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对EAST中性束反向注入过程中等离子体加热和电流驱动进行了实验研究,并采用了美国普林斯顿大学等离子体物理实验室开发的TRANSP程序对高功率中性束注入过程中能量热输运进行了分析.结果表明,中性束注入可有效提高本底等离子体温度,产生束驱动非感应电流,提高等离子体旋转以及有效改善等离子体约束.     

EAST中性束反向注入的初步实验研究

对EAST中性束反向注入过程中等离子体加热和电流驱动进行了实验研究,并采用了美国普林斯顿大学等离子体物理实验室开发的TRANSP 程序对高功率中性束注入过程中能量热输运进行了分析。结果表明,中性束注入可有效提高本底等离子体温度,产生束驱动非感应电流,提高等离子体旋转以及有效改善等离子体约束。     

Sawtooth oscillation in current-carrying plasma in the large helical device

Sawtooth oscillations have been observed in current-carrying helical plasmas by using electron-cyclotron-emission diagnostics in the Large Helical Device. The plasma current, which is driven by neutral beam injection, reduces the beta threshold of the sawtooth oscillation. When the central q value is increased due to the plasma current, the core region crashes, and, when it is decreased, the edge region crashes annularly. Observed rapid mixture of the plasma in the limited region suggests that these sawtooth crashes are reconnection phenomena. Unlike previous experiments, no precursor oscillation has been observed.     

Performance evaluation of self-breakdown-based single-gap plasma cathode electron gun

This paper presents the experimental studies on self-breakdown-based single-gap plasma cathode electron (PCE) gun (5–20 kV/50–160 A) in argon, gas atmosphere and its performance evaluation based on particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation code ‘OOPIC-Pro’. The PCE-Gun works in conducting phase (low energy, high current) of pseudospark discharge. It produces intense electron beam, which can propagate more than 200 mm in the drift space region without external magnetic field. The profile of this beam in the drift space region at different breakdown conditions (i.e., gas pressures and applied voltages) has been studied and the experimental results are compared with simulated values. It is demonstrated that ～30% beam current is lost during the propagation possibly due to space charge neutralization and collisions with neutral particles and walls.     

Production of high-current large-area H- beams by abucket-type ion source equipped with a magnetic filter

A negative-ion-based neutral beam injection (NBI) system is planned for plasma heating of the Large Helical Device (LHD). We have developed a negative ion source, which is 1/3 the scale of the source for the NBI. A magnetic filter held was generated by external permanent magnets to lower the electron temperature in a large-area bucket plasma source (35 cm×62 cm) for efficient H^- production. We investigated the magnetic field configuration and found a low electron temperature high density plasma (<1 eV, 10¹²/cm³) could be achieved with an optimized configuration, The filter strength (B_max=70 G, line-integral flux=780 G cm at the center axis of the source) was proved to be enough to lower the electron temperature below 1 eV at high arc discharge power (100 kW) and low pressure (0.4 Pa). We injected cesium vapor into the plasma source to enhance H^- production efficiency and obtained a 16.2-A H^- beam current (31 mA/cm², 47 kV) using a large-area, four-grid electrostatic extraction system (25 cm×50 cm). This satisfied the development target (>15 A: 1/3 current of LHD ion source). Based on the results, we are designing a negative ion source for the LHD     

Study of Intense Electron Beams Produced by High-Voltage Pulsed Glow Discharges

We report the generation of high-current-density (20 A/cm2) pulsed electron beams from high-voltage (48-100 kV) glow discharges using cathodes 7.5 cm in diameter. The pulse duration was determined by the energy of the pulse generator and varied between 0.2 ?s and several microseconds, depending on the discharge current. The largest electron beam current (900 A) was obtained with an oxidized aluminum cathode in a helium-oxygen atmosphere. An oxidized magnesium cathode produced similar results, and a molybdenum cathode operated at considerably lower currents. A small-diameter (<1 mm) well-collimated beam of energetic electrons of very high current density (>1 kA/cm2) was also observed to develop in the center of the discharge. Electrostatic probe measurements show that the negative glow plasma density and the electron beam current have a similar spatial distribution. Electron temperatures of 1-1.5 eV were measured at 7 cm from the cathode. The plasma density (8.5 · 1011 cm-3 at 450 A) was found to depend linearly on the discharge current. In discharges at high currents a denser and higher temperature plasma region was observed to develop at approximately 20 cm from the cathode. We have modeled the process of electron beam generation and predicted the energy distribution of the electron beam. More than 95 percent of the electron beam energy is calculated to be within 10 percent of that corresponding to the discharge voltage.     

