Ion heating by lower hybrid waves

An ion heating by excited lower hybrid waves has been observed in a coaxial type double plasma device. The lower hybrid resonance heating is examined on the two components of the kinetic energy perpendicular and parallel to the magnetic field.     

Spatially resolved measurements of ion heating during impulsive reconnection in the Madison Symmetric Torus

The impurity ion temperature evolution has been measured during three types of impulsive reconnection events in the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed field pinch. During an edge reconnection event, the drop in stored magnetic energy is small and ion heating is observed to be limited to the outer half of the plasma. Conversely, during a global reconnection event the drop in stored magnetic energy is large, and significant heating is observed at all radii. For both kinds of events, the drop in magnetic energy is sufficient to explain the increase in ion thermal energy. However, not all types of reconnection lead to ion heating. During a core reconnection event, both the stored magnetic energy and impurity ion temperature remain constant. The results suggest that a drop in magnetic energy is required for ions to be heated during reconnection, and that when this occurs heating is localized near the reconnection layer.     

Sounding rocket measurements of suprathermal ion acceleration

Transverse ion acceleration has been observed at rocket altitudes between 500 and 1000 km due to the injection of 100-200-eV argon plasma, auroral electron precipitation, and the injection of electromagnetic waves. Field-aligned currents necessary to neutralize the plasma injection payloads and those naturally occurring in the aurora could be responsible for the ions observed in the first two observations. Associated with the aurora, both bulk heating and tail heating are observed, sometimes simultaneously. In this case, either different masses are accelerated and/or different mechanisms are responsible. The bulk heating is closely correlated with the aurora structure while tail heating is not so well correlated. High-time-resolution rocket ion data have revealed that the transverse acceleration process is of very short duration (~100 ms) and occurs in a very limited volume (a few hundred kilometers along B and on the order of the ion gyrodiameter across B). Such impulse acceleration events are correlated with waves near the lower hybrid resonance. Wave injections of electromagnetic waves near the lower hybrid frequency result in the transverse acceleration of ambient ions     

Local measurement of nonclassical ion heating during magnetic reconnection

Local ion temperature and flows are measured directly in the well-characterized reconnection layer of a laboratory plasma. The measurements indicate strongly that ions are heated due to reconnection and that more than half of the reconnected field energy is converted to ion thermal energy. Neither classical viscous damping of the observed sub-Alfvenic ion flows nor classical energy exchange with electrons is sufficient to account for the ion heating, suggesting the importance of nonclassical dissipation mechanisms in the reconnection layer.     

HL-1M装置边缘参数测量

在HL－1M装置上利用马赫／郎缪尔探针分别在欧姆放电,低杂波注入,中性束注入,离子回旋加热和电子回旋加热等情况下测量下刮离层和等离子体边缘的极向流速度和电场,得到了它们的径向分布,研究了LHW,NBI,ICRH和ECRH对改善等离子体约束性能,边缘粒子的径向传输的影响。     

Generation of cold electrons in the downstream region of a microwave plasma source with near boundary resonances for production of negative ions

A microwave driven multicusp plasma based volume negative ion source equipped with a magnetic filter is developed. Instead of employing any electrodes or current carrying filaments, microwaves of frequency 2.45 GHz is used to generate plasma by resonance heating mechanisms namely the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) and upper hybrid resonances (UHR), occurring near the boundary plasma layers. The principal process of negative ion production in hydrogen is dissociative attachment of low energy (0.5–1.0 eV) electrons to vibrationally excited neutral molecules generated from high energy (15–20 eV) electron impact. The source therefore necessitates two distinct spatial regions (a) production and (b) attachment chambers; which would contain electrons with optimum cross section for the aforementioned processes. A biased grid after the magnetic filter further helps to lower down the electron temperature to ≤1 eV which is favorable for the dissociative attachment process.     

EAST中性束穿透损失分析

中性束注入(NBI)是托卡马克装置四种辅助加热手段(中性束注入、低杂波、离子回旋段波、电子回旋段波)中加热效率最高、物理机制最清楚的一种等离子体加热技术,是国际聚变界公认的最有效的辅助加热手段之一。为了探究EAST-NBI的穿透损失,通过对穿透损失率产生原理的理论分析,设计了具体硬件电路框图和实验方案,并通过实验验证了理论推导的正确性。具体做法首先通过对离子源束斑内中心点热电偶进行定量标定的方法作为穿透损失计算的标准。通过石墨瓦上热电偶单位能量下的温升与标定热电偶的温升之比来对穿透损失率进行计算。实验结果表明在一定的束能范围内,穿透损失率随着注入束能的增加而线性增长,穿透损失率随着等离子体密度增长呈指数衰减。     

