論文

査読有り
2017年10月23日

Fully non-inductive plasma start-up with lower-hybrid waves using the outboard-launch and top-launch antennas on the TST-2 spherical tokamak

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  • Naoto Tsujii
  • Yuichi Takase
  • Akira Ejiri
  • Takahiro Shinya
  • Satoru Yajima
  • Hibiki Yamazaki
  • Hiro Togashi
  • Charles P. Moeller
  • Benedikt Roidl
  • Wataru Takahashi
  • Kazuya Toida
  • Yusuke Yoshida
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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
DOI
10.1051/epjconf/201715702009
出版者・発行元
EDP Sciences

Removal of the central solenoid is essential to realize an economical spherical tokamak fusion reactor, but non-inductive plasma start-up is a challenge. On the TST-2 spherical tokamak, non-inductive plasma start-up using lower-hybrid (LH) waves has been investigated. Using the capacitively-coupled combline (CCC) antenna installed at the outboard midplane, fully non-inductive plasma current ramp-up up to a quarter of that of the typical Ohmic discharges has been achieved. Although it was desirable to keep the density low during the plasma current ramp-up to avoid the LH density limit, it was recognized that there was a maximum current density that could be carried by a given electron density. Since the density needed to increase as the plasma current was ramped-up, the achievable plasma current was limited by the maximum operational toroidal field of TST-2. The top-launch CCC antenna was installed to access higher density with up-shift of the parallel index of refraction. Numerical analysis of LH current drive with the outboard-launch and top-launch antennas was performed and the results were qualitatively consistent with the experimental observations.

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ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1051/epjconf/201715702009
  • ISSN : 2100-014X
  • ISSN : 2101-6275
  • eISSN : 2100-014X
  • SCOPUS ID : 85032627318

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