Both start-up and sustainment of plasma were successfully achieved by fully non- inductive current drive using microwave with a frequency of 8.2 GHz. Plasmas current of 15 kA was implemented for 1 s. Magnetic surface ...Both start-up and sustainment of plasma were successfully achieved by fully non- inductive current drive using microwave with a frequency of 8.2 GHz. Plasmas current of 15 kA was implemented for 1 s. Magnetic surface reconstruction exhibited a plasma shape with an aspect ratio of below 1.5. The plasma current was dependent significantly on the launched microwave power and vertical magnetic field, while not affected by the mode of launched wave and the toroidal refractive index. Hard X-ray （HXR） emitted from energetic electrons accelerated by the microwave was observed, and the discharge with a plasma current over 4 kA followed the same trend as the number of photons of 10 keV to 12 keV. This suggests that the plasma current may be driven by energetic electrons. Based on the experimental conditions, alternative explanations of how the plasma current could be driven are discussed.展开更多
For achieving the scientific mission of long pulse and high performance operation,experimental advanced superconducting tokamak（EAST） applies fully superconducting magnet technology and is equiped with high power au...For achieving the scientific mission of long pulse and high performance operation,experimental advanced superconducting tokamak（EAST） applies fully superconducting magnet technology and is equiped with high power auxiliary heating system.Besides RF（Radio Frequency） wave heating,neutral beam injection（NBI） is an effective heating and current drive method in fusion research.NBCD（Neutral Beam Current Drive） as a viable non-inductive current drive source plays an important role in quasi-steady state operating scenario for tokamak.The non-inductive current driven scenario in EAST only by NBI is predicted using the TSC/NUBEAM code.At the condition of low plasma current and moderate plasma density,neutral beam injection heats the plasma effectively and NBCD plus bootstrap current accounts for a large proportion among the total plasma current for the flattop time.展开更多
文摘Both start-up and sustainment of plasma were successfully achieved by fully non- inductive current drive using microwave with a frequency of 8.2 GHz. Plasmas current of 15 kA was implemented for 1 s. Magnetic surface reconstruction exhibited a plasma shape with an aspect ratio of below 1.5. The plasma current was dependent significantly on the launched microwave power and vertical magnetic field, while not affected by the mode of launched wave and the toroidal refractive index. Hard X-ray （HXR） emitted from energetic electrons accelerated by the microwave was observed, and the discharge with a plasma current over 4 kA followed the same trend as the number of photons of 10 keV to 12 keV. This suggests that the plasma current may be driven by energetic electrons. Based on the experimental conditions, alternative explanations of how the plasma current could be driven are discussed.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11175211,11247302)
文摘For achieving the scientific mission of long pulse and high performance operation,experimental advanced superconducting tokamak（EAST） applies fully superconducting magnet technology and is equiped with high power auxiliary heating system.Besides RF（Radio Frequency） wave heating,neutral beam injection（NBI） is an effective heating and current drive method in fusion research.NBCD（Neutral Beam Current Drive） as a viable non-inductive current drive source plays an important role in quasi-steady state operating scenario for tokamak.The non-inductive current driven scenario in EAST only by NBI is predicted using the TSC/NUBEAM code.At the condition of low plasma current and moderate plasma density,neutral beam injection heats the plasma effectively and NBCD plus bootstrap current accounts for a large proportion among the total plasma current for the flattop time.