5MW中性束弧电源DC/DC变换器的设计与实现

中性束离子源弧放电具有气体放电等离子体的非线性特性,工作时还会受到气体压强、外磁场、阴极状态等因素的影响,采用晶闸管相控调压技术的弧电源很难实现对这种大功率电弧的稳定的闭环控制。为此,提出了一种多相多重的大电流DC/DC变换器,具有响应速度快、电流上升时间短、电流纹波小等特点,大幅提高了离子源弧放电闭环控制的稳定性。设计了滤波电感能量回馈电路,弧电源可以根据中性束系统的需要使弧电流快速减小0%~100%(可调),然后根据控制信号迅速恢复正常弧电流输出,形成一个弧电流凹坑。电源还采用超级电容储能技术,使电源体积减小了2/3,电网容量小于10kV·A。离子源放电时不会受到电网波动的影响,弧放电更加稳定。实验数据显示:该电源最大输出为220kW/1500A,电流纹波在1%以内,电流上升时间约100μs,最大超调量小于3%,可以满足5 MW中性束离子源及系统的要求。     

Wide-aperture high-current electron beam in a discharge with cathode plasma at elevated pressure

This work pursues investigations into the discharge with a cathode plasma in a cavity one wall of which is an insulating plate with a hole D in diameter (the cavity is 0.5 or 1.5 mm wide). This discharge is thoroughly analyzed in comparison with the high-voltage hollow-cathode discharge. Owing to the reduced emission of electrons from the cathode plasma, the discharge becomes more stable against transition to the low-voltage form, as a result of which an electron beam can be generated under higher gas pressures. Such a beam formed at the entrance to the cavity is used as an auxiliary one that propagates over the remaining (flat) surface of the cathode and adds to the gas ionization. Accordingly, the beam current from the main discharge to the anode rises (high-current regime). Wide-aperture (D = 22 mm) ≈1-μs-long pulsed beams with a current an order of magnitude higher than the total current of the equivalent anomalous discharge are obtained. Experiments are carried out at a helium pressure to 20 Torr and a voltage from 1 to 20 kV.     

Device for Producing and Investigating an Electron Beam Plasma Discharge

A survey on the properties and applications of the beam plasma discharge is given. A device for the experimental investigation of this discharge is described in which a magnetically guided (H = 0.05?0.1 T), ribbonlike electron beam (eU = 0.5–5 KeV, I = 10^?3?1 A) passes through a working chamber (p = 0.1–10 Pa; l = 10 cm, ø = 22 cm). The beam plasma discharge is sustained by collective beam plasma interaction. First results concerning the wall current and the ignition of the discharge as dependent on beam parameters are presented.     

The spatial and temporal development of pseudospark switch plasmas

Optical spectroscopy is used to investigate the spatial and temporal development of high-current pseudospark switch plasmas. At a peak discharge current of 12 kA in amplitude and a current reversal of 20%, the electron density is measured from Stark width broadening of the hydrogen Balmer beta line. The peak electron density of ~4×10¹⁵ cm^-3 is measured briefly after the current maximum. The discharge initially starts on the symmetry axis of the cathode hole. A cylindrical plasma column is observed, which is produced mainly by ionizing collisions of beam electrons formed in the hollow cathode during the early part of the discharge. This plasma column rapidly expands in the radial direction, until it contacts the edge of the cathode hole. The same behavior is found when the Balmer beta line intensity is evaluated rather than the line shape. Although statistically distributed, localized bursts of light are found occasionally, an axially symmetric, homogeneous light intensity distribution is always predominant, and the local arcing is merely superimposed on it. These results confirm that the discharge remains diffuse during most of the current pulse     

Measurement of neutral gas temperature in inductively coupled plasmas

Dependence of the neutral gas temperature on the gas pressure and discharge power in an inductively coupled plasma source has been investigated using optical emission spectroscopy. Both nitrogen and argon plasmas have been studied separately. In the case of argon plasma, about 5% nitrogen was added to the total gas flow as an actinometer. The maximum temperature was found to be as high as 1850 K at 1 Torr working pressure and 600 W radiofrequency power. The temperature increases almost linearly with the logarithm of the gas pressure, but changes only slightly with the discharge power in the range of 100–600 W. In a nitrogen plasma, a sudden increase in the neutral gas temperature occurs when the gas pressure is increased at a given discharge power. This suggests a discharge-mode transition from the H-mode (high plasma density) to the E-mode (low plasma density). In the H-mode, the gas temperature is proportional to the logarithm of the gas pressure, as in the argon plasma. However, the gas temperature increases almost linearly with the discharge power, which is in contrast to the case of argon plasma. The electron density in the nitrogen plasma is about 10% of that in the argon plasma. This may explain the observation that the nitrogen neutral temperature is always lower than the argon neutral temperature under the same discharge power and gas pressure.     

