Investigation of Impurity Ion Transport with Laser Blow-off in HL-2A Tokamak

Transient perturbation methods are most appropriate to study particle transport in tokamaks. Two most commonly used techniques of impurity injection are laser blow-off and gas puffing. The laser blow-off injection technique is undoubtedly the best one to study impurity transport because the injection time and the alnount of injected material can be controlled in a certain phase of the discharge with a minimum perturbation of the plasma parameters. The information of the impurity transport is obtained from the detection of emission of injected impurity ions located in different spatial regions. The radiation includes line emission, soft X-ray emission and plasma global radiation.     

Observation of Non-Local Transport Phenomena with SMBI in HL-2A

The non-local transport phenomenon induced by supersonic molecular beam injection （SMBI） was first observed in the HL-2A tokomak. In comparison with the phenomena induced by other methods in various tokamaks, it has its own feature： the effect induced by SMBI in HL-2A lasts much longer than that induced by pellet injection in other similar size tokomaks. Both the bolometer radiation and He emission decrease when the non-local effect appears. This suggests that an electron transport barrier has been formed at the position just outside the q = 1 surface when the non-local effect appears.     

Edge Particle Flux with Temperature Fluctuation in the HL-2A Tokamak

Electron temperature, density, plasma potential and their fluctuation profiles at edge plasmas are measured simultaneously with a reciprocating probe system in HL-2A. The analysis results of four-tip data indicate that the temperature fluctuation has relative amplitude of 10-15%, gives more contribution to particle flux in lower （0- 25 kHz） and higher frequency （50-250 kHz） ranges. The coherence between temperature fluctuations and density or potential fluctuations implies that their coupling will impact anomalous transport. The measured diffusion coefficient is about three times of the Bohm diffusion coefficient when considering the temperature fluctuation. The particle flux with temperature fluctuation is discussed in HL-2A for the first time.     

Laser Blow-Off Injected Impurity in HL-2A Tokamak

Transient perturbation methods are most appropriate to study particle transport in tokamaks. Two most commonly used techniques of impurity injection are laser blow-off and gas puffing. Short bursts of impurities, injected using the laser blow-off injection technique, are among other transient perturbation methods, undoubtedly best suited to study impurity transport The injection time and the amount of injected material can be controlled in order to study a certain phase of the discharge with a minimum perturbation of the plasma parameters. Furthermore, the source is of very short duration and thus provides an experimentally more direct measure of impurity transport.     

Observation of Fishbone-Like Instabilities Excited by Energetic Electrons on the HL-2A Tokamak

Strong burst of an internal kink mode is observed on the HL-2A tokamak. Features of the fishbone-like mode are presented. The fishbone-like instabihties can be driven during electron cyclotron resonance heating （ECRH） and can be excited on the high field side （HFS） by ECRH. It is found for the first time that the modes also present themselves on the low field side （LFS） during ECRH. Experiments show that the energetic electrons with energy of 35-70 keV play a dominant role in the excitation mechanism, and the experimental results are also consistent with our calculation ones.     

Density Modulation Experiments on HT-7 Tokamak

Density modulation experiments are successfully conducted on HT-7 ohmic discharge to investigate particle transport coefficients: diffusion coefficients D and convection velocity V. The particle transport is studied at low (1.5×10¹⁹m^-3) and high (3×10¹⁹ m^-3) density regimes. The clear differences are observed that D is 0.42m²/s and 0.17m²/s, V is 4.7m/s (outward) and 1.6 m/s (inward) for low and high density plasmas respectively, where spatially constant D and V(r) = (r/a)V₀ were assumed for the analysis.     

Propagation of Ion-Acoustic Wave in an Inhomogeneous Dusty Plasma with. Dust Charge Fluctuation

The propagation of dust ion-acoustic wave in an inhomogeneous dusty plasma is studied by taking the dust charge fluctuation and collisions into account. It is shown that the dust charge fluctuation brings a phase shift to the wave. Furthermore, because of the presence of dust charge fluctuation, a new damping term rises, which makes the damping more sharply.     

Evolution of statistical properties of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence during the formation of internal transport barrier in a tokamak

Statistical properties of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence and anomalous flux are analysed in plasmas with low and improved energy confinement. The turbulence is simulated using the three dimensional fluid code, where the source is prescribed and the turbulence and temperature profile evolve self-consistently. The transition to the improved core confinement with an internal transport barrier is obtained by increasing the heating power. It is found that the momentums of the probability distribution function of flux fluctuations reduce to their Gaussian values when the transport barrier on the temperature profile forms. The formation of the oscillating structure with the properties of linear wave has been found at very high heating power. Presented at 5th Workshop “Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust”, Montreux, Switzerland, June 23–24, 2002.     

Preliminary Investigation of Impurity and Radiation Behaviors in the Startup Phase of HL-2A Tokamak

As the startup phase of HL-2A operation and the first divertor tokamak device in China, it is important to identify the species of impurity, estimate the concentration of impurities and compare the different behaviors of radiation in limiter and divertor configurationt. In startup phase of HL-2A, glowing discharge cleaning （GDC） is used as a conventional wall conditioning technology and titanium gettering is used occasionally in closed divertor chamber during SN configuration discharges phase.     

Critically shielded potential in a three-dimensional electron gas: The induced charge density at the origin

The induced electron density at the position of a critically shielded single point charge embedded in a three-dimensional degenerate electron gas is studied at low densities, in a comparative manner. The partial-wave expansion method for scattering states and averaging over the occupied Fermi sphere are used for an attractive potential energy of Hulthen form. The third-order differential equation of March and Murray [N.H. March, A.M. Murray, Phys. Rev. 120 (1960) 830] for the diagonal of the one-particle density matrix is also investigated, for the same continuous set of energy eigenvalues. The comparative study, performed for the s-type component of the total electron density, explicitly demonstrates the equivalence of the two methods.     