HT-7电子加热实验的软X射线能谱诊断

介绍了HT-7装置上软X射线能谱诊断系统,用软X射线能谱对HT-7托卡马克上电子温度进行了测量。在离子伯恩斯坦波和低杂波协同实验中,观察到了对等离子体的较好的加热效果。     

Wave Trajectories and Damping of Lower Hybrid Wave in Tokamak Plasmas

Incident lower hybrid waves (LHW) propagate toward the center of the plasma in a spiral form in the poloidal and the toroidal sections, and finally are absorbed by the ion Landau damping (ILD) and/or the electron Landau damping (ELD) in accordance with the refractive index parallel to the magnetic field N?, which is varied considerably along the trajectory because of the toroidicity and the rotational transform. We propose the scaling law of the wave trajectories on plasma parameters, which shows that the control of N? or the applied frequency is necessary during the lower hybrid heating (LHH).     

Study of Density Behavior During LHCD and IBW Heating in the HT-7 Superconducting Tokamak

A new method using special shape parameters has been introduced to study density behavior with synergy of lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) and ion Bernstein wave (IBW) heating in the HT-7 superconducting tokamak. During the synergy of the LHCD and IBW heating an improved confinement plasma was achieved, and the electron density was increased and peaked.     

The Design of the Microwave Exciter for Klystron

To carry out lower hybrid wave heating and current drive plasma experiment on tokamak, we need mega-watt order of microwave power generated by the parallel-running klystrons. Those klystrons must be driven by the microwave exciter. Now our microwave exciter is used for many years and its performance is decreased very much. It can not satisfy any more the hybrid wave heating and current drive plasma experiment. So we set out to design a new microwave exciter that is consist of the microwave solid components, amplitudestabilization control, modularization design with multitude-outputs, microwave phase control in order to satisfy the demand of the different work in the hybrid wave heating and current drive plasma experiment.     

Die Energieaufnahme der Ionen in einem sehr schnellen Theta-Pinch

In a theta pinch with an extremely fast rising magnetic field (dB/dt 10¹¹ G/sec), a strong compression wave is produced in an initially fieldless low-density deuterium plasma. Assuming simple plasma models, a high-energy gain of the ions is expected already during the implosion of the plasma. In agreement with these calculations for a filling pressure of 20 μ D₂, a mean ion energy of 1–2 keV is determined from the first neutron emission at the end of the implosion, only 150 nsec after ignition. Decreasing the initial pressure to 10 μ D₂ does not cause any further increase of the achieved ion energy. This limitation of the ion heating is explained by a strong broadening of the current carrying layer at low densities which is observed by magnetic probe measurements. In the adiabatic compression, the mean ion energy attains values of several keV. During the first part of this phase, the energy distribution function of the ions is found to be essentially anisotropic, and monoenergetic rather than Maxwellian.     

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介绍了离子回旋波加热领域研究进展,具体分析了快波少子加热模式转换情况以及影响模式转换分量大小和位置的因素。通过控制波的频率及少子浓度,使得波能够顺利传播到托卡马克等离子体的离子混合共振与截止的区域附近,并转换为离子Bernstein波而被等离子体有效吸收,因而能够改善加热效果。     

EAST装置锂化壁下低杂波等离子体温度行为研究

在EAST全超导托卡马克归一化半径r/a ≤qslant 0.6区域内部, 在高功率低混杂波电流驱动辅助加热下,以及第一壁锂化处理条件下, 在低混杂波注入中期观测到电子温度剖面和离子温度剖面变平的现象. 利用X射线弯曲晶体光谱仪诊断系统,并结合其他相关诊断系统研究了在第一壁锂化条件下, 以及EAST低杂波放电位形下,电子温度剖面和离子温度的剖面行为. 研究结果表明:电子温度剖面和离子温度剖面变平的现象是由于第一壁锂化处理技术对从等离子体边界流向第一壁的粒子流产生了影响,使得边界粒子再循环模式受到抑制, 这种低再循环模式的存在引起了温度剖面的变化.同时观察到离子温度和电子温度彼此接近的现象, 这是由于随着等离子体密度的增加,电子与离子之间的碰撞行为加剧所产生的结果.     

Is the Collecting Surface of a Flat One-Sided Probe Constant when Measuring the Ion Distribution Function?