Visualization of density structures in tokamak edge plasmas usinglithium beam fluorescence

To study the local behavior of the edge plasma density in the DIII-D tokamak, we image the collisionally induced fluorescence from an injected neutral lithium beam using a gated intensified charge-coupled device (CCD) camera coupled to a UNIX workstation. The goal of these experiments is to search for spatially coherent structures in the plasma edge density which may be transiently illuminated by the beam. In our imaging studies to date we have been able to follow the evolution of the edge density as the main plasma discharge progresses through various confinement states under intense neutral beam injection (NBI) heating     

HL-1M装置边缘等离子体结构研究

描述HL-1M装置上几种典型放电中的边缘等离子体物理实验结果.利用马赫/朗缪尔6探针组、静电4探针组、20组三探针阵列研究了低杂波电流驱动、超声分子束注入、多发弹丸注入和中性束注入放电中的粒子约束性能、等离子体旋转和边缘静电雷诺胁强的变化对改善约束的影响.给出了雷诺胁强和极向相速度的关系.结果表明，雷诺胁强的径向变化可以自发产生托卡马克等离子体的剪切极向流.LHCD能使低密度放电的粒子约束增加1至2倍.弹丸注入后，粒子约束时间和极向旋转至少可增加1倍，而SMBI可使粒子约束时间增加约一个数量级并取得高性能等离子体. 关键词： 粒子约束 雷诺胁强 极向流剪切 马赫/朗缪尔6探针组     

Anode plasma structure in a gas discharge with neutral density depleted by ionization

We consider the anode plasma structure in a gas discharge with density of neutral atoms (neutrals) depleted by strong ionization. We obtain analytical solutions of the quasi-neutrality equation for the potential distribution and a condition for the existence of anode plasma in the one-dimensional case for arbitrary potential dependences of the neutral depletion frequency and the electron density. We consider the special cases of a constant neutral depletion frequency, ionization by Maxwellian electrons, and ionization by an intense electron beam under the conditions of collisionless ion motion and Boltzmann thermal electron distribution. The solutions for the first two cases at zero depletion parameter, i.e., at constant gas density, match those obtained in [1] by a power series expansion. In the case of ionization by Maxwellian electrons, the formation of anode plasma at reasonable working-gas flow rates is shown to be possible only at a fairly high electron temperature (if, e.g., xenon is used as the working gas, then T _e ≥ 5 eV). Steady-state solutions of the quasi-neutrality equation under ionization by an intense electron beam exist only if the ratio of the electron beam density to the maximum thermal electron density does not exceed a certain limiting value.     

Spectroscopic Investigation of a Double Discharge Pulsed Electron Beam Generator

ABSTRACT

The wide range of applications of the plasma-based electron beam generator make it necessary to diagnose the device with a noninterfering method. The results of experimental and modeling studies of neutral helium and hydrogen beta spectral lines emitted from the double discharge pulsed electron beam generator are presented in this paper. Neutral helium lines emitted from the plasma in the pressure range 0.1–0.4 torr are studied and compared with results of the collisional radiative model. The duration of the electron beam is shorter than 100 ns, and the peak current intensity is of order amperes. The full width at half maximum of the H _β spectral line is used for the determination of the plasma electron density, found as 3.16 × 10²¹ m^?3 at 0.3 torr, and good agreement is obtained by comparing with the full computer simulation method.     

Quasisteady high-confinement reversed shear plasma with large bootstrap current fraction under full noninductive current drive condition in JT-60U

A quasisteady reversed shear plasma with a large bootstrap current fraction ( approximately 80%) has been obtained for the first time in the JT-60U tokamak. The shrinkage of reversed shear region was suppressed by the bootstrap current peaked at the internal transport barrier (ITB) layer and the ITBs at a large radius were sustained, which, by combination with an H-mode edge pedestal, resulted in a high confinement or 2.2 times the H-mode scaling for 6 times energy confinement time or 2.7 s. Furthermore, a full noninductive current drive was obtained by the bootstrap current and the beam driven current.     

