Production and study of a high-temperature plasma in the central solenoid of the AMBAL-M device
| Autor: | Igor Bespamyatnov, T. D. Akhmetov, G. I. Dimov, V. S. Belkin, A. S. Krivenko, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Ya V. Savkin, V. B. Reva, G. I. Shulzhenko, V. V. Razorenov, Yu. V. Kovalenko |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Ambipolar diffusion Magnetic confinement fusion Solenoid Plasma Condensed Matter Physics Magnetic mirror Nuclear magnetic resonance Physics::Plasma Physics Physics::Space Physics Electron temperature Inductively coupled plasma Atomic physics Diffusion (business) |
| Zdroj: | Plasma Physics Reports. 28:750-755 |
| ISSN: | 1562-6938 1063-780X |
| DOI: | 10.1134/1.1508025 |
| Popis: | Results are presented from experiments on the production and study of a hot dense plasma in the central solenoid of the AMBAL-M fully axisymmetric ambipolar magnetic confinement system. The hot plasma in the solenoid and end cell is produced by filling the system with a thermally insulated current-carrying plasma stream with developed low-frequency turbulence. The plasma stream is generated by a gas-discharge plasma source placed upstream from the magnetic mirror of the solenoid. As a result, an MHD-stabilized plasma with a length of 6 m, a diameter of 40 cm, a density of 2×1013 cm−3, an ion energy of 250 eV, and an electron temperature of 60 eV is produced in the central solenoid. It is found that, in the quiescent decay phase, transverse plasma losses from the solenoid due to low-frequency oscillations and nonambipolar transport are rather small and comparable with the classical diffusion losses. |
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