Fast ion confinement and stability in a neutral beam injected reversed field pinch
| Autor: | L. Lin, D.J. Den Hartog, A. A. Ivanov, G. Fiksel, Mark Nornberg, J.J. Koliner, Vladimir Mirnov, Cary Forest, A. F. Almagri, Donald A. Spong, J. B. Titus, Eli Parke, S. Eilerman, Jay Anderson, Dongjian Liu, J.A. Reusch, S. V. Polosatkin, Vladimir I. Davydenko, J. Waksman, Yu. A. Tsidulko, J. S. Sarff, V. Belykh, Lucas Morton, Hajime Sakakita |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Physics of Plasmas. 20:056102 |
| ISSN: | 1089-7674 1070-664X |
| Popis: | The behavior of energetic ions is fundamentally important in the study of fusion plasmas. While well-studied in tokamak, spherical torus, and stellarator plasmas, relatively little is known in reversed field pinch plasmas about the dynamics of fast ions and the effects they cause as a large population. These studies are now underway in the Madison Symmetric Torus with an intense 25 keV, 1 MW hydrogen neutral beam injector (NBI). Measurements of the time-resolved fast ion distribution via a high energy neutral particle analyzer, as well as beam-target neutron flux (when NBI fuel is doped with 3–5% D2) both demonstrate that at low concentration the fast ion population is consistent with classical slowing of the fast ions, negligible cross-field transport, and charge exchange as the dominant ion loss mechanism. A significant population of fast ions develops; simulations predict a super-Alfvenic ion density of up to 25% of the electron density with both a significant velocity space gradient and a sharp radial... |
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