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Initiation and sustainment of tokamak plasmas with local helicity injection as the majority current drive

J.M. Perry, G.M. Bodner, M.W. Bongard, M.G. Burke, R.J. Fonck, J.L. Pachicano, C. Pierren, J.A. Reusch, A.T. Rhodes, N.J. Richner2018年被引用 3Nuclear FusionIF 3出版社

Local helicity injection (LHI) is a non-solenoidal current drive capable of achieving high- tokamak startup with non-invasive current injectors in the plasma scrape-off layer. The choice of injector location within the edge region is flexible but has a profound influence on the nature of the current drive in LHI discharges. New experiments on the Pegasus ST with injection in the high-field-side, lower divertor region produce plasmas dominated by helicity injection current drive, static plasma geometry, and negligible inductive drive. Peak plasma current up to 200 kA, and a sustained plasma current of 100 kA for up to 18 ms, is demonstrated. Maximum achievable plasma current is found to scale approximately linearly with the effective loop voltage from LHI. A newly-observed MHD regime for LHI-driven plasmas in which large-amplitude fluctuations at 20–50 kHz are abruptly reduced on the outboard side results in improved current drive. A simultaneous increase in high frequency fluctuations (>400 kHz) inside the plasma edge suggests short wavelength turbulence as an important current drive mechanism during LHI.

日本語訳

局所ヘリシティ入射(LHI)は、非侵襲的な電流入射器を用いてプラズマ周辺領域で高効率のトカマク起動を実現できる非ソレノイド電流駆動法である。周辺領域内での入射器位置の選択は柔軟であるが、LHI放電における電流駆動の性質に大きな影響を与える。高磁場側・下部ダイバータ領域への入射を伴うPegasus STでの新たな実験では、ヘリシティ入射電流駆動が支配的で、プラズマ形状が静的であり、誘導駆動が無視できるプラズマが生成された。ピークプラズマ電流は200 kAに達し、100 kAのプラズマ電流が最大18 ms間維持された。達成可能な最大プラズマ電流は、LHIによる実効ループ電圧とほぼ線形にスケーリングすることが見出された。また、LHI駆動プラズマにおいて新たに観測されたMHDモード領域では、低周波側(20–50 kHz)の大振幅変動がプラズマ外側で急激に減少し、電流駆動の改善がもたらされた。同時に、プラズマ端部内側では高周波数(>400 kHz)の変動が増加し、LHI中の短波長乱流が重要な電流駆動メカニズムであることが示唆された。

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