The Effect of Siliconization on Impurity Emission on HL-2A Tokamak

HL-2A is a new middle-sized tokamak device with two closed divertors. In 2004 campaign siliconization as a wall condition has been first done on HL-2A since the starting operation of the device. By using sil-iconization we observed that impurity has been obviously decreased. The character of the siliconization and the effect of wall condition on plasma have been investigated as well as on the wall recycling.     

Impurity Behaviours of HL-2A Divertor Tokamak during the Initial Operation Period

In order to avoid destroying the vessel wall and poisoning the plasma, at the same time to efficiently extract the waste product of the fusion process from the system, divertors were adopted in some machines just at the beginning of dealing with this problems. Up to now, the remarkable progress has been made in this respect field . In order to understand the physics behind divertors, HL-2A tokamak with two closed divertors was successfully built in 2002. Its parameters are as follows：     

Multi-Channel FIR Laser Interferometer on the HL-2A Tokamak

In recent years, the high density plasma in the range of 10^19～ 10^20m^-3 have been operated in large or middle tokamak device in the world. A muhichannel far infrared interferometer for profile measurement of plasma density on HL-2A divertor tokamak is being developed, however the design of the interferometer will appear many new problem in face of experimental environment of the HL-2A divertor device, such as how to make both transmission and arrangement of optics of the interferometer, the effect of electromo- tive force on device and how about the vibration etc. According to the eight windows setting on the largest flange of the device we have to design a Michelson-type FIR laser interferometer with 8 probing channels and eight concave mirrors must be attached it to the inner wall of the vacuum vessel of the device. Therefore, there are many problems should be taken into account to resolve, for example, （ 1 ） the vibration-proof consider for muhichannel interferometer and HCN laser, （2） the stabilization and reliability of the mirror frame uum vessel, the mirrors, hanging on internal wall of vachow to prevent the sputtering to （3） the vacuum seal of the windows and the design of mobile seal for the shutter to avoid the sputter coating of plasma,     

Explicit solutions of two nonlinear dispersive equations with variable coefficients

A mathematical technique based on an auxiliary equation and the symbolic computation system Matlab is developed to construct the exact solutions for a generalized Camassa-Holm equation and a nonlinear dispersive equation with variable coefficients. It is shown that the variable coefficients of the derivative terms in the equations cause the qualitative change in the physical structures of the solutions.     

Influence of radial electric field on trajectories of plug potential bounce ion in the tandem mirror

Bouncing ions between the plug potentials play an important role in improvement of the axial confinement in the tandem mirror. We examined the influence of the radial electric field on the trajectories of the ions passed through the anchor cell with nonaxisymmetric magnetic configuration on the assumption that the shape of the magnetic flux tube was shifted from the shape of the equipotential surface of the plasma at the mirror throats of the anchor cells. The discrepancy between the shapes enhanced the radial drift of the bounce ion. Radial potential profile of the core plasma was controlled by adjustment of the radially separated endplate potentials, and it was found that the flattened radial potential profile was effective for the decrease of the radial drift. Presented at 5th Workshop “Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust”, Montreux, Switzerland, June 23–24, 2002.     

Beam Ion Transport from Neutron Emissivity Measurement in Deuterium Neutral Beam-Heated Deuterium Plasmas of the HL-2A Tokamak

An experiment at the HL-2A tokamak with a high-energy deuterium neutral beam （NB） injection （30 keV, about 0.6 MW） was performed. The emission of d-d fusion neutrons dominated by beam-plasmas reactions when the deuterium NB was injected into the deuterium target plasma was observed by means of a ^235U fission chamber. To obtain information on NB deposition and the slowing down of beam ions in HL-2A plasmas, a very short-pulse deuterium NB injection, or the so-called ＂blip＂ injection, was performed into MHD-quiescent Ohmic deuterium plasmas. Analysis of neutron decay following the NB ＂blip＂ injection indicates that tangentially injected beam ions are well confined, slowing down classically in the HL-2A. In contrast to the MHD-quiescent plasma, anomalous losses of beam ions were observed when tearing mode instabilities were present.     

Gas Sensor Using a Robust Approach under Time Multiplexing Scheme with a Twin Laser Chip for Absorption and Reference

A tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy nitrous oxide gas sensor at 2.1 micrometres using one antimonide twin laser chip and one InGaAs photodiode is demonstrated, in which time multiplexing techniques are adopted to acquiring both the absorption and reference signal in a robust fluctuation tolerable scheme. Electronics in analogue modality is developed to extracting absorption information and compensating for fluctuations, resulting in a direct analogue voltage output corresponding to the target gas concentration in real time. The performance of the gas sensor is evaluated experimentally, the validity and feasibility of this scheme is also discussed.     

Transport properties of high temperature air in local thermodynamic equilibrium

In the paper new calculated transport coefficients of air in the temperature range 50-100 000 K are presented. The results have been obtained by means of the perturbative Chapman-Enskog method, assuming that the plasma is in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). The calculations include viscosity, thermal conductivity, electric conductivity and multicomponent diffusion coefficients. For the calculation, a recent compilation of collision integrals obtained by Capitelli et al. [1] has been utilized. Analytical expression for all transport coefficients and thermodynamic parameters of the air plasma are also reported. Received 17 November 1999     

Study of charge distribution in a dust beam using a Faraday cup

After getting charged in plasma, dust grains in a dust beam are scanned by a Faraday cup and electrometer. At different operating conditions, including a dc field, and analysis of the dust current profile, dust charge distribution is studied and information on the nature of the nonuniform distribution obtained.