Atoms (Dec 2022)

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

  • Leonid Askinazi,
  • Gulnara Abdullina,
  • Alexander Belokurov,
  • Vladimir Kornev,
  • Sergei Lebedev,
  • Dmitri Razumenko,
  • Dmitri Shergin,
  • Alexander Smirnov,
  • Alexander Tukachinsky,
  • Nikolai Zhubr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms10040152
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
p. 152

Abstract

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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.

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