Heavy Ion Beam Probing Diagnostics on the TUMAN-3M Tokamak for Study Plasma Potential and Electric Fields in New Operational Regimes

Abstract

Heavy Ion Beam Probing (HIBP) diagnostic is a powerful tool for electric field studies in the hot dense plasma of modern-day toroidal magnetic confinement devices. On the TUMAN-3M tokamak, the HIBP have been used in regimes with improved plasma confinement to clear up the role of the radial electric field in the transition to good confinement regimes. Recently, a modernization of the TUMAN-3M HIBP diagnostics was performed, aiming to reconfigure it for a work with a reversed plasma current direction and improvement of the overall stability of the diagnostic. The results of the first measurements of the plasma potential in the co-NBI scenario are reported and discussed.

Keywords

• tokamak
• plasma potential
• radial electric field
• L-H transition
• Heavy Ion Beam Probing
• neutral beam injection