HL-2A装置NBI加热束线束光学特性

中性束离子源束光学特性直接影响中性束注入功率。通过理论计算和实验扫描的方式对引出束半宽度随导流系数的变化进行了研究。理论上, 采用IGUN程序对HL-2A装置的三电极引出加速器进行了束元轨迹模拟, 采用束几何光学计算程序对高斯束元进行叠加, 得到了在束线量热靶处引出束的1/e半宽度。实验上, 在放电气体为氘气, 弧放电电流分别为200, 300, 400 A时, 对引出高压进行扫描, 利用量热靶上的热偶测量了不同位置处的温升, 用高斯函数拟合得到引出束的分布和1/e半宽度。理论计算和实验结果都表明, 束半宽随着导流系数的增加先减少后逐渐增加。理论计算结果表明不同离子束流下的最佳导流系数值基本不变, 而实验上, 弧流为200, 300, 400 A时, 对应的最佳导流系数分别为1.6, 1.7, 1.85 P。     

Discharge and emission parameters of a plasma electron source based on a discharge in crossed E × H fields with various cathode materials

The possibility of using a plasma electron source (PES) with a discharge in crossed E × H field for compensating the ion beam from an end-Hall ion source (EHIS) is analyzed. The PES used as a neutralizer is mounted in the immediate vicinity of the EHIS ion generation and acceleration region at 90° to the source axis. The behavior of the discharge and emission parameters of the EHIS is determined for operation with a filament neutralizer and a plasma electron source. It is found that the maximal discharge current from the ion source attains a value of 3.8 A for operation with a PES and 4 A for operation with a filament compensator. It is established that the maximal discharge current for the ion source strongly depends on the working gas flow rate for low flow rates (up to 10 ml/min) in the EHIS; for higher flow rates, the maximum discharge current in the EHIS depends only on the emissivity of the PES. Analysis of the emission parameters of EHISs with filament and plasma neutralizers shows that the ion beam current and the ion current density distribution profile are independent of the type of the electron source and the ion current density can be as high as 0.2 mA/cm² at a distance of 25 cm from the EHIS anode. The balance of currents in the ion source-electron source system is considered on the basis of analysis of operation of EHISs with various sources of electrons. It is concluded that the neutralization current required for operation of an ion source in the discharge compensation mode must be equal to or larger than the discharge current of the ion source. The use of PES for compensating the ion beam from an end-Hall ion source proved to be effective in processes of ion-assisted deposition of thin films using reactive gases like O₂ or N₂. The application of the PES technique makes it possible to increase the lifetime of the ion-assisted deposition system by an order of magnitude (the lifetime with a Ti cathode is at least 60 h and is limited by the replacement life of the deposited cathode insertion).     

Neutralization of an ion beam from the end-Hall ion source by a plasma electron source based on a discharge in crossed E × H fields

The possibility of using a plasma electron source (PES) with a discharge in crossed E × H field for compensating the ion beam from an end-Hall ion source (EHIS) is analyzed. The PES used as a neutralizer is mounted in the immediate vicinity of the EHIS ion generation and acceleration region at 90° to the source axis. The behavior of the discharge and emission parameters of the EHIS is determined for operation with a filament neutralizer and a plasma electron source. It is found that the maximal discharge current from the ion source attains a value of 3.8 A for operation with a PES and 4 A for operation with a filament compensator. It is established that the maximal discharge current for the ion source strongly depends on the working gas flow rate for low flow rates (up to 10 ml/min) in the EHIS; for higher flow rates, the maximum discharge current in the EHIS depends only on the emissivity of the PES. Analysis of the emission parameters of EHISs with filament and plasma neutralizers shows that the ion beam current and the ion current density distribution profile are independent of the type of the electron source and the ion current density can be as high as 0.2 mA/cm² at a distance of 25 cm from the EHIS anode. The balance of currents in the ion source-electron source system is considered on the basis of analysis of operation of EHISs with various sources of electrons. It is concluded that the neutralization current required for operation of an ion source in the discharge compensation mode must be equal to or larger than the discharge current of the ion source. The use of PES for compensating the ion beam from an end-Hall ion source proved to be effective in processes of ion-assisted deposition of thin films using reactive gases like O₂ or N₂. The application of the PES technique makes it possible to increase the lifetime of the ion-assisted deposition system by an order of magnitude (the lifetime with a Ti cathode is at least 60 h and is limited by the replacement life of the deposited cathode insertion).     

Generation of High-Current Low-Energy Electron Beams in Systems with Plasma Emitters

Generation and transport of high-current electron beams are investigated in gas-filled diodes with plasma emitters based on arc and glow discharges. A space-charge neutralized beam with a current up to 1 kA was produced in a diode with a plasma emitter based on an arc discharge for an accelerating voltage of 15 kV. The beam is constricted from 8 cm down to 1 cm in diameter by a self-magnetic field and is transported through a distance of over 20 cm with an efficiency of 70%. A beam with a current of 80 A and a current density up to 100 A/cm² was produced in a glow-discharge diode. The beam was transported through a distance of 30 cm in a weak axial magnetic field with induction B = 0.015 T.