Identification of m=2 competent mode of complex magneto-hydro-dynamics activities during internal soft disruption based on singular value decomposition and tomography of soft-X-ray emission on the HT-7 tokamak

In this paper,the singular value decomposition(SVD) method as a filter is applied before the tomographic inversion of soft-X-ray emission.Series of ’filtered’ signals including specific chronos and topos are obtained.(Here,chronos and topos are the decomposed spatial vectors and the decomposed temporal vectors,respectively).Given specific magnetic flux function with coupling m = 1 and m = 2 modes,the line-integrated soft-X-ray signals at all chords have been obtained.Then m = 1 and m = 2 modes have been identified by tomography of simulated ’filtered’ signals extracted by the SVD method.Finaly,using the experimental line-integrated soft-X-ray signals,m = 2 competent mode of complex magnetohydrodynamics(MHD) activities during internal soft disruption is observed.This result demonstrates that m = 2 mode plays an important role in internal disruption(Here,m is the poloidal mode number).     

HT-7上射频波加热时中子辐射行为的研究

HT-7超导托卡马克进行DD等离子体放电时,中子的辐射与辅助加热射频波的类型(LHW加热、ICRF加热)及功率密切相关.利用BF₃与³He正比计数管组成的快速时间分辨中子注量监测系统,研究了不同类型的射频加热对于中子产生机理及高能离子形成的影响.LHW加热功率较低时,易形成逃逸,产生大量的光中子.特定频率的ICRF(27 MHz,24 MHz)加热时,聚变中子所占份额以及总的中子产额均随波功率的增大而显著增涨. 关键词： 射频加热 中子 托卡马克     

AC operation and runaway electron behaviour in HT-7 tokamak

Operation of HT-7 tokamak in a multicycle alternating square wave plasma current regime is reported. A set of AC operation experiments, including LHW heating to enhance plasma ionization during the current transition and current sustainment, is described. The behaviour of runaway electrons is analysed by four HXR detectors tangentially viewing the plasma in the equatorial plane, within energy ranges 0.3--1.2~MeV and 0.3--7~MeV, separately. High energy runaway electrons (\sim MeV) are found to circulate predominantly in the opposite direction to the plasma current, while the number of low energy runaway electrons (\sim tens to hundreds of keV) circulating along the plasma current is comparable to that in the direction opposite to the plasma current. AC operation with lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) is observed to have an additional benefit of suppressing the runaway electrons if the drop of the loop voltage is large enough.     

Repetitive ＇Snakes＇ and Their Damping Effect on Core Toroidal Rotation in EAST Plasmas with Multiple H-L-H Transitions

Repetitive impurity snake modes are observed after H-L mode transitions （high to low confinement modes） in EAST plasmas exhibiting multiple H-L-H transitions. Such snake modes are observed to lower the core plasma toroidal rotation. A critical impurity strength factor associated with snake-mode formation is estimated to be as high as αz,c = nz,cZ^2/ne - 0.75. These observations have implications for ITER H-mode sustainability when the heating power is only slightly above the H-mode power threshold.