The correctness of the known plane single-ended probe method for measuring the anisotropic ion distribution functions in a gas-discharge plasma has been considered. Analysis has been performed for positive probe potentials relative to the plasma with magnitudes on the order of the mean ion energy, which as a rule is much lower than the mean electron energy. We have analyzed the dependence of the collection surface area of a plane probe on its potential in this range. The structure of the near-probe layer has been determined for an isotropic electron distribution function of the Maxwellian or Druvestein type and an anisotropic ion distribution function. These results are used to derive analytic relations for the correction to the second derivative of the probe current with respect to the plane probe potential. It has been shown that, when the ion distribution function is measured in a wide range of conditions in the gas-discharge plasma, when the approximation of a collisionless probe layer is applicable, and the probe does not perturb the plasma, the dependence of the collection surface area of the probe on the potential can be disregarded in this range.     

在Bohm模式下氘氚燃烧的等离子体温度分布

在一定的等离子体密度分布下,从电子和离子能量输运方程出发,研究了氘氚燃烧下的等离子体温度分布.研究中采用了JET适用的Bohm模式下的热传导系数,考虑了α粒子的反常扩散效应,动态反馈加热.研究结果表明,Bohm模式下的热传导率从等离子体中心到边缘逐渐增加;为了维持氘氚燃烧,必须有动态反馈加热,否则,燃烧将熄灭;α粒子的反常扩散,使得加热效率因子η_α在中心区域小于1,在外层大于1;α粒子的反常扩散越强烈,中心离子温度越高,是由于中心区域的热传导小,电子温度低,反馈加热功率增加的结果;B 关键词：     

Fast wave heating in a mirror during plasma build-up

A heating method for partially ionized plasma has been described in reference [V.E. Moiseenko, Sov. J. Plasma Phys. 12, 427 (1986)]. It exploits the collisional damping of fast waves that is large owing to the high rate of charge exchange collisions. Since the time of heating is limited by the duration of neutral gas ionization, the heating needs to be strong enough to achieve a high final ion temperature. This heating method has been studied numerically in the framework of MHD-like (magneto-hydrodynamic) equations in inhomogeneous cylindrical plasma. The influences of the ratio of the mean free path of the neutral atoms to the plasma radius, the initial ion concentration, the characteristics of the interaction of the neutral atoms with the chamber wall and other parameters on the plasma heating dynamics are examined. A scenario for RF plasma heating in one central cell of the multi-mirror device GOL3 (Novosibirsk, Russia) is developed, in which the final ion temperature exceeds the ion oscillation energy in the RF field by one order of magnitude. The energy efficiency is high; only a small portion of the power is transferred by the neutral atoms to the chamber wall.     

托卡马克等离子体的快波模转换和吸收

本文对托卡马克位形,用动力理论研究了非均匀热等离子体的ICRF快波模转换及有关的阻尼机制。结果表明,对于多种离子成分的等离子体,在离子-离子混杂共振层和二次谐波回旋共振层附近,存在快波和离子伯恩斯坦波(IBW)之间的模转换;模转换层附近的色散关系与k_(?),离子种类浓度以及等离子体密度有明显的相关性。适当选择这些参数可大大改善快波能量的吸收和吸收的局域性。而在一种离子成分的等离子体中、无模转换过程发生。     

Survey of Lower Hybrid Experiments

Recent results in lower hybrid experiments on tokamaks are surveyed. Both ion and electron heating regimes are examined. It is found that while good coupling of the RF power with multiple waveguide arrays can be achieved, the ion heating results tend to be irreproducible. Electron heating in high density plasmas, such as in Alcator C, tend to be efficient and reproducible. Perhaps the most exciting results have been obtained in RF current generation experiments where toroidal currents of the order of hundreds of kiloamperes have been generated by injecting several hundred kilowatts of power via traveling lower hybrid waves.     

影响产生均匀等离子体状态的几个因素

 用数值模拟方法研究利用辐射加热来产生均匀等离子体状态,它可被用来测量元素的辐射不透明度,校验辐射不透明度理论。研究了在辐射加热铁的“三明治”型靶时影响生成均匀等离子体状态的几个重要因素（样品厚度、CH膜厚度和辐射源）所起的作用，研究发现，当铁等离子体通过热传导达到均匀状态时，其尺度必须与此时的传热距离相当，从而定出铁样品的厚度；低Z介质CH膜对铁等离子体有明显的箍束作用，调整CH膜的厚度可以调节所产生的等离子体状态；调整不同方向上的CH膜厚度，可以控制铁等离子体的膨胀方向，使它尽可能地达到一维膨胀，使得反推出的等离子体密度可以更加准确；样品的种类、厚度以及外面的低Z介质厚度决定了在某时刻能获得的等离子体状态，以及为产生此等离子体状态所需的最低辐射能。