w≤ 0.6)的快离子密度增加约 7%;通过扫描频率发现,相空间中快 离子的再分布对模式频率敏感,并分析了快离子与鱼骨模扰动共振的条件。     

Langmuir Probe Diagnostics of a Low Temperature Non-Isothermal Plasma in a Weak Magnetic Field

This article presents measurements by a cylindrical Langmuir probe in the plasma of a DC cylindrical magnetron discharge át the pressure 1.5 Pa that aim at the experimental assessment of the influence of a weak magnetic field to the estimation of the electron density when using conventional methods of probe data interpretation. The probe data was obtained under the presence of a weak magnetic field in the range 1.10^?2?5.10^?2 T. The influence of the magnetic field on the electron probe current is experimentally assessed for two cylindrical probes with different radii, 50 μm and 21 μm. This assessment is based on comparison of the values of the electron density estimated from the electron current part with the values of the positive ion density estimated from the positive ion current part of the probe characteristic respectively by assuming that at the magnetic field strengths used in the present study the probe positive ion currents are possible to be assumed as uninfluenced by the magnetic field. For interpretation of the probe positive ion current two theories are used and compared to each other: the radial motion model by Allen, Boyd and Reynolds [10] and Chen [11] and the model that accounts for the collisions of positive ions with neutrals in the probe space charge sheath that we call Chen-Talbot model [8]. At lower magnetic field 3 · 10^?2 T the positive ion density values interpreted by using the Chen-Talbot model [8] are in better agreement with the values of electron density compared to those obtained by using the theory [10,11]; therefore the model [8] is used for calculation of the positive ion density from the probe data at higher magnetic fields. The comparison of the positive ion and electron density values calculated from the same probe data at higher magnetic fields shows that up to the magnetic field strength 4 . 10^?2 T with the probe 100 μm and up to 5 . 10^?2 T with the probe 42 μm in diameter respectively the decrease of the magnitude of the electron current at the space potential due to the magnetic field does not exceed the error limits that are usual for Langmuir probe measurements (absolute error ±20%).     

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用线圈电流控制非平衡磁场,用汤森放电击穿形成深度自触发放电,用磁阱捕获放电形成的二次电子和导致漂移电流,形成了高功率非平衡磁控溅射放电。采用偏压为-100V相对磁控靶放置的圆形平面电极收集饱和离子电流;在距离磁控靶14cm的位置由Langmuir探针测量浮置电位;示波器测量磁控靶的脉冲电压、电流、浮置电位和饱和离子电流信号。装置的放电脉冲功率达到0.9MW,脉冲频率最大值为40Hz左右,空间电荷限制条件是控制电子电流和离子电流的主要机制。     

The Influence of the Fluctuation Amplitude on the Probe Characteristic

The time-averaged probe current is calculated by using a sampling method for sinusoidal and sawtooth-like oscillations of the space potential. The effect of oscillations on the measured plasma parameters obtained with the aid of the single probe method, double probe method and the method of the second derivative of the probe characteristic is discussed, with the electron saturation current being taken into account. In the ion current the values r_p/λ_D, λ/r_p and M_i characterizing the working regime are varied. The calculated results are checked by corresponding measurements in a beam generated plasma.     

双频容性耦合等离子体密度径向均匀性研究

利用自主研制的全悬浮双探针, 对影响双频容性耦合等离子体径向均匀性的因素进行了研究. 发现低频功率、放电气压和放电间距对径向均匀性有明显影响. 合适的低频功率、放电气压及较大的极板间距可以得到更均匀的等离子体. 采用与实验相同的放电参数, 利用改进的二维流体模型进行理论模拟, 得到了不同极板间距下径向离子密度分布, 并和实验测量结果进行了比较, 两者的变化趋势基本符合. 关键词： 双频容性耦合等离子体 径向均匀性 全悬浮双探针 二维流